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State reorganisation panel blips on PM’s radar
Posted by barunroy on January 8, 2008
New Delhi, Jan. 7: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is toying with a proposal to set up the Second States Reorganisation Commission that could redraw the internal map of India.
As the government readies itself for the “final lap” before the 2009 polls, he is also considering a plan to notify the Delimitation Commission’s recommendations in time for the next general elections.
The move to establish a reorganisation commission, which will consider demands for new states, could open a Pandora’s box as several UPA constituents, including a section of the Congress, are opposed to the idea of bifurcating Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Bengal.
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New States to be formed in India
Posted by barunroy on January 8, 2008
New Delhi, 7 January: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government would like to create new states for administrative reasons and have decided to set up the second State Reorganisation Commission.
The Commission will suggest changing the boundaries of existing states and carving out new ones.
The first State Reorganisation Commission was set up in the 1950s and it was only after that the southern states were created on the basis of linguistic division.
Similarly Gujarat got separated from Maharashtra.
The Second Reorganisation Commission is expected to look at the demand for new states coming from places like Vidharbha, Telengana and the Darjeeling Hills.
There are also suggestions that Uttar Pradesh is too big a province and should be broken up to ensure better governance.
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GJM enters Ghisingh Stronghold
Posted by barunroy on January 8, 2008
Mirik, Jan. 7: Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) has gained a political foothold in Manju village under the Mirik block. The village is the birth place of the GNLF chief Subash Ghisingh, and said to be a GNLF stronghold. The GNLF party was formed at Manju on 5 April, 1980, and since then no other political organisation has found entry into the village. The Gorkhaland slogan was also first raised at Manju by the GNLF. Claiming that forming a unit at Manju was an act of achievement, the GJM, Manju unit, President, Roshan Thapa, said that that the GNLF’s policies had prompted them to float the party.
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Energy park opens in Sikkim
Posted by barunroy on January 8, 2008
Gangtok, Jan. 7: Tourists pouring into Sikkim may explore another tourist spot, Ban Jhakri Falls with Energy Park run on a solar system, at Ranka, about 15 km from here. The park has huge waterfalls and dragon statues with flowers blossoming all over.“The park is near Gangtok town and on the way to Tsomgo Lake,” Sikkim chief minister Pawan Chamling, who inaugurated the park yesterday, said. “If we organise Guru Puja and Jhakri Puja at the park, it would attract more tourists,” he added. This is the first energy park of the state that supplies 7 MW, which is enough to illuminate it in the evenings. Read the rest of this entry »
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25 years of Pang Lhabsol
Posted by barunroy on January 8, 2008
Gangtok, Jan. 7: The organisers of the Pang Lhabsol celebrations in Rabongla want the event to be declared a “state function” on its silver jubilee year, allowing the entire government machinery to get involved in its promotion.
The celebrations, held to pay obeisance to Mt Kanchenjunga, the guardian deity of the state, will complete 25 years this September. Read the rest of this entry »
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Casual staff in job fight
Posted by barunroy on January 8, 2008
Darjeeling, Jan. 7: Causal workers employed by the DGHC have started demanding permanent status, after having worked with the council for more than two decades.
A section of the workers has formed the Council Casual Workers’ Organisation to push for this demand.
The organisation has been formed under the aegis of the GNLF, which seems to have made a U-turn on backing the DGHC policy of hiring only causal workers.
“It enjoys the backing of the GNLF, but is not affiliated to the party. The body will work independently and we will try and help it attain its goals, job security being one of them,” said A.R. Dewan, secretary, GNLF Darjeeling Branch Committee.
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NBU beefs up hostel security
Posted by barunroy on January 8, 2008
Siliguri, Jan. 7: North Bengal University (NBU) has decided to step up security at all its women’s hostels following yesterday’s incident at Visva-Bharati in which a youth shot dead a girl student inside her hostel before shooting himself.
“There will be round-the-clock security at all four post-graduate women’s hostels on the campus as well as the law-students’ hostel from tomorrow,” said hostel superintendent Manas Chakraborty.
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Future techies scale 100ft wall & learn ‘ethical hacking’
Posted by barunroy on January 8, 2008
Majitar (East Sikkim), Jan. 7: Alka Singh looked thrilled as she set foot on terra firma after expertly sliding down an eight-storey-high vertical wall with the help of a rope. The amateur rappelling skills of the five-foot-nothing computer applications student from Rajiv Gandhi University in Itanagar were employed to encourage her batch-mates to take part in similar activities.
In all, 83 undergraduates — mostly engineering students but also a few doing their BCom — from different parts of the country are taking part in a unique course on network management and “ethical hacking”. The programme combines academics with white water rafting and training in mountain climbing conducted by instructors from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling.
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