awareness programme regarding human trafficking

SANJAY AGARWAL –RANGPO-1ST SEPTEMBER 12A day long awareness programme regarding human trafficking was organised by Rangpo mining secondary school with the special initiatives of Rangpo nagar Panchayat vice president cum by profession lawyer Mrs. puspa misra .Sikkim child and woman’s right commission chairman Mrs. manita Pradhan and SDPO Rangpo L Palmo chhetri and labour department joint commisnor Mr. c gyatso was present as a chief resource...

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Green Field Airport or Lake Filled Airport

RANGPO-1ST SEPTENBER 12So called the State-of-the-Art Greenfield Airport of Pakyong in East Sikkim is not a new for people due to regular updates of issues one after another in the media served by the affected residents due to anomalies in construction. Sometimes construction debris whips the connecting road so badly that there seems no any correction or even no sign of action from the concerned authority, with such harsh situation the residents...

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no action against the fake COI holders

RANGPO-30TH AUGUST 12After the seven month also the east district collocterate office has neither started enquiry nor action against the fake COI holders in the state. Between various type of dispute and discussion shown regarding the fake COI holders Mr. ganga ram Rai of mamring south Sikkim has complained before the office of east district colloctarate regarding the fake COI and two state voter id complaints of one of the senior officer of...

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football league of gram bikash sangathan

RANGPO-30TH AUGUST 12Gram bikash sangathan under the banner of football academy pandam is going to organise 2nd football league match from the 2nd week of September .Mr. lilla dhar dulal general secretary of the sangathan addressing the programme at Rangpo providing the information that eight teams is going to participate in the tournament and is going to be start from 8th September at the ground of Pandam senior secondary school. the GVS has...

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Kurseong teacher

MRINALINI SHARMASiliguri, Aug.28: Father Joseph Murray Abraham, an educationist and philanthropist who had spent more than six decades working for the welfare of the people of Kurseong, died at Flame of Hope — a home for disabled — in Matigara today.The 86-year-old Father was suffering cardiac and breathing problems. He had been the headmaster of St Alphonsus School in Kurseong for 22 years.“This afternoon, just past 12, Father Abraham breathed his last. He died peacefully. He brought peace, joy and love to so many people in the Darjeeling hills....

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Govt push for tea garden panels - Demand for variable dearness allowance

Siliguri, Aug. 28: Signs of fresh troubles in the tea gardens of north Bengal have forced the state labour department to announce the re-constitution of committees which look after the welfare of around 3.5 lakh workers in terms of housing, health and power supply.The committees, comprising representatives of trade unions, planters and government officials, have been defunct in all tea gardens since the new government was formed last year.The decision to form the new panels was announced at a meeting of trade unions convened by the labour department...

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Evict & beautify plan for Darjeeling

Darjeeling, Aug. 28: The Darjeeling municipality has decided to extend its eviction drive against hawkers to other parts of the town in an effort to beautify the town and decongest thoroughfares following its success in removing 182 hawkers from Nehru Road.Amar Singh Rai, the chairman of the Darjeeling municipality, said: “Once the eviction of shops lined along Nehru Road is completed we will start the drive along Orient Line (NB Singh Road) and...

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Shops off path to Mall

Darjeeling, Aug. 27: The Darjeeling municipality has decided to remove 182 shops lining Nehru Road that connects the Mall with the rest of the town and is a tourist haunt.The municipality had initially planned to move 42 shops along a stretch of the road as it had blocked the area where the Darjeeling Planters Club wanted to make a parking lot.“We had planned to give them a temporary structure nearby but when our engineers went to the spot to dismantle the structures on Saturday, the shopkeepers refused to budge and hurled expletives,” said municipality...

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Villagers’ nod to rail survey

NIRMAL MANGARGangtok, Aug. 27: People of two villages in East Sikkim, through which a 3.5km stretch of the Sevoke-Rangpo railway lines have been planned, today gave their consent for a survey of the area.The construction of the first rail line linking Sikkim to the rest of the country was stalled because of protests by the people of Khani Khola and Majitar against the survey.The nod to the survey was given at a meeting attended by landowners, Central Pendam MLA Neeru Sewa, East District collector D. Ananadan and railway officials here today.“There...

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Kalimpong teacher finds home for destitutes - Om Bahadur starts school for poor kids and offers shelter to 54 of them

Kalimpong, Aug. 27: A Kalimpong primary teacher with his government pay, and a bit of charity from the church and his family runs a school for 121 poor children and shelter for destitute kids.Om Bahadur Rai cannot buy cooking gas to feed the 54 destitutes who stay in his shelter, the Ashadip Charitable Trust. So he moved his shelter to a place where firewood is easily available.“I started the home in January 2010 and the school a month later. By the end of the year, there were 46 children in the home,” said the 38-year-old assistant teacher of...

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GTA Member Ruchal felicitated by GJKS of Rangpo

RANGPO-27TH AUGUST 12Gorkha janmukti karmachari sangathan of Rangpo division the cell of gorkha janmukti morcha has organised a special felicitation programme for the elected member of GTA from 31 number Rangpo monsong area named Mr. gopal ruchal at Rangpo division bungalowGTA.between the special presence of Mr. dipen Sherpa member of gjmm kalimpong area ,Mr. nain singh gurung president gorkha janmukti morcha sinkona zone monsong the speakers on the occasion has specially highlighted regarding benefit to avail from the formation of...

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सभासदलाई नागरीक अभिनन्दन

विजय महोत्सव पालन गर्दै आज 34 नम्बर स्मष्टिका मोर्चा समर्थहरुले सभासद निमा तामङ अनि क्षेत्रका युवामोर्चा नेता विदुर राईलाई नागरीक अभिनन्दन जनाइयो। सभासद निमा तामाङ अनि युवामोर्चा नेता विदुर राई दुवैलाई नागरीक अभिनन्दन जनाउन आज 34 नम्बर स्मष्टि अंतगर्त पर्ने भालूखोपमा मोर्चा सर्थकहरुले एउटा भव्य कार्यक्रमको आयोजना गरेको थियो । उक्त आभिनन्दन कार्यक्रम गणेश शर्माको सभापतित्वमा सम्पन्न भएको थियो । छोटा भालूखोपको खेल मैद्धानमा सम्पन्न भएको यस कार्यक्रममा सभासद निमा तामाङग प्रमुख अतिथि रहेका थिए । क्षेत्रका युवा मोर्चा नेता विदुर राई कार्यक्रममा विशिष्ट...

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Student dues

NIRMAL MANGARGangtok, Aug. 26: The state human resource development department has promised to immediately clear outstanding scholarships of Rs 3.8 crore accumulated over two academic years for school and colleges students.Students eligible for meritorious and general scholarships haven’t been receiving the scholarships since 2009 because of the diversion of funds by the HRD department.HRD secretary C.S. Rao said today that the state government had already released Rs 1 crore for the scholarships. ‘The government has agreed to sanction the rest...

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Tea gardens hint at bonus slash Nothing less than 2011, says union

VIVEK CHHETRIDarjeeling, Aug. 26: The Darjeeling tea industry today said it wouldn’t be able to pay workers the Puja bonus at last year’s rate of 20 per cent of the annual pay as production had come down and absenteeism was still high.The predominant union of tea garden workers in the hills, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha-affiliated Darjeeling Terai Dooars Plantation Labour Union, has said it would not accept any amount less than the rate fixed in 2011.The Darjeeling Tea Association is scheduled to hold a meeting with all unions in the hills on September...

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Balidaan diwash celebrated by SGPP

RANGPO-26 AUGUST 12Sikkim gorkha prajatantrik party has celebrated the balidaan diwas of major sahid durga malla was celebrated at the party office of Singtam.mr k b Pradhan as a chief guest has lighted the diya .party president Mr. g m Rai has garland the mala in the photo of sahid durga malla and after that other dignitaries ,delegates and party members has also garland the khada in the photo. party vice president Mr. arun gurung addressing the programme demanded to announce holiday i n the balidan diwas in the memory of sahid durga...

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Educational Tour

RANGPO-25TH AUGUST 12The forty member’s student’s team from Padma odzer choeling senior secondary school Gangtok up to class eight was came to Duga under west Pandam constituency in a day long educational tour. Escorted by four teachers of the school the students has visited the fisheries and poultry farming area in the Duga and taken the details regarding the procedure of fishing and poultry farming. Later on the team has also visited the 107 years...

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