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CBSE asks schools to set up
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DSP struggles to get accident case registered
Two held with 3 kg of heroin
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Subordinate courts may work on shift system
Trade unions hold dharna
Demand to arrest ‘killers’ of newly-wed
ETT members’ rally
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CBSE asks schools to set up
health clubs
Jalandhar, August 21 While earlier monitoring the health of school children was limited to an eye or a dental check up, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has now directed the schools to hold health fairs, immunisation projects and shramdaans (cleanliness drives) on the campus on a regular basis. The board has chalked out a ‘Comprehensive School Health Programme’ in which each school has been asked to create a health club. To be headed by the school principal, the club will have a psychologist, student representatives, teachers and parents (preferably doctors) as members. A circular in this regard that recently reached all the local schools also clearly outlines an array of activities that must be undertaken by the club. The board has recommended conducting talks on sexual health education, issues related to gender sensitivity, creating and circulating health newsletters, holding yoga and meditation classes from Class I onwards, survey of eating joints for nutritive value of food, conducting nutritive recipe contests, creating no polybag zones and practising paper recycling. In its directive, the board has also asked the schools to create a health helpline to de-stress the students, help them cope with emotional and social
behavioural problems and to clarify misconceptions regarding sexual and reproductive health. The board has also suggested that the children be made to sing health songs on various health topics. It has also asked the schools to celebrate important days including ‘World Health Day’ and hold awareness drives on ‘World No Tobacco Day’ and ‘World AIDS Day’. Realising that the schools could be dynamic settings for promoting health and for enabling children to mature into healthy adults, the board has asked the heads to improve dietary intake of the children, self-esteem, life skills and behaviour. The health cards will be used to continuously monitor their growth and development and to get a feedback system for the overall health of a child during his schooling, the board officials have said. Mr Vineet Joshi, secretary of the board, has also asked the schools to divide the club into three levels with level 1 ranging from Classes I to IV, middle level with students of Classes V to VIII and level 3 with students from Classes IX to XII. The activities prescribed for students from low level include yoga, pasting of pictures of healthy and junk food, dietary charts for the week, picking up of wrappers and foils after break, extempore dialogue delivery, travelling independently while memorising mobile and landline phone numbers, learning to communicate and evacuation skills during fire or any other tragedy. Board displays, skits and visiting heritage site are some of the suggested activities for middle section kids, while extempore, debate, slogan writing, theatre, collage making, panel discussion and visit to a rehabilitation centre have been suggested for senior section students. The school principals said they had started following the new directives laid down in health programme. Dr Rashmi Vij, principal of the Police DAV School, said she had appointed Ms Seema Sharma, a zoology teacher, as an instructor of the club in the school. She said all awareness days would also be observed in the school as had been suggested by the board. Mr R.S. Mehta, another principal, said meetings on diet control had been held in the school. He said that yoga club also had been started for students of Class VIII onwards. |
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DSP struggles to get accident case registered
Phagwara, August 21 This was what happened last evening when the DSP of the Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur, Mr Malkiat Singh, along with his gunmen, was travelling in his official Tata Safari. A truck hit the vehicle at nearby Mauli village. The DSP and his security men had a close shave. When the truck driver tried to flee the spot, he was reportedly nabbed by an ASI of the Phagwara police. The driver was not even carrying a valid driving licence. He was then reportedly handed over to the Sadar police. But the Sadar police did not register any case against the driver even after 24 hours of the incident. It was also learnt that the DSP remained in the Sadar police station till late midnight, but could not convince the Phagwara police to register a case against the truck driver. No case was registered even today till the filing of the report since DSP refrained from coming to the Sadar police station after being harassed on yesterday night. When contacted, Sadar police station SHO Lakhwinder Singh Mall said he was not in the city on Sunday and now was waiting for the DSP to solve the tangle. |
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Two held with 3 kg of heroin
Jalandhar, August 21 Lakhwinder Singh, a resident of Cheharta in Amritsar, and Daljit Rai Sharma of Khandwala, also in Amritsar, were arrested by a police party from Chogitti Chowk early this morning as they were alighting from a bus. Presenting them before the media, SP, City-I, Mr Satinder Singh, said two kg of heroin was recovered from Lakhwinder and one kg of heroin from Daljit. The SP said that during preliminary interrogations, the accused had revealed that they had bought the contraband from a person at Chabbal in Amritsar. According to the SP, the accused had bought six packets of heroin weighing one kg each and had sold three of these in Amritsar in the last 20 days. He said the accused had come to Jalandhar to sell the contraband and in case they were not find a suitable customer, they would have taken the narcotics to Delhi. The SP added that since the packets had stamps printed in Urdu, these had most likely come via Pakistan. He said Lakhwinder already had a case registered against him in Amritsar for running a fake currency racket. He had also accepted smuggling of narcotics on earlier occasions, the SP added. Today’s arrest was made by a policy party headed by Mr Charanjit Singh, DSP, City-I, and SI Sukha Singh, SHO, Division No. 8 police station. The accused have been booked under Section 21 of the NDPS Act. Meanwhile, the Phagwara police booked four persons, including a woman, on the charges of duping a Chandigarh resident of Rs 10 lakh here on yesterday night. Sandeep Kumar, a resident of Darua village in Chandigarh, in his complaint, said one Tapasvi Bhardwaj, a travel agent from Chandigarh, along with Himmat Singh Chana, Bibi Gogi Chana and Vijay Kumar, all residents of Phagwara, had struck a deal of Rs 15 lakh in September last year to get him a work permit of two years in Australia. It was learnt that a similar case of duping had been registered against Himmat Singh Chana with the Phagwara police. |
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Subordinate courts may work on shift system
Kapurthala, August 21 The introduction of the shift system is expected in view of the huge pendency of criminal cases in the subordinate courts. The services of retired judges may be taken for the purpose. The Registrar General of the High Court has sent letters, a copy of which is with The Tribune, to all the district and sessions judges in the state of Punjab, Haryana and UT Chandigarh on August 11. The letter states that the possibility of the existing subordinate courts functioning in two shifts with the same infrastructure, including utilising the services of retired Judicial Officer for the purpose, is being explored. All the district and sessions judges were asked to send their opinions in the matter along with the opinion of the bar associations of sessions division at the earliest. The one page letter has been signed by Deputy Registrar (general) on behalf of the Registrar. Alarmingly, over 28 million cases are pending in various courts in the country. According to the data provided in a booklet, “People’s initiatives for justice”, published and released by the Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HSLSA) some time back, as many as 2,86,03,829 cases were pending in various courts as on June 30 last year. According to the data, as many as 2,53,50,370 cases were pending in various subordinate courts till June 30 last year. Of them, a large number of cases were pending in the Subordinate Courts falling under Punjab and Haryana High Court. The number of pending cases keeps on accumulating as over one million cases add to the list every year on an average because 1,55,26,700 new cases are instituted in different courts, whereas only 1,43,92,900 are disposed of every year, the data says. According to the data, only 1,32,29,000 cases are disposed of in different subordinate courts, whereas on an average 1,42,43,500 cases are instituted every year. The huge pendency of cases may mainly be attributed to an acute shortage of judges in various courts. There are only 13 sanctioned posts of judges in India against one million persons, whereas there are 100 judges against the same number of persons in several developed countries, including the USA. Surprisingly, even all the approved posts of judges are not filled and as much as 17.2 per cent of the total sanctioned posts of judge were lying vacant till last year, the data says. According figures quoted by the then Chief Justice of India, Mr R.C. Lahoti, on ‘Law Day’ last year, 2,300 posts of judge were lying vacant against a total of 13,949 approved posts in various courts, the booklet stated. That was why, Punjab and Haryana High Court is considering actively to introduce shift system with the help of retired judges to dispose of criminal cases. |
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Trade unions hold dharna
Jalandhar, August 21 The workers demanded administrative intervention alleging non-implementation of labour laws, including the Industrial Disputes Act, EPF/ESI Act, Bonus Gratuity Act and Minimum Wages Act, in the factories and other commercial establishments. They urged the administration to monitor the implementation of these laws. Members of CTU, AITUC, INTUC and Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat alleged that attendance was not being maintained at any commercial establishment. They demanded that the minimum wages be fixed at Rs 6,000 per month for unskilled labourers. They also demanded the shifting of labour courts to the judicial complex and the posting of a judge there to initiate the workings of the court.
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Demand to arrest ‘killers’ of newly-wed
Kapurthala, August 21 After Jyoti’s death, an FIR was lodged against her mother-in-law Devi, father-in-law Sukhwinder Singh, brother-in-law Raju and sister-in-law Roopa at Talwandi Chaudhria police station on the victim’s mother’s complaint. Ms Raj told mediapersons that her daughter was married to an Army personal, Jasbir Singh, from Moolpur Tibba village about ten months back. She claimed that Jyoti had called her a few days back to say that her that her in-laws had asked her to bring a dowry of Rs two lakh from her NRI uncle Gurpal Bhatti. Jyoti’s mother said she had told her daughter that she would talk about this to her uncle. Ms Raj added that the family received a call on Saturday afternoon from her daughter’s in-laws that Jyoti had been admitted to the Kapurthala Civil Hospital since she was unwell. But when they reached there she had already died, Ms Raj said. She alleged that her daughter had been killed by her in-laws for dowry, but the police was taking no action against them. |
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ETT members’ rally
Jalandhar, August 21 The members rued that while most of the members got recruited about two months back through the Zila Parishads and panchayats, they had been sent to far off places against Punjab Government rules. The rules, they said, stated that postings be made to fill vacancies in schools of the teachers’ own villages, neighbouring villages, blocks and tehsils. President of the union, Mr Beant Badhna, said they had repeatedly made requests in this regard in the last two months, but to no avail. He said the newly-appointed staff was forced to commute to schools as far as 50 to 80 km daily from their
homes. — TNS |
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