ARO to hold recruitment rally for Gorkhas
Dehradun: For the Indian Domicile Gorkhas, the Army Recruitment Office (ARO), lucknow would organise a recruitment rally on March 7. The head of recruitment board of Garhwal Rifles (GR) lansdowne, Colonel B M S Talwar said that the rally would be held at Cavalary ground in Kanpur cantonment and Gorkha candidates residing in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand are eligible to participate in it. The rally is being held for Soldier General Duty (GD) only. Colonel Talwar said that the candidates should have passed class X and should be between 17 years 6 months to 21 years of age on the date of rally.
light rainfall forecast in state
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre has forecast light rainfall/snowfall at many places in the state on Saturday. Snowfall is likely to take place in the higher reaches above 3500 metres altitude. State meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Saturday is partly to generally cloudy sky. One or two spells of light thunder/shower are likely to occur towards the evening on Saturday. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 30ºC and 15ºC, respectively, in Dehradun on Saturday. Singh attributed this to western disturbances. Due to rainfall/show in high reaches on said dates, the maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to dip by few degrees in the state. He informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 30.8 ºC and 14.1 ºC in Dehradun while it was respectively 21.2ºC and 10.4ºC in Tehri, 23.3 ºC and 8.8ºC in Mukteshwar and 31.6ºC and 10.5 ºC in Pantnagar on Friday.
SP post upgraded to SSP in Pauri, Almora
Dehradun: The state government on Friday has issued a government order regarding the upgrading of the post of superintendent of police (SP) to senior superintendent of police (SSP) in two districts- Pauri and Almora with immediate effect. A noted to this effect was released to the media by the Police Headquarters on Friday.
‘forms submitted by March 1 to be accepted’
Dehradun: The candidates who have submitted the application form of direct recruitment for posts of sub-inspector and constables at the post office by March 1, 2016 will be accepted at district police headquarters. large number of candidates had submitted the said form through post office. Regarding this, State DGP BS Sidhu has directed the district police officers to accept all the forms which have been submitted at post office by March 1 or before. The state police had sought the applications from those interested in direct recruitment to posts of women sub-inspectors (civil police) and constable between February 1 and March 1. The police department would promote women constable/head constables through written tests on eight posts of sub-inspector (civil police). Various districts have been allocated fixed seats for women constables. The direct recruitment of woman constables will be held for 61 posts in Almora, 26 in Bageshwar, 39 in Chamoli, 26 in Champawat, 168 in Dehradun, 190 in Haridwar, 94 in Nainital, 48 each in Pithoragarh and Pauri, 23 in Rudraprayag, 61 in Tehri, 163 in Udham Singh Nagar and 33 in Uttarkashi.
Gram Pradhan challaned for filing fake plaint
Dehradun: Police imposed challan under the Police Act on Gram Pradhan Rita Sharma, who had informed the police about a theft incident at her home which turned out to be untrue. She had told the police that unidentified persons had stolen Rs 36 lakh from her home at Selaqui in Sahaspur on Thursday. In course of investigation, the police found that no money had been stolen from the house. It should be mentioned here that a complaint about Rs 36 lakh was allegedly stolen by unidentified persons from the house of Selaqui Gram Pradhan Rita Sharma was registered in Sahaspur Police Station on Thursday evening.