गंगटोक : केंद्रीय पर्यटन मंत्री के चिरंजीवी ने सिक्किम में विभिन्न पर्यटन विकास परियोजनाओं के लिए केंद्रीय वित्तीय सहायता को मंजूरी दी. यह मंजूरी सिक्किम समेत पूर्वोत्तर में पर्यटन क्षेत्र को बढ़ावा देने के उद्देश्य से दी गई. पश्चिमी सिक्किम में बुड़ा-नीलकण्ठ में पर्यटन संबंधी बुनियादी ढांचे के विकास के लिए 89.10 लाख रुपये दिए जाने हैं. बुड़ा-नीलकण्ठ खूबसूरत नदी तट पर गेजिंग और रेनचेंगपोंग के रास्ते पर है. इस जगह पर्यटन संबंधी बुनियादी ढांचे को मजबूत करने से यह इस क्षेत्र में अनिवार्य दर्शनीय स्थल बन जाना है क्योंकि तब पर्यटक दूर से ही इसे निहार कर नहीं जा सकेंगे.
सिक्किम सर्किट में राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग के साथ पर्यटक सुविधाओं को सुदृढ़ बनाने हेतु 160 लाख रुपये प्रदान किए जाने हैं. इस परियोजना में रैंगपो कस्बे में राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग 31 ए के साथ सड़क के निकट सुविधाऐं और कार पार्किंग क्षेत्र का निर्माण शामिल हैं. सिक्किम में सुपरलेटिव साइनेज और होर्डिंग्स के प्रावधान और प्रदर्शित करने हेतु 160 लाख रुपये प्रदान किए जाने हैं. यह साइनेज रेलवे स्टेशनों, बस अड्डों और होटलों जैसे विभिन्न स्थानों पर लगाए जाने हैं. पूर्वी सिक्किम में बारचांगे वाटर साइट के विकास सहित मार्चेक के साथ पर्यटन सर्किट के विकास के लिए 160 लाख रुपये मंजूर किए गए हैं.
Smt. Rinchen Ongmu, IAS 1979 batch has taken over the charge of the Chief Secretary of the state, Smt. Ongmu’s appointment is significant as she would be the first women to assume the office of Chief Secretary in the State of Sikkim.Read complete list of sikkim state's chief Secretaries .
List of Sikkim State's chief Secretaries
Name : Shri T S Gyalsten Duration : 26-04-1975 - 31-03-1980
Name : Shri M P Pradhan Duration : 01-04-1980 - 09-05-1984
Name : Shri K M L Chabra Duration : 01-05-1984 - 8-12-1986
Name : Shri H.M. Singh Duration : 9-12-1986 - 31-03-1989
Name : Shri K.C. Pradhan
Duration : 01-04-1989- 31-07-1991
Name : Shri P K Pradhan
Duration : 01-08-1991- 19-04-1993
Name : Shri G P Pradhan
Duration : 20-4-1993 - 22-8-1993
Name : Shri K A Vardan Duration : 23-8-1993 - 29-06-1996
The Sikkim Legislative Assembly elect 32 Assembly seats.The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) further strengthened their majority in the Sikkim Assembly by winning all the seats. Incumbent Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling's Government returned for an unprecedented fourth consecutive term having won previous elections in 1994,1999,2004 & 2009.
The List of Gorkha Legislative Members in Sikkim State
Hemraj Kafley Gangtok : 5 people killed by sudden landslide due to heavy rainfall last night at around 10 pm in Topung under Yuksam Tashiding constituency. A house swept away by heavy landslide killing 5 people in which 4 people are from one family. The victims includes child and mother as reported.
Applications are invited from Local candidates to fill up 2 (Two) post of Computer Operator in Social Justice Empowerment & Welfare Department under the Sikkim State Sub- ordinate Information Technology Service Recruitment Rules 2005 under the pay band-1 Rs 5200-20200 and grade pay Rs. 3000/- plus other allowances admissible under the Sikkim Government Service Rules. The date of the written examination is fixed on 30th September 2013 at the Administrative & Accounts Training Institute, Sonam Tshering Marg, Gangtok.
Reservation is as follows:
Sl. No.
Category
Seats
1
Unreserved
01(one)
2
Bhutia Lepcha
01(one)
Total
02 (two)
Candidates fulfilling the above eligibility need only apply.
A Class X Examination passed with 3 years Diploma in Engineering (with Computer or Information Technology as one of the subjects in atleast two semesters) or Senior Secondary (Class XII) Examination passed or equivalent from recognized board with one Year Diploma in Computer Applications from a reputed institute and Computer Concept Certificate (CCC) completion from DOEACC.
Must be able to converse in one of the languages viz. Nepali, Bhutia. Lepcha or Limboo and must have the knowledge of culture and tradition of Sikkim.
Sikkim Subject/ Certificate of Identification as the case may be.
Schedule Tribe Certificate as the case may be.
Valid Employment Card in case of un-employed Candidate.
Age limit 18-30 years as on 1st October 2013. In case of OBC 3 year age relaxation, 5(five) years age relaxation in case of SC/ST candidates and 5 (five) years age relaxation in case of in-service regular Government Servant. The upper age limit is relaxed up to 50 years in the case of Group and persons working under State Government /NHPC and other Central Government establishment or undertakings in the State of Sikkim on MR/Adhoc/Substitute/Contract/Work Charge basis. In- Service candidate should apply through proper channel.
Unmarried Certificate and Husband COI as the case may be.
Application should be accompanied by attested copies of school certificate or testimonial along with Birth Certificate or Class X Certificate containing the Date of Birth of the applicant, address of candidate for communications and contact numbers. Eligible candidates will be issued a calling letter for written test.
No TA/DA is admissible for attending written examination & interview.
Application should reach the Office of the undersigned on or before 23rd September 2013.
Gangtok : The Mountain Black Cat Division of the Indian Army has rescued 230 tourists last night when they were stranded near Changu Lake (13300 ft height) , 15 km away from Nathu La, on India-China border in eastern Sikkim. Heavy rain and landslides in this area has cut off traffic. The nearest regiment of army jawans noticed nearly 47 vehicles carrying tourists who were stranded at night. They were provided accomodation in army camps, and warm clothes, food, blankets and beddings were provided.
A senior officer of Army's Black Cat Division said, the landslide occured at Kyangonosa La on Jawaharlal Nehru Marg towards Nathu La. The tourists included 95 men, 83 ladies and 51 children. All of them were sent back to gangtok this morning. Chief Engineer of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) SS Porwal said, BRO staff were busy cleaning up the road blockage caused due to landslide. Meanwhile, Sikkim Government has prohibited movement of vehicles of tourists or traders on the Gangtok-Nathu La road till Saturday due to bad weather.
Met department has forecasted torrential rainfall in Sikkim in the next 2-3 days. Porwal said, North Sikkim Highway would be closed any time due to landslide specially in Phodong, Lanthekhola and also some parts of the Lachen routes on way to Gurudongmar Lake. A 40 member team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) reached Sikkim yesterday from Siliguri. It will camp at Mangan, North Sikkim till the monsoons are over.
Gangtok: Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir today inaugurated the Sikkim Judicial Academy in the presence of chief minister Pawan Chamling and chief justice of Sikkim High Court Pius C. Kuriakose. Sikkim Judicial Academy is the second such institution in the North East region, the first one being in Guwahati. Judicial Academies all over the country impart training to judicial officers. However, in view of the small size of the subordinate judiciary in Sikkim, the academy will extend its benefits to the new members of the Bar and also to the final year law students of Government Law College and the Universities in Sikkim, Justice Kuriakose said. Justice Altamas Kabir hoped that SJA will be an exemplary institution not only in the region but also in the country. Sikkim government has made available the building to start the SJA for the time being and has also allotted 2.92 acres of land at Sokeythang, East Sikkim for construction of campus of the academy.
Sikkim Police arrested son of Urban Development and Housing Department (UDHD) Secretary Topjor Bhutia and former Power Secretary and other three were arrested on the charge murder of a student of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT) Mazitar, Rangpo, East Sikkim
Gangtok: Sikkim police have arrested all the seven accused, including son of a senior IAS officer, on charges of killing Rakshit Singh Meena, a third year engineering student, after a fight outside a pub-cum-night club at Gangtok on Sunday. They were produced before the court on Monday and taken on a five-day judicial remand for further investigation into the incident. All the seven arrested youths have been booked under IPC Section 302, 201 and 34 with capital Sadar police station in Gangtok. Those arrested in the high profile incident are Gurmey Wangchuk (35), son of urban development department secretary Topzor Dorjee Bhutia, Sonam Namgyal (31), son of ex-power secretary Pema Namgyal, Bidhan Pradhan (31), Phurba Tamang (29), Karna Hung Subba (25) and Roden Wangdi Sherpa (31) of Darjeeling Talking to HT over phone, Sikkim police superintendent (East) Manoj Tiwari said Meena, a student at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), Majhitar, was in Gangtok to celebrate the birthday of a friend Arindam Parmar.
The incident took place between 1 and 1.30am post Saturday midnight when a brutal attack, allegedly led by Gyurmey Wangchuk and involving six others outside Café Live & Loud on Tibet Road, left him dead. Rakshit was the only son of Bihar cadre IPS officer and Purnia range DIG Bachchu Singh Meena, a native of Dausa district in Rajasthan. Parmar is the main eyewitness in the case, along with four other friends. All the accused were identified on the basis of mobile phone video shot by Parmar and corroboration of the incident by the bouncers on duty. Wangchuk who was the first to be arrested, confessed knocking down Rakshit. His other firends were later arrested from different places on Sunday. On the fateful night, Rakshit and his friends had checked in at a local hotel at Arithang area here before leaving for the nightclub. Inside the club, the accused persons alleged, that the engineering students had teased their female friends and attacked them. Rakshit was waiting for his friends outside the pub, where around seven men started beating him and chased his other friends from the spot.
They later returned and picked up Rakshit in an unconscious state and rushed to the hotel at Arithang. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the central referral hospital (Tadong) in the wee hours of Sunday. Tiwari said, after performing the postmortem, Rakshit's body was handed over to his parents, who left for Bagdogra airport by road from Gangtok. Rakshit's body was taken to Delhi by air and from there to Dausa in Rajasthan. DIG Meena and his wife reached Gangtok on Sunday afternoon. The wife of the IPS officer fainted as soon as she heard the news of her son's death.
Gangtok : A Bihar police officer’s son, studying engineering in Sikkim, died last night after he was allegedly beaten up outside a Gangtok pub, a follow-up to a brawl inside it. Police have arrested five Gangtok youths, one of whom, Gurmey Wangchuk, is the son of a senior Sikkim state official. “The six engineering students had gone to celebrate the birthday party of one of their friends. While dancing on the floor they had a fight over a woman who was in the pub. Later, the engineering students were beaten up by the youths outside the pub.” The alleged second round of assault happened around 1.30am outside Live and Loud. The boy who died has been identified as Rakshit Singh Meena, a 22-year-old third year civil engineering student Manipal. His father, B.S. Meena, is the deputy inspector-general of Purnea, Bihar.
ROMEO IN SIKKIM was a hindi film released in 1975. Shyam Pradhan, the lead actor from Gangtok, Sikkim through this film became the first GORKHA to do a lead role in a hindi film .Shyam Pradhan, then a 19 year old from a well established business family from Gangtok acted in a lead role in a colour Hindi movie “Romeo in Sikkim” shot exclusively in Sikkim and in some parts of Darjeeling and in Bombay, now Mumbai. With Amina Kareem as a lead actress who had played a small role in Danny Denzongpa’s hindi film Mere Apne, Romeo in Sikkim had a gifted star casts in the caliber of legendary KN Singh, Kundan, Om Prakash, Seema Kapoor and others. Harikrishna Kaul directed the movie, while the shooting of the film was completed in 3 months and the beautiful songs composed by Vishwanath.
The film was shot in 1973 in 33 mm and released in 1975 at Bombay; in Sikkim it was first released in Denzong Cinema Hall and later on at Vajra Cinema Hall too, where it ran for 15 successive days, says Shyam Pradhan.I first heard about “Romeo in Sikkim” from an audio music cassette of legendary Bollyhood Singer Mukesh. Being a big fan of Mukesh, I found it very surprising to read the lines on the cover of the audio cassette that mentioned a song “Jiska Sapna” from the movie Romeo in Sikkim. Similarly in few days I also found another song sung by Mukesh from another Hindi movie that had another interesting title “Road to Sikkim”. So when I first got an opportunity to speak to Shyam Pradhan himself, I just wanted to know about his memory on Mukesh.
He went on to say, Mukesh was a big name and he was very interested to know about the place called Sikkim and meet the hero of Romeo in Sikkim. When Mukesh finally met the lead actor, Mukesh was bit surprised and in a sarcastic way asked his music director, “How can I sing for him”. Definitely it was hard for Mukesh to give a feel to the song looking at the young artiste from Sikkim, the place he had never heard. Mukesh just went near Shyam Pradhan, hugged him and told him, I will try my best. After 18 retakes the recording of the song was completed and after 37 years of the first release of Romeo in Sikkim, the only thing that remains popular is that immortal song …..Jiska Sapana. Romeo in Sikkim had four songs and the list of singers just amazing, Mukesh, Mohammad Rafi, and Suman Kalyanpur, a classic collection.
ROMEO IN SIKKIM (1975)
STARRING: Shyam Pradan, Ameena Kareem, Kundan, Rajan Haksar, Shyam Kumar, Dev Kishan, Raj Kamal, Om Prakash, Nazima, Poulson, Athithi Bhoomika: K N Singh, Mahamood Junior. MUSIC: Vishwanath. LYRICS: Mahendra Kapoor. DIRECTOR: Hari Kishan Koul.
Har Dil me Dard utha ... by Suman Kalyanpuri
Jiska Sapna - by Mukesh
Aa mere saathi tujh ko bula - Mohd Rafi
Romeo in Sikkim (1975) Rare and Exclusive Pictures
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