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India competent to fight terrorism: Shanta Cong to reserve 40 pc seats for youth,
women Traders get week’s time to remove
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Youth festival
results Una, October 12 The three day H.P. University Youth Festival (group II) concluded here yesterday at S.V.S.D. College, Bhatoli. Mr K.K. Pant, Deputy Commissioner, Una, inaugurated and Mr Sudripto, Secretary, Education, gave away the prizes.
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competent to fight terrorism: Shanta Chamba, October 12 Addressing a news conference here, Mr Shanta Kumar said the fight against terrorism should not only be confined to Afghanistan or Osama bin Laden, but efforts should also be made to fight terrorism in Kashmir also. He, however, stated that India was fully competent to fight terrorism in Kashmir. Giving details about major achievements of the NDA government during the past two years, Mr Shanta Kumar said the government has decided to reduce poverty to 20 per cent by 2007 and 10 per cent by 2012. At present, the poverty stood at 26 per cent, according to a new survey. Mr Shanta Kumar said 2 kg of wheat and 3 kg of rice were being distributed to 5 crore poor in the country. He said under Annapurna Yojna, free ration was being given to the poor old persons above 65 years of age. He said the Centre had launched “Sampuran Gramin Rozgar Yojna”, under which 50 lakh tonne of foodgrain would be provided to the states free of cost adding that the scheme would cost Rs 5,000 crore. Mr Shanta Kumar said as per buffer norms, procurement had been started from October 1 and the foodgrain capacity would exceed the existing food availability by 243 lakh tonne. He said India had exported 36 lakh tonne of wheat, 6 lakh tonne of rice and 8 lakh tonne of sugar thereby attaining seventh position in food export in the world. The minister said Chamba would be provided mobile phone facility by December. He said though there was a waiting list of only 19,800, but the Telecom Department would release 25,000 connections this year in Kangra and Chamba districts of the state. Earlier, Mr Shanta Kumar addressed public meetings at Salooni and Tissa and inaugurated staff quarters of the Department of Telecom at Chamba. Later, he presided over a function organised to distribute kisan credit cards.  |
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Cong to reserve 40 pc seats for youth,
women Shimla, October 12 Talking to mediapersons, he alleged that people of Kangra were suffering due to the supply of substandard foodgrain. He said fungus had been found in wheat, maize and rice etc. He said in the forthcoming Assembly elections, 40 per cent seats would be reserved for the youth and women. Mr Rathore said “maha panchayat sammelan” in all districts would start in December wherein the development of panchayats would be evaluated. No aid has been given to the panchayats by the state government as most of the elected representatives belonged to the Congress, he alleged. |
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Traders get week’s time to remove
hoardings Shimla, October 12 The drive, which started from Middle Bazar, evoked a sharp reaction from shopkeepers. When all their pleas not to remove the hoardings failed to cut ice with the municipal staff they resorted to the protest. Mr Deepak Sharma, a BJP councillor, appeared on the scene in no time and urged the staff to stop the drive. He had heated arguments with municipal officials who refused to relent. Thereafter, he along with Mr Ashok Sood, a congress councillor, and other persons reached the office of the municipal corporation and urged Mr H.N. Kashyap, Municipal Commissioner, to direct the staff to stop the drive. On his refusal to do so, they sat on a dharna in his office. Finally, Mr Kashyap agreed to halt the drive and give a week's time to the shopkeepers for removing the unauthorised hoardings on their own. He said the corporation would get these removed at their cost if they failed to do so. Mr Kashyap said under the Municipal Corporation act it was mandatory to obtain permission for putting up hoardings and exhibiting advertisements.
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PARWANOO
DIARY Parwanoo Speaking to the representatives of various sectors of the town, Mr Rana urged them to work as a link between the police and the people. Mr Sanjeev Lakhanpal, DSP of the area, said that the programme had been started to prevent crime with the help of the residents of the area. He added that this programme could be made successful, only with the active cooperation and trust of the public. Giving details of the programme, the SHO said that the town of Parwanoo and its surrounding areas had been divided into 10 sectors and seven to 10 members had been nominated from each sector to keep a close watch on their wards. Each ward was put under a police officer along with two constables and the chowkidar of the area. The team would work as an active group. *** A meeting between the police officers of Parwanoo and those of Kalka in Haryana was held in Parwanoo to check crime in the two towns with the help of each other. According to Mr Sanjeev Lakhanpal, DSP of Parwanoo, it had become necessary because anti-social elements after committing crime in one town, would take shelter in the other and it became difficult to catch these elements because of inter-state formalities. The police officers of Kalka assured full co-operation in this matter. *** The Gabriel Employees Union is conducting a relay hunger strike to press its demands which include the reinstatement of two suspended security guards, release of production incentive for September, 2001, and acceptance of their new charter of demands submitted to the management on June 26 last after the expiry of the tripartite agreement. According to the president of the union, if their demands are not met soon, women workers will also join the hunger strike and children of the workers will stage a dharna.
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Youth festival results Una, October 12 Following are the results: Vocal (Western): (I) Aman Deep Saini, S.V.S.D. College, Bhatoli, Arvind, Postgraduate Centre, Shimla (II) and Satwinder Kaur, Government Postgraduate College, Una (III). Group song western: Postgraduate Centre, Shimla (I), R.K.M.V. College, Shimla (II) and Government College, Hamirpur (III). Group song (Indian): Postgraduate Centre Shimla (I) Government College, Hamirpur (II) and R.K.M.V. College, Shimla (III). Classical (vocal): Reeta Devi, Government College, Kotshera (I), Rajneesh, M.L.S.M. College Sundarnagar (II) and Vinod Gandharwa, Postgraduate Centre, Shimla (III). Classical (instrumental): Neeraj Shandil, Government College Kotshera (I). Light (vocal): Rajneesh, M.L.S.M. College, Sundarnagar (I), Rita Devi, Government College, Kotshera (II) and Satveer, R.K.M.V. College, Shimla (III). |
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Withdraw fee hike, says SFI Shimla, October 12 In a memorandum submitted to Mr P.K. Dhumal, Himachal Chief Minister, the federation also expressed concern over the move to slash budget for higher education.
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3-day eye camp Parwanoo, October 12
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