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Besides Sri Harikota the team will also be visiting places like pondicherry ,Tirupati and other places of educational and scientific importance in and around Chennai and rest of Tamilnadu.The trip is being conducted by HRD … Posted by VoiceofSikkim on Dec 16th, 2009 and filed under Featured, Sikkim News .

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Gangtok, Dec 7 (PTI) The proposed air connectivity to destinations in Sikkim, which could provide eco-adventure and wellness tourism, would boost the sector, Union Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said today. “It was to enable the state to promote tourist destinations that the Union Tourism Ministry granted financial assistance for development of three heliport projects in the state,” she said after laying the foundation stone for the proposed heliport at Chemchey in south Sikkim.

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Air connectivity to promote tourism in Sikkim

The Conclave was attended by the Union Minister of State Jairam Ramesh, Chief Ministers of Himachal Pradesh , Uttarkhand, Ministers from Himalayan States, a large number of Environmentalists including Dr Sunita Narayanan, Director, … Posted by VoiceofSikkim on Nov 2nd, 2009 and filed under Featured, National News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.

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News4u- News Desk- Setting up of state councils for climate change and establishment of a Himalayan Sustainable Development Forum under which Chief Ministers of the five hill states would annually meet formed the part of the ‘Shimla … Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal read the 12-point ‘Shimla Declaration’ on which five Himalayan states Himachal Pradesh , Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, agreed to work in co-ordination for …

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Gangtok, Oct 12 (PTI) Accusing the private sector with deliberately violating in a “brazen manner” their agreement with the Sikkim government to provide employment to locals in their units, Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling today threatened to review the terms of agreement with the ‘guilty’ companies. “The private companies have been violating in a brazen manner the terms of understanding/agreement with the state government to promote local employment to such an extent that local people employed in the industrial units have been harassed and victimized by the management”, he said at an investor’s meet here. The local workers were discriminated by being paid less remuneration than their colleagues from outside while the private companies have gone back on their commitment to provide training for honing their skills for available jobs.

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Sikkim CM, Pawan Chamling warns private sector

The CPI-M today demanded a ban on the Gorkhaland Personnel ~ a voluntary force raised by the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha. The CPI-M Darjeeling district leadership, after a mass convention in Siliguri tomorrow, would write to the state home secretary, demanding ban on the GLP. “We would send a letter, along with photographs of GLP activities, to the home secretary and request him to take necessary action to ban the outfit,” the state municipal affairs and urban development minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya said today while speaking on the GJMM’s diktat on dress code.

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Darjeeling, 9 OCT: Cracks have surfaced in the three-party alliance fighting for separate states in North Bengal with sharp differences among top leaders of Gorkha Janamukti Morcha, Kamatapur Progressive Party and Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party. The GJMM, KKP led by Mr Atul Roy and GCBDP led by Mr Asutosh Barma which joined hands last year for a common fight for separate states in North Bengal do not see eye to eye any more, GJM president Bimal Gurung said here

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GANGTOK, October 9: Continuing its award winning spree, Sikkim received ‘IBN7 Diamond States Award’ after the State was adjudged the best small State in ‘water and sanitation’ category. New Delhi Resident Commissioner Arvind Kumar received the award on behalf of the Sikkim government during a glittering function yesterday evening at New Delhi which was attended by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar as the chief guest

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Gangtok, 6 OCT: Expressing concern over the lack of enthusiasm among the local people to take up private enterprises, Sikkim chief minister Mr Pawan Kumar Chamling (in picture) today announced that capacity building institutes would be set up in each Assembly segment of the state, by December this year. Each Assembly segments must have a functional capacity building institutes by the year end and the authorities should hire accommodation on rent for the purpose in the event of unavailability of government premises, he said at the consultative meeting on the capacity building

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Gangtok, 5 OCT: Former Sikkim Chief Minister and the state unit Congress President Mr Nar Bahadur Bhandari today celebrated his 69th birthday and vowed to serve the people till his last breath. A stream of people from across the state visited him at the party office at Development Area and greeted him on the occasion of his birthday and wished him a long life. Mr Bhandari, who has been out of power for over 15 years, acknowledged the greetings by his party men and followers and pledged to serve the people of Sikkim till his last breath.

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Siliguri, Oct. 5 : After several accolades for its community service programmes along the toy train tracks, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society (DHRS) now has an award in its kitty. The Association of Community Rail Partnerships (ACoRPS), a UK-based federation of over 60 community rail way partnerships and promotion groups, has honoured the Society with the Best International Achievement Award for its welfare projects along the toy train routes.

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In a first-of-its-kind initiative by tour agencies of the region, a training of unemployed youths in eco-tourism ventures will begin high in the mountains of Sikkim in December. Help Tourism, a Siliguri-based tour operator, and Hee Bermiok Tourism Development and Heritage Conservation Society have tied up with Jet Airways and the Singapore Scout Association to open the centre at Hee Bermiok in West Sikkim. “The aim is to train the youths of Mangalbari, Kaluk, Rinchenpong, Hee Bermiok, Dentam and Uttaray, all in West Sikkim, on eco-adventure tourism in the region,” said Raj Basu, associated with Help Tourism and the conservation society.

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Besides Gujarat and Bihar, polling will be held in 16 seats in Madhya Pradesh, 15 in Uttar Pradesh, 14 in West Bengal, 11 in Karnataka, 10 in Maharashtra and one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and …

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26 seats in Gujarat would go to polls followed by 16 in Madhya Pradesh, 15 in Uttar Pradesh, 14 in West Bengal, 11 in Karnataka, 11 in Bihar, 10 in Maharashtra and one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman …

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