BJP state chief to hold series of meetings
Dehradun: In order to motivate party activists and voters ahead of general elections, BJP State chief Tirath Singh Rawat will hold series of meetings in Garhwal division. Rawat will tour party organisational districts in Garhwal from Saturday. He will hold meetings at Uttarkashi, Purola, Tehri and Pachwadooon areas. Rawat will also felicitate meritorious students at Saraswati Vidya Mandir inter-college, Chinyalisaud and then hold series of meetings with the party activists there and in Badkot. Rawat has urged the party activists to create awareness among the masses about the party’s ideology. He claimed that the party candidates will comfortably win all five lok Sabha seats in the state as voters want change in the Centre and State.
Police dept extends date for form submission
Dehradun: State Police department on Friday extended last date of submitting application forms for the posts of constable in the State police force. Eligible candidates have been directed to submit their form by April 1, 2014. Earlier, last date for submitting the form at Senor Superintendent of Police (SSP) office was March 1. The department had released a recruitment advertisement for 139 civil police, 196 constables in Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and 25 firemen on February 1.
new role for Nitish Kumar Jha
Dehradun: The Government has relieved Nitish Kumar Jha from the posts of Tehri district magistrate and director of Tehri Dam rehabilitation project. He has now been appointed to the post of Additional Secretary Disaster Management and Incharge, Disaster monitoring cell at the Chief Minister office. Additional secretary, Personnel Ramesh Chandra lohani said that the additional director Urban Development Directorate Yugal Kishore Pant has been appointed as Tehri DM and director of Tehri dam rehabilitation project. The Nainital SDM Mohammad Nasir has been appointed as SDM Haridwar.
Cable operators told to pay up tax dues
Haldwani: The Udham Singh Nagar district administration has asked the cable operators and video CD library owners of the district to deposit their entertainment tax dues till the first week of March, 2014 in case they have yet not paid their entertainment tax dues. At the same time the cable operators and video CD library owners have also been advised to apply for renewal of their licences for the year 2014-2015 and to submit application forms in this regard to the entertainment tax office, completing other necessary formalities till March 10, said Assistant Commissioner, Entertainment Tax, Udham Singh Nagar, Suresh Chandra. If the cable operators and video CD library owners fail to renew their licenses for the year 2014-2015 till March 10, 2014, necessary steps will be taken as per the law in this regard, asserted Suresh Chandra.