City page for Feb 8

WEATHER

Forecast (Feb 8): Weather will be mainly dry in plains, low, middle and high hills

Temperatures

Shimla: 17.9 (max) 3.1 (min) Degrees Celsius Sunrise: 07:09 am, sunset: 6: 03 pm

Dharamshala: 15. 8 (max), 4.6 (min) Degrees Celsius

Manali: 14.8 (max), 0.6 (min) Degrees Celsius

Readers say

Mischief by shopkeepers (Pix)

Shopkeepers on the upper floor of Mandi’s Indira Market let the water flow down to the ground floor, resulting in clothes and other articles getting wet in the shops on the ground floor. The Municipal Corporation authority should warn all shopkeepers to desist from such a practice with immediate effect or get ready to pay fine for the mischief – Prehlad, shopkeeper, Indira Market

Road cries for repair

The Jawali-Dehra link road is in bad shape but the Public Works Department has failed to repair or maintain this road. Big potholes have developed on this stretch, which are an open invitation for road accidents. The condition of the stretch between Jawali to Haripur on this link road has turned from bad to worse. The commuters face inconvenience while plying their vehicles on this stretch. The PWD authorities should immediately repair this road keeping in view the larger interest of the road users. — Kamal Mahajan, Dehra

Education Notes

NCC fitness test camp organised

In order to enroll deserving students of Arya Government College, Nurpur, in the college NCC unit, a fitness test camp was put up on the campus on Sunday. As many as 174 students took the test. In the first year, only 45 students, 30 boys and 15 girls, are being enrolled in the NCC unit. It was a longstanding demand of the students to start an NCC unit in the college. The NCC/9 HP Battalion, Dalhousie, finally approved this unit a few days ago. It has given a nod to enroll a total of 134 students.

Pinegrove girl tops in science congress

Ananya Kalia, a Class X student of Pinegrove School, Dharampur, secured the first position in the “Activity Corner ” among participants across the state in the 28th Children’s Science Congress organised online by HIMCOSTE. The news brought cheer to the school fraternity. Executive director of the school, Capt AJ Singh, while congratulating her, expressed hope that children would continue to bring laurels to the school with their hard work and sincerity.

Students briefed on anti-ragging norms

A welcome and orientation programme was organised at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Government Medical College (PJNGMC), Chamba, for the new batch of MBBS students. Principal Dr Ramesh Bharti said the session got delayed by five months due to the pandemic. He said ragging was a matter of concern in educational institutions but believed that the Chamba medical college was free from the menace. He said as per guidelines of the Supreme Court and the National Medical Commission (NMC), all anti-ragging measures had been taken and students were given phone numbers of anti-ragging committee members in case they faced any such incident.