H I M A C H A L   P R A D E S H

20-cr project for Paprola college
Dharamsala, October 10
The Chief Minister, Mr P.K. Dhumal, today said a Rs 20-crore project had been sent to the Centre for its approval to make Paprola Ayurvedic College a centre of excellence. Mr Dhumal was speaking at a public meeting at Sakri village in the Baijnath Assembly constituency after laying the foundation stone of a library building to be built at a cost of Rs 1.18 at the crore college. 

School staff to move SC 
Kangra, October 10
Employees of Government recognised and aided schools in Himachal Pradesh today decided to move the Supreme Court next week for contempt of court against the state government for allegedly violating the apex court direction passed on May 10, 1995, directing the state government to provide the 95 per cent annual grant-in-aid to the schools concerned by June 30 every year.

Machinery seized
Baddi, October 10
Even as the police has seized the machinery of Woodland Lamps worth one crore from a godown in the Libaspur area of Delhi, the accused, Pankaj Khanna, continues to evade the police.

• Mahila morcha formed

20-cr project for Paprola college
Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, October 10
The Chief Minister, Mr P.K. Dhumal, today said a Rs 20-crore project had been sent to the Centre for its approval to make Paprola Ayurvedic College a centre of excellence.

Mr Dhumal was speaking at a public meeting at Sakri village in the Baijnath Assembly constituency after laying the foundation stone of a library building to be built at a cost of Rs 1.18 at the crore college. It was the endeavour of the state government to make the college a premier institution of the country he added.

He said the ancient system of medicine in India — Ayurveda, was acquiring more relevance now a days. Since the Himalayas had abundant herbs and valuable medicinal plants, the state government should encourage the Ayurveda system of medicine, he added. He said apart from 50 MD seats, courses in six new subjects had been started at the college.

Mr Dhumal said Himachal was one of the few states in the country which had made great strides in the field of information technology. Apart from introducing computer education in all senior secondary schools of the state, a new engineering college was being set up in the state, he added.

The Chief Minister lashed out at the previous Congress government for using regionalism to come to power in the state.

Later, the Chief Minister presided over the concluding function of the four-day 55th Northern Regional Livestock and Poultry Show at Palampur. Participants from the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Rajasthan and Delhi attended the show.

School staff to move SC 
Our Correspondent

Kangra, October 10
Employees of Government recognised and aided schools in Himachal Pradesh today decided to move the Supreme Court next week for contempt of court against the state government for allegedly violating the apex court direction passed on May 10, 1995, directing the state government to provide the 95 per cent annual grant-in-aid to the schools concerned by June 30 every year.

The state president of the H.P. State Government Recognised and aided School Employees Union, Mr Om Prakash Dhiman said here today that the Government was not providing these schools with 95 per cent grant-in-aid in full every year.

Machinery seized
Our Correspondent

Baddi, October 10
Even as the police has seized the machinery of Woodland Lamps worth one crore from a godown in the Libaspur area of Delhi, the accused, Pankaj Khanna, continues to evade the police.

Acting on a specific information provided by the truck owners who had been hired to transport the machinery to Delhi by Pankaj Khanna, the police raided the premises of a godown owned by Anand Barmani in Libaspur area of Delhi last week. The machinery which had been stacked there by Pankaj Khanna at a rent of Rs 2,000, was recovered by the police and brought back to Baddi this Monday. According to the godown owner, the machinery was to be shifted to a factory and was hence stacked there by the accused.

The police also raided the Delhi and Sonepat residences of Pankaj Khanna but remained clueless about his identity. The police aso raided his in-laws residence at Saharanpur. The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Mahender Singh, stated that his relatives had promised to help the police.

Mahila morcha formed
Our Correspondent

Hamirpur, October 10
The district unit of the Mahila Janvadi Morcha was formed at a sammelan organised here today with Ms Biasandevi as its president, Ms Brahmi Devi, secretary, and Ms Shanti Devi, cashier.

The elections were held under the chairmanship of Ms Satya Galodha, state general secretary of the morcha.