Sikkim gears up R

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Sikkim gears up R
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H I M A L AYA N M I R R O R GANGTOK, FRIDAY 23 JANUARY 2015
Black Cat hosts motivational
tour for Mumbai students
Newly enrolled voters to
get EPIC on Jan 25
Gangtok, Jan 22: Newly enrolled voters will be provided with their voters card on
state level program to be held
on the occasion of 5th National Voters Day, at Chintan
Bhawan, Gangtok.
The newly enrolled Voters
of Gangtok, Arithang, Upper
Tadong, Upper Burtuk &
Shayri Assembly Constituencies have been invited to
participate.
The purpose of programme is to create awareness among the youth regarding Election and Voting
Rights. The voter card of the
newly enrolled voters of the
five constituencies would
also be distributed during the
programme. The Chief Secretary, Government of Sikkim
R. Ongmu will be attending
the program as the Chief
Guest.
Patients being screened
for free medical and corrective
surgery camp
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Gangtok, Jan 22: Black Cat
Division, Gangtok, organized
a motivational tour for 60 stu-
3 injured in
accident
One alto car was hit
from behind by a truck
near Water Garden,
Martam at around 11:30
am yesterday. 3 occupants
in the Alto sustained
serious injuries and have
been evacuated to CRH,
Tadong for medical
attention. The driver of
the truck accused Kamal
Biswakarma, 42 yrs, r/o 32
Mile, East Sikkim has been
arrested and the involved
truck seized. A case has
been registered against
the driver at Singtam
Police Station and is
under investigation.
Man
assaulted
One 28 yrs old man
was assaulted by some
unknown persons at Old
Taxi Stand, Jorethang
Bazar at around 9:30 pm
pon Wedensday. The
victim sustained serious
injuries and was evacuated to Jorethang PHC for
medical attention and was
later forwarded to District
Hospital, Namchi for
further treatment. A case
has been registered
against unknown persons
at Jorethang Police
Station and is under
investigation.
Theft
On the intervening
night of January 20-21,
some unknown miscreants
entered the KVK Farm,
Pentok, North Sikkim and
stole away about 90 mtrs
of BSNL cable from the
area. A case has been
registered against
unknown persons at
Mangan Police Station
and efforts are being made
to identify and arrest the
culprit.
dents from Wilson College
Mumbai who were here in
Gangtok.
The Black Cat Division
organized a tour for the students from Gangtok and
Nathu La from January 21-22.
Major General, Y.V. Mohan,
Black Cat Division interacted with the students at Gangtok.
The students were made
aware of the role of Army in
Development of Border Areas, Aid to Civil Authority
and Conservation of Ecology. The tour provided a
golden opportunity for the
budding students to visit
Sikkim which is famous for
organic farming and tourism. The students also got
an opportunity to witness
first hand a glimpse of Sikkimese culture and traditions under the aegis of
Department of Culture Govt
of Sikkim.
Solomon Raj, Head of the
Department of Mass Media
of the College expressed his
gratitude to the Black Cat
Division for the enlightening
experience which is a rarity
to the students living in
Metros like Mumbai.
Assam Gorkha boy signed by
‘Chur
other
‘Churcchill Br
Brother
otherss Goa’
Guwahati, Jan 22: The club
that has been recognized as
founding club of the new National Football League will be
home to Gorkha footballer
Sagar Hang Limboo of Assam for the next one year as
he has been signed by Goa
based Indian football club
‘Churchill Brothers Goa’,
popularly known as ‘The
Red Machine’. Sagar Hang
Limboo (19), the forward
player has come a long way
from the small tea estate village of Tipling under Dibrugarh district of Assam to the
shores of Goa. He started
playing football from standard VIII and represented his
school team. His talent was
quickly noticed by the Duliajan Football Academy (DFA)
of Assam where he honed his
talent from 2007-2009. During
his time at DFA, Limboo was
selected to represent Assam
state team in the Under-14
Nationals. He then joined
Sports Authority of India
(Guwahati) for one year
which further helped him to
improve his football skills.
It was not long before his
talent was spotted by As-
sam State Electricity Board
(ASEB), one of the most
successfull popular teams
of the state. Limboo was an
integral part of ASEB team
where he spent 2 years giving impressive performance
in the Guwahati League.
While at ASEB he also
played in Dr T. Aoa tournament and Under-19 Nationals for Assam. His career
took a sudden upswing,
when he was noticed by a
senior footballer while playing a tournament in Siliguri,
who was impressed by his
game and he put forward
Limboo's name to the Kolkata Police Athletic Club
which plays in Calcutta Premier League. He scored 4
goals in the qualifying
rounds of the Kolkata
League. Limboo has also
played for Kolkata Giants,
Mohun Bagan, East Bengal
and Mohammedan Sporting,
teams- which he claims to
have grown up watching on
TV screen and heard about
their rich history from his father. "It was like a dream
come true for me to play with
the big clubs of India. (HS)
Gangtok, Jan 22: The Sikkim Viklang Sahayata Samiti
(SVSS), in its mission to help
people suffering from various disabilities is once again
set to organize a free mega
medical camp in collaboration with Saraswasat Hospital, Agra. Screening of patients as per their needs like
fitting of artificial limbs and
calipers, cleft lip and cleft
palate for corrective surgery
and those with burn injuries
requiring plastic surgery,
concluded in the east district
today.
The screening of pa-
tients is being held districtwise in the respective PHCs
and district hospitals.
Screening in South will be
held from Jan 23-March 31
while Feb 2-12 has been set
for the West district. North
will join the same starting Feb
12-21. The date and venue for
the mega medical camp slated to be held sometime in
March is yet to be declared.
A team of doctors and experts from Saraswasat Hospital, Agra will attend the
screened patients and conduct the medical process like
corrective surgeries, fixing of
artificial limbs etc. as per the
patients' need.
Sikkim gears up R-Day celebration
Gangtok/Geyzing Jan 22:
The State Administration is
gearing up and the preparation is in full swing for Republic Day Celebration 2015,
which will be held at Paljor
Stadium, Gangtok. Rehearsal for the celebration is going on in full swing at Paljor
Stadium and the dress rehearsal will be held on January 23 and 24 at 2015 from
9:30 am.
In connection with the
celebration of Republic Day
2015, first meeting was held
at Conference Hall, Manan
Bhawan on December 4,
which was chaired by the
Chief Secretary.
The Chief Secretary during the meeting requested all
the participants to put their
best effort to make the Republic Day Celebration a
grand success. The meeting
also finalized department
Workshop on
making ‘Sarangi’
Rangpo, Jan 22: Bhurung
Puratan Sanskritik Avam
Dharohar Sangrakshan
Sangh, Bhurung, Central
Pandam, with financial support of Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre organized a workshop on making ‘Sarangi’, a
folk instrument from Sikkim
at Kolkata from January 21
Seminar on Child Rights
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Kalimpong, Jan 22: A
workshop on promotion of
child rights was organized
today at the Ashadeep
building hall, 8th Mile, Kalimpong. The workshop organized by the Darjeeling
District Child Rights NGO
networks with a seminar
initiated by a local NGO Bal
Suraksha Abhiyan was attended by 22 different or-
ganizations involved for
promotion and protection
of child rights along with
the state level representatives of UNICEF and other
eminent personalities like
Sister Subishna Thapa,
Coordinator, BSA, Ashadur Rehaman, Field Officer, UNICEF West Bengal
and Parimita Neyogi a specialist from UNICEF. The
BSA initiated the seminar
aimed at bridging the gap
wise responsibility for making the function a success.
The meeting decided that
the Sports and Youth Affairs
department shall provide Paljor Stadium as a venue for the
function and the Police Head
Quarter will coordinate with
all concerned authorities for
organizing parade. The Army
was asked to take needful
action for display of arms and
ammunition during the function. Besides, the meeting
also decided upon the roles
and responsibilities to be
taken up by Cultural Affairs
& Heritage Department, Energy and Power, IPR, Police
Department and Home Department and other concerned departments for the
success of the function.
Follow up meeting was
held on January 20 in the
Conference Hall of the Secretariat where in each depart-
to January 27. 2015.
The main objective of the
program will be to preserve
and promote the musical instrument amongst the young
generation. The coordinator
of the workshop, Tulshi
Khanal said that the workshop will aim to keep the instrument alive in Sikkim and
also creating a market for it.
Sarangi expert Guru Gopal
Gandarva will conduct the
training for the students who
are interested in learning the
process of making and manufacturing a sarangi.
between the government
and NGOs working for
child rights in Darjeeling
Hills with UNICEF as the
chief medium for negotiation in the matter. Speaking to journalists, Sister
Subishna Thapa said,
"many organizations are
working for child care and
rights in Darjeeling district
but the government facilities pertaining to the same
is yet to reach them.
Hence, the motive of the
program is to link the network with the central as
well as state government
through UNICEF".
Unidentified
dead body
found
An unidentified male
dead body was found
hanging from a tree at
Namlee Forest, Ranipool
yesterday. The dead body
has been forwarded to
STNM Hospital, Gangtok
for Post Mortem examination and is being preserved for 72 hours for its
identification.
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ment informed about the activities undertaken by them
till so far. The meeting and
also decided to request the
people not to bring bag
packs, bags, and water bottles etc to the Paljor Stadium
during the celebration. The
PHE Department was instructed to make available
drinking water for the public
in the stand. For the security
reasons all the government
employees are requested to
invariably carry their identity card. The meeting also
decided to throw open the
Artillery Show for the public
after the programme.
Similarly West District
Administration is also gearing up for the celebration of
66th Republic Day at district
headquarters, Geyzing on
January 26. District Administration called a meeting at
conference hall of DAC here.
The meeting was chaired
by District Collector (West)
Aishvarya Singh, where all
the heads of the various department of DAC were
present. The meet informed
the minister for Rural Management Development Department (RMDD), S.B Subedi, who is also area MLA will
graced the occasion as chief
guest.
Addressing the officers,
DC directed the officers to
coordinate the celebration.
DC, Singh also directed
all the heads of the various
department of DAC to be
present along with their respective officers and staffs
on the occasion and also to
submit the attendance of the
respective staffs. (IPR)