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`Samudra pooja' on January 14

KOZHIKODE JAN. 11. Bharatiya Matsya Pravarthaka Sanghom will organise a `Samudra pooja' at the Payyoli beach near here at 4 p.m. on January 14. According to a release, general convener of the reception committee, P. Peethambaran, said that the puja was part of efforts to revive the tradition of worshiping the sea, which would kindle respect for nature and unity among the fisherfolk. The reception committee for the programme has been formed. Swami Chidanandapuri, K. Krishnan and Colonel Shanmugham were selected as the patrons of the reception committee. V. Balan Payyoli and K. Govindan were selected as chairman and treasurer of the committee.

Selected for award

Naveena Theatres Granthasala, Pattanipara has been selected as the best organisation in Kozhikode district for the year 2002-03, for the award instituted by the Central Youth and Sports Affairs Department, and presented through the Nehru Yuva Kendra. The awards will be presented at a programme to be held at the Nalanda Auditorium here on January 12.

Programme on Prem Nazir

Akashavani Kozhikode will broadcast a phone-in programme `Ormayile Prem Nazir' in its `Cinema Sallapam' slot on January 16 at 10 p.m. The programme with a view to familiarise the new generation with the actor will be spread over three weeks. An opportunity will be given to those familiar with Prem Nazir's cinema to express their views on telephone number 0495-2765323 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on January 12.

Admission still open

Admissions continue for the musical instrument class organised by the Jan Shikshan Sansthan at Chalappuram here. There will be classes for tabala and harmonium on all Saturdays. Those interested should contact, director, Jan Shikshan Sansthan, Bhajanakovil Road, Chalappuram, Kozhikode-673002 or over telephone, 2701322 or 2300152.

Selection of beneficiaries

Beneficiaries are being selected for the various empowerment, welfare, job and education rehabilitation projects for those suffering from mentally challenged and physically challenged conditions. Those interested should contact, Programme Coordinator, Mythri Skill Development Centre, Chalapuram P.O., Kozhikode-2 or over telephone, 0495 2306018 for more details.

Study tour

Kariyathumpara Cricket Nature Club would organise a study tour and camp to the Thirunelli-Pakshi Pathalam on January 25 and 26. Contact adviser, Cricket Nature Club, Kariyathumpara Kallanode PO or over telephone, 0496 2698351, 2698361 or 2698262 for more details.

Woman killed

KANHANGAD JAN. 11. A 65-year-old woman was killed and five others were injured in a collision involving a jeep and a tanker lorry near here today, police said. The accident occurred when the jeep, carrying a marriage party from Chattanchal, near Kasaragod, dashed against the tanker lorry coming from the opposite direction in the national highway at Moolakkandam near here, they said. PTI

`Samudra pooja' on January 14

Selected for award

Naveena Theatres Granthasala, Pattanipara has been selected as the best organisation in Kozhikode district for the year 2002-03, for the award instituted by the Central Youth and Sports Affairs Department, and presented through the Nehru Yuva Kendra. Four persons have been selected for the best youth worker prizes. The awards will be presented at a programme to be held at the Nalanda Auditorium here on January 12.

Programme on Prem Nazir

Admissions open

Admissions continue for the musical instrument class organised by the Jan Shikshan Sansthan at Chalappuram here. There will be classes for tabla and harmonium on all Saturdays. Those interested should contact, director, Jan Shikshan Sansthan, Bhajanakovil Road, Chalappuram, Kozhikode-673002. Telephone: 2701322 or 2300152.

KGOA demands wage revision

THIRUVANANTHAPURAMKOCHIPALAKKADKOZHIKODE, JAN. 11.JAN. 11.JAN. The Kerala Gazetted Officers' Association (KGOA) has protested against the delay in starting the procedures for wage revision in Government services. In a statement here today, the KGOA said the wage revision had, in fact, fallen due in March 2002. The cost of all essential commodities had gone up and the fixed income group was finding it difficult to make both ends meet. Since the wage revision was getting delayed indefinitely, the employees should be given an interim relief immediately, in addition to the overdue instalments of dearness allowance. The KGOA would hold dharnas before the Secretariat and in all the district headquarters on January 16 to press this demand, the statement said.

Regional reservation

The Commissioner of Entrance Examinations today clarified that regional reservation to a candidate appearing for the medical/engineering entrance examinations would be on the basis of the location of the institution where he or she had studied. Special reservations are offered for students from Travancore-Cochin (TC) as well as Malabar (ML). In the fourth page of the application form for entrance examination, item 15 is for certification in this regard. The certification has to be made in the application itself by the head of the institution where the candidate had studied for the qualifying examination. The Commissionerate of Entrance Examinations will accept no other certificate. This means that, only candidates who had studied for the qualifying examinations in institutions located in Kerala are eligible for regional reservation under either TC quota or ML quota. These candidates should indicate their claim (whether they are eligible for TC quota or ML quota) against item 8 in the OMR data sheet of the application forms and then darken the relevant square, the statement said.

`Disclose cost of Ministers' trip'

The National Labour Organisation (NLO) has asked the Government to disclose the full particulars of the amount the Ministers had spent for their trips to New Delhi in connection with the ongoing dispute over a leadership change in the Government. In a statement here today, the organisation said that while some Ministers were flying to New Delhi to argue for the Chief Minister, some others had his removal from the post as their mission. Some Ministers were making their trips on being invited by the Congress high command and some others were going there uninvited. Though the Government was in a debt trap, the exchequer's money was being heavily wasted to sort out what was essentially an internal problem of the Congress party. Such amount should be recovered from the Ministers themselves and remitted in the treasury, the statement said.

`Bad motives in targeting Soopy'

The Government College Teachers' Organisation (GCTO) today alleged that the people, who targeted the Education Minister, Nalakath Soopy, in connection with various issues including the B.Ed. college controversy, had certain ulterior motives. In a statement here today, the GCTO said the Council of Ministers had the collective responsibility for all decisions taken in the education sector, but Mr. Soopy was being singled out for attack. It would appear that certain forces were trying to take advantage of the peculiar political situation prevailing in the State and unseat him to grab the Education portfolio, the statement added.

RSP seeks judicial probe

The RSP State secretary, T.J. Chandrachoodan, has demanded a judicial inquiry into the allegations relating to sanctioning of B.Ed. colleges in the State. In a statement here today, Prof. Chandrachoodan said a judicial probe was essential in the light of the disclosure by the Metropolitan of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church that the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leaders had approached him demanding Rs. 2 lakhs as bribe for sanctioning a college to the church. The allegation, if true, showed that the IUML leaders would have taken crores of rupees in bribe from individual managements. If the Chief Minister was not prepared to order a judicial inquiry, it would have to be assumed that the UDF was collectively responsible for the corruption involved in the sanctioning of B. Ed. colleges, the RSP leader said.

`Sops an election stunt'

THIRUVANANTHAPURAMKOCHIPALAKKADKOZHIKODE, JAN. 11.JAN. 11.JAN. The special pension, insurance coverage and welfare fund for workers in the unorganised sector, announced by the Central Government recently, are a `pre-election stunt', G. Sugunan, vice-president of All-India Centre of Trade Unions (AICTU), has said. He said the Government had put off a comprehensive Bill for the welfare of the unorganised-sector workers that had been hanging fire for long. The promise that a comprehensive Bill would be considered later on the basis of the successful working of the new relief measures amounted to cheating the workers, he said.

`Close down fake milk firms'

M.T. Jayan, director of Milma, has urged the Government to close down all fraudulent milk companies. These companies had for long been making huge profits by harming people's health. He also wanted the Government to publicise the names of the companies whose milk samples had been proved sub-standard and harmful to health in the lab tests conducted by the Health Department and the Dairy Development Department. He said milk consumer were in panic after the media reported that many of the milk companies which sold milk in sachets were fake and that their products were harmful to health.

March to Siruvani Dam begins

THIRUVANANTHAPURAMKOCHIPALAKKADKOZHIKODE, JAN. 11.JAN. 11.JAN. The two-day march to Siruvani Dam, organised by the Kerala Janata Party (KJP) against the diversion of the State's waters by Tamil Nadu, was inaugurated at the Martyrs Column at Fort Maidan by the party general secretary, John John, today. The 50-selected party volunteers began the march the dam that supplies water to Coimbatore town under an inter-State water sharing agreement between Kerala and Tamil Nadu. As a symbolic action to establish Kerala's right over Siruvani waters, the KJP volunteers will collect water from the dam and bring it to Fort Maidan to distribute to the people of Palakkad who are facing acute water shortage as its dams like Malampuzha got dried up.

Recruitment

of religious teachers

THIRUVANANTHAPURAMKOCHIPALAKKADKOZHIKODE, JAN. 11.JAN. 11.JAN. Recruitment of religious teachers in the Army is being organised at the recruiting office, Headquarters Recruiting Zone, Bangalore, for the States of Kerala, Karnataka and the Union Territory of Mahe and Lakshadweep. Applications for the same are to be submitted to the Headquarters Recruiting Zone, Bangalore, before January 19, as per a format published in the national dailies and Employment News of October/November 2003, according to a release received from the Branch Recruiting Office, West Hill Barracks, here.

Those interested are requested to contact the nearest Branch Recruiting Office for details.

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