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Piling up of cases
Sirsa, November 10 The two-day Lok Adalat would be organised in all district and subdivision courts of Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Given it the sobriquet of Samadhan 2008, the Lok Adalat proposes to settle two lakh cases in Haryana alone with each district court making an endeavour to settle 10,000 cases. The initiative is part of the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s endeavour to minimise the pendency of litigations in the lower and district courts. Haryana chief secretary Dharmvir recently presided over a videoconference on this issue. Several senior government functionaries issued directions to the deputy commissioners and officers of other departments in all district headquarters on the type of cases to be taken up in the Mega Lok Adalat. In their endeavour to make the project a success, core committees have been set up at the district level under the district and session judges. Chief judicial magistrates, who are secretaries of the district legal services authorities, judges of the subdivisional courts, additional district and session judges, police and administrative officers have been included in the committees as members. It would cover cases pertaining to section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, motor accident claim cases, compoundable criminal offences, matrimonial disputes, disputes under the Hindu Marriages Act, petty offences under special enactments and the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act. Cases relating to road accidents except those coming under sections 279 and 304-A of the IPC, petitions under sections 18 and 19 of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, petitions for custody of children, civil suits for the recovery of money as well as possession of immovable property, suits for injunctions, rent cases and civil and criminal cases relating to electricity would be dealt with in this Lok Adalat. Besides, certain categories of cases are to be settled at the pre-litigation stage too. These are cases relating to the recovery of loan advanced by financial institutions and nationalised banks, road accident cases except those coming under sections 279 and 304-A of the IPC, compoundable criminal offences, domestic violence cases and cases relating to matrimonial and family disputes.
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Meltdown grips cotton industry
Industry in this cotton bowl of the region and elsewhere in the country, which was comfortably placed and reaping rich profits due to good prices, is now finding MSP of the raw cotton too high to afford. Cotton ginners of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra met union agriculture minister Sharad Panwar in Delhi recently and sought his help in bailing out the industry from the current situation. Sushil Mittal, president of the Haryana Cotton Ginning Association and owner of the local Aditya Agro Industries, and who was part of the delegation that met the union minister, said the minister gave them a considerate hearing and sought suggestions to deal with the situation without compromising the interests of the farmers. The minister, according to the delegation, assured them that he will do something to help the industry come out of this difficult situation. Dalip Bhai Patel and Sonam Bhai Patel from Gujarat Cotton Ginner Association, Manjit Singh from Maharashtra Cotton Ginner Association, Gurpreet Chhabra from Madhya Pradesh Cotton Ginner Association, Bhagwan Bansal from the Punjab Cotton Ginner Association and Sushil Mittal from the Haryana Cotton Ginners Association were among those who met the minister. “When the MSP of the raw cotton was decided by the central government, we were getting handsome prices of cotton. The MSP is Rs 2,700 per quintal in Haryana, Rs 2,800 in Punjab, Rs 2,600 per quintal in Rajasthan and between Rs 2,850 and Rs 3,000 in Gujarat and Maharashtra depending on the staple length of the raw cotton,” said Sushil Mittal. “The salable cotton costs us Rs 2,300 per maund of about 37.32 kg after ginning and packing in Haryana. It was selling at Rs 2,900 earlier but now the cost has fallen to Rs 2160 causing losses to the industry,” he claimed. “The industry has suggested the government to let them purchase the raw cotton from the market at the prevailing market rates and the government should step in to compensate the farmers for the difference between the MSP and the rate at which their produce is sold,” Mittal said.
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Lok Sabha elections
Chandigarh, November 10 Though Barwala has gone on record to say that he would contest the next Lok Sabha elections from Hisar itself, the sources maintain that his friends are arguing in private that if the former union deputy minister is fielded from Kurukshetra, the chances of the Congress retaining the seat would brighten. Why has Kurukshetra become the much-sought after constituency among the Congress leaders? The sources say the constituency named after the holy town is the safest constituency, after Rohtak, for the Congress. Since Rohtak is represented by Deepender, son of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, no other Congress leader even dreams of contesting from there. So, the next best option for them is Kurukshetra. Sonepat comes next in line. But the sources say the Congress can wrest this seat from the BJP only if the party fields a candidate of the Chief Minister's choice. So much influence Hooda wields in this belt of Deswali Jats. Kurukshetra has been very ably nursed by its sitting Congress MP Naveen Jindal, industrialist-sportsperson-turned-politician, for the past about five years. He has pumped in his personal crores of rupees (apart from the MP local area development funds which come from the government) to build bridges with his constituents. He is considered to be the best bet for the Congress from Kurukshetra. However, after the delimitation exercise, Kurukshetra's demographic structure has changed; and so of the Hissar seat. Yamunanagar, a major urban centre, has been excluded from Yamunanagar and attached with Ambala. In place of Yamunanagar, Kalayat has been included in Kurukshetra. Similarly, Jind has been excluded from Hisar and attached with Sonepat. Adampur, Hansi and Bawani Khera, which were earlier with the Bhiwani seat, have been attached with Sonepat. Whereas Kalayat and Jind have been areas of influence of Barwala, Adampur, Hansi and Bawani Khera are considered to be strongholds of former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal. This is one reason, the sources say, Barwala wants to shift to Kurukshetra. His friends argue that Jindal can win from Hissar also, the place to which he belongs and where his father, the late industrialist-turned-politician Om Prakash Jindal, laid the foundation of his industrial empire. That way, they say, the Congress can retain both Kurukshetra and Hissar. But it is not easy to shift Jindal to Hissar without his consent. He is well- connected in the Congress high command. Therefore, it will not be easy to persuade the high command, which has the last word in the ticket distribution, to shift Jindal to Hissar. The Chief Minister is believed to have so far maintained a neutral stance between Jindal and Barwala. The sources say Jindal has a well-organised team of his men, who make it a point to visit each house from which a marriage invitation is received by the MP and give "shagun" on his behalf. Similarly, Jindal's men also go to offer condolences to bereaved families on behalf of their master. His men also offer financial assistance to the needy for education of their wards or marriages of girls belonging to the poor families. Whenever Jindal happens to be in Kurukshetra, he also visits as many his supporters or village leaders as possible. This has generated a personal goodwill for him in the constituency. Can this goodwill be transferred to another Congress candidate? It is difficult to answer at this time.
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Free insurance cover against terror attacks
Panipat, November 10 The cover mitigates risk in the event of a casualty because of terrorism attack. The holder of the policy would be insured against the loss of life caused by or against the act of terrorism for Rs 1 Lakh for one year. The policy cover was announced by the company in June this year and since its introduction around 25,000 applicants had already been provided the cover. As per the provisions of the cover, anyone who is 25 years of age or above can register himself for the cover. The company offers an online solution for getting one registered for the policy. One just needs to log on to the site www.click2insure..in and fill in the basic information required and the policy is delivered to the applicant’s mail box. Rahul Aggarwal, CEO, Optima Insurance Brokers said that the cover introduced by the company was a part of its corporate social responsibility. He said that company believed that it was important to play a role in creating awareness about risk mitigation. He said that the numbers of people getting the cover was increasing daily and there was a tremendous response from the general masses. B S Bagga, a senior divisional manager of the New India Assurance, said that initially the product was created only for a year but after the overwhelming response received from the people across the country, extending it for another year was being thought about.
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Over 250 new colleges in three years
Rohtak, November 10 These comprise 78 engineering colleges, 61 management education institutes, 16 MCA, 17 Pharmacy and 52 polytechnic institutes. The availability of total seats in these institutions has gone up by more than 25,000, according to an estimate. This is likely to facilitate professional, technical and vocational education to the students of the state at their doorstep, which otherwise had to depend on such education outside the state, a couple of years back. Stating this a spokesperson for the state government said, “There are certain allegations regarding the standard of infrastructure and facilities available in these institutions, but teething problems do occur when measures are taken on a large scale. It is very difficult to facilitate all services in a short period. He said one could easily imagine when parents of the students passing their Plus Two and seeking admissions in engineering and management institutes had to rush to other states to get their wards admitted against heavy donations and fees. The government would now ensure that strict standards were maintained regarding infrastructure and qualified staff. He refuted that the charges that permission to open such colleges had been given without following proper guidelines and requirements and allotted to all the near and dear ones of those in power. He claimed that any institution would not be able to survive for long if it failed to maintain its standards and provide the best available facilities for training on its campus. The government would take measures to promote and reward those institutions which excel in the field, he added. It may be recalled that certain social and educational bodies had expressed their concern over the opening of such a large number of engineering colleges in the state in the recent past suspecting that the quantity might harm the quality in the longer run, if proper standards were not maintained at various Meanwhile, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said his government has allocated Rs 200 crore on the promotion of technical and vocational education in the state during the current financial year of 2008-09.
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A step towards better policing
Sirsa, November 10 People coming to the police station will no more have to wait for the registration of their complaints. One just needs to deliver his complaint to the policeman on duty on the window and in return get a computer-generated receipt. While making entry in the computer, it will be mentioned whether the complainant has come directly to the police station or the complaint has been sent by the SP or any other senior officer. The entry will have complete information about the complainant, the respondent and the text of the complaint. A special software has been developed for this purpose, which will help the police to review the pending complaints and provide details of the complaints date-wise, section-wise as well as investigating officer-wise. This in turn will help the department in finding out reasons for the delay in the disposal of complaints. Ajay Sharma, SHO of the city police station, claimed that the functioning of the police station would improve after the introduction of computerised registration of complaints. Meanwhile, the police has started follow-up of those cases which are pending in the courts and could lead to further crimes due to disputes between the parties. "We have made a list of 70 such cases which are pending in local courts and each investigating officer has been handed over five case each to study those and expedite the prosecution evidence," Sharma said.
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Rohtak police introduces crime info boxes
Coloured boxes, presently lying at the office of the inspector general of police (IGP) of the Rohtak range, are all set to be placed at a number of spots. A special team of sincere and dutiful policemen has been formed for the daily collection of the complaints from the boxes and its distribution to the police stations after making its written entry. Interestingly, anonymous complaints and other inputs would also be scrutinised to verify its authenticity. If the complaints were found authentic, legal action would be taken against the guilty. Sources said timely and accurate information about any crime play a crucial role in taking appropriate action. If police gets vital information about any possible crime through complaint boxes then it would be restrained on time by adopting preventive measures. Apart from this, police could keep a check on those persons who have criminal tendency and are involved in such activities in the past, sources added. On being contacted Rohtak range IGP V. Kamaraja said the policemen were entrusted with the task of preventing crime and maintaining law and order. At the same time, it was a responsibility of the residents to check unlawful activities going on in their vicinity. “Residents should play a proactive role in crime prevention and should come forward to share information with the police,” said Kamaraja adding that complaints boxes would prove useful in providing vital information about criminal activities. He maintained that under this ongoing campaign of making the police public-friendly, two female counsellors were also appointed in each police station of the range. It is endeavour of the police to bring change in the police-public relationship as the police was for the protection of lives and property of people. “The aim behind the appointment of the counsellors in the police stations is to gap the bridge between police and public and to ensure speedy disposal of the cases. I have made telephonic contact with several complainants, who came at the police station, in order to know about the counsellor’s behaviour. The result was found satisfactory in most of the cases,” Kamaraja claimed, adding that the counsellors would also be supportive in avoiding harassment to the complainants during the cases.
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Gateway to successful career
Sirsa, November 10 Established in 2002, the JCD Vidyapeeth has been helping students to excel in the field of science, technology, dentistry, education, pharmacy, engineering and management. The beneficiaries not only belong to Haryana but also from the neighbouring Rajasthan and Punjab. The institute was set up by Ajay Singh Chautala, a Member of Parliament and a grandson of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal, after whom the institution has been named. The vidyapeeth has a complete university-like structure with pollution-free environment and state-of-the-art buildings. The wifi campus, spread over beautifully landscaped area of 200 acres, offers spacious playgrounds, shopping arcade, faculty houses, museum, round-the-clock power backup and water supply, besides seven magnificent buildings of its constituent professional institutes. These institutes are the JCD Memorial College of Engineering, JCD Dental College, JCD Memorial College of Pharmacy, JCD Diploma College of Pharmacy, JCD Polytechnic College, JCD College of Physiotherapy, and the JCD College of Education. All these institutes are well equipped with ultramodern facilities, including laboratories, libraries, computer centres, workshops, hostels, spacious classrooms, seminar halls, auditoria etc. and the best of human resources. "The vidyapeeth is a gateway to a good, meaningful and successful life ahead for students as here knowledge is imparted and acquired, contested and created,” says Dr Kuldip Singh Dhindsa, director-general of the institution, and an academician and scientist of international fame. "Excellent results bear a testimony to the academic excellence of the vidyapeeth. The JCD Memorial College of Engineering has taken a lead in this regard by capturing most of the merit positions in Kurukshetra University. Overall results are also extremely heartening and motivating,” he adds. "The vidyapeeth has continuously been striving to equip its students with the skills needed in the present scenario of the global economy. For this, it has experts to conduct special courses on communication skills and personality development. With the objective of encouraging good performance, scholarships and free ships are bestowed upon the students in the form of cash prizes, medals and certificates. Ten per cent of the students are given tuition fee waiver,” claims Dr Dhindsa. Hostels here are well-planned and aesthetically designed to make living comfortable and conducive to the learning process. “Our hostels are unique because these are totally ragging-free,” he claims. "The objective of the vidyapeeth is not to earn profits but to provide the best of education to the children of the area at affordable fees. We believe in nothing short of perfection and excellence not only in academics, but also in sports, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, discipline, social and environmental awareness, moral and ethical values,” avers Ajay Singh Chautala, chairman of the vidyapeeth. There is no denying the fact that within a span of four years, Vidyapeeth has become one of the choicest of institutions for the student community from Haryana and neighboring areas of Rajasthan and Punjab.
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Committed to social work
Rewari, November 10 She along with her husband S.N. Saxena owns Saxena Nursing Home, a 70-bed multispeciality hospital here. Tara had provided obstetric care to hundreds of illiterate, ignorant and orthodox women of this backward area irrespective of any financial returns for years together. She became the first doctor in Rewari to perform caesarean section in 1981, and thereby heralded a new era of operative obstetrics and gynaecology in the region. Subsequently, she was unanimously elected founder president of the Rewari Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society in 2001. She was later elevated to the post of president of the Rewari unit of the Indian Medical Association in 1983-84. While attaining heights in the medical profession, an urge to do something for the empowerment of women made her join the Rewari unit of the All India Women’s Conference, popularly known as the Rewari Mahila Parishad in 1980. Through her persuasive efforts, former home minister K.L. Poswal donated his ancestral house in Mohalla Gujjarwara here to the parishad, which lent stability and fine progress to its activities. Women awareness camps were organised in recent months in the urban and rural areas of the district in which over 1,700 women were imparted knowledge regarding their rights. The family counselling unit of the parishad has been providing counselling to distressed women and estranged young girls of not only the region but other areas of the state and Uttar Pradesh as well. Tara is also actively associated with Lioness Club, Hospital Welfare Society, Juvenile Justice Board, Satish Public College of Education and several other voluntary organisations here. She was given the state award in recognition of her social services by the Chief Minister at a state-level function in Panchkula on March 8, 2007.
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Inside Babudom
Chandigarh, November 10 The post has a chequered history. Initially the state used to have only two posts of SRTA, one in Ambala and another in Hisar. Later as the workload increased with the phenomenal increase in the number of vehicles, more posts were created, with each officer looking after more than one district. The SRTA looks after the registration of commercial vehicles, their permits and other related work. He also has the authority to challan drivers of those commercial vehicles, which violate various provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act. The amount realised from fines imposed to compound these challans is a major source of income of the state's transport system. The nomenclature of the post of SRTA was later changed to that of the district transport officer (DTO). Like any authority in India, which has the power to penalise, the post of DTO too is a lucrative one. When Bhupinder Singh Hooda became the Chief Minister of the state in 2005, he was surprised when he received requests from a number of MLAs and other influential persons, each seeking the post of DTO for their favourite HCS officers. Hooda made his own enquiries and came to know why this post is the most sought after. He decided at that time to make systematic changes so that no officer should seek this post. Certain changes were made in the procedures and systems, but the results were not to the desired level. The government decided to resort to surgery. The post of DTO was abolished and its work was entrusted to SDMs of subdivisions. The government had hoped that since the SDMs would have smaller area to operate, the scale of corruption would be down. Moreover, since the SDMs are under the direct control of deputy commissioners in the districts, the government thought there would be better supervision on them. But the SDMs, who have to look after various hordes of work like revenue cases, licenses of various sorts and law and order, felt overburdened when they were asked to perform the duties of the DTOs also in their respective subdivisions. They had no time to stand on roadside to challan defaulting vehicles. As a result, the transport department failed to meet its financial targets. Ultimately, the government decided to revive the post but with the old nomenclature of SRTA. From the list of those who have been appointed SRTAs, sources in the bureaucracy say, it is apparent that the Chief Minister, who is the final authority in the matter of posting and transfers of senior officers in the state, has not gone by political recommendations but by the reputation of the officers. It is now for these officers not to let their Chief Minister down.
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Work begins on Sonepat mini-secretariat building
Sonepat, November 10 It also took more than two years to commence the work after Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda laid the foundation stone of the block in September 2006. According to the construction plan, the total covered area of the block would be of around 10,000 sq m, including ground floor area of 2,800 sq m and 2,400 sq m area of other three floors. The construction work, allotted to a Delhi-based company, is likely to be completed within 18 months at an estimated cost of Rs 8.25 crore. The administration has already finalised the list of local offices of the state government departments to be shifted in this building. The offices of tehsildar, district social welfare officer, district treasury officer, bank and a meeting hall would be on the ground floor. The first floor would have the offices of the deputy commissioner, court of the DC, city magistrate, district revenue officer and district public relations officer. The second floor would be used by the offices of the superintendent of police, deputy superintendents of police, subdivisional officer (civil), revenue records and the third floor would have four conference halls and the office of the additional deputy commissioner. The construction of this block would be of a relief to the people as well as most of the public dealing offices would be under one roof and there would also be a better coordination among different departments. The facilities of a judicial complex, two-storey mini-administrative block, litigant sheds, lawyers' chambers, residences of the administrative and judicial officers already exist in the mini-secretariat.
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Job scheme fails to deliver
Fatehabad, November 10 The scheme has proved to be a failure in this district so far. Out of the total 240 villages, the scheme is working only in four to five villages and that too in a lukewarm manner. The scheme had run into rough weather as the work on the preparation of job cards and opening of bank accounts moved at a snail’s pace. However, the authorities later started a special campaign to prepare job cards and work in 30 out of the 240 villages was started in June. But, even in the villages where work was started on time, the momentum could not be maintained and now it has been confined to four-five villages only. “The authorities have already prepared 7,000 job cards and funds for 50 projects have already been released. But if the panchayats are not willing to make the project a success, the authorities cannot help,” said C.G. Rajnikanthan, additional deputy commissioner, Fatehabad. He said out of the Rs 146.52 lakh received for works, only Rs 11.43 lakh could be utilised while out of the Rs 70.36 lakh received for administrative expenses, only Rs 14.70 lakh had been utilised till the end of October. The response is so poor that even the authorities have failed to fathom the reason behind it. On one hand, people have been thronging the government offices for the inclusion of their names in the list of those living below poverty line (BPL), giving inference that there is unemployment in the area, while on the other, there are no takers for a scheme like NREGA that provides job guarantee to the rural people. The lack of interest shown by sarpanchs, panchayat secretaries and people in general is said to be the reason behind the failure, maintain sources. The sources say since all payments under this scheme are transacted through bank accounts of the beneficiaries, very few sarpanches and panchayat secretaries have shown interest in this scheme, as it leaves no scope for corruption. The selection of wrong type of works is another reason for the failure of this scheme. Panchayats selected works like digging of ponds in abundance during the monsoon season, which led to the closure of work soon after its start. The beneficiaries of this scheme have shown little interest since nobody approached the authorities for seeking work, maintains ADC Rajnikanthan. The scheme is a much-hyped project of the government, which aims at providing right to work as a guarantee to villagers. As per the scheme, the authorities are bound to provide 100 days of labour work to the villagers, who are willing to do so. The scheme also provides that the authorities will have to provide compensation to those who want to do manual work but are not provided job within 15 days of his demand. The scheme was implemented throughout the country from April 1, 2008, except for the 82 districts of the country, where it came into being as a pilot project in 2006.
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AIDS Awareness
Panchkula, November 10 The train is scheduled to halt at different places from November 14 to 27. It would halt at eight stations (Ambala Cantt on November 14 and 15, Chandigarh 16 and 17, Kurukshetra 18 and 19, Panipat 20, Jind 21, Rohtak 22 and 23, Bhiwani 24, Hisar 25 and Rewari 26 and 27). It would go back to Delhi on December 1, the World AIDS Day, exactly a year after it started its journey when Sonia Gandhi flagged it off on a 9,000 km-long journey across the country with volunteers. The train has seven coaches with the facilities of exhibition, auditorium-cum-conference hall, sleeper coach, office, dining-cum-pantry and an office for counseling and medical services. While three coaches are being used for exhibitions for the display of educational material, primarily on HIV/AIDS, interactive touch screens and 3-D models, the other four coaches are being used for conferences and supporting services. A group of 60 persons could be oriented in one batch with three sessions planned per day. It also has an LCD projector and platform for folk However, in order to create necessary atmosphere, cultural troupes travelling in the train disperse in six groups to the selected villages in the districts, during the halt of the train at the station and undertake performances to disseminate the HIV prevention messages. Each group is scheduled to do four performances every day. The groups return to the coach in the evening as the halt being for one day. However, in other cases the performers stay in the villages and complete their scheduled activities as per route map finalised and return few hours before the train departure.
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Dog squad to fight wildlife crime
Panchkula, November 10 The initiative was floated by the Traffic and Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network, which is engaged in capacity building of various enforcement agencies to tackle ever increasing menace of wildlife crime that is responsible for dwindling tiger, leopard and other endangered wildlife population in India. PCCF Haryana S.K. Dhar said the effort would help in strengthening the capacity of the forest department to search bus terminus, railway stations and airports that were crucial medium of transporting wildlife articles. “It will certainly boost the moral and capacity of the staff to adequately handle wildlife crime” he said. It may be noted that the state’s border with Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand is a major conduit for the transportation of such articles. Poachers hailing from Lodha Basti in Samalkha village, about 20 km from Panipat, are said to be active in Hardwar, Pithoragarh, Bhageshwari and Ranikhet districts of Uttarakhand. Pithoragarh is the main centre for poaching due to the presence of tigers in large numbers. Hundreds of animal skins, including those of tiger, leopard and Indian otter, has been seized from poachers in Samlkha during the recent years. “This was a pilot project and all of us were apprehensive about the outcome. Now that it has been successfully completed, we surely believe that other states will follow the suit, the moment a single case is detected by the dogs,” said coordinator traffic Rahul Dutta and deputy CWLW Malkit Singh, who monitored the training.
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Piloting underprivileged to a better life
Gurgaon, November 10 Capt Indraani Singh, a pilot with Indian Airlines, who started a social initiative to educate underprivileged children in 1996 and now steers a mass movement called Literacy India, is one such person. After making a humble beginning with an effort to educate five children of migrant construction labourers, the movement now covers a wide range of activities ranging from spreading awareness about literacy to ensuring economic empowerment of rural women in and around Gurgaon. As of now, Literacy India runs a school for the children from the lower socio-economic strata at Bajghera village, a stitching-tailoring training centre at Daulatabad village, an educational facility for the rag-pickers at Nev Sarai near Saket (New Delhi), besides several other initiatives to spread educational awareness and financial independence among women. “I had this strong urge to do something for the weaker sections of society ever since I was a child,” says Indraani, who has the proud distinction of being Asia’s first woman airline commander. Daughter of a Bengali mother and Rajput father, Indraani started teaching a few children of migrant labourers at Palam Vihar colony in Gurgaon, where she stayed with her family. Then she roped in some other like-minded people and started a school in a rented building at Chauma village. Gradually, Indraani and her team got a school constructed in Bajghera village, where nearly 600 students are studying at present. The students are charged a nominal fee so that their parents comprehend the significance of education. Thanks to the contributions of a wide network of donors roped in by Indraani, the students get an excellent exposure in various fields of academic, literary and co-curricular activities. While Dell has set up a multimedia lab at the school, theatre personalities like NSD pass-out Shrivardhan Trivedi (Sansani fame) impart theatrical skills on the students. As a result of the fine grooming, a student of this school has acted in Bollywood flick “Omkara”, while five of its students acted in the “Blue Umbrella”. Several others are doing well in their chosen areas, including theatre, graphic art and animation, computer applications and sports. “Presently, I am focusing on a project to bring children engaged in rag-picking and other such jobs under mainstream education,” says Indraani. The world-famous National Basketball Association (NBA) of the USA has sponsored this project of Literacy India. In fact, it was this overwhelming support from donors all over the country as well as abroad that helped Indraani tide over major challenges. “In the end, it is the passion for making a positive difference, coupled with the contentment of having led a meaningful life, which keeps things going,” observes Indraani. No wonder, most girls and women at the institutes run by Literacy India see their perfect role model in her.
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Rare surgery performed
Yamunanagar, November 10 “Sunita Rani of Chachrauli village in the district was brought to our hospital in a very serious condition when she was referred to the PGI, Chandigarh, by some doctors. Considering the impending danger that she might not reach there she was brought to our hospital,” said Dr Aggarwal while addressing press conference here. Giving details, he said after conducting various investigations it was diagnosed that she was harbouring a tumour that had now ruptured. After struggling for eight hours, I successfully removed a cancerous tumour from her abdomen,” he added. “She was having the tumour for the last two years but was trying indigenous medicines. Now after the surgery she is out of danger and will recover soon,” said Dr Aggarwal.
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