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Subodh Uniyal meets Min of commu Manon Sinha

Dehradun:The Uttarakhand Agriculture, Agriculture Marketing, Horticulture and Silk Development, Subodh Uniyal met the minister of communication, Manoj Sinha in the national capital. During the meet, Uniyal requested Sinha to facilitate setting up of a telecom tower at Gheradhar in Narendranagar of Tehri district. The minister told Uniyal that till now the Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited has constructed a tower at a place called Timli. This mobile phone tower will be made operational soon. With the operation of this tower, the Gheradhar area will also be covered. The minister also assured Uniyal that telephone tower will be established in the near future at Mindath Gram Panchcyat, Purvala in Narendranagar.

DIG inspects traffic scenario

Dehradun:Taking note of traffic congestion being reported from various parts of the state capital, Garhwal Range deputy inspector general of police Pushpak Jyoti inspected the traffic scenario at several places like Darshanlal Chowk, Thesil Chowk, Prince Chowk, Aadhat Bazar and Saharanpur Chowk on Thursday. He asked the police personnel deputed there to impose challans under the Police Act on the shopkeepers and vendors caught  encroaching  the footpaths of the roads. He also directed senior police officers to deploy police personnel at various places in the city during the  peak hours which see maximum traffic snarls. 

DM pulls up principal for poor toilet facility

Dehradun:While touring the Gaja (Chaka) area of Narendranagar, the Tehri district magistrate Sonika pulled up the principal fo the government inter college Pokhri for the deplorable state of the toilet facility. She directed that immediately on a priority basis, the toilet should be repaired and made available to the students. She should also be informed within a week about the toilet facility being restored, added the district magistrate.

Cong terms 10 month old State Govt disappointing

Dehradun:The Congress Dehradun Mahanagar president Prithviraj Chauhan has termed the ten month term of the State government so far as a disappointment. He said that in its 10-month term in office so far, the state government has ignored public interest issues. The government is going back on its words on a sensitive issue like the appointment of the lokayukta in Uttarakhand. A government which talks about having zero-tolerance towards corruption is abetting anomalies in mining and bootlegging, he alleged. Chauhan also lambasted the state government for the deteriorating level of civic facilities in Dehradun and other towns across the state.

Haridwar DM inspects link road

Dehradun:The Haridwar District Magistrate Deepak Rawat inspected the road linking Roshanabad to Biharigarh on Thursday. Various border villages of Haridwar district have been linked by constructing various bridges on this route categorised as a state highway. 

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