Himalayan Times (1962)

September 30, 1962 Himalayan Times

KALIMPONG NEWS
IN BRIEF

Darga Puja will be
celebrated this year at the
Kalimpong Club, Kaj.nees
Compound, Ward No. Ill
10th Mile and Yog
Sadhan Math.

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Over Rs. H00/- was

collected on the Teachers
Day Celebration at Kalim-
pong. The amount has
been sent to Diet. Head-
quarters.

The local Police has
been able to arrest a
young Tibetan who was
wanted in connection of
a shooting incident at a
Chines* shoe shop at
Kalimpong.

« * *

Four Tibetan refugee
boys have been admitted
id the Tung Industrial
School, Kuraeong. This is
for the first time that
Tibetan refugees hare
been offered this facility
in India.

• * »

Sri Bejoy Singh Nahar,
Labour Minister W. Bengal
paid a visit to Kalim-
pong. During his stay here
Sri Nahar had a meeting
with the local Congiessmen.

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TIBETAN TALES

BY David Macdonald
Himalayan Stores,
Kalimpong

TWO POST OFFICES
FOR BHUTAN

Darjeeling, Sept. 28
At the initiative of
the Government of India,
two post offices will be
opened soon in Bhutan,
it is reliably l<*arut. The
post offices, the first of
the kind in Bhutan, will
be located in Phuntsho.
ling and Phimpho the
residential town of the
Maharaja of Bhutan. The
Indian post office at Dal-
singpara in Jalpaiguri will
aot as au intermediary
between the post offices.
The proposed tele-oommu-
Dication connecting Phim-
pho with Hasimara Ex-
change in Jalpaiguri is
also in progress.

SMALL POX IN INDIA

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Dir ctor and Deputy Di-
rectc in nharge of the
programme in each State,
.raining programmes of
vaccinators recruited have
been carefully worked out
aud are being adhered to
by eaoh State, 120 such
units will start operating
in the whole country from
October, 1962 to cover
up 439 million population
within a period of two
to three years, out of
which nearly 35 million
population stand covered
from the time Pilot Pro-
jaots came in operation.

It has been realised
that for tb8 successful

implementation of such ft
gigantic programme, wi!-
ling cooperation of ths
people has to be assured
for them to accept vac-
cination and for them to
appreciate and realise that
it is for their own good
and that the country has
to be got rid of this
scourge. To achieve thie,
full advantage has been
taken of all the Govern-
ment's media units for
publicity and health edu-
cation

Utmost cooperation is
being sought from staff
and teachers in the Com.
nranity Development
Blocks in all the States
and all Development Com-
missioners and educational
authorities have been re-
quested to extend neoea-
sary cooperation and geS
a climate prepared for
the acceptance of vacci.
nation programme in their
Blocks.

Besides the gift of freeze
dried vaccine by U.S S.B.,
one crore of rupees have
been reoesived under PL4S9
fuDda out of U.S.A.I D.
WHO and UNICEF have
agreed to give further
substantial aid for the
production of more freeze
dried vaccine in the coun-
try and for the supply
of deep freeze cabinets
and special type of re-
frigerators for the storage
of liquid lymph vaccines
and public address equip-
ment for inteoMTe health
eduoation.