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GANGTOK, 18 Oct: If notIndia itself, at least India To-day, has begun to show quite akeen understanding of Sikkim.

In its third article on theState in the last one monthor so, India Today has giventhe title of Best Long Driveto the ride from Chungthangto Gurudongmar Lake, inNorth Sikkim.

In an issue that focuses on‘India’s finest experiences for

India Today ranks Chungthang-Gurudongmar drive as best in India

ABOUT THECUP THATGOES UP

FOR GRABSTODAY

The year was 1979. BBLal, the then Governorof Sikkim, donated the

All India Governor’s GoldCup, thus kick-starting thesoccer fiesta in Sikkim, whichis now in its 27th year and theonly soccer tournament in thecountry to have an uninter-rupted run.

The Gold Cup was de-signed and made by M/sCook & Kevley of Kolkata,a famous jewelry designer.The gold cup is made of tentolas of gold, which is on thetop and inner wall of the cup,and a metal-called espn sil-ver. The gold cup weighsabout five kilos and is a valu-able trophy.

The gold trophy is pre-sented to the winning teamfor an hour for photo shoots,after which they have to handback the cup to the SikkimFootball Association. In itslieu, the champion team ispresented with a replica ofthe gold cup and a handsomecash prize, informs MenlaEthenpa of SFA.

All India Governor’s GoldCup Football Tournamenthas a record of being heldcontinuously for the 28 yearssince its inception in 1979.Over the years, Sikkim’smost prestigious footballtournament, which is also thebiggest sporting event of theState, has retained popular-ity among both locals andoutsiders.

As informed by Mr.Ethenpa, prior to the Merger,the national game of Sikkimwas football; hence, footballis in the blood of the peopleof Sikkim. “This explains thefootball craze among thepeople here,” he adds.

Apart from mementos andcash prizes to all participatingteams, the SFA also gives cashprizes to the teams dependingon the number of matcheseach team has played. The ex-penses incurred in the trans-portation of the participatingteams and their stay is alsoborne by the SFA.

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MANGAN, 18 October:Chairman of the Commissionfor Review and EnvironmentSector Policies, Plans &Programmes [CRESP], BKRoy Burman was in NorthSikkim on a four-day inspec-tion visit from 13 to 16 Octo-ber during which he met andinteracted with the people andthe village heads here.

During the visit, Mr. Bur-

Environment Review CommissionChairman tours North Sikkim

man visited the MangshillaSchool, which he discoveredwas facing a shortage of lan-guage teachers and was in anurgent need of a PrimaryHealth Centre. At Toong-Naga, the Chairman felt theneed for the presence of aPHSC and after interactingwith the residents to under-stand the living standards andtheir sources of income, he wasmet with demands from thepublic for the opening of a

trekking route for the TosaLake and the development ofvillage tourism in the area.

At Chungthang, he visitedthe health centre there and wasdisappointed with the generallack of sanitation and unhy-gienic conditions prevailingthere and made a public ex-pression of his disconcertation.

Mr. Burman then visitedLachung, where he metwith the village Pipon andsuggested to him that with

the consent of the public,the Dzumsa system couldbe included in the 6th Sched-ule Programme, whichwould make the Pipon sys-tem stronger.

He also inspected workscarried out under the UNDPFund at Lachen, where hewas informed by the LachenPipon that the there was animbalance between theworks achieved and the bud-

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It’s Punjab Policevs. Army XI final at

NamchiPURAN TAMANG

NAMCHI, 18 Oct: PunjabPolice will be taking onArmy XI in the finals of theongoing Chief Minister’sGold Cup being held inNamchi.

The Punjab cops enteredthe finals by beating Air Force,Delhi, in the semi-finals 5-4 inthe penalty shootouts today.Although the match endedscoreless in regular time, it wasinteresting and kept the largeturnout of spectators transfixedthroughout.

In the shootouts, thePunjab team capitalized onall their chances and did notmiss a goal. However, the AirForce team missed their firstgoal and ultimately that be-came the reason for their loss.

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SAGAR CHHETRI/NIKHIL PRADHAN

GANGTOK, 18 Oct: Turnsout you can bake two cakesand try to have them too.

Army XI has managed toenter the finals of the twomost prestigious footballtournaments of the State, theGovernor’s Gold Cup and theChief Minister’s Gold Cup.All that’s left to wait and seeis if they can have both thecakes. So, there it is the fi-nals of this year’s Governor’sGold Cup will be betweenAir India XI, the 1996champs, and Army XI, the1999 cup holders.

Champion to battle Championat Paljor Stadium today

ARMY XI OUTSTRIKE GMHK LIONSTO MAKE GOLD CUP FINALS

In the second semi-finalof the Governor’s Gold Cupwhich looked like it wascloned from the first one,Army XI defeated the seem-ingly invincible GMHK Li-ons XI by 3 goals to 2 in amatch that was stretched tothe extra time when regula-tion time ended even with thescore at 2-2.

It was quite evident fromthe beginning that the matchwould be a hard fought affairand that’s how it unravelled.Both teams kept constant pres-sure on the opposing defence

but it was only in the 25thminute that Vijay Thapa [11]opened the score for Army XI.

However, in reply Nige-rian player Nnajiuba Ezescored the equalizer in the36th minute. Not to be out-done, Amar [15] of the ArmyXI scored the second goal forhis team three minutes later.The dying minutes of the firsthalf’s injury time saw theNigerians come back againwith an equalizer when theircaptain Subair Muri [16]scored a direct goal through

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Midway on the drive down from Gurudongmar to Chungthang

ANAND OBEROI

GANGTOK, 18 Oct: Withthe ‘Teohar’ celebrations ap-proaching, one of the mostimportant ingredient of therituals, the ‘Saipatri Flow-ers,’ shall hit the markets allover the state this Friday.With the flowers being re-quired for the sisters’ offer-ing of ‘saipatri malas’ tobrothers on ‘Bhai Tika’ or forthe mothers to decorate theirhomes and the ‘Bajeys’ whouse them for offering prayers

The fading fragrance of the Saipatri flowersto the ‘Lakshmi Mata’, the‘Saipatri’ or Marigold hasenormous significance forthe Nepali community.

But what is different nowhere is that the flowers of thethree local species of‘Saipatri’ that were in abun-dance earlier in State andwhich were used by the localshas reduced considerably andalmost 85% of the demand ismet by supplies from Siliguri.Also, Sumbuk area in SouthDistrict, which was a majorsupplier of these flowers to

the capital market, can man-age only inadequate supply.

The reason, owers in andaround Gangtok explain, isthat the flowers have juststopped budding. “Earlier,we could make a goodamount that would be usedduring ‘Deosi’ and ‘Bhailo’and contribute to a family tohave a good ‘Tihar,’ but nowwe can’t”.

These flower growers alsomentioned that earlier anyhousehold that had an empty

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NEW DELHI, Oct 17(IANS): Aiming to make In-dia a key player in the globaleconomy, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh Wednes-day set a growth target of 10percent for the 11th five-yearplan (2007-2012) andstressed the need to “liberatemillions” from poverty.

Addressing a full meetingof the Planning Commission,Manmohan Singh said: “The11th plan is going to be a his-toric plan in many ways. Thisis the first time since theplanning process began thatwe will be aiming for agrowth rate of 10 percent inthe final years of the plan.

“In achieving this growthrate, we would be finallyemerging into the front ranksof fast growing developingcountries,” he said.

Stressing the social aspectof economic development,the prime minister added:“By ensuring that the growthis inclusive, the 11th planwould set our economy on agrowth path which would fi-nally liberate millions of ourcountrymen from the peren-nial scourges of poverty, ig-norance and disease.”

To meet the objective ofinclusiveness ManmohanSingh called on the planners

Dr. Singh prescribes 10percent growth target

for nationto focus on agriculture, em-ployment generation and in-frastructure development.

“Our priorities are clear.Agriculture, irrigation andwater resources, health, edu-cation, critical investment inrural infrastructure, and theessential public investmentneeds of general infrastruc-ture, along with programmesfor the upliftment of sched-ules castes and schedulestribes; these must have thefirst claim on resources.Other demands will have tobe fitted within this resourceavailability,” he noted.

Summing up the current eco-nomic parameters, the primeminister said: “The economyenters the 11th plan period withsome important strengths.

The captured action drives home the close contest that the GMHK Lions XI gave to the Army XI team

in the semi finals of the Governor’s Gold Cup on Wednesday. The match eventually ended in Army

XI’s favour 3-2 and the fauji team has earned itself the record of reaching the finals of both the

Governor’s and Chief Minister’s gold cup running simultaneously at Gangtok and Namchi.

2; NOW!; 19 October, 2006

The aim of Sudoku is to en-

ter a number from 1 through

9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid

made up of 3×3 sub-grids,

starting with various digits

already given in some cells;

each row, column, and sub-

grid can contain only one

instance of each number.

Today’s solution is on pg6

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PEMBA THONDUP spices up thefootball season with a reminiscenceof a football match played morethan three decades ago, inneighbouring Kalimpong betweenthe Sikkim Guards XI and the topteam of the region, the Lions XI…

The most exciting football match I haveever witnessed was neither betweenBrazil and Argentina nor between En-

gland and Germany. It was also not a confron-tation of Asia’s two soccer titans South Koreaand Iraq nor the clashes of Calcutta’s two tra-ditional rivals East Bengal and Mohan Bagan.

The match in question was held duringthose days when the idiot box had not in-vaded our living rooms and video cassetteswere unknown commodities for us. WorldCup and other prestigious football matchescame to us only through the medium of news-papers and magazines. The closest encoun-ter we had with a big match was the runningcommentary received through radio when-ever the two soccer giants of Calcutta palyedin their city. Those were the days when evena local football match used to evoke the kindof thrill and excitement the present dayclashes between top clubs of the countryhardly produce. We identified ourselves withour favourite teams and shouted hoarsethroughout the game thereby completely in-volving ourselves with the proceedings. To-day we watch a football game more like theway we do a cinema – either with admira-tion or disgust – and except for occasional“a-ha!” and “ooh” for some spectacular dis-play the audience participation in the matchis rarely visible these days.

It was during that frenetic era that themost exciting and dramatic football matchof my life was held at Kalimpong in thesemi–final of the Independence Day ShieldFootball Tournament between the redoubt-able Lions XI and our own Sikkim GuardsXI. The match was played more than threedecades back but by its sheer electrifyingimpact seems only yesterday.

Lions XI, a combination of several re-nowned Army teams, had played a couple oftournaments in Gangtok in early seventies andwith their dazzling display of soccer they hadleft an indelible marks in the minds of footballlovers of Sikkim. It was however one of thoseunfathomable mystery of fate that this undoubt-edly outstanding team had never won a matchagainst Sikkim Guards whenever they clashed.Their Commander, a football fanatic, failed tocomprehend that his team which had van-quished the best in the land and crammed hisroom with trophies won from various tourna-ments had never been able to subdue a teamcalled Guards XI. He was believed to havecommanded his team to pursue this footballteam called Guards XI, no matter in which partof the land, sea and air, and overcome themonce. It was a command from a great football

THE MOST EXCITING FOOTBALL MATCH I HAVE EVER WITNESSED

When Sikkim Guards

Took On the Lionslover uttered in a pure spirit of a sportsman.

Hence, when Sikkim Guards XI partici-pated in the Independence Day Shield Foot-ball Tournament that year the Lions XI too,as expected, entered into the fray. Kalimpong,then “Mecca of football”, once again trans-formed into a rendezvous of thousands offootball lovers from Sikkim, Bhutan and ad-joining areas and renowned football teamsand stars of the region arrived in full gear tocompete for the prestigious trophy. It was,however, the arrival of Lions XI with a for-midable squad of forty top-notchedfootballers and five outstanding goalkeepersany team would give their right hand to havein their side that created thegreatest flutter in the alreadybustling Kalimpong. The ad-vent of Lions XI with such alarge contingent of acefootballers (most of themfrom Services XI) evoked somuch interest and enthusiasmthat even during their morn-ing practice sessions they at-tracted crowd as large as anyordinary match normally col-lected.

With their breathtakingmastery over the game anddazzling display of soccer Lions XI served achilling warning to the teams they would con-front of an imminent rout. Rout they did, andduring their initial rounds Lions XI literallyrolled over their opponents and confidentlymarched to the semi-final. Nevertheless, theirmain objective seemed to be to taste a defeatto Guards XI from their hands or should I sayfeet rather than to lift the coveted trophy. Un-der such a high strung atmosphere Guards XIrightly maintained a low profile and let LionsXI grab the entire pre-match limelight. But,at the same time, without much of a fanfare,they also booked their berth in the semi-finalfor the inevitable clash with the Lions XI.

The stage was now set for the confrontationof the tournament. Lions XI were the clear fa-vorites and except for a few die-hard Lions fansin the crowd sympathy of the majority of thespectators lay with the underdog Guards XI whowere bound to be crushed in this encounternotwithstanding the oft-repeated cliché “ballhas no eyes”. Wav es of excitement ebbed andflowed in and around the historic Mela groundwhere every vantage point was filled up with arecord gathering of football enthusiasts fromall walks of life. All eyes were focused on the

match. Our stomachs were in knots and thetension was simply unbearable.

Under such a supercharged atmosphere thematch of the year began. Lions XI made adevastating start and went ahead with a beau-tiful goal in the very first minute of the gamescored by their wily right-inside culminatingfrom a fantastic combined move. That’s it, Ithought. Massacre of innocents began rightfrom the first bell. Next ten minutes saw LionsXI virtually toying with Guards XI who weredesperately holding back the waves and wavesof never-ending onslaught on their citadel. Thefate of the match seemed a forgone conclu-sion. Then, in the 15th or 16th minute of the

game, Guards XI earned a freekick just outside the dreadedzone. The star centre forwardSonam Topgay of Guards XItook the kick and it was aGOAL! His powerful shotthundered past the wall of Li-ons defenders and crashed intothe roof of the net.

The goal badly jolted Li-ons XI and the fury withwhich they launchedcounter offensive must havemade Guards XI regret themistake they had committed

by causing that little damage. With theirdazzling footwork, accurate crisp passes,lightening speed and powerful kicks LionsXI made such an incessant assault that theycompletely overwhelmed their opponentswho seemed to have had resigned to the fateof unceremonious exit from the tournament.It was however not to be. Within ten min-utes or so veteran Kul Bahadur of GuardsXI picked a loose ball near the centre lineand feigned to take it with him but insteadnonchalantly lobbed the ball towards the goalpost of Lions XI. The ball completely out-witted the rival custodian and entered thenet. The goal keeper was aghast with disbe-lief so were the entire spectators and so wasKul Bahadur himself. Lions promptly re-placed their goalkeeper.

K.B’s goal really infused a new life in theirteam and inspired Guards XI to play theirnatural game which was not inferior to anybetter side of the region. As underdogs GuardsXI till then were playing under tremendouspsychological pressure, but now they hadshrugged off their initial tension and overcomethe complex they had developed in playingagainst a seemingly unbeatable team. Guards

were now one up and the match consequentlylivened upto the expectation of the spectators.Guards XI, led by the ageless Ran Bahadur,equally rose to the occasion and stifled everymove of their opponents by making man-for-man and playing ball-for-ball. The match wasnow at last evenly matched.

The lemon break saw Guards XI leadingby a goal and after the break a determinedLions XI took up the field with vengeance. 15minutes of electrifying soccer under thunder-ous cheers of football lovers twinkled by uswithout even our notice. Then a perfectlytimed pass from Deo Kumar, the nimble footedace right inside of Guards XI, near his ownhalf line, with a yell “TOPGAY” sent theGuards’ star striker Sonam Topgay gallopinglike an Arabian horse(which incidentally washis nickname) towards Lions’ goal. That wasthe scene I would never forget in my life. Themoment Deo Kumar sent that fine pass Topgaypounced upon it like a tiger and ran like a windwith at least five equally fast star defendersof Lions chasing after him right from the cen-tre line. Topgay not only outraced all of thembut the dexterity with which he pulled thegoalkeeper out and placed the ball in the farcorner of the net undoubtedly made him thehero of the day. The entire Mela grounderupted into ruptures and we nearly wentbonkers with indescribable excitement. Noneof us knew how we jumped into the lower gal-leries. With understandable wet eyes we werecongratulating each other and strangers wereembracing and pumping our hands.

Lions XI completely fell apart after thatspectacular goal and Guards XI on the otherhand played the game of their life. At the fagend of the match Lions XI reduced the mar-gin. However, the speedy left-winger KarmaLhendup of Guards XI once again bulged thenet, and the final result stood at 4-2 in favourof Guard XI.

It was indeed a great game fought mag-nificently by both the sides and had been wellsupervised by umpire Kali Bahadur. Almost50,000 spectators were treated to 90 pulsat-ing minutes of nail biting and unforgettablefootball. The match contained all the joy anddespair, excitement and drama of a historicclash and, best of all, it was played in a truesportsman spirit.

I forgot who eventually lifted the covetedIndependence Day shield. As far as we wereconcerned, the final was over. All that mat-tered eventually was the Guards XI registereda convincing and a memorable victory in oneof the most exciting and dramatic matchesever played in the historic Mela ground. Withthat spectacular victory our native footballersonce again proved that Sikkim did not pro-duce only cardamoms and oranges.

On the occasion of the 28th All IndiaGovernor Gold Cup football tournamentI remember and salute these gallant he-roes of Sikkim Guards XI, wherever youare my brothers.

...ALMOST50,000

SPECTATORSWERE TREATED

TO 90PULSATINGMINUTES OFNAIL BITING

ANDUNFORGETTABLE

FOOTBALL...

RAJESH SINGH

The very essence of ateacher is known bythe quality of teach-

ing. It is because the qualityof teaching has its impact onthe behaviour of the learner inone way or the other. The qual-ity of teaching co-ordinates in-telligence and emotions to gen-erate new knowledge whichmakes a man creative. Ateacher occupies a prominentrole in the society because ofhis teaching ability. Teachinglearning strategies have beenconsidered one of the most im-portant ways for the develop-ment of creativity among chil-dren and adults. The teachingof mathematics has been a chal-lenge to teachers since time im-memorial. History is witness tothe fact that arithmetic and lan-guage were the important sub-jects in ancient times. The lec-ture method was mostly usedas a method of teaching. Obvi-ously, we cannot teach math-ematics the way a language orsocial studies is taught in ourschools. The teaching of math-ematics requires more empha-sis on the process aspect ratherthan the product. The teacher’sinsightful preparation andmethodological presentation ofcontent matter can create de-lightful environment in theclass room. Good preparationand good delivery system canturn a child into a creative per-

get sanctioned by the CentralGovernment.

The public of Lachen alsoplaced a petition with theChairman reiterating theirstand against power projectsin the region and also de-manded for tourist permitsfor Tsho Lhamu andGurudongmar lakes to pro-mote tourism in the area.They also voiced their con-cerns over the poorly main-tained land records.

On 16 October, Mr. Bur-man met with the Zilla mem-bers, along with ZillaAdhyaksha [N] LobzangTenzing, DC [N] TN Kazi,Upadhyaksha Palden Bhutia,DPO Zilla P Bhutia and Ad-ditional Director PlanningDepartment, J Subba at theZilla Bhawan at Mangan.

At the meeting, ZillaAdhyaksha, Mr. Tenzing ex-plained that the reason whythe Zilla members and thepanchayats were not able tofunction as desired was sim-ply because thedecentralisation process wasstill underway and overlap-ping of powers and respon-sibilities was proving a hin-drance. The continuing prac-tice of area MLAs still decid-ing developmental plans andpolicies was making it diffi-

cult for Panchayats to func-tion properly.

Citing an example of ad-ministrative nonchalance visa vis Panchayati Raj, he in-formed that even though theHuman resource Develop-ment Department was pro-vided with a Rs. 50 lakh kittyfor the Zilla Parishads, it re-leased only Rs. 1.50 lakhsannually to the Zilla fund.With fund constraints likethis, it was unfair to expectPanchayats to deliver rapiddevelopment, he stressed.

DC, Mr. Kazi, in turn,voiced that if special powerswere devolved to the Zillamembers and the panchayats,it would help greatly in re-solving the land acquisitionissues in North Sikkim.

The Zilla member,Shipgyel demanded for theinstallation of a BSNL mo-bile tower in the area, add-ing that though an applica-tion for the same had alreadybeen submitted last year,there has been no responsefrom BSNL thus far.

Finally, the Zilla member,Singhik requested for theconsideration of the landrates as demanded by thepublic regarding the TeestaStage III Hydel Project,which has already beenplaced before the Chief Min-ister of Sikkim.

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Environment Review CommissionChairman tours North Sikkim...son. Carpenter [1962] in a work

on nature and essence of cre-ativity asserts that a teacher’slack of attention arrests creativ-ity development in a specificarea. There are several schoolsadministrators who are very au-thoritarian in the name of dis-cipline and do not allow stu-dents to talk, to share their ideasor to play in the school cam-pus; they want that the classesshould be held in pin drop si-lence and teachers should teachas they want. They do not knowthat such environment inhibitsthe student’s creativity. AlexOsborn writes, “Creativity is sodelicate a flower that praisetends to make it bloom whilediscouragement often nips itin the bud”. By and large, acountry’s 3 Ps [Prosperity,Progression and Power] de-pends upon creative brainpower of that country. In theabsence of creative brainpower no country can be pro-gressive or satisfied.

Teaching is neither a deadactivity nor does it harbourstagnancy. It can changebrain functioning and mouldstudents to think creatively.It is a personal type of activ-ity in which a teacher tries topresent content matter in theclassroom. Teaching-learn-ing and curriculum are thethree important pillars of anyeducation system. If any oneamong them weakens thewhole education system will

collapse. Teaching to a cer-tain extent, has been consid-ered an extremely complexarea of human behaviour.Development of mathemati-cal creativity has been givenhigh priority by the math-ematicians, educationists,experimental psychologistsetc. What exactly is impor-tant for the development ofmathematical creativityamong children and adults isa difficult question.Tammadge [1979] suggeststhat there is an urgent needfor teachers of mathematicsto identify, encourage andimprove creative mathemati-cal ability at all levels.

If a student is going in apositive direction of thinking,hard labour can turn him orher to become a creative per-son. An ultimate aim ofmathematics teachers andteacher educators is to dis-cover ways and means fordeveloping mathematicalcreativity among students.An important component ofrealising this aim is the de-velopment of appropriateteaching-learning strategies.Only one teaching strategy isnot sufficient to deal with ei-ther all the branches of math-ematics or various topics re-lated to them. There is nouniform method of teachingmathematics and no uniformmathematical mind. Somestudents are very slow

whereas others are very fast.Few students think logicallywhile others think intuitively.Krutetskill [1976] writes that“flexibility of mental pro-cesses” is an important com-ponent of mathematical abil-ity in school children. Re-strictions always opposesolving a problem in math-ematics. Few children showa predisposition to think inrigid ways as a result ofwhich rigidity develops inactions and attitudes. Learn-ing of fixed procedures,which are generally used bythe mathematics teachers,may contribute to attitudes,which favour the develop-ment of rigid behaviour.

Development of teachingskills is the key function of theeducation department whereprospective teachers are enrolledfor training and it is assumed thata prospective teacher will ac-quire those skills, which maybe helpful for the developmentof creative thinking abilitiesamong students when he/shewill teach. No subject is easyor difficult. It is only the teacherwho makes it easy or difficultthrough his classroombehaviour. We are all aware ofthe fact that one of the impor-tant components of teaching-learning strategy is the type ofquestions put in the classroom.

[the writer is a Lecturerin Education, Damber Singh

College, 6th Mile, Tadong]

The Art of Teaching

TourismThe National Capital Territory launched an interesting

tourism concept today, one that Sikkim could consider

emulating. The NCT State Government floated the ‘In-

credible India Bed & Breakfast scheme,’ under which

spare rooms available with house-owners in Delhi will

be recognised as boarding facilities for tourists and made

available at “affordable cost for the common tourists who

wish to experience the Indian culture”. Simple checks

and balances and conditions have been codified and the

NCT government hopes to secure about 10,000 budget

rooms under this scheme over the next four years. If the

idea catches on, the numbers could end up being much

higher. India is also considering the option of issuing

five to ten year, multiple entry tourist visas to be issued

within 48 hours. For this, the External Affairs Ministry

and embassies are being lobbied to outsource the paper-

work during peak tourist seasons.

Compare this with the tourism planning in Sikkim?

The Tourism Department, which tourists will be most

comfortable sourcing information from, does not even

have a proper website and the extension that it does pro-

vides only very sketchy details on accommodation and

contact details. Advertisement budgets are necessary, but

it is time that the Department also put up a website, which

can go easy on the celebration of destinations, but go

expansive on info that prospective visitors can use. Even

as Delhi unveiled an ambitious stay at homes tourism

scheme, Sikkim which has been extensively promoting

village homestays and rural tourism, does not even men-

tion it in promotional material yet. Visiting Sikkim is a

complicated process for foreign tourists who are made

to stick to strict time schedules, inflexible permit regula-

tions and suffer the policy of keeping the more appeal-

ing treks and destinations out of bounds. These are not

in the State’s hands to change, but since the Centre ap-

pears to be taking the Incredible India concept seriously,

now, perhaps, is the right time to lobby for some policy

relaxations in aid of Sikkim Tourism.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY“Your speciality

influencesothers, so use it

the best way you can.”

-compiled and shared by BRAHMA KUMARIS

I noticed that most localand national papers withSikkim based correspon-

dents covering the Gold Cupfootball tournament beingheld here at Gangtok havebeen referring to our PaljorStadium as‘Palzor ’ Sta-dium.

For therecord, the Paljor Stadium isnamed after Sikkim’s lateCrown Prince KunzangPaljor Namgyal, eldest son ofSir Tashi Namgyal. TheCrown Prince was commis-sioned as a Pilot Officer inthe Royal Indian Air Force.He served in World War II in1940-41 when his father vol-untarily placed all his re-

sources and manpower at thedisposal of the Governmentof India.

He was killed in activeservice in a reconnaissanceflight near Peshawar, 20thDecember, 1941 aged only

20 years.One could be

forgiven for notknowing the ori-

gins of our places’ nomencla-ture but which reporter couldpossibly miss the brightlycoloured letters at the PaljorStadium spelling out itsname-correctly.

I would like to request yourpaper and other publicationsto kindly stick to the correctspelling of the stadium.

Tenzin C. Tashi

IT’S ‘PALJOR,’ NOT PALZOR

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6-monthplumbingtraining beginsat WestPendama NOW REPORT

GANGTOK, 18 Oct: A six-month long Self EmployedWorker Association Kendra‘Plumbing’ trainingprogramme was launched on14 October 2006 by TikaramDarji of West Pandam atAmar Jyoti Club House.

The programme, sched-uled to conclude on 14March 2007, is being spon-sored by the Department ofSports & Youth Affairs in as-sociation with Nehru YuvaKendra, Gangtok. Theprogramme will train 20youth of the locality, informsa press release issued byAmar Jyoti Club.

The inaugural programmewas also attended by JKLimboo, District Convenorof NYK and members theclub along with more than150 villager of West Pandam,the release informed.

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NAMCHI, 18 Oct: The lo-cal unit of the Sikkim Demo-cratic Front organized a daylong awareness camp onHIV/AIDS and substanceabuse at Namthang SeniorSecondary School premisestoday. The awareness campwas organised on the adviceof the Chief Minister, in-formed SDF member, RTamang.

The camp was attended

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GANGTOK, 18 Oct: UnitedChristian Welfare Society ofSikkim today observed its10th anniversary at SingtamEPC Bhawan with Food &Civil Supplies MinisterKalawati Subba gracing theoccasion as the chief guest.

Mrs. Subba in her addressedexpressed her gratitude towardsthe organizing committee forinviting her for the religiousfunction and also handed over a‘Letter of Appreciation’ to Elder

a fabulous free kick. Thehalf-time thus ended 2-2.

The second half too sawboth sides attack, but thistime around both defenceswere keeping stronger vigil,which led to the match be-ing extended into extra time.

MG Ramachandran [9] ofthe Army XI ensured that thisteam pocketed the match whenhe scored in the 2nd minute ofextra time. The Nigerian play-ers tried their utmost to equal-ize but to no avail.

This result leaves us withtwo very different teams eye-ing the Rs. 3 lakh cash prize andlifting the prestigious trophy.Air India is a bit flashier andappears slightly more adept atspontaneity in their attack.However, Army XI has prob-ably got one of the best de-fences seen in this tournament.Although, their attack might notbe as good, their players aretough and seem comfortablewith switching tactics as themoment demands.

From Air India, certainly theplayer to look out for is BasiruM Abbas who has already

scored thrice in the four matchesthat his team has played. In fact,the only match he did not scorein ended in a goalless draw.From the army team, MGRamachandran looks like a fineplayer who can be very danger-ous when a goal is required.

The crowd seems to havea soft side for the Army XIsince they have been regularsat the Gold Cup. Most of thecheers in the finals will cer-tainly be reserved for them.

Air India and Army XIhave both defeated ANFANepal and Sikkim SportsAcademy on their way to thefinals. The army team alsoplayed in the preliminaryknock out round, where theydefeated Punjab Police.

One thing that points towardsthe finals being a match that willbe remembered is the fact theboth the finalists have faced eachother earlier, in the Quarter Finalleague, and that match had endedin a draw. Neither of the teamswill waste this opportunity toprove once and for all that theyare the better team.

Get you seat-belts ready,because tomorrow we are infor one hell of a ride.

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Champion to battle Champion

at Paljor Stadium today...

by former Minister Dr. DPKharel as the chief guest,area MLA AS Baraily as aspecial guest, Panchayats,teachers, students and localpeople.

Mr. Baraily urged the stu-dents to be alert against andaware of HIV and to not in-dulge in drug abuse. Dr.Kharel briefed the gatheringon how AIDS spreads and themethods of prevention. ThePrincipal of the school alsoaddressed the gathering.

SDF awareness camp against AIDSand substance abuse at NamthangAndrew Rai and CP Dewan on

behalf of the Society for theircontributions to the society.

Mr. Rai and Mr. Dewanalso spoke on the occasion.

The programme was fol-lowed by prayer ceremonyconducted by Rev. SamuelLepcha and reciting of bhajansby TT Lepcha and group.

Later, the audience was en-thralled by Nepali folk songssung by famous singer SukmitRai, informs a press release is-sued by Kamal Chamling, Pub-licity Secretary of the Society.

UCWS marks 10th Anniv

space would grow ‘Saipatri’during this season; many wouldgo to towns such as Gangtok,Ranipool and Singtam andfetch good returns.

“We used to come toGangtok with full ‘Dokos’,but have been unable to so forthe last two years,” said aflower seller who added heused to go to the neighbouringvillages before Teohar and liftenough consignments to ser-vice Gangtok.

“Even the porters whocarried the loads were happythen along with the peoplewho sold us these flowers atvarious street corners aroundtowns,” recalled anotherflower seller.

These flower sellers at LallBazaar also mentioned thatsince the production in villageshad gone down drastically,everyone now relied on largeconsignments from Siliguri.

“We have now startedbringing these flowers fromSiliguri, even if these flow-ers look beautiful with all ofthe ‘Malas’ in appropriateshapes and sizes, these flow-ers shall never be able tocompare with what has beenused by the people throughgenerations,” they admit.

They also mentioned thatwhat made the local flowersbetter was the different sizesthat would be brought, andwhich could be separated by

size for different applica-tions, such as small ones forthe ‘malas,’ the larger onesfor the Kalash in which theflowers are offered to thegods and medium sized onesto decorate the houses.

“All that is now not there,the flowers coming fromSiliguri are just decorative,but what the local flowersgave was a festive spirit inthe entire village, the fra-grance of ‘Saipatri’ in fullbloom lifted spirits andspread a festive mood.”

The outsourcing toSiliguri, from where theflowers come sewn intostrands [‘readymade’ assomeone put it], has also ledto the slow phasing out of thepleasant ritual of watchingfamilies busy with preparing‘malas,’ marking a collectiveenterprise that underlinedTeohar.

“What makes this festivalauspicious is the ladies of thehouse sewing these ‘malas’themselves. Now, with these‘malas’ coming readymade,the traditional feel is miss-ing,” commented a passerbywhen he spied flower-sellersbeing interviewed for Teohar.

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GANGTOK, 18 Oct: Thethree-day long Mini-Olym-pics [Annual Sports-2006] ofTashi Namgyal Academycommenced today here at theschool ground.

Minister for the HumanResource Development De-partment cum Chairman ofTNA Board, GM Gurungwas present as the chief guest

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portance of the sports in hisaddress, Mr. Gurung said thatsports was also an importantpart of education becausewithout sports, education ishandicapped and to learnonly to read and write wasnot enough.

He also declared the open-ing of the Mini Olympics.

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The opening day also wit-nessed the march past by thestudents, in which salute wastaken by the HRDD Minis-ter and also a mass drill bythe junior students.

The opening day was thenfollowed by the variousevents for the junior studentsof the school.

The opening ceremonywas also attended by thePrincipal, Anil Chandra Rai,teachers and students of TNAalong with the parents of thestudents.

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the mind, body and soul’, theone page feature on the drivegushes about how during thedrive one can see ‘brilliantRhododendron blooms inspring or the most dramaticfall colours in autumn’.

The magazine also talks

about the marmots, blue sheepand yaks, framed by “the gleam-ing snows” of Kanchenjau andChomiomo peaks which can beseen once one reaches the Ti-betan Plateau.

This article can only comeas a shot in the arm for thes t i l l - seek ing-pub l i c i tySikkim tourism sector.

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SHILLONG, Oct 18(IANS): A band of 8,000drummers aiming to set arecord-breaking beat sessionin India’s northeastern stateof Meghalaya will performnext week before an adjudi-cator from the GuinnessBook of World Records.

“The rehearsals are on fora maximum of five minutesof synchronised drum beatswhere an adjudicator fromthe Guinness world recordwould be present to verifythis historic feat,” Aiban S.Mawkhroh, general secretaryof the Meghalaya TourismDevelopment Forum(MTDF), told IANS.

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Organisers are planning toget the 8,000 drummers toplay together in an open sta-dium Oct 28 to kick off thestate’s weeklong AutumnFestival. The drummers willplay a newly composed piececalled “Positive Vibrations”by noted local composer andguitarist Rudy Wallang.

“We have purchased thou-

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From schoolchildren toprofessionals, the participantswho have enrolled for therecord-breaking event willhave a full dress rehearsal aday before the event.

“The enthusiasm is tre-mendous and we hope thisrecord-breaking event willchange the perception of theoutside world towards thenortheast - this region is notjust about killings and vio-lence and we are capable ofpositive things as well,”Mawkhroh said.

The drum ensemble apart,the Autumn Festival willhave events like water sports,kite flying, fishing, archery,besides jugglers and enter-tainers from Australia to en-tertain the crowd.

“This would be a gala car-nival and we expect peoplefrom both India and abroadto take part in the festivities,”Meghalaya Tourism MinisterR.G. Lyngdoh said.