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Stnm Selection Procedure Under Fire 05Tamang November, and 2004; Limboo NOW! commu- 1 Limbu-Tamang seat demand to be taken up soon with concerned authorities nities in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly, the Minister as- sured that the matter would be in consultation with State Govt, assures Kyndiah soon taken up with the con- Region was a national priority Mr. Kyndiah was address- ority areas of the Common SUBASH RAI cerned authorities in consulta- and the UPA government was ing the concluding day’s func- Minimum Programme is to en- tion with the State Govern- NEW DELHI, 05 Nov: Union totally committed to the accel- tion of the 3- day 5th Editors sure special assistance to the ment. Minister for Development of erated development of the NE Conference on Social Sector region to upgrade and expand The sectoral allocation of North Eastern Region so that it finds a level playing Issues organised by Press Infor- infrastructure and strengthen funds for the NEC in the Xth [DONER] and Tribal Affairs, field with the rest of the coun- mation Bureau here at Shastri the North East Council.” Plan gives top priority to Trans- PR Kyndiah has said that de- try in the area of economic Bhavan, New Delhi, today. Mr. Replying to NOW!’s query port and Communication velopment of North Eastern growth and prosperity. Kyndiah said, “One of the pri- on the reservation of seats for turn to pg 4 Saturday, 06 Nov, 2004 Vol. 3 No. 186 Gangtok Rs. 3 Diwali Mega Offer Bhaskar from SBI Walk-in-to State Bank of India between offers you to join 08 to 15 November and avail special a fabulous interest rates on loans part-time job if U-R courageous n ambitious Car Loans - 9% - 8% don’t wait 4 2morrow Housing Loans - 8.25% - 7.25% Personal Loans - 12.75% - 11% Deorali, Opp Hotlicks Contact: 221165, 9434012824, call me at 9832068482 9434357921, 9434151288 GNLF infighting leads GUILTY UNTIL THE CULPRITS ARE CAUGHT! to murder BIRENDRA SHANDILYA Mistaken identity causes month-long DARJEELING, 05 Nov: 55 year old Krishna Bahadur Rai lost his life due to infight- torment for local cabbie ing in the GNLF camp. Last For Deepak, his descent road and blocked his way. From night Rai was hacked to a NOW REPORT death in Dhajia under the into the vortex of Palden’s the black jeep emerged one Sukhia Pokhari Thana. GANGTOK, 05 Nov: Deepak friend in a vengeful mood and Namgyal Lachungpa accompa- SP [Darj], Rajiv Mishra, re- Pradhan, 20, became the victim indifferent cops unwilling to nied by some more friends. vealed that primary investiga- of mistaken identity when he hear his side of the story, be- Without any warning Namgyal tion pointed towards CB Rai, a was identified as gan a day after started abusing Deepak refer- someone else DEEPAK, 20, WAS Palden was al- ring to the Palden episode of cousin of Krishna’s. Nine peo- FIRST BEATEN UP ple have been arrested in this who had alleg- legedly as- the day before. Deepak of edly beaten up BY PERSONS HE DID saulted. Deepak, course had no idea of what was connection. NOT KNOW AND Both CB Rai and KB Rai one Palden THEN LOCKED AWAY a taxi driver by happening. belonged to the GNLF party. In- Lachungpa on the FOR SIX DAYS ON profession and a This group then sat inside cidentally, Krishna worked as night of 04 Octo- CHARGES OF resident of Mid- the taxi and forcefully took the Provident Fund Clerk at the ber. This mis- HAVING ASSAULTED dle Sichey Busty, Deepak to Syari via District Palden Lachungpa, admitted Dhajia Tea Estate. He was also taken identity led A PERSON HE DID was on duty ply- Court, where they assaulted there, for identification. Palden, a GNLF leader and the Unit to a harrowing NEVER MET ing his taxi to- Deepak with kicks, blows and informs Deepak, identified Secretary of the Himalayan time for Deepak, wards DC Court fists. After inflicting such griev- Deepak as the person who had Plantation Union affiliated to both in the hands of the friends on 05 October when, at around ous injuries, Namgyal and his attacked him the previous night. the GNLF. Senior GNLF lead- of the beaten up person and the 1:30 pm, a black jeep followed gang took Deepak to STNM Soon after, Deepak was turn to pg 4 Sadar Thana cops. him till Suren Dhara, DC Court where they showed him to turn to pg 7 STNM SELECTION PROCEDURE UNDER FIRE RANJIT SINGH GANGTOK, 05 Nov: The se- Petitioner wants High Court to verify whether lection procedure of new doc- tors to STNM Hospital has selection process was “proper” raised much acrimony between was carried over for the next tors contend. nexed to the petition which the practised at present be replaced the selected candidates and the examinations in 2005. Dr. Sherpa, the petitioner, other party says is totally false by the 50-50 formula. SPSC on the one side and the Incidentally, in 2003, 10 contends that the new roster sys- and prepared by the petitioner The petitioner has also con- rejected candidates - particu- seats were filled of the total 30 tem should have been applied herself. As pointed out by the re- tested that candidates with con- larly one Dr. Phur Lamu Sherpa while 20 seats were brought for the entire 30 seats which is spondent doctors, the document nection and influence have - on the other. In fact Dr. Sherpa forward for 2004. While 14 of vehemently challenged by the shows an MBC reservation for been able to secure selection in has approached the High Court the 30 seats fell in the unre- selected doctors who have been a person with “locomotion dis- spite of their academic records to verify whether the selection served category the rest were named respondents no 5-33. ability or cerebral palsy in 9th being poor. She also contends procedure was proper and also reserved for STs [5], MBCs [8], “The new roster system can cycle”. “How can a person with that these candidates have only to quash the impugned selec- SCs [2] and OBCs [1]. And only be applied for the 10 seats cerebral palsy ever become a passed MBBS and have only tion of the selected doctors. while the old roster system for of 2004 as was done by the doctor,” they question. one year rotatory internship Examinations for candidates selections was used for the 20 SPSC, the old method has to be It has also been revealed by while she has more experience. aspiring to work as doctors at the seats which were carried over applied for the 20 seats carried another selected doctor that Dr. Incidentally, Dr. Sherpa passed STNM hospital were called by from 2003; the new roster sys- over from 2003,” says one of Sherpa has sought for the ex- her MBBS from Patna Medical the SPSC on 17-18 June this tem was applied for selection the selected doctors. isting pattern of reservations be College and Hospital in 2002. year. Of the total 49 candidates procedure of the remaining 10 The composition of re- scrapped in favour of the dic- Her other point that a cou- who appeared for the 30 seats, seats of which 9 were filled. served seats, if the new roster tum of the Supreme Court. This ple of the respondents had even 29 were selected while one seat This is what the selected doc- system is applied, is also an- implies that 74% reservation turn to pg 6 2; NOW!; 05 November, 2004 ED-SPACE Our Cult of Violence he victory of good over history to either suppress unable to defeat them. The gods NOW! evil must be enacted in resistence against structural combine to create a feminine FIRST WITH THE NEWS Tthe triumph of peace violence or overthrow it. force, Shakti, to destroy the evil over violence Physical violence is an im- forces. The goddess can destroy Nothing Without The Rod There was a time when bru- portant part of the religious dis- evil only when she herself takes tal violence was something that course, practice and imagina- on an even more fierce form It has been quite some time now since Gangtok’s main happened elsewhere. Indeed, tion of many Nepalis. Take and ultimately is able to slay the thoroughfare, MG Marg, was declared a litter and spit free Nepalis took pride their coun- Dasain, which at one level is a demon Mahisasura who has zone. And yet, those involved in making sure that this try in being known as peaceful harvest festival, when we visit taken the form of a buffalo. The initiative succeeds are still trying hard to “inform” the peo- and non-violent. But after relatives to receive blessings goddesss sometimes appears no ple of MG Marg’s new status. Nothing amplifies the ab- sence of a Civil Society in Gangtok more than this. And if 10,000 deaths in less than a from seniors and feast. At an- different from the evil she the capital, where all the so-called “intellectuals” converge decade, many more missing other level, it reinforces and fights. In sacrificing animals cannot conceive a Civil Society, it is little surprise then and brutalised, creeping reli- during Dasain, Hindus are both that the society in general is rarely even civil. Call it the gious and ethnic violence, we slaying evil as well as propiti- hangover of the monarchial times or plain disinterest, but have to question whether we ELSEWHERE ating the fierce goddess, whose nothing seems to work here unless it is enforced.
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