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KHANNA Two held for gambling: The Khanna police today booked two people for gambling at Rasulra village in Khanna and Machhiwara. The accused arrested from Rasulra village has been identified as Kehru Khan and Rs 825 was recovered from his possession. Another accused, a resident of Mian Mohalla in Machhiwara, was arrested from the Meat Market of Machhiwara with Rs 825. Both the accused were produced in the court after a case was registered against them at Sadar and Machhiwara police stations. LUDHIANA MALERKOTLA 
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CHANDIGARH IAS couple bereaved: Pragya Mehrotra, daughter of financial commissioner and principal secretary, revenue, Haryana, Feroza Mehrotra and secretary, union department of disinvestment, Vivek Mehrotra, died in England on Saturday, according to information received here on Sunday. Pragya was studying law at Warwick University of England. The Mehrotras have already left for England. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has expressed deep shock and grief over the untimely death of
Pragya.
CHAMBA NAHAN SHIMLA Doctor dedicated to serving rural people Born on June 25,1950 in the family of W.B.Metre, Padma Bhushan, at Nagpur in Maharashtra she had her schooling in Assam and Delhi, MBBS and M.D. (paediatrics) from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. Kshama was moved by pain and agony of people in rural India particularly in the North East when she was there with father. Kshama, who worked in Delhi as consultant till 1985, was inspired by Swami Chinmayananda, a spiritual teacher, to discover her inner wealth through work . On Swami Ji’s inspiration and desire to serve humanity she joined the Chinmaya Rural Primary Health Care and Training Centre at Sidhbari in this district in 1985. Since 1987 she had been leading the Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development (CORD) as national director. She started as resource person for promotion and training self -help groups (SHGs) in Himachal , Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Haryana, in 1997 in collaboration with Nabard She was regional partner for the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled Persons (NCPEDP ) for nine states in northern India. As resource person in collaboration with Nabard since 1997 and with DRDA trained more than 24,000 government officials, bankers and NGO functionaries in Himachal ,Punjab, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand . , Kshama reached 550 villages of 12 blocks of Kangra district of Himachal and few villages in Hamirpur and Chamba districts . She, at the level of CORD, reached Deuldhia and Lathikata in the Orissa state and Tamraipakkam and Siruvani in Tamil Nadu with the Integrated Rural Development Programme. She had been associated with 563 Mahila Mandals, 220 youth clubs besides working for 10,300 members of adolescent girls' groups. She said that working on integration and inclusion of disabled through community-based organisations (CBO) like women groups,youth groups, self- help groups , increasing disabled people’s participation through Chinmaya Umang (forum for disabled persons, their parents, friends and relatives. In rural India she got 1123 toilets built in 550 villages to improve sanitation . In 1993 she was nominated Woman of the Year by "The Week" magazine in India and nominated by the British Council to study Health Management in the U.K. In 2002 she received National Women's Commission Award for women's empowerment . Last year she was nominated member of the Steering Committee of the 11th Planning Commission (Primary Health Care), Government of India, for 2007 to 2012. She was awarded Padma Shree this year by government of India for her service to rural women.. Propagating judicious use of water Krishan Kumar, lauded Bhangu for spreading awareness among people, especially students, about judicious use of natural resources like water and preventing pollution of air and soil. "To inculcate habits of preserving environment among the students is the need of the hour and teachers can play vital role in it', said Kumar . He assured the book would be approved for libraries in schools. It is Bhangu’s third book. His other two books are, " A Wake up Call to Save Environment" and " Life Skills- the Art of Living". Bhangu has expressed grave concern over pollution of environment and ecological imbalance in his writings. " Water is something so vital for life on this planet. Its absence would mean end of entire life on earth. It has been depleting with each passing day as such we are at a stage from where something pro-active needs to be done ensuring no further loss of it. Though , we do talk of water depletion but the force with which such a situation should be faced is failing to get shape" lamented Bhangu adding the book " In Search of Water" is an effort to make it a a subject of debate among people to save each and every drop of water for life on the planet. The picture accompanying the item headlined,
“Cremating unclaimed bodies with dignity”, published in these columns on November 24 was of not that of Raju Charya. The correct photograph is here. The error is regretted. Contributed by Ashok Raina and Parmod
Bharti
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Dr Kshama Metre, national director, Chinmaya Organisation , has been providing primary health care in rural areas for two decades through NGOs. She was awarded Padma Shree for this.
Director-general, school education, Punjab, Krishan Kumar, recently released " In Search of Water' , a book by Narinder Kumar Bhangu, school lecturer, in Nawanshahr district, in his office in Chandigarh. 
Clarification