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Nishank slams Centre for blocking funds
Ramdev propagating RSS-BJP hidden agenda, says Tehri MP
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Admn to take strict steps to curb copying
Poetry binds where politics divides
Rs 6.5 crore marked for database of forest-fringe villages
Samiti seeks reservation for SCs/STs in 9th schedule
Assn wants rail e-ticket service resumed
Dolphin institute, drug assn sign MoU
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Nishank slams Centre for blocking funds
Pithoragarh, March 12 “Despite the Centre blocking the money we demanded to tackle the natural calamity in the state, the state government is giving people cheap ration, medical care and education, including medical education under which we have made arrangements to produce doctors in the state by spending only Rs 15,000 per annum as fee,” said the CM, while addressing a rally at Askot town of the district today. “The Atal Khadyann Yojana, 108 Emergency medical service, Gaura Devi Kanyadhan Yojana and mobile hospitals are our pillars on which the BJP Government in the state has shown its commitment to the people for which all the five MPs of the Congress have done nothing,” said the CM, while talking to mediapersons later. The CM distributed Rs 493.96 lakh to the beneficiaries of various state-run welfare schemes, including 73 girls under Gaura Devi Kanyadhan Yojana. “The CM also laid foundation stones for eight motor roads worth Rs 11.51 crore and inaugurated a newly built building of ayurvedic hospital for the backward area of Salla in the Askot area,” said district information officer Dhirendra Pandey. The CM awarded every respondent with Rs 500, who answered his query correctly on the various welfare schemes being run by the state government. “We are committed to giving employment to every trained youth in the state, but the restrictions posed by the Centre are posing hurdles in the process for which I will personally talk to the Central Government,” said the CM, while replying to a delegation of trained unemployed teachers demanding the deletion of the newly imposed teachers eligibility test provisions. Meanwhile, the Pithoragarh police made some preventive arrests of activists going to demonstrate before the CM during his public address. “Around 50 activists of the CPI (ML) and NSUI and anganwari workers were arrested at Didihat, Ogla and Askot to maintain peace in the CM’s meeting. The workers were later released,” said Pithoragarh SP Nilesh Bharna. However, the tehsil activists from Devalthal and some anganwari workers managed to reach before the CM and demonstrated, admitted the police. |
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Ramdev propagating RSS-BJP hidden agenda, says Tehri MP
Haridwar, March 12 Talking exclusively to The Tribune here, Vijay Bahuguna, son of former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, advised the yoga guru not to mislead the common public which reverred him due to his social causes, particularly his yoga teaching and curing. “Ramdev is an exert in yoga art, but before foraying into the political field he should learn the yog (calculation) of politics and then point fingers on us. I don’t have any issues of him donating to the BJP party fund, but have strong reservations on his pointing fingers on Congress politicians who have served and are continuing to place the nation before themselves,” said Bahuguna. He said Baba Ramdev was silent on the BJP government in Uttarakhand, be it the Maha Kumbh fund corruption, relief bungling or Rishikesh-situated housing project developed by Sterdia Citurgia Sterdia Chemicals. The court too had termed it as illegal granting of the project by persons from the government and administrative side. The Tehri parliamentarian demanded the backing off of former Uttarakhand High Court Justice BC Kandpal in the Sterdia Developers Company case on moral grounds, as he would be probing the administrative officers who were involved in mass discrepancies involved in the granting of the project, while the same authorities were providing details to the commission which was probing previous Congress state
government scams. “I urge Justice Kandpal either to step down to maintain impartiality and dignity of the judiciary ethics, or that Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank should remove him and appoint another one at the helm,” demanded Bahuguna, who pointed out that the 56 scam allegations by the BJP were nothing but a ploy to divert people’s attention from their governance failure in view of the upcoming state Assembly elections. On the claims made by Nishank of 108 EMRI ambulance mobile service, the Atal Khadyann Yojana, the veteran Congress leader termed these as a fake claims attributing both these schemes as those of the Central government which the BJP was projecting as their own. He said 108 EMRI was being run in several states with 70 pc finance assistance from the Central government, while the Atal Khadyann Yojana had been brought when the Food Security Bill would be presented in Parliament which aimed at providing subsidised food to all the BJP-APL bracket people so the BJP state government was fooling people providing them for just few months ration while it remained silent on this issue since assuming governance in Uttarakhand four years back. Finally, sounding optimistic of the Congress chances of regaining power in upcoming state elections Bahuguna quite happy after the hike of Member of Parliament Local Areas Developmental (MPLAD) fund from Rs 2 to Rs 5 crore said the ball was in the public court where we (Congress) had played a positive play so deserved to be in the hot seat! |
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Medicare van to provide health services to elderly at doorstep
Dehradun, March 12 Speaking on the occasion, Gupta said the project, first of its kind in the state, was in partnership with the HelpAge, India. “We will be providing ayurvedic medicines, and doctors from the districts will be deputed for the van,” he said. He also stressed upon the need to start panchgavya treatment in all the AYUSH centres. While Director, Ayurvedic and Unani Services, Dr Pooja Bhardwaj said the Uttarakhand Department had launched geriatric project for senior citizens under which the ayurvedic medicines would be given. “These do not have any side effects and prove to be useful for senior citizens. After the launch of the van in Dehradun, similar vans will be spread in 13 districts of the state,” she said. State head of the HelpAge, Uttarakhand, Dr Aapga said the van would prove useful for the senior citizens providing treatment at their doorstep. Around 70 persons participated in the workshop. National coordinater (physiotherapy), HelpAge India, New Delhi, Dr Aju Philip and programme coordinator Pankaj Sinha were also present on the occasion. |
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Vidyalaya sangathan protests in front of CM’s residence
Dehradun, March 12 The protesters shouted slogans and held banners to press their demands of enforcing the grant list by the state government. Under the direction of president of the sangathan Vinod Prasad Gargi, the protesters first gathered at the Gandhi Park and then proceeded towards the CM’s residence. However, maintaining a high-handed attitude and to prevent protesters from disturbing the decorum of the city, they were quickly rounded up by a strong police force. The protesters were arrested and sent away in waiting vehicles away from the venue. The protestors accused the authorities of neglecting their demands. “Despite the fact that this agitation was initiated five years ago, the administration has not met our demands yet,” said Gargi. According to information, most of the schools in remote areas of the Kumaon and Garhwal region are in a dilapidated state, while others are on the verge of closure due to the discontented staff working there. “Many of our working staff members are almost crossing the age of retirement. If the state government continues to stay deaf and does not listen to our demands, the sangathan will initiate a fast unto death in front of the Vidhan Sabha,” he added. |
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Admn to take strict steps to curb copying
Pithoragarh, March 12 “To achieve the target, the district administration will work as a team with the district education officer, sector magistrates, mobile checking parties, in charges of examination halls and invigilators,” said District Education Officer GR Tiruwa after a meeting held in this connection, under the chairmanship of Pithoragarh District Magistrate NS Negi. “If any examination in charge feels that there will be some disturbance in conducting the examination, he will have to inform the district administration officers. However, after the beginning of the examination, he will be held responsible for any type of complaints,” said the education officer. “In Pithoragarh, there will be 93 examination centres and we have distributed the district into nine sectors for 9,979 regular and 1,000 private examinees in high school and 7,669 regular and 873 private examinees in Class XII,” said Tiruwa. |
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Poetry binds where politics divides
Nainital, March 12 The issue this time was the holding of a ‘mushaira’ at the Ramlila Grounds. It is learnt that after having granted permission to organise the event at the venue on Friday night, the Ramlila Grounds Management Committee had withdrawn the permission at the 11th hour, allegedly under pressure from the Hindutva organisations. The organisers were adamant on holding the event there for which they had put in a lot of time, money and effort. In their opinion, the event was being held with a focus on national unity and communal amity. There were consultations between various groups and the administration throughout the day. The administration had earlier tried to wash off its hands by saying that the Ramlila Grounds Management Committee had the sole discretion over matters related to the venue. However, just when the event was about to begin, a large number of people associated with various Hindutva organisations ran towards the grounds trying to barge in. This led to the administration using force against them. This resulted in a commotion in the area with shopkeepers downing their shutters immediately. The protesters then squatted on the Nainital road raising slogans. It is learnt that following a telephonic talk with District Magistrate Shailesh Bagauli, the Samajwadi Party leader and former minister in Uttar Pradesh Azam Khan decided not to turn up for the event. The event finally got off to a slow and shaky start. Soon, the ‘mushaira’ was in its flow with the poets regaling the audience with one rendition after another. It had been organised in the memory of Abdul Rauf Siddiqui, a local Samajwadi Party leader. Although the tension was diffused well in time, observers say that the police and the administration need to be more proactive in their approach towards such
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International Women’s Day
Dehradun, March 12 “Most of us were not here on the occasion of International Women’s Day, so we decided to gather and give vent to our emotions,” said Geeta Gairola, State Head, Mahila Samakhya (Uttarakhand). Breaking away from their normal routine, these women went down the memory lane, evoking songs from their childhood, making the whole environment festive. Chairperson of State’s Women’s Commission Sushila Baluni, who was also present, said despite rising incidents of atrocities against women, some progressive steps too had been taken and they hoped that more were in the offing. On the other hand, District Protection Officer Ramindri Mandarwal said women had begun raising their voices and begun making complaints about physical abuse. |
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Rs 6.5 crore marked for database of forest-fringe villages
Dehradun, March 12 Initially, Pauri and Haridwar districts have been taken up as sample to develop a methodology that will put into application in the entire country to generate valuable database. FRI director Dr SS Negi said, “The project will take at least three and a half years to be completed”. He said, “While it will address a number of issues, the data could even help in meeting the challenges linked to the issue of man-animal conflict in forest fringe villages”. He further said the Survey of India and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing were also assisting in the project. The FRI has already started work; taking villages located within a one km radius of forests in Pauri and Haridwar. The FRI had intentionally taken one hill and one plain district into consideration as it would give a right methodology for them to follow in other fringe-forest villages of the country. |
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Samiti seeks reservation for SCs/STs in 9th schedule
Dehradun, March 12 National president of the samiti RP Singh said they demanded that reservation be added in the 9th schedule of the Constitution. “We also demand that there should be reservation in the High Court and Supreme Court for the SCs/STs. At the higher level in the judiciary, there are no people from our community and, thus, we feel that under such circumstances the decision will not come in our favour,” he said. |
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UKD seeks state language status for Kumaoni, Garhwali, Jaunsari
Dehradun, March 12 “The state government should make strong plans to preserve the diverse culture and regional languages of the state. The regional languages should be enforced as official languages in all the government offices of the state so that local people can easily understand the decision, instruction and regulation of the administration,” said Pramod
Dobhal, president, UKD. — TNS |
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Assn wants rail e-ticket service resumed
Dehradun, March 12 Talking to the media, Sudhir Rana, general secretary of the association, said the IRCTC had abruptly suspended the train ticket bookings through ticket agents on a temporary basis. “The blocking of the service without any prior information has caused great trouble to the employees of ticket-booking agents,” he said. “Tourists from other parts of India and abroad and senior citizens have been greatly inconvenienced by this”. |
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Dolphin institute, drug assn sign MoU
Dehradun, March 12 The MoU is signed to provide technical training and employment to students. The MoU will also provide project training to students for research purposes in the field of drug industries and simultaneously will offer job opportunities in various drug industries. |
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