Himalayan Times (1953)

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November' 20, 1953

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Kalimpbng. Novmber 29, 1953

ADULTERATION OF FOOD

The “progressive dete-
rioration” in the health
and nutritional stmdards
of the diet of the bulk
of the population of the
country, according to Dr.
V. N. Patwardhan at the
All-India nutritional con-
ference, should be a matter
of deep' concern to the
nation, and also to Govern-
ment—the custodians of
public health. Adultera-
tion of food is a growing
menace which has gone
“mostly utinoticed” by the
powers that be. With
weak and emaciated peo-
ple, the country cannot
he expected to make big
strides in any field Adul-
teration of' food is assum-
ing alarming proportions.
Government’s legislative
measures have not been
able to check this source
of ruin of the health of
the people., most of whom
Cannpt afford even full diet.
\Vant of; adequate deter-
rents in the .'form of heavy
punishments may well be
responsible for the un-
checked continuance of the
evil. The Central Health
Minister’s bill for the pre-
vention of food adultera-
tion is before Parliament.

Tt remains to be seen how
it would be enforced to
advantage.

DISPUTE OVER RUPEES
FIFTY THOUSAND

Kalimpong, Nov. 2G

The Tibetan Traders’
Association here decided
at a meeting to suspend
all business with M/S
Prabhulal P-amkumnr of
Kalimpong from Dec. 1
1953 following a dispute
with this firm and one
Tibetan trader. Sri Lnkpa
Tsering involving a sum
of Hs 50.000/-.

It is alleged bv Sri
Tsering that he had ad-
vanced Its. 50,000/- to
Sri Antooram of the firm
of M/S Prabhulal Ram-
kumar for supply of mer-
chandise ttwhini and for
which he says that he has
,a receipt signed by Sri
Antoo Ram who, it is
alleged, denies receipt of
any money from Sri
Tsering.

The Tibetan Traders
Association and the Kalim-
pong Chamber of Commer-
ce have not so for been
able to bring about any
amicable settlement bet-
ween the partied.

S. U. M. I. BOV GETS
UNIVERSITY AWARD

Kalimpong, Nov/ 23
'At the Annual Con-
vocation of the University
of Allahabad held there
on Nov. 21, 1953 Sri

Stiailesh Chandra Jain,
B.Sc. an ex-student of
the S. U. M. Institution,
Kalimpong was awarded
K. P. Chatterjee Univer
sity Medal for obta’ning
the first position in Che-
mistry in the 1953 B Sc.
examination of the uni-
versity of Allahabad. Sri
Shailesh Jain who is the
eldest son of Mr. S. C.
Jain, Editor, Himalayan
Times is at present stu-
dying chemistry in the
M Sc. class of the Allaha-
bad University.

municipaliiy’s dissatisfac-
tion ON NEW MARKET
CONSTRUCTION

(From Our Correspondent)

Siliguri Nov. 25
It is learnt that Sili-
guri Municipality in a
receat meeting discussed
about the construction
work of the new market
in Siliguri Town under the
Construction Board and
regretted that the autho-
rities concerned did not
consult the Municipality
regarding the plan accor-
ding to which the construc-
tion of the said market
would be made. The mee-
ting also opined that in-
ferior quality of .materials
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