Function organised to celebrate ERC day
Dehradun: A function was organised by GVKEMRI-108 service to celebrate Emergency Response Centre (ERC) day in Dehradun on Thursday. State Health Manish Tinkoo applauded the role played by the team for providing the emergency services to the victims in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand. He said that the medical technicians and other staff provide round the clock emergency assistance to needy even on gazette holidays. It is to be noted that ERC team receives 5-6000 calls per day and out of that 400-450 calls are emergency calls. It was told that despite the fact the caller was not in position to explain about the incident, the team gathered information and sends ambulance to the spot. The employees who completed five years were also felicitated during the function.
Gas owners instructed to improve supply of lPG
Dehradun: All the gas agency owners were directed to improve supply of lPG cylinders to their customers through home delivery. Dehradun district magistrate R Meenakshi Sundaram said this while presiding over a meeting with Indian Oil Corporation official Rohan Dalal, gas agency owners, district food and civil supply officer Shyam Arya and Rajivnagar councilor Varsha Badoni on Thursday. Dalal said that in order to address the customers’ grievances, around 4,000 gas connections of Shiva Agency will be shifted to other local agencies.
DIT varsity COMMENCES new ACADEMIC SESSION
Dehradun: Following the overwhelming response during admission process, DIT University, Dehradun commenced its new academic session 2013-14 on Thursday with an intake of about 2000 students across various programmes including BTech, BArch, BPharm, MPharm, MBA, MCA, MTech and freshly introduced PhD programs.
To familiarise the students with the University, a special three day orientation program has been organised for the fresh students. “The purpose of the program is to provide the students an opportunity to have a structured interaction with the faculty members and senior students,” said University Vice Chancellor Dr Krishna Kumar.
POlICE POST INAUGuRATED NEAR NARI NIKETAN KENDRA
Dehradun: Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Kewal Khurana inaugurated a police post at Doon University road, near Nari Niketan Kendra on Thursday. The police post which was situated at Bypass Haridwar Road has been shifted to Doon University road due to widening of road there. SP City Jagdish Chandra, CO Jaya Balooni and other police officer and constables were present on the occasion.