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Azad takes video route, inaugurates Tanda hospital
super-speciality wing
Chilly Saturday: Many areas have snowfall
Need to compensate hill states, says Planning panel member
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Tanda Medical College
Super-speciality Wing
GS Bali, Minister for Technical Education, inaugurates the super-speciality hospital at the Tanda medical hospital in Kangra on Saturday. Photo: Kamaljeet
Sai Kothi project: Cong refutes charges
Negligence case against doctor couple
VB sends probe report to legal cell
HPU Executive Council passes
Rs 130-crore budget
Man shot dead in Mandi, 1 held
Navrang 2014 ends
Shanta Kumar starts poll campaign from Chamba
Two killed as Sumo
falls into reservoir
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Azad takes video route, inaugurates Tanda hospital
super-speciality wing
Mandi, March 1 He announced the opening of two medical colleges in the state at Chamba and Nahan with a grant of Rs 190 crore each, two trauma centres, two burn injury units, two cancer centres and doubling of the health budget allocation for the state under the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM). He said, “During the last two years, the Centre's contribution ratio for Himachal Pradesh under the NRHM has been 90:10, while other states were getting grant in the ratio 75:25.” The minister said, “I belong to Jammu and Kashmir's Doda region, which is marked by an inhospitable terrain. Keeping in mind the problems in hill states, the Centre has doubled the budget allocation in the health sector to Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir
and Uttarakhand.” The minister said, “I want to see the state emerging as a model in every sphere, especially in the health sector, in the next four years.” He said, “Six health institutions equivalent to AIIMS have been developed in the country with super-specialised facilities like oncology, cardio-thoracic and vascular surgery, neurology, nephrology, neurosurgery, gastroenterology, cardiology and urology. The Tanda institution is one in the league. Soon, a similar hospital would be developed in Shimla.” Talking about the UPA government's initiatives in the health sector, the minister said, “As many as 18,000 hospitals were opened during 2004-09. And 35,000 health institutions were opened during the current tenure. The Medical Council of India (MCI) and Nursing council norms were amended to recruit more specialist and MBBS doctors, besides nursing and paramedical staff." Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said, “Opening of the super-speciality centre is like a dream coming true. I have wanted the Tanda medical college to be a prestigious health centre." |
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Chilly Saturday: Many areas have snowfall
Shimla, March 1 The Hindustan-Tibet national highway and Shimla Hat-Koti roads were blocked by heavy snow at Kufri, Narkanda and Khara-patthar. Scores of vehicles were stranded in the upper Shimla region due to snow. Kufri, Narkanda and Khara-patthar received 20 cm, 30 cm and 35 cm snow. Kalpa recorded 9 cm snow, Mashobra 7 cm, Manali 6 cm and Khadrala and Bijahi 4 cm each. Sundernagar received 30 mm rain till evening, Kasauli and Jubbar Hatti 27 mm, Solan and Kandaghat 23 mm, Arki and Sunni Bhajji 19 mm, Manali 22.5 mm, Renuka 18 mm, Mandi, Mehre and Saloni 17 mm and Dharampur 15 mm. Bharmour was the coldest with a minimum temperature of -9.1°C, while Keylong and Kalpa recorded a low of -3.6°C. Dalhousie and Manali recorded -0.4 and 0°C, followed by Nahan 5°C, Solan 6.2°C, Palampur 6.5°C and Dharamsala 6.6°C. The local Met office has predicted rain or snow across the state during the next three days. |
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Need to compensate hill states, says Planning panel member
Shimla, March 1 He said there was a need to work out an arrangement to compensate the hill states for protecting the green cover and generating power. “We are looking at 10 hill states, including Jammu and Kashmir, to see what form of assistance can be extended to them by looking at the advantages and disadvantages they have,” he said. Maira was, however, very candid in stating that this kind of special assistance, including the one to the special category states, could not continue forever. “A state cannot depend on a subsidy, which is only for a specific period, endlessly as ultimately the special concession will be reduced and finally phased out,” he said. He said there was immense potential for Himachal in tourism, horticulture, animal husbandry and IT sectors. “Switzerland grew merely on its natural beauty and chocolates, without any big industry; so these are some areas, where Himachal too can do a lot,” he said. He added that education and health were two other sectors where Himachal could do well. He admitted that the economic predictions made by the Planning Commission had not been very accurate. “Our predictions about the growth rate went wrong as some states faced several problems like Naxalism etc,” he said. He said there was a need to change the business-regulatory mechanism and take the stakeholders concerned in confidence to remove bottlenecks. |
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Tanda Medical College
Super-speciality Wing
Dharamsala, March 1 With the parliamentary polls round the corner, the state government in on an inauguration spree. The building of the super-speciality wing of the Tanda medical college was thus inaugurated today. Though Union Minister for Health Ghulam Nabi Azad was scheduled to inaugurate the building, he failed to reach the venue due to bad weather. The building was inaugurated by the Union Minister through video conferencing. On his behalf, GS Bali, Minister for
Food and Civil Supplies, Transport and Technical Education, completed the formalities. Sources said the government might face difficulties in recruiting super-specialist doctors. The remote location of the college could weigh in. Already, the college was running short of professor and associate professor-rank doctors. Bali said the state government had recruited doctors in three super-specialities, including radiology, neurology and cardiology. The recruitment for other super-specialities was on, he said. He said the procurement of equipment was underway too. The PGI, Chandigarh, has been nominated as mentor institute for equipment procurement. Since most of the medical equipment would be imported, it might take another eight to 10 months, he said. The minister said the OPD for super-speciality would be started within the next three months. The Union Government is said to have provided financial assistance of Rs 150 crore for the super-speciality wing of the Tanda medical college. The college caters to Kangra, Chamba and Hamirpur districts. As for now, lack of super-specialists in the college
is a problem. Starting blocks
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Sai Kothi project: Cong refutes charges
Shimla, March 1 “BJP leaders are twisting facts to gain cheap publicity with an eye on the coming Lok Sabha poll,” he said. He said the BJP leaders were unnecessarily trying to link the restoration of the Sai Kothi project in 2007 to the loan taken by Virbhadra Singh in 2011, when he was not even in the state and the BJP was in power. He said: “Virbhadra Singh was a Union Minister then. How could he benefit the company?” He said the BJP leaders were concealing vital facts, adding that the Congress government cancelled the project on November 12, 2013, which had been allotted to Venture Energy and Technology Ltd on June 14, 2002, by the Dhumal regime, which also gave it four extensions. He said the Congress government terminated the MoU of the project in September 2004, but the company approached the High Court in 2005. He said the HP State Electricity Board recommended the restoration of Sai Kothi to the same company. He said the Congress government gave extension to the Sai Kothi project just once and that too by levying an extension fee of Rs 20,000 per MW per month. |
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Negligence case against doctor couple
Solan, March 1 Additional SP Padam Chand, confirming the news, said Asgari was working as a forest guard in the Kolar area of Sirmaur. A private doctor asked her to take the HSG test at Him Medicare Centre located at the Mall Road here after efforts at conception since her marriage in 2007 fell through. Asgari came to this clinic along with her mother around 1.30 pm yesterday. She paid Rs 2,000 as fee for the test. She fell unconscious soon after an injection by Dr Anita Sood. Attempts by Dr Ravikant Sood to revive her by administering another injection reportedly failed to yield any result. She was then rushed to the Regional Hospital and was pronounced dead by the doctors there. Her relatives protested at the Regional Hospital against alleged negligence, blaming the doctor couple at Him Medicare Centre for the death. The police sent her viscera to the Forensic Science Laboratory at Junga for ascertaining the cause of the death. The postmortem is being conducted at the IGMC, Shimla. A case under Sections 304-A and 34, IPC, has been registered against Dr Ravikant Sood and Dr Anita Sood. While the case has brought to the fore the negligence of doctors at the private clinic, the situation at the Regional Hospital is no better. Little progress has been made in a case pertaining to a stillborn baby over the past several weeks. The hospital administration has been dilly-dallying over the matter. |
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Cash-on-camera case Bhanu P Lohumi Tribune News Service
Shimla, March 1 Deputy Inspector General (Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau) DW Negi conducted the probe and submitted the report to Additional Director-General of Police Prithvi Raj, who further sent it to the legal cell for its opinion, sources in the Bureau said. A case would be registered only after the legal cell gave a go-ahead, they added. A fresh probe was initiated into the matter on the intervention of the Himachal Pradesh High Court following a PIL filed by an RTI activist after Kashyap was given a clean chit. The High Court, on November 19 last year, had issued a notice to Kashyap on a petition for quashing a police inquiry report giving a clean chit to him in the case. A Division Bench of Justice DD Sud and Justice Kuldeep Singh had asked the state government and Kashyap to file replies within four weeks. The petitioner had alleged that the state government inquiry in 2010 was not fair, after which he sought a fresh inquiry into the case. “The Superintendent of Police in Solan, on the directions of the Director-General of Police, had constituted a special team on January 5, 2010, to enquire into the matter. The team submitted its report on March 2 and concluded that no cognisable offence was carried out,” the petition said.
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HPU Executive Council passes
Rs 130-crore budget
Shimla, March 1 The council, at its meeting held under the chairmanship of Vice-Chancellor ADN Bajpai here, expressed concern over the acute financial crunch faced by the university. Chaudhry Waryam Singh, a representative of non-teaching employees’ in the council, said it was a matter of grave concern that the government had not released sufficient grants to meet an annual liability of Rs 85 crore on salaries and pension (inclusive of Rs 7 crore required to meet outstanding liabilities on account of payment of commutation, leave encashment etc). He said filling of 565 vacant posts (232 teaching and 333 non-teaching) would require Rs 28 crore. The council approved an improvement in division in undergraduate classes for eligibility to the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) and the recommendations of the Finance Committee for bringing Institute of Integrated Himalayan Studies research staff under the Self-Financing Scheme. The council also approved the deputation of Dr BK Verma in the Department of History and activation of the Dr YS Parmar Chair. Meanwhile, the Students Central Association (SCA) has demanded an increase in the budget to Rs 150 crore, a CSIR/NET examination centre, filling of vacant posts of teaching and non-teaching staff and withdrawal of the decision to implement RUSA. SCA secretary Piyush Sewal demanded that research scholars should be given priority as guest faculty instead of regular faculty which cost more. |
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Man shot dead in Mandi, 1 held
Mandi, March 1 After hearing the gunshot, family members rushed to his room and found him lying in a pool of blood. Daleep was rushed to Rati Hospital where he was declared brought dead. The families of the victim and the accused were harbouring animosity for quite some time after Ravinder Kumar, son of Kashmir Singh, had reportedly committed suicide by hanging from a tree. Kashmir Singh had accused Babloo and Devi Singh (both in jail), brother and father of his daughter-in-law, for allegedly abetting his son Ravinder to commit suicide. A few weeks ago, Bhawna had got a case of sexual assault registered against her father-in-law Kashmir Singh at the Balh police station, which is still under investigation. SP RS Negi said the Balh police had arrested Kashmir Singh under Section 302, IPC, and seized his gun. |
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Navrang 2014 ends
Kangra, March 1 It featured an inter-college declamation, seminar, face-painting, chess, pot decoration, nail art, model-making, solo song and skill in teaching competitions, besides sports events. Inter-college solo dance, stand-up comedy, group dance and fancy dress competitions were also featured. The fest was inaugurated by Prof AK Mahajan, Dean, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUHP. Brig (retd) RP Attri, Director, HIET, highlighted the need for total commitment to quality in education. Dr RP Chopra, Principal, PG College, Dharamsala, highlighted the role of extra-curricular activities in multi-faceted personality development of students. Prof Balram Dogra, Vice-Chancellor, Sri Sai University, was the chief guest. Executive Director BS Pathania read out the college annual report. |
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Shanta Kumar starts poll campaign from Chamba
Chamba, March 1 Shanta said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was going to be voted to power. “After the formation of the NDA government in Delhi, the Antodaya Yojna will be implemented in a big way,” Shanta stated. Shanta said the setting up of the proposed cement plant at Sikridhar in Chamba district would be his top priority. Emphasis would be laid on the tourism industry in Kangra and Chamba, he added. |
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Mandi, March 1
The super-speciality wing of the Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College (DRPGMC), Tanda, was inaugurated today, but the medical services are not going to be
operational for at least another year. Sources here said the government was still
in the middle of purchasing equipment for the wing. Meanwhile, the recruitment of super-specialist doctors is said to
be underway.
