This Week Himachal Pradesh: Dhumal the author

After Gujarats Narendra Modi,it is Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal who has released a book. Dhumals The Real Action

Dhumal the author

After Gujarats Narendra Modi,it is Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal who has released a book. Dhumals The Real Action: Green Growth Development Story of Himachal Pradesh is themed on the environment,like Modis Convenient Action: Gujarats Response to Challenges of Climate Change. Dhumals book details the states initiatives in key sectors from watershed development to hydro-power generation and the polythene ban success story,for which Himachal had won the Prime Ministers award. Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist R K Pachauri drove to Shimla this week to unveil Dhumals book. So impressed was he with Dhumals initiatives in the ecologically fragile mountain state that Pachauri announced he would promote the green-growth story internationally. Pachauri also entered into a technical and scientific collaboration with Himachal Pradesh for multi-sector,carbon-smart growth and signed an MoU to set up a regional centre of his organisation,TERI,in Shimla.

Study in contrast

Virbhadra Singh and Shanta Kumar were born the same year,1934,but the way they celebrated their 78th birthdays reflected how different their ambitions are. On his birthday on June 23,Virbhadra put up a show of strength and resolved to reposition himself as a chief ministerial candidate in the polls. Last month,the high command made him state Congress chief,a steppingstone to his chief ministerial hopes. The BJPs Shanta Kumar,twice chief minister earlier,spent his September 12 birthday away from the media glare. Satisfied with his achievements as CM,MP,Union minister and currently BJP national vice-president,he pledged not to fight any election in the future. Shanta Kumar had started his career as a ward panch while Virbhadra had become an MP at the age of 26.

Change at the top

Alena Adamkova,the Russian curator of Naggar-based Roerich Art Gallery set-up in the memory of a famous Russian painter,has relinquished the post after having held it for nearly a decade. In her place,the Russian government and Himachal Pradesh have agreed to appoint two curators,O C Handa,a Shimla-based archaeologist and historian,and L Surgina of Russia. The gallery is managed by the International Roerich Memorial Trust. Surgina has headed a visiting team from the international office in Moscow and been taking stock of the estate.

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