City page for March 4

WEATHER

Forecast (March 4): Weather will be mainly dry in plains, low and medium hills, rain/snow at isolated places in high hills

Temperatures:

Shimla: 20.8 (max), 9.6 (min) Degrees Celsius, Sunrise: 06:45 am, sunset: 06:22 pm

Dharamshala: 20.8 (max), 8.4 (min) Degrees Celsius

Manali: 18.8 (max), minus 4.0 (min) Degrees Celsius

Readers Say

Steep approach road (pix)

The approach road to DDU Hospital from the Cart Road is very steep. For people on wheelchair or those having trouble walking, the steepness of the road poses a big challenge. For a person on wheelchair, a few attendants are required to push up the wheelchair. Some solution should be found to this problem – Gulwant Thakur, Shimla

Stop burning garbage, residents told

The burning of garbage at the parking site of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Government Medical College (PJNGMC), functioning in Akhandchandi Palace, is causing a lot of inconvenience to the residents of Chamba town. The smoke generated from the burning the garbage pollutes the environment and poses health hazard to the residents. The medical college authorities should direct safai karamcharis to stop this wrong practice — Suresh Kashmiri, Chamba

Education Notes

Student-parent forum to protest

The Student-Parent Forum will protest at the Vidhan Sabha on March 5 with regard to demands like framing laws and forming regulatory commission to regulate fee, syllabus and admission process in private schools. Also, the forum will raise issues such as annual charges and check demands by private schools in the name of books and some programmes. Forum convener Vijender Mehra said the agitation against the arbitrary functioning of the schools would be further intensified. The forum demanded that laws and regulatory commission to regulate private schools must be formed in the ongoing Budget session.

SFI submits memo to HPU (Pic)

The SFI today submitted a memorandum to HPU, Registrar, reminding the university that it had sought application for Class III employees a year ago, but had not held any exam for the same until now. It appears, the SFI alleged, the university wants to collect money through application forms but doesn’t want to give employment. It also raised the issue of opening a fee counter at Pink Petals Chowk. It also demanded that all university employees be provided pension as per the old pension scheme.

Marathon on Women’s Day

The ABVP is organising a marathon for women aged 17 to 24 on Women’s Day from The Ridge to Ambedkar Chowk. The marathon will start from 7 am. Those interested can call at 8219013461 and 9816807127 for registration. Medical facilities will be made available for the participants. The top three winners will receive cash awards of Rs 3100, Rs 2100 and Rs 1100, respectively.

SOFL felicitates two students

The School of Foreign Languages (SOFL) felicitated two of its students, Kartik Chauhan and Tanishk Sood, for getting admission in German Universities for master programme. SOFL president Seema Sharma termed German the language of technology and dwelt upon the opportunities the language opens up for the students.