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Bharat Sanchar Monday, 29 March, 2004 Vol. 3 No. 02 Gangtok  Rs. 3 Air-Conditioned Nigam Ltd. a Govt. of enterprise Grocery Shop Office of the General Manager Telecom for Provisional Goods, Dry Gangtok : Sikkim Fruits & All Hotel NOTICE Requirements (for kitchen) WHOLE-SALES All BSNL subscribers are hereby informed that all tel- RETAIL-SALES ephone numbers in Gangtok at the most reasonable prices beginning 222, 223, 224 and 225 are being changed in a phased manner to now be- gin 20, ie is the second Rajdeep number of these phones will Spectrum Color Lab Building, Near Amar/ Chaman Garage, Sevoke Road, Siliguri henceforth be “0.” ph: 2640799, 2640599 SAG to buoy Gangtok’s sanitation and water prospects held at Hotel Sonam Palgay, Deorali water supply and sanitation project. STAKEHOLDER ADVISORY GROUPS TO GUIDE PROJECT TO IMPROVE on 26 March with Chief Secretary They will also help towards building CAPITAL’S URBAN WATER SUPPLY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES SW Tenzing as Chief Guest and De- more transparency and accountabil- velopment Commissioner, G. Subba, ity into the activities of the project. in attendance. The workshop delib- To ensure the long-term a NOW REPORT erated on areas for intervention as sustainability of project activities GANGTOK, 28 March: Cleaner well as selection of sites and pro- SAG will be institutionalised and and regular water supply and an ef- grammes and proposals for water will become a permanent advisory fective sewage and solid waste dis- supply and solid waste management. group to the Government of Sikkim posal system for the capital city is a Action groups will be estab- on urban development matters. dream that is now in the process of lished to assist the project in pre- The Project, which is a part of the being realized. The AusAID assisted paring and undertaking demonstra- Gangtok and Shillong South Asia project, “Gangtok Urban Water Sup- tion projects. These action groups Regional Water Supply and Sanitation ply and Environmental Services” has will be established by the Project Program, is in the initial process of moved a step further with the setting acting on the advice from SAG. preparing maps and surveys. The up of the Stakeholder Advisory Participants were invited to pre- Project team has also prepared outlines Group [SAG] comprising of users pare outlines for demonstration for a number of possible projects for and providers. SAG will be an advi- projects, which should be under- consideration. Once projects are ap- sory body, which will help in the taken by the project to improve proved, detailed planning and imple- planning, selection and implementa- water supply, sanitation and solid mentation will get under way. tion activities of the project. The waste management in Gangtok. The Project will be publicly Water-supply pipes snake through garbage in a Tadong jhora. With a civic sense Project Team will meet with the SAG The main task for SAG will be launched once the Project Manage- so depleted, one wonders how a project [no matter how well-meaning], can suc- once a month to review the project. to work towards stronger community ment Committee and the SAG ap- ceed in providing Gangtok with cleaner, healthier environs. Towards this end a workshop was relations in the management of the prove and endorse the work plan. [In the next two issues, read KALIMPONG HONGHONG KONGKONG about how the BAZAAR Water Supply & FIRES IT UP Sanitation Project Any Item Rs. 90 to Rs. 150 FIRST Gift Items, Crockery & Other TIME IN intends to change SIKKIM the way we live in] Attractive Goods! HOTEL BAYUL, MG MARG, GANGTOK

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR HOTEL MANAGEMENT annual AND CATERING TECHNOLOGY, PUSA COMPLEX, NEW -110012 [UNDER MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND CULTURE, DEPTT. OF TOURISM, GOVT. OF INDIA] AND INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY saree ANNOUNCES JEE - 2004 FOR ADMISSION TO THE FIRST YEAR OF 3-YEAR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.SC.) PROGRAMME IN HOSPITALITY AND HOTEL ADMINISTRATION sale Last date for sale of Information Brochure and Application Form for admission to the above course has been extended upto April 6, 2004 @ IMPORTANT DATES Models walk the Kalimpong ramp in the Sale of Prospectus at Institute of Hotel Up to 5th April 2004 Mimani’s KARAN SHAH hill subdivisions first-ever fashion show. Management, Near Ayurvedic Hospital, KALIMPONG, 27 March: Ten the perfect comeback bell of spring Tadong, Gangtok, Sikkim 737102 MG MARG Last Date for receipt of completed 7th April 2004 thousand thundering typhoons and and an equally blasting way to bid Application Form 1st April no less. Ten thousand locals of winter goodbye. And thanks to the Date of JEE Written Test 18th April 2004 [2:30-5:30pm] Kalimpong and no more. And the Pragati Youth Club of Kalimpong Centralized Counselling for allotment of Inst. 7th June to 16th June 2004 - ones who didn’t make themselves and Ramp & Rack, Kolkata, for Commencement of academic session 19th July 2004 30th April count would probably disapprove setting the hills on fire with the hot for details access www.nchmct.org or contact Institute of Hotel anyway, so let’s not bother. It was turn to pg 5 Management, Tadong, Gangtok, Sikkim. Ph: 270735, 270557 CMYK 2; NOW!; 29 March, 2004 ED-SPACE Search For Regular Wages -16- ter’s mother-in-law, where life went on as before. In about efore very long I had been well over a year in two weeks time my master had to go to Bombay on some NOW! Peshawar and had gradually learned enough business. My mistress stayed on inn Lahore and I also. FIRST WITH THE NEWS BPunjabi to speak and understand ordinary For the first two weeks she treated me well, but later she conversation. One day in April my master, Sirdar did not. I had to look after the baby the whole day long Replacing Nepal Sone Singh, returned to Peshawar and was greatly while she herself paid little attention to it. Gangtok is at present hosting students from the US here on a se- astonished when he heard me speak his own lan- One night I had a dream, which made me happy and mester of education. Another group is slated to arrive in September. guage. He stayed only one week in Peshawar and laugh for joy. Next day I told this dream to a man in the One batch has already been to Sikkim, learnt and left. Members of then our time had come to go back, as I thought to house, who explained that this dream meant bad luck the Nepal Chamber of Commerce have already been to Sikkim, Kalimpong. The kind mistress and master of the for me. If one dreams of good it means bad; but if one scoped it out and are planning to return. We have already decided Peshawar house had given us farewell and we left dreams of bad, it means good, he said. to open Nathula for trade and Khasa in Nepal will be drying up soon. Peshawar behind us for good. The same day I asked my mistress Businesses based in Kathmandu are looking to move out. This sud- After leaving Peshawar, we returned to the house of for some money, as I now had none den curiosity on Sikkim is because of the Maoist problem in Nepal. my mistress’s parents in Lahore. When the old lady who whatever. She asked me why I While one can sympathise with the travails of a neighbouring coun- had given me a rupee saw me, she nodded her head should want money. I replied to her try, it would be sinful to not try and redirect the tourists and the in- and said, “How are you, my boy?” “Thank you, in Punjabi: “Mistress, may I not ask dustry to Sikkim. The irony, however, remains that we are still not Sirdarni. I am very well,” I said in Punjabi. She was trying despite the target audiences’ obvious interest in Sikkim. Let’s talk tourism first. Save the Indian tourists who fly to Nepal for its greatly astonished that I had learnt to speak it. casinos and shopping malls stacked with foreign goods, the real spend- Two weeks later we went on to Amritsar, where ing western tourist arrive at Kathmandu for the exotic appeal that the land nearly all the people were Sikhs, like my master, with holds. What draws foreigners to Nepal is a collection of USPs like a third black beards. Outside the town was a small Sikh world charm, unique culture, cosmopolitan attitude, the mountains and temple with a rest house, three stories high, and we the treks. Sikkim can easily offer itself as a second choice now that trav- stayed on the second floor. One morning in the heat elling in Nepal is no longer safe or advisable. Buddhism is a major draw of the day my master took me in a gari, to a big Sikh with Westerners and few other places can rival the grandeur of the mon- Golden Temple surrounded by water, over which the Artist, filmmaker, keen photographer, columnist with international asteries in Sikkim or equal the sheer profusion of these places of worship magazines... It’s hard to pin Twan Yang down. Born to a Chinese bridge led. I had to take off my shoes in a place ar- father and Tibetan mother, he grew up in Kalimpong and worked in in so small an area. The other attraction in Nepal are its treks. While ranged for this purpose. One is also not allowed to Sikkim. NOW! serializes Twan Yang’s autobiography, Houseboy in India... Sikkim might not be able to offer as big a range, it does have some of the enter the temple without a headdress. I was wearing most recommended treks with the Singalila Trek endorsed unanimously my pagri and white Punjabi pajamas, so I taken by the for my wages for all the years that I have worked for you?” as the best trek in the world. Sikkim should perhaps direct its tourism temple people to be a Hindu boy belonging to my mas- “What nonsense are you talking, Kancha! We paid marketing thrust to areas that Nepal has lost out on. Then there is the ter’s Sikh religion. This temple building was two stories carpet industry. For all the criticism of this industry employing child labour fifty rupees in cash to your adoptive mother before we and causing pollution, it was the largest revenue generator for Nepal. It is high and plated with gold all around, even on the gate brought you here. I am willing to give you a pice or an also a misconception that the industry was in Nepal just because labour and windows, and it had a golden covered dome with a anna from time to time, but I cannot give you wages was cheap. If that be the case, then Bangladesh should have long over- golden staff on the top, shining brightly. I heard my mas- because I have already paid them to your mother.” taken its SAARC partner. Despite stiff competition, it could not. Carpets ter say that if anyone comes here to pray, his sins will This was terrible news to hear, but I kept quiet for made in Nepal sold the world over because of its exotic roots. Much like leave him forever. For that reason people came from every the moment. I thought it would be better to speak about the Darjeeling Tea, it became a brand and drew clients with such prom- part of to pray in this Golden Temple. the matter to my master on his return. Master was mas- ises as being crafted by traditional loom masters in the laps of the Himalaya. At the end of the week we went on to Delhi, then to ter after all and would understand better than any woman. With business becoming impossible in Nepal, many carpet manufactur- Agra, and thence back to Lahore to the house of my mas- - to be concluded ers are on the lookout for alternatives. Benaras has offered itself as an alternative as has Ladakh which is drawing more interest because of its Democracy does not only allow a person the and news carried in NOW!, ACTION MAIL is possible appeal with the audience the carpets are manufactured for. Sikkim liberty of holding an opinion, but also express- about complaints and grievances. Wherever pos- could score over Ladakh in its accessibility and the peace it promises. ing it publicly. If you feel strongly about some- sible, NOW! shall also search out a response to For investors fleeing a civil-war like situation, there is no promise more thing that has been reported in NOW! or have the Action Mail. If not, then at least a complaint appealing than that of peace. Sikkim should sell its promise of peace. It an opinion on some recent development, then would have been filed in the public domain. will go down well with both tourists as well as investors. Even if we suc- ceed in weaning some away from Nepal, we would have put our economy share it with a wider audience. While the LET- write to: NOW!, Gairi Gaon, Tadong, East on safe grounds. TERS section will carry responses to articles Sikkim. or email: [email protected] by PRAVEEN MOKTAN the rest, for whom finding something, anything, to eat is the nature. These always throw up non-military utilities like the problem. Distribution rather than generation of resources is internet, which are then taken up by multinationals who then n Kalimpong we do not worry too much about Mars. Of the pressing problem of the day. Apologists for discovering sell it right back to those same people whose hard-earned course, thanks to the electricity department’s stinginess life elsewhere have long given profound reasons as to why money subsidised such findings. And there is another reason Iwith the voltage, Kalimpong is free from light pollution such expensive missions should why the government funds expensive esoteric research of [some would contend free of light all together] and little apparent social value. that offers us some of the clearest nights anywhere. According to Chomsky: “If the government gets Stargazers with even a rudimentary knowledge of involved in building hospitals and schools and roads planet positions and constellations will be able to as- and things like that, people are going to get inter- certain the location of the red planet without much dif- ested in it - because it affects them and is related to ficulty. However most here do not share the enthusiasm their lives. On the other hand if the government says of those who spent billions of dollars in trying to determine ‘We are going to build a stealth bomber’ nobody has whether there is water and as a result of that any form of life any opinions. People care about where there’s going to in Mars. In an earlier essay printed in NOW!, the author con- be taken. The be a school or a hospital, but they do not care about a jet siders the detection of water on Mars as one of the most path- Planetary So- plane you build - because they do not have the foggiest idea breaking scientific discoveries of the new millennium. While ciety, which about that. And since one of the main purposes of social policy not begrudging the considerable scientific prowess and inno- included as a is to keep the population passive, people with power are going vation behind this startling find, I consider it a little ironic that founder the late Cornell Univer-sity to want to eliminate anything that tends to encourage the popu- people actually tend to devote such huge amounts of financial astronomer Carl Sagan, for example, lation to get involved in planning… because popular involve- and intellectual resources, not to mention the time, in trying to published “The Mars Declaration,” which ment threatens monopoly… stimulates popular organization… ascertain whether there is life elsewhere or not. stated: “Mars is the world next door, the nearest planet on would lead to redistribution of profits etc.” But people seem to care less about whether there is any which human explorers could safely land… Mars is a store- While there is a bit of wanderlust in all of us I somehow life in sub-Saharan Africa or the badlands of or on the house of scientific information - important in its own right but cannot stomach its cosmic implications. My reaction to this Earth as a whole? This discovery in a sense mirrors the di- also for the light it may cast on the origins of life and on safe- breakthrough would mirror what theologian Karl Barth said chotomy of issues that preoccupy the two halves of the world. guarding the environment of the Earth.” when asked about the technological triumph of the landing While on the one hand there are those who can afford to medi- You need to go to Mars to find out what should be done on the moon. He said: “It solves none of the problems that tate and act on the possibilities of discovering life in the far- about the earth’s environment? That’s one of the more subtle keep me awake at night.” thest reaches of the universe, there are others for whom find- exercises in salving the conscience. Thus, while numerous, very intelligent people, spending ing a meaningful life right in their own backyards [that is if Insightful people like Chomsky have long held that there decades of their life work and billions of dollars have finally they have a backyard] is the more pressing issue. On one side is a reason why capitalistic endeavours such as this one will managed to prove that there is water in Mars. of the fence are those who have problems with overeating and always be undertaken. He states that most American re- What miracle would perhaps be needed then to establish for whom eating less is a therapeutic procedure. And, there are searches while being funded by tax-payers are of a military the fact that there “is no water in Darjeeling?” CMYK  NEWSSCAN 29 March, 2004; NOW! 3 Darj girl voted  LETTERS ARTFED WEAVERS DESCEND ON GANGTOK INCREASE COLOUR, Ms. Original LOWER PRICE arjeeling girl Jyoti Brahmin a NOW REPORT fcourse, NOW! in its new Dlost the Miss India GANGTOK, 28 March: The Na- Odaily avataar is most crown by a whisker after making it tional Handloom Expo’04 was in- welcome.It infuses a breath of fresh to the final five. augurated at the Guards Ground to- air in an otherwise overcrowded Jyoti, how- day. The Expo is being organised and monotonous print media. ever, won two sub- by ARTFED [ Apex Weav- However, it would be appreci- contest titles - ers’ & Artisans Co-operative Fed- ated if you could continue with col- Miss Beautiful eration Ltd.] for the third time in our prints atleast on the cover Eyes and TBZ the north-eastern region of the pages. Also Rs.3/- for a daily is Miss Original. country. The previous two expos comparatively on a higher side.If This is for the first were held at Jorehat and Guwahati revised to a more attractive lower time that a Hill girl respectively. price, readership will certainly has made it to the The fair of handwoven textiles jump three/four folds. Miss India finals will continue at the Guards D. Pradhan, Tadong and has come so Grounds till 17 April with eight- MISS THE WEEKLY Jyoti Brahmin close to winning een participants from all over the he weekly NOW! is sorely the title. Another Nepali girl in the country exhibiting their designs Tmissed. We liked the bulk of contest, Himani Thapa was among and skills. The main objective of Guards Ground being readied to host the Special National Handloom Expo ’04 earlier NOW!, its colour and its ar- the top ten. the fair is to expose Sikkim to the next 21 days. distinction at the day’s ceremony ticles. Now we are being drowned The Miss India-Universe title trends in fabrics and designs that The chief guest at the inaugu- was Sarbananda Choudhary, MLA in news. Where are the lighter read- was won by , and are in vogue in the rest of the coun- ral ceremony was KB Chetrri, Sec- [Assam] who is also the ing sections??? the Miss India -World by Lakshmi try. There are fabulous rebates on retary, Industries. Another guest of shairperson of ARTFED. R. Chettri, Gangtok Pandit and Miss India Earth by various items along with cultural Sayali Bhagat, all from . programmes spread out over the Vajra Guru Dhungdrup at Pemayangtse monastery, West Sikkim 12MONTHS The Vajra Guru Dhungdrup or recitations at Pemayangtse Gompa, PICKUP Sikkim’s premier monastery in West Sikkim will commence from 8th No. 1 April 2003 ( Lunar calendar : Dawa Nyipa Tsey Chopgay). HURRY! The recitations will be headed by his Eminence Yangthang Rimpoche. 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CMYK 4; NOW!; 29 March, 2004 NEWSSCAN  Mangan hopes for more consideration this term from Gangtok, without even stopping State,” would work towards the de- from OUR CORRESPONDENT at Mangan, even though they have velopment of the Mangan as well. MANGAN, 28 March: In an at- to pass through this town. If the gov- Various demands of the district, tempt to gauge the mood of the ernment is serious about developing which came up during the meeting people of the North district and get the entire district, it is very important include constructing helipads for their views and opinions on the that Mangan also figure in the tour- public convenience, more business upcoming polls in the State, a team ist itinerary so that the local economy initiatives to boost the local of observers from the ruling Sikkim is benefited. The hotels and tour-op- economy, development of tourist Democratic Front [SDF] held a erators based in Mangan should also infrastructure and tourist spots, es- meeting here on 25 March. The rul- benefit,” he said. pecially religious and historical sites. ing party team comprised of Hangu Mr. Dadul however made it clear The SDF observers accepted Tshering Bhutia, general secretary that the people still wholeheartedly the suggestions placed by the peo- and Namkha Gyalsten, ex-MLA. supported the SDF party and clari- ple and said that the party would The meeting, which was organ- fied that he was only expressing their not let them down in any aspect. ized by the Zilla Adhakshya, North, problems and grievances which The grievances of the people would Lobzang Tenzing and held at the dis- SDF leaders feel Mangan’s poll-pulse needed immediate attention. be put forward to the Chief Minis- trict party office, was mainly an inter- of the district also formed a part of people of this area have always Other speakers also placed their ter, they assured. active session between the party-work- the discussions. been overlooked by the leaders, grievances and gave suggestions as Others who attended the meet- ers of the North district, panchayat Speaking on the occasion, despite many assurances,” he said. to how the SDF party should go ing include SDF district president, members and representatives of vari- former MLA, T. Dadul said that He further said that even tour- about mitigating the problems of NT Lepcha, former MLA from ous organizations in the District. Mangan has always been neglected ism had benefited only a certain the people in Mangan and the dis- Dzongu, Sonam Choda Lepcha, ex- While support to the SDF party by successive governments and the part of the district. trict. While extending their full sup- chairman, Loden Lepcha, Panchayats was the primary issue taken up in people were actually looking for a “During tourist seasons, tour op- port to the SDF, they hoped that the of Malling-Singhik and Ringhem- the meeting, public grievances and change this time around. erators take tourists directly to party, “which has given democracy, Nampatam and members of the the basic needs and requirements “The genuine problems of the Lachung, Lachen and Yumthang development, peace and unity to the newly-formed SDF Vyapari Morcha. 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CMYK  NEWSSCAN 29 March, 2004; NOW! 5 Disaster managers up north compare notes, decide info-sharing is vital ing are not disaster resistant. “Dam- sponse and mitigation plans at state, able within the state and when some DEEPAK SHARMA ages caused by natural disasters are district, gram panchayat and village specialist equipment is required, no PPositive MANGAN: An Orientation pro- amplified by man-made calamities. levels and district-mapping of the one seems to know the whereabouts gramme for North District Disas- On this everyone should be well in- vulnerable zones to prevent loss of of that piece of equipment. Support ter Management Committee was formed and trained,” he concluded. human lives and property were should be given to all the districts held a Zilla Bhawan, Mangan on The GoI-UNDP representative other aspects that were agreed to strengthen information and other Summer Collection 25 and 26 March. at the meet then shared details of the upon. Those attending the meet necessary resources should also be Lobzang Tenzing, Zilla GoI-UNDP agreement signed in Au- unanimously endorsed that there provided to cope with natural disas- Hotel Golden Pagoda STYLE MG Marg, Gangtok Adhakshya, North was the chief gust 2002, for implementation of a should be transparency and infor- ters, he said. guest at the programme which was disaster risk management pro- mation sharing in the initiative. also attended by Additional District gramme to reduce the vulnerability Also decided was emergency train- Collector CR Bhutia, programme of the communities to disaster, in ing for NGOs, DMC members, DISCOUNTS FOR BEST FLOORING associate, GoI-UNDP Abha Mishra, identified multi-hazard prone areas. CBO, Masons and volunteers. The DIO, North, LP Sharma, DPO, For better understanding LCD delegates were also informed that Wooden parquet flooring, Lucky North and all disaster management and movies on earthquakes, floods an earthquake resistant building PVC floor tiles, PVC wood plank, committee members of DAC. and landslides were also shown. cost barely 5 to 10 per cent more North district Disaster Manage- Mrs. Mishra explained that Sikkim than normal houses. tiles, Vista floor, SUper marblex, ment Committee is headed by the comes under high risk [Zone IV] In conclusion, the ADC [North] Wall Heritage Surface, Textures, Zilla Adhakshya as advisor with the in earthquake vulnerability and informed the committee members Spray polish, Japanese technology. DC [North] as the chairman, the Himalayan ranges are more af- that geo-climatic conditions made contact: ADC as convener and officers from fected by disaster than plains. The the country highly vulnerable to other departments as members. Centre, through its disaster risk natural disasters. Parts of the coun- TIKA ENTERPRISES Mr. Tenzing, in his address, sug- management programme [2002- try are prone to floods, others vul- Near Krishi Bhawan Gate gested that the DMC [North] get bet- 2007], aims to substantially reduce nerable to cyclones or earthquakes 31 A NH, Uma Cottage ter trained on how to cope with natu- natural disaster risk in some of the and the rest, landslides. 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