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18-24 Dec, 2002; NOW! 1 eeman(Meals) IT’S A JA PURE VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT MELA Sirf Khana OUT No Bar Specialised North Indian cuisine THERE and special fast food items All items TROLLEY served. JEEMAN (MEALS), KUNDEH-KHANG BUILDING, NEAR SADA CHAMLING BRINGS THANA, TIBET ROAD, GANGTOK. Phone: 225098. HOME THE GANGTOK WEDNESDAY, 18-24 Dec, 2002 Vol 1 No 27 Rs. 5 E-MAIL: [email protected] BENEFITS OF NEC STATUS TAKENAlmostAlmost TURN TO pgs 4 & 10 FOR DETAILS rajdhaniIN FOR A ROYAL BONDS REINFORCED AT GIRLS SCHOOL RIDE It does not qualify to be a scam yet, but perhaps only because it was detected way in advance. It had all the makings of a master fraud, but bank officials derailed it in time. The UTI bank is now warning all prospective clients against approach- ing free-wheelers when planning to open accounts with them... TURN TO pg 3 FOR DETAILS simultaneoussimultaneous releaserelease fromfridayfriday 2020thth Dec,Dec, 0202 DENZONG AL SURROUND EX kaantekaantekaanteDOLBY DIGIT amitabh bachchan sanjay dutt, sunil shetty kumar gaurav, lucky ali SHOW TIMINGS: 11 AM, 2:15 PM, 5:30 PM & sanjay manjrekar SCREENING OF “KAANTE” ON CABLE TV AND VCD IS ILLEGAL 1 2; NOW! 18-24 Dec, 2002 RECAPRECAP SIKKIMSIKKIM PERMITLESS IN INNER LINE GOLDEN GLOW FOR MANGAN SCHOOL CHUNGTHANG: It is surprising how people can slip through to pro- tected areas where even Sikkimese by SARIKAH ATREYA from elsewhere require permits to MANGAN: Mangan Senior Sec- CHAMLING LAYS STRESS proceed. Some months back, a sus- ondary School marked its Golden pected Bangladeshi national was Jubilee here on December 11 in the picked for travelling without permits presence of the Chief Minister, Pa- up at Chungthang and now again, wan Chamling as the Chief Guest. ON HUMAN RESOURCE Sikkim Police have arrested one Apart from the local dignitaries, in Dilip Kumar Subba in Chungthang attendance for the gala event were on December 8 for having entered a the Political Advisor to the CM, BB DEVELOPMENT FOR SIKKIM protected area without the requisite Gooroong, area MLA and Power permit or identity card. Minister, Hishey Lachungpa, Zilla In another incident at Adhyakshya, North, Lobzang Chungthang the dead body of Tenzing, Minister for Education and Narendra Basnett, a pioneer with Law, RB Subba, senior officials from the 86 RCC GREF was found on the district and ex-students of the the road side near the bazaar on School. December 14. The police are in- On the day, the Chief Minister vestigating the case. inaugurated the girls hostel and also the exhibition-cum-sale of PROJECT LOOT handicrafts and the science exhibi- ne Tulshi Chettri was picked up tion put up by the students. Ofrom Dalep Busty in South Sik- In her welcome address, the kim recently in connection with a Principal, Ms. L Pradhan highlighted theft case registered against them by the “glorious” fifty years of the Jai Prakash Industries, one of the School’s existence. The School had contractors in the Teesta Stage V humble beginnings in 1895, when a hydel project coming up between Finnish missionary Father Philco Dikchu and Singtam. He is accused Pilcanan started a primary school of having stolen construction mate- with classes up to standard 2, along only in 1952 that the School actu- ing in various state as well as na- the society and make concrete ef- rial from the project site on Decem- with a Church near the Gumpa ally started to function. Thus the es- tional level science competitions and forts to serve the society. He in- ber 8. He was obviously not operat- Ringhem. The late Thargel Tshering tablishment of the School is taken the participating students have formed that his government had ing alone and the police are on the Lucksom was then a teacher at the to be as 1952,” Ms. Pradhan said. brought laurels not only to the taken a policy decision to set up a lookout for his accomplices. School and some of the prominent Classes of the Middle English School but to the entire State as well. college in each district and that 17 citizens who studied at the primary School were held in a wooden house, Ms. Pradhan also took the oppor- percent of the budget has been set HIT & RUN school were Khyaliramji, Chanam with late Emanuel Lucksom as the tunity to place some of the demands aside for education only. Mul, Kulman Pradhan and the late headmaster and about fifty students. of the School before the Chief Minis- Mr. Chamling said that the State NAMCHI: One N Kumar Pariyar Singi Kazi. In 1970, the School was up- ter. These included introduction of boasts of some of the best school 45, was rushed to the Namchi Hos- The School was then shifted to graded to higher secondary level. Commerce stream, repair of the Staff buildings in the entire country. He pital on December 15 requiring the horticultural area. Ms. Pradhan Late DC Agnihotri was the first prin- quarters, construction of a multipur- said that his government’s focus treatment for injuries sustained in a said that when the government de- cipal of the Mangan Higher Second- pose School hall and a playground, would be on human resource devel- suspected hit and run case. cided to take over the entire “devel- ary School. The School was up- electrification of the School buildings, opment and channelising the energy opment area” of Mangan, the School graded to Senior Secondary level in transport facilities for the principal and of the youth in the right direction. ACCIDENT was again shifted to a private rented 1977. government sponsored excursions and Area MLA, Hishey Lachungpa, CLAIMS house in 1952. Principal Pradhan said that educational tours for the students. and Minister for Education and Law, “As per available records, espe- MSSS is the only Senior Secondary Speaking on the occasion, the RB Subba, also spoke on the occasion. HANDYBOY cially the resolutions passed by the School in North Sikkim with Science Chief Minister agreed in principle The students put up a colourful SINGTAM: A handy boy servicing then School Managing Committee, stream. At present, there are 605 stu- to grant the demands placed before cultural show. Souvenirs were pre- a Nissan (SK-03-0631) died on the the Sikkim Darbar was pleased to dents in the Senior Secondary level him and suggested that expenses for sented to ex-students on the occa- spot when the vehicle met with an grant the permission to run the Mid- and 301 students in the primary educational tours and excursions sion. Mr. Chamling also gave away accident here at Balutar on Decem- dle English School up to Class VIII level, she said. should be shared by the School and the School’s annual prizes and ber 15. The police are on the look in 1950 in a private house belong- Dwelling on the various activi- the parents. awards to the students. He also re- out for the driver who fled the scene ing to Supan Kazi. Although the per- ties of the School, Ms. Pradhan said Mr. Chamling said that the stu- leased a souvenir of the School to after the accident. mission was granted in 1950, it was that the School had been participat- dents should be responsible towards commemorate the occasion. 2 18-24 Dec, 2002; NOW! 3 UPFRONTUPFRONT “These people are ALMOST TAKEN FOR A RIDE taking innocent people for a ride by making false promises and When Sea Rock promises misusing our to solicit business for us and people name and still trust strangers with their reputation,” and UTI denies money,” the exclaim. Anyway, the duo in question was Jayanta K. Chatterjee, the client started getting jittery. His involved in this racket. Their game Branch Head, UTI Bank, a NOW REPORT story started cracking and suspicions was much more enticing. Gangtok were aroused. Soon the marketing Bank officials reveal that on fur- GANGTOK: What does a Bank do exec was insisting that he accom- ther questioning, the duo admitted to when a person walks into a bank and pany the duo to their department and being part of a home merchandising demands twenty application forms explain the bank’s services better network supposedly called Sea Rock to open accounts? Excitement would that the “scam” came out in the open. Ship Management with their office be a normal reaction. And it was with They did not work in any govern- in Tibet Road. The account opening the same excitement that a market- ment department and they did not forms were add-ons they were offer- ing executive at UTI Bank ap- have a set of twenty friends wanting ing clients who purchased items from proached a pair of prospective cli- to open an account with UTI Bank. them. Promises of zero-balance ac- ents who walked into the bank’s The duo was allowed to leave counts, debit cards and other impres- Naya Bazaar branch with a similar (without the application forms), but sive banking jargon were to be used mum deposit with the bank has been the so-called Sea Rock Ship Man- demand on December 16, Monday. the bank was worried. Some time to embellish their services. stipulated at Rs. 2,500 without excep- agement people here defended that Enrolling twenty accounts in one go back they had come across cases Jayanta K. Chatterjee, Asst. Vice- tions, the Branch Head revealed. they were going to open the accounts would excite any marketing exec. where, when they approached pro- President, Branch Head, UTI Bank, In fact, the episode troubled the in a Delhi branch of UTI bank with The “prospective” client’s story spective clients, they found they had Gangtok, told NOW! that such prac- bank enough to issue a Caution No- which the parent company, Funway, held out for some time.