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Heavy rain throws life out of gear
4 pilgrims die during Srikhand yatra
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PWD pegs loss of Rs 5 cr due to downpour
Arhtiyas make growers to defy apple carton norms
Power engineers for rules on Punjab pattern
I-T head against closure of branches
15 illegal sheds removed from Bhuntar vegetable market
Pvt technical institutes upset over govt stance
VIGNETTES
Centre helped me in Iraq, says Baijnath youth
Stokes inaugurates irrigation, water plans
Patient dies in Fortis, doc blamed
Kangra co-op bank to provide ATM facilities
135 ASHA workers’ recruitment from July 24
All bodies of students recovered
250 donate blood
Proclaimed offender arrested from Punjab
P’kula boy’s body found from Beas
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Heavy rain throws life out of gear
Shimla, July 20 More than half of the town remained without power for about 18 hours, while the state electricity board workforce worked overtime to restore power by the evening. All rivers and their tributaries are flowing above danger mark due to rise in water level and people living along the banks of the rivers, downstream dams have been cautioned against flashfloods and asked to take necessary precautions for their safety. Heavy rainfall lashed some parts of Shimla, Solan and Mandi districts. Kotkhai and Chail received 58 mm and 51 mm rain, while Nauni and Mashobra had 48 mm and 39 mm rain, respectivvely. Shimla had 34 mm rain, followed by Bilaspur 30 mm, Mandi 28 mm, Sarahan 27 mm, Kalpa and Rohru 24 mm and Dalhousie 23 mm. The local Met office has predicted moderate to heavy rain at several places in the mid and lower hills during the next five days and thunder with rain in Shimla for the next six days. The rain in the catchment areas of Shimla water supply scheme affected pumping, as silt level increased due to rains and several parts of the town did not get water for the second day today. There was no appreciable change in the minimum temperature. Mashobra was the coldest in the state with a low of 11.8°C, while Keylong and Kalpa recorded a minimum of 12. 4°C and 12.8°C, followed by Manali 13.6°C, Dalhousie 14.3°C, Shimla 14.6°C, followed by Nahan 15.6°C, Solan 16. 2°C, Dharamsala 18.6°C, Bhuntar 18.8°C, Una 21°C and Sundernagar 21.1°C. Una was the hottest in the region with a maximum of 34.8°C, while Sundernagar recorded a high of 31.3°C, followed by Dharamsala 29.6°C, Bhuntar 29.1°C, Nahan 26.5°C, Manali 22.2°C, Shimla 21.8°C and Kalpa 17°C. |
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4 pilgrims die during Srikhand yatra
Shimla/Kullu, July 20 Kullu DC Rakesh Kanwar said the deceased were identified as Padma Devi (52) from Maharashtra, Asha Devi from Keo village in Rampur, Yudhishter (21) of Shahdhar in Rampur, and Saurabh Kapoor of Dev Nagar in Shimla. Anni SDM Neeraj Gupta said though the pilgrims were allowed to proceed for the yatra after medical check-up, the temperature plummeted due to sudden heavy rain and snow. A rescue team is trying to bring the bodies to
Nirmand with the help of the locals. The yatra started on July 15, but due to continuous rain since July 17, the yatra was suspended yesterday. The DC said every day about 600 pilgrims set out for the yatra and after suspending the yatra yesterday, efforts had been made to locate the pilgrims stuck en route due to inclement weather. About 350 pilgrims have reached the base camp at Singhghar, about 250 pilgrims are at Thachru while 15 are at Bhim Dwar. Till now, 3,369 pilgrims have undertaken the
yatra. A tough pilgrimage Situated at a height of 16,900 ft above the sea level in Kullu district, Shrikhand Mahadev is one of the toughest
pilgrimages in India. It is a 35 km harsh zig-zag track to a 72-ft rock called Shivlinga. The yatra starts from Bhaghipul village, 115 km from Shimla, and passes through Singhghar, Thachru, Kali Ghati, Bhim Talai, Kunsa, Bhim Dwar and Parvati
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PWD pegs loss of Rs 5 cr due to downpour
Solan, July 20 As much as 292.9 mm rain has been received in just eight days in July thereby increasing the damage caused to roads and other infrastructure as against the total rainfall of 101.8 mm received in the 12 rainy days in June. Suresh Ganju, Superintending Engineer of the PWD, said several roads had been damaged either due to landslides or closure of side drains. In the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial belt, three roads — Mahadev-Jandhu-Diggal, link road leading to Mitiya and Goljamala-Kalyanpur — had been severely damaged. In the Kasauli area, the Parwanoo-Kasauli road and the Bhojnagar-Banasar road were affected while in Arki subdivision the Bagha-Kander link road, Shimla-Kunihar-Baddi Road, Shalaghat-Rampur state highway suffered heavy damage. Ganju said the movement of vehicles was partially hit on these roads though by the evening all roads had been cleared. In the neighbouring Sirmaur district, as many as 42 roads, including key national highways — Kumarhatti-Nahan — were closed due to landslides at various places and as many as three Himachal Roadways Transport Corporation buses were stranded on various link roads in the district. With the PWD receiving merely 10 to 25 per cent amount to repair its roads vis-à-vis the total damage incurred year after year, it has become difficult to maintain link roads, where damage was excessive and repair undertaken least. |
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Arhtiyas make growers to defy apple carton norms
As many as 8000-10,000 cartons of tide man and pear and other early apple varieties have already hit the markets. But the APMC has yet to pull up its socks, cracking “underhand towel deals” among the commission agents and ‘ladanis’, who are encouraging farmers to overweigh boxes, offering them good prices. There is no notification or signboard put up by the APMC about the standard apple carton ordinance to alert commission agents and growers at the Bhatta Kufer market. Just two clerks sit in the APMC cabin at the entrance of the fruit market. The APMC and the Excise and the police have yet to put a system in place at the fruit market. The early apple variety of tide man packed in 22.5 fruit cartons are being discouraged by the arhtiyas and ‘ladanis’ in the markets as the APMC has not done its spade work, which has about 70 shops. One can find overloaded cartons piled up in the fruit markets while commission agents are involved in underhand deals seling the fruit as per weight basis. Commission agents are selling the overweighed tide man top quality apple carton for Rs 1600 and the standard carton for Rs 800-1200 per carton. Farmers are paying through their nose. “The government hiked 12 per cent freight charges after it decreased the weight of carton to 22.5 kg. We oppose this as the transportation charges should be as per weight not per carton”, demanded Rakesh Singha, president of the HP Apple Growers Association. President, Shimla-Kinnaur Arhitiya Association, Bhata kufar, Suresh Chauhan claimed that the fruit was sold on the basis of weight and quality in the market. “The APMC regulates which carton should farmers use. We get packing of 24 kg, 20 kg, or 10 kg or as it suits farmers. The government should introduce the “universal carton, which cannot be fiddled with”, he claimed. Managing director, APMC board, HS Baweja warned that they would cancel the licence of arhtiyas resorting to the underhand deal and overgrading and overweighing. They would sell 22.5 kg carton for the same rate as the overweighed cartons so that the growers got message, he added. He added they have special cell to monitor this. Agents must sell fruit in an open auction. APMC warns
arhtiyas: Arhtiyas will sell 22.5 kg carton at the same rate as the overloaded carton to discourage overweighing and overgrading. The underhand deal is banned and the licence will be cancelled and the growers should intimate the APMC, if he notices this. Commission agents can get the maximum 5 per cent profit as per norm. |
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HRTC wakes up to spate of accidents in state
The HRTC claims that the finding in each accident will be implemented to minimise fatalities on the roads in the state. The HRTC and the state Transport Department are in the eye of a storm as more than 10,651 people have been killed and over 56,000 others injured in as many as 30,564 accidents cases, involving HRTC buses and small and big private vehicles, in the state in the past 10 years up to June 30, 2014, as per the police crime data. The concern is understandable, for as many as 557 persons have been killed and 2,612 others injured in 1,422 accidents reported up to June 30 this year alone. More than 44 persons died and over 105 persons were injured in HRTC buses alone since 2011. In 2009 as many as 1,140 people died and 5,579 others received injuries in 3,051 accidents in the state. The year 2011 turned out to be the most fatal, as 1,353 people died, 5,462 got injured in 3,099 accidents. But the reasons are yet to be ascertained by the Transport Department. The HRTC has taken a lead, but experts believe the committee should also involve government agencies, NGOs, PWD, Transport Department, traffic police and private operators to ensure a safe culture of driving on roads. The technical committee will be headed by RK Gautam, Executive Director, HRTC, while Deputy Director, Technical Education and Regional Manager, HRTC (Legal), MK Sharma will be the other two members. The committee will submit its comprehensive report in a two months’ time. The inquiry reports into accident cases are dumped into files and never implemented. The major trigger factors turned out to be human errors due to rash or drunken driving, bad roads and black spots, over loading and mechanical failure in case of both private and HRTC buses, revealed inputs from the recent inquiries. Not only this, the HRTC needs over 400 drivers to cut down load from the present strength of drivers. The working condition of drivers, who have to work round-the-clock, spurious spare parts and poor maintenance of buses add to the factors leading to accidents in many cases, drivers said. “The experts’ committee will examine each inquiry report and other factors as the wreckage sites indicate multiple trigger factors in many accident cases,” said RN Batta, managing director, HRTC. “The HRTC is procuring spare parts directly from companies and has stopped local purchase. We will soon use an SMS-based tracking system to keep a tab on rash driving in HRTC buses to ensure the safety of passengers,” he added. |
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Power engineers for rules on Punjab pattern
Una, July 20 In a press note issued here today by association state president RD
Agnihotri, the engineers rued that the HPSEB management was neither following the pattern
of their Punjab counterparts, nor of the JEs and AAEs belonging to other departments in the Himachal Pradesh Government, as regards the service rules for
their cadre. Agnihotri said their cadre was being denied enhanced grade pay, which their Punjab counterparts and those
in other departments were getting. He said in lieu of the outdoor duties, the Punjab Electricity Board was paying their employees for 30 litre petrol per month for the last three years, while their cadre here was given only Rs 2 per km as conveyance allowance, which had remained unchanged since 1998. The employee leader said there were 100 posts of assistant electrical engineers and 80 posts of assistant civil / mechanical engineers lying vacant in the HPSEB for the direct recruitment cadre. These posts should be filled up from their cadre for those JEs or AAEs who were in their extension period of one extra year granted by the government recently. This will not pose any additional financial burden on the Board but will give one promotion to their cadre before retirement, he added. Agnihotri said the JEs were looking after two to three sections but the board management was raising a hue and
cry about the incurring losses and had also reduced the rates of electricity. Besides, computers worth crores of rupees were lying unused, which was a sheer wastage of money, he said. He cautioned that if their demands were not met, they would be forced to launch an agitation. |
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I-T head against closure of branches
Palampur, July 20 He also discussed about the recent proposal of the Income Tax Department to abolish the Income Tax Range in Solan, comprising six assessing officers with one range head. He assured the members of the bar association
that he would make efforts to reopen the Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT) office in Palampur, which was closed down
in 2006. He expressed concern over the poor disposal of income tax appeal cases in the state as over 2,500 cases were pending. The Central Board
of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has proposed to open a new office in the state. However, the location is yet to be finalised. Swatanter said the income tax office opened at Rampur Bushar, 30 years ago, should not
be abolished. RK Sood, president of the bar association, also discussed the problems being faced by tax payers with the Chief Commissioner. He said the appeal cases filed in 2007-08 were yet to be disposed of by the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals),
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15 illegal sheds removed from Bhuntar vegetable market
Kullu, July 20 Mishra said after repeated complaints, notices were issued to illegal occupants at the Bhuntar sabzi mandi, but the APMC had to resort to this action due to non-adherence by defaulters. He said other structures raised without permission would also be removed, as a few agents had approached the court and later these would be re-constructed and disbursed to the agents after following a systematic procedure. The atmosphere in the market was tense, as the agents raised slogans against the APMC and the administration. Fruit agents rued that the sudden move of the APMC would have an adverse effect on the upcoming fruit season and such a harsh move by the authorities was unwarranted. The APMC had sought permission from Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh to remove sheds constructed without permission to prevent any political interference on this issue. |
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Pvt technical institutes upset over govt stance
Shimla, July 20 Suraj Pathak, Director, Dev Bhumi Group of Institutions, Una, said: “The 23 odd private polytechnics and other technical institutions in the state have 7,600 sanctioned seats in various trades, but the government has permitted the intake of 80 students only, which is just 1 per cent.” The state Cabinet had rejected the proposal to relax admission norms in its meeting held on July 15 following a tough stand taken by Technical Education Minister GS Bali that any relaxation in norms would affect the quality of technical education. “When the cut-off percentage in government polytechnics is 70 per cent then why should private technical institutes be allowed to admit students with abysmally lower merit?” he argued. Due to mushrooming of technical institutions, there is virtual glut in the job market for diploma holders and these polytechnics would only churn out non-employable people, he said. However, private technical institutions said they were not asking for relaxation in admission norms, but only pressing for following AICTE norms, which has fixed percentage of 45 per cent for general and 40 per cent for SC and ST categories. These institutions also pointed out that there should be parity in admission norms with neighbouring states, including Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, as students from Himachal would have to go to these states, while seats in the state would remain vacant. Rakesh Gupta, president, Bells Institute of Management and Technology, said: “For degree courses such as BTech the AICTE has introduced an entrance test for admissions, but no qualifying marks have been prescribed, which means that the test was not to judge the competence and aptitude of candidates, but to prune the number of applicants in proportion to the number of seats.” On the other hand, private universities had also failed to fill the sanctioned number of seats in various courses approved by the Regulatory Commission and the commission is now asking institutions to recruit the faculty as per the norms. The unambiguous stand taken by the commission on recruitment of faculty as per the norms is forcing institutes to surrender seats and some private universities have reportedly agreed to it. As the preference of students is shifting from technical courses to management and other courses, the private universities are not able to fill sanctioned seats and there has been a marked downslide in admissions in technical courses during the past three years. |
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VIGNETTES The Tribune Supplement on Shimla “150 Years of Summer Capital of India” carried much, but missed the humour — of Raj and Swaraj. I am attempting to fill the gap. Shimla is all icicles and snow in the winters (see photo).
JF Wyman, author of “Calcutta to the Snowy Range by an Old Indian” visited Shimla in the winter about 1865 and wrote, “Truly one must have good lungs and stout legs to tramp up and down the snowy declivities; but I suppose people get used to it, and the exercise seemed healthy, for everybody had the rosiest of complexions, and the cheeks of young ladies invited kisses.” Despite the presence of lovely girls in Shimla, woman’s role in the earlier plays was done by male artistes. Emily Eden, sister of Viceroy Auckland, writes in her diary in 1839 that when she went to see a play in a theatre “small and hot, somewhat dirty”, she witnessed two farces, “but anything much worse I never saw.” Actors had their attitudes too; an actor who was to play a woman’s role refused to cut off his moustaches and the other one went off to shoot bears near the snowy range. Have you ever heard of a building committing ‘sati’? The Railway Board Building did it. The first version of it was raised as secretariat building for the PWD in 1884. Horace B Goad, secretary, Municipal Committee, got this beautiful building erected. It got burnt on February 12, 1896. That very night Goad had committed suicide in Ambala. It was said, “The PWD secretariat building committed ‘sati’ out of sheer respect for Goad”. Building performed ‘sati’, but during Raj, many men had to stay in the plains to do their duty while their wives came to the hills and a ditty unfolds: “Jack’s own Jill goes up the hill/To Muree, Simla or Chakrata/Jack remains and dies in the plains/And Jill remarries soon afta (after)”. The Gaiety, called the Town Hall, ready in 1887, was a gigantic building (see photo). Lord Curzon did not like its gaunt and graceless protuberance against the skyline and expected that the earthquake of 1905 would cooperate with him and he would get a legitimate excuse of levelling it, but later exclaimed: ‘’The earthquake failed lamentably at the critical moment.’’ Hem Kunj, the official residence of the Governor of Punjab in Shimla, was earlier named Dane’s Folly, although, ‘malis’ and ‘chowkidars’ call it Dance Freely. Dane’s Folly owes its name to Sir Guy-Fleetwood Wilson who was Finance Member on the Viceroy’s Council from 1908 to 1913. Nicknamed ‘not-a-bob-Wilson’, he would prune any extravagant public expenditure. He did not sanction money for the cottage that Louis Dane, Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab, had got constructed through the PWD at Chharabra, so the British residents christened it Dane’s Folly. When I was writing on Ellerslie and Armsdale, the Secretariat buildings, I wanted information on the number of rooms there. And lo! I got the loo-figures, “There are nine general and 22 toilets for Ministers in Ellerslie and 27 general and 139 toilets for the Secretaries in Armsdale”. The Mall today is the dream promenade ground for the likes of Maneka Gandhi where man and monkey stroll side by side. Yes, man only, not the woman. Seeing the inclination of monkeys too towards the fairer sex, a woman withdraws herself from the simians using that nationally recognised expression, “Oh shit!” We have changed Snowdon Hospital to Indira Gandhi Medical College, Ripon Hospital to Deen Dayal Hospital, Ladies Park to Rani Lakshmi Bai Jhansi Park, but we are still reeling with the British legacy of calling our bazaars as Lower and Middle Bazaars. We should join hands, if it is difficult to join heads, and call these Neechoo and Beechoo Bazaars. Dr YS Parmar, first Chief Minister of HP, was attending a dinner at Peterhof. His Cabinet colleagues were also there. One of the dishes was ‘murg mussalam’. A minister damn fond of chicken started grabbing the ‘murg’ with both hands. Dr Parmar witted, “Minister Sahib, be patient, they will not fly now.”
TAILPIECE
When will we change our expression “Let’s go Malling” to “Let’s go LLR Marging” because the new name of the Mall is Lala Lajpat Rai Marg? |
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Centre helped me in Iraq, says Baijnath youth
Jyoti, working in a construction company as a plumber in Iraq for the past two years, recounted how he, along with other fellow workers, were evacuated by officials of the Indian Embassy from Basra. “Though Basra was not yet attacked, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants were advancing towards it,” said Jyoti. He said they were regularly hearing about the bloodshed going on in the nearby cities. He disclosed that he, along with his other fellow workers, had taken shelter on the campus of an educational institution when they were left by his company. He stayed there for over 20 days, until Indian Embassy officials contacted him and started the evacuation process. “We were living under continuous fear as the jehadis were just 200 km away from the city,” said Jyoti Kumar. He said company officials in the beginning refused to return his passport when he resigned on June 20, but later handed it over to him as the situation in the nearby areas moved from bad to worse. “The condition turned horrible after the company officials also fled following the reports of ISIS attacking Kurgistan,” added Jyoti. Expressing his gratitude to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and officials of the Iraq Embassy, he said there was prompt response when some workers sent a video of the camp where they were staying without proper food and water to the Government of India. “On July 16, embassy officials evacuated us from Basra and shifted us to the airport, we were escorted by armed Iraqi military soldiers. Later, we were flown to Baghdad, where we got an Air-India flight to New Delhi”, said Jyoti. Jyoti said Indian embassy officials provided him an air ticket and $ 50 to meet the expanses on the way to home. Jyoti said he wanted to come back even before the war erupted. “Initially, we got what was promised in the contract, but after a few months, company officials started forcing us to work overtime for 12 hours.” |
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Stokes inaugurates irrigation, water plans
Shimla, July 20 Stokes inaugurated the Rs 81 lakh lift irrigation scheme for the Baghi area, which will benefit 1500 villagers in nine villages, and Rs 56 lakh lift water drinking scheme at Sunderangar today. Addressing a public meeting at Ratnari and Baghi in the district, Stokes said the drinking water scheme would benefit 1,700 people in four villages. She laid the foundation stone of the secondary school, Ratnari, which would be built at a cost of Rs 23 lakh and Rs 15 lakh would be spent on plant conservation centre. She urged farmers to pack apple in 22.5 kg carton and 31 kg gunny bags under the market intervention scheme. The support price would be declared soon and Rs 85 crore would be spent under the apple rejuvenation scheme covering 5000 hectares under apple, she added. Jubbal-Kotkhai legislator Rohit Thakur said Rs 1700 crore drinking water schemes had been sanctioned for the Baghi-Nawar region this year.
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Patient dies in Fortis, doc blamed
Kangra, July 20 He said the police sent the body for the post-mortem to know the exact cause of the death and the investigation was started. The SHO said the relatives had alleged that Mool Raj was operated upon on July 18 for prostrate and did not recover and was declared dead this afternoon. The agitated relatives raised hue and cry in the hospital to express anguish. Col HS Bhagat, Director, Fortis, denying the allegations said there was no negligence on the part of the doctor. He said after the surgery, the patient was normal and the doctor attended on the patient in the intensive care unit round the clock till this afternoon. Dr Anil Kaistha, urologist, who operated upon the patient, said the patient was bleeding after the surgery and was treated for it. He said the cause of the death was disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and the haemoglobin was 11.9 gm after the blood transfusion. He said four units of fresh frozen plasma was transfused to the patient but despite the effort, he could not be saved. The relatives demanded a high-level inquiry into the death.
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Gen Bikram Singh given warm farewell at ARTRAC
Shimla, July 20 General Bikram Singh arrived at the ARTRAC today as part of his visit before superannuation and got a warm reception from the ‘Scholar Warriors’, as the personnel at ARTRAC are known in the Army establishment. He addressed the officers of Team ARTRAC and complemented them for the exceptional work done in giving shape to various doctrines and concepts of modern warfare. He also appreciated the upgrade of all pamphlets and curricula of the training establishments of the Indian Army. He released the revised edition of the book ‘Wedded to the Olive Greens’. Lt Gen Sanjeev Madhok, who heads the ARTRAC, assured the Chief that ‘Team ARTRAC’ would continue to strive to achieve even greater glory in line with its motto ‘Excellence in the Art and Science of War’.
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Kangra co-op bank to provide ATM facilities
Dharamsala, July 20 “This facility will start working within the next 15 days as the trial was conducted successfully. We have provided ATM cards to our employees during the trial period. Our customers will be able to withdraw cash from ATMs of any bank within the country,” said Jagdish. He said the KCCB had been ranked number one in the category of the co-operative banks in the country. He said to improve customer facilities, the bank administration would recruit more than 500 employees within a year. Giving details of the MoU, he said farmers would be provided a special discount of Rs 6,000 on the purchase of a Sonalika tractor, if it was funded by their bank. He said the bank was planning to construct its own rest house in Dharamsala, for which land had already been identified near Sidhbari by the management. He said the bank would continue the pension scheme for its employees. The bank had also provided financial benefits worth Rs 27 crore to its employees during the last financial year.
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135 ASHA workers’ recruitment from July 24
Nurpur, July 20 Dr Neerja Gupta, Block Medical Officer (BMO), Gangath, said the interviews to recruit 135 ASHA workers would be conducted for as many as 48 gram panchayats of Nurpur development block. She said the department had fixed the minimum educational qualification for middle-class workers and they should be residents of the same gram panchayat. “The age of the candidate should be between 25 and 45 years and women from the SC, ST and BPL families and widows will get preference in recruitments,” she added. Meanwhile, interviews for 22 gram panchayats are being conducted at the local Civil Hospital on July 25 and 26.
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Cultural function marks end of workshop
Mandi, July 20 Speaking on the occasion, Prashar lauded the effort of the academy to inculcate interest among children towards performing arts. Appreciating the performance of the children he invited them to perform at the open-air theatre at the Indira Market cultural function which is organised every Saturday. Organiser of the workshop Deepak Mattoo said the main aim of the workshop was to provide basic skills to children.
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All bodies of students recovered
Mandi, July 20 The bodies, identified as Dasari Srinidhi and Kasarla Rishita Reddy, were seen floating in the Pandoh dam reservior this morning and were taken out by a search team. After today’s recovery, all 24 students from the VNR Vignana Jyothi College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad , have been recovered. Though one more body has also been recovered from the Pandoh dam, it is still not confirmed whether it is of tour co-coordinator Prahlad. — TNS
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250 donate blood
Nahan, July 20 Amil Kumar of the town donated blood for the 98th time and Aarif Abbas for the 25th time. Nahan SDM Jayoti Rana inspired the youth by donating blood herself. Despite heavy rain, a large number of youth from the ITI, DIET, degree college, Padmavati Nursing College, Nehru Yuva Kendra and volunteers of the Rotary Club assembled at the Zila Parishad Bhawan to donate blood. Dr Nishi Jaswal, Registrar, Blood Bank, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, said blood donation was the most valued service to mankind.
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Proclaimed offender arrested from Punjab
Nurpur, July 20 He fled during a court hearing and was declared PO in July 2011. Manoj Joshi, Nurpur DSP, said a police team, led by Head Constable Daljeet Katoch, nabbed Bishamber from Sangrur district and later produced him in the court. He was remanded to judicial custody till July 25. The DSP said the police had set up special teams to nab POs.
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P’kula boy’s body found from Beas
Panchkula, July 20 He was working as a supervisor and had gone to his company to get payment but failed to reach the site. Head Constable Rajinder Kumar, investigating officer of the case, said the body was swollen. A missing report was lodged in Manali. Sources said injury marks were found on the victim’s body.
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