Gangtok, Sept. 30: The government will resume issuing permits to visit Chhangu lake, Nathu-la and Baba Mandir in East Sikkim from tomorrow with the Jawaharlal Nehru Marg being repaired for lighter vehicles.
The popular tourist destinations in the East district have been out of bounds for tourists since June when the J.N. Marg was blocked by multiple landslides.
The check-post division of Sikkim police is the authority to issue the permits, for which each vehicle has to pay Rs 10. The permits are issued at the 2nd Mile police check-post when the tourists produce their photo identity cards and submit passport-size photos. The permits are mandatory as the three tourist spots are near to the China border with Chhangu lake, located 10km from the boundary, being the farthest.
“The tourist season has already started in the state and with North Sikkim Highway being destroyed (by a flash flood on September 21), the tourism department has decided to issue permits to visit the East district from Monday,” said Chewang Rinzing, the additional secretary of the tourism department.
The taxi fare for each tourist to visit Chhangu Lake and Baba Mandir is Rs 180.
शिक्षक प्रमुखको लापारवाहीको कारण बेहाल अवस्थामा चम्पामाया प्रथमिक पाठशाला
पहाड़को प्रथमिक पाठशालाहरु एका एक बन्द हुनुमा सरकार पक्ष दोषी छ कि शिक्षक-शिक्षिकाहरुको लापारवाही? किन दार्जीलिङ पहाड़को शैक्षिक स्तर दिनोदिन खस्किन्दै गइरहेको छ? प्रथमिक शिक्षा बाल-बालिकाहरुको निम्ति महत्तवपूर्ण हुँदा-हुँदै पनि किन आजसम्म पहाड़को शिक्षा व्यवस्थामा सुधार आउन सकिरहेको छैन?
राजनीति गर्दिनँ भन्नु पनि अर्को राजनीति होः हर्कबहादुर छेत्री
मेरो अधिकारक्षेत्रभित्र पाँच बर्षको लागि जनताको हितको काम गर् भनेर मलाई भोट हालेको हो नि। मलाई थाहा छ यसले जनताको धेरै हित हुन्छ। यसले जनताको हितसँगै पार्टीको पनि हित हुन्छ, आन्दोलनलाई पनि सहयोग पुर्याउँछ भनेपछि एकदम निसंकोच भनेर अघि बढ्न सक्छु म। म त्यही काम गर्दैछु।
बघिनी फेरि पुरानै खोरमा
‘समयले मानिसलाई कहाँ कहाँ पुर्याउँछ,,,,,,’ कुनै समय रेडियो नेपालबाट बजिरहने यो चर्चित गीतले मान्छेको जीवनमा प्रणयसम्बन्धको आरोह अवरोहले पार्ने प्रभावलाई सुन्दर ढंगले व्याख्या गरेको छ। यो लोकप्रिय गीतको यही एक हरफ कुनै राजनीतिकर्मीको जीवनसँग गाँसेर हेर्दा के उत्तर पाइएला?
साहित्य अनि सर्जकलाई माया गर्ने घिसिङ
80 को दशकमा देशभरिका गोर्खाहरूलाई जातित्वको भावना उत्पन्न गराउने प्रथम नेता सुवास घिसिङको निधनले अहिले घड़ी सम्पूर्ण दार्जीलिङ पहाड़ नै स्तब्ध बनेको छ। गोर्खाहरूका हित अनि अस्तित्वका निम्ति छुट्टै राज्यको बहस लिएर सुवास धिसिङले त्यसताक पहाड़का प्रत्येक गाँऊहरूको भ्रमण गरेका थिए। 22 जुन 1936 सालमा मिरिकको मञ्जु चियाबगानमा जन्म लिएरका सुवास घिसिङले आफ्नो तर्क राख्न एकलै जनसभा गर्थे। घिसिङले सम्पूर्ण गोर्खाहरूलाई एकै शुत्रमा बाँध्न "गोर्खाल्याण्ड" शब्दको जन्म गरेका थिए।
निराश छन् विधायक डा. छेत्री
“बजट सत्रमा के कुराहरू उठान गर्नु पर्ने भन्नेबारे हामीले जीटीएबाट कहिले फिडब्याक पाएका छैनौं” डा छेत्रीले भने। डा हर्कबहादुर छेत्री मोर्चाका प्रवक्ता हुन् अनि कालेबुङका जनप्रतिनिधि। दुइवटा महत्वपूर्ण पदमा बसेका डा छेत्रीलाई अहिलेसम्म जीटीएको बैठकमा निम्ताइएको छैन, पार्टीको राजनैतिक लाइनबारे उनीसँग चर्चा र छलफल नगरिएको त झन कति भयो, उनैलाई हेक्का छैन।
1 Oct 2012
Police officer & car fall into Teesta
An SUV carrying the officer in charge of Rambi police station rolled down 100 feet into the Teesta in Kalimpong.Along with OC Shiv Sagar Chhetri (right), his friend Soumen Banerjee and the driver of the car are missing.
The accident happened at a place called Geilkhola, which is 17km from Kalimpong and on NH31A, on Saturday night. Banerjee is an employee of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation. The driver’s name is Pritam Chhetri.
Sources said the police officer was returning to Rambi after attending a programme.
The accident happened at a point that had no crash barriers.
“The accident happened between 9.30pm and 10pm but we were unable to ascertain the cause of the mishap,” a police source said.
Shiv Sagar Chhetri, 48, is a resident of Mangaldara, and took over as the OC of Rambi outpost on May 21.
Banerjee, 35, is a resident of Saradapara in Siliguri and had been working at NHPC’s Teesta Low Dam Project at Rambi since 2004.
Driver Pritam, 20, is a resident of Rambi.
“We have pressed three rafts into the search operation (top), but have not managed to trace either of them or the vehicle. The strong current of the swelling Teesta must have swept them down stream. We will try tomorrow as well,” said Sukbir Tamang, the president of the Teesta-Rangeet River Rafting Association.
Text by Rajeev Ravidas; picture by Chinlop Fudong Lepcha
28 Sept 2012
LPG Domestic cylinder crises is raising the voice against the distributer
27TH SEPTEMBER 12
Day by day LPG Domestic cylinder crises is raising the voice against the distributer and from today in the work procedure of plant situated at bageykhola too . At Sikkim there is only one riffling plant at bageykhola between Rangpo and Singtam and in the plant premises too the cylinder distribution problem and crises in too much unfortunate and silent over the issue by the management of plant is also a suspicious. in one side NSKY indene is working very hard to provide the cylinder but according to the distributor they has received an information that only after the depositing of kyc form the distributer may provide cylinder and the distribution is compelled to follow the norms .the distributor has also clarified that they has no any intension to give any difficulty .in other side the consumers reaction and voice is raising day by day. the public signature letter containing to immediate solve of lpg cylinder problem the letter was handed over to the block development officer Duga and BDO has also shown positive response and has assured to discuss the matter with the food and consumers department for solving problem as many of the household lpg is ended and due to heavy line too they are not in position to take cylinder and they has compelled to take dinner and launch at hotel or their relatives and some has purchased in black market the several ngo ,clubs ,association has discussed the matter and has taken the issue seriously .by showing the problem they has started taking initiatives the members and delegates are going to ready for dharna at the lpg bottling plant and also has decided to move to court if not listened their voice and solve the problems as the item is come under the essential commodities the plant must provide the cylinder to everyone .the kyc form fill up process shall be in one side and those who has blue book must be provide cylinder .
Gurung GTA pay: Rs 50000
Darjeeling, Sept. 27: The GTA Sabha has proposed to pay a monthly honorarium of Rs 50,000 to its chief executive, rs 25,000 to elected members and Rs 5,000 to nominated members.
The payment is subject to the approval of the state government. The GTA Sabha has 45 elected members and five nominated members, three of whom are from the Trinamul Congress.
Sources have said the honorarium for the chief executive is equivalent to the monthly salary enjoyed by a Grade-A official in the state government.
“The deputy chief’s honorarium has been capped at Rs 45,000, while the chairman and deputy chairman of the Sabha will get Rs 40,000 and Rs 35,000 respectively,” said a source.
The 14 executive members will get an honorarium of Rs 30,000 each per month.
“The rest of the elected members will get Rs 25,000 a month,” said the source.
However, each of the five nominees will get only Rs 5,000, that is one-fifth of the amount fixed for the elected members.
Saumitra Mohan, the principal secretary to the GTA, said: “It is true that the GTA Sabha has fixed different honorarium scales and this will be sent to the state government for its approval.”
Apart from the honorarium, the GTA members will be entitled to Rs 500 for attending a Sabha meeting, apart from travel allowances that will be reimbursed on the production of bills. There is no ceiling on the travel allowance.
Unlike the MLAs and the MPs, GTA Sabha members are not entitled to any allowance. An MLA in Bengal gets Rs 5,000 as allowance, Rs 4,000 as constituency allowance and Rs 3,000 as telephone allowance.
For ministers, there is a daily allowance of Rs 1,000 for every day spent in office or outside doing official work. So, they can earn an additional allowance of up to Rs 31,000 a month (in a 31-day month), besides the salary.
The salary of a minister of state is Rs 7,200, Rs 7,500 for a cabinet minister and Rs 8,300 for the chief minister. The ministers also get full reimbursement of electricity bills both in Calcutta and their houses in the districts and cooking gas connections.
Sources said since the government had to give its nod to the honorariums for the GTA members, the state could increase the amount for the nominees, probably making it equivalent to the elected members’ pay.
A senior government official said the honorariums for the GTA members was high, but it was not illegitimate.
“Functioning like the Assembly, on a much smaller scale, the GTA Sabha can take such decisions within their budgetary allocation,” he said.
