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Delhi nursery admission age fixed at four years
MCD member shows communal amity
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DU students protest 'unfair result'
Malhotra remanded in 9-day judicial custody
Helpline launched for women passengers
Mayor to award 100 municipal teachers
Safety convention to begin from Sept 5
Eight dacoits held
School refuses admission to child with disability
Couple held for kidnapping
Teachers for poll duty: Verdict reserved
Accommodation scheme for tourists
JNU plans to spread wings to SAARC countries
Betting racket busted, one held
Haryana to offer 10,000 rooms for Games
Strict action against power thieves: L-G
NDMC official gets RI for bribe
Renowned scientist Mitra passes away
Freshers' party held
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Delhi nursery admission age fixed at four years
New Delhi, September 3 The Delhi cabinet in its meeting decided that the minimum age norm for the nursery admission would be binding on all schools in the Capital, and the class one admission criterion would be applicable to all government schools, an official statement said. Last month, the Delhi High Court refused to consider the city government's request to change the cut-off age for nursery admissions from three years to three-and-a-half years. The court asked an expert committee to discuss the issue with the education department of the Delhi government. The Delhi government also decided to depute security guards at all government schools in the city following a recent revelation of a teacher's alleged involvement in forcing girl students into prostitution. Uma Khurana, a mathematics teacher at the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in Darya Ganj in central Delhi, provoked wrath of a mob at the school last week when a private TV news channel telecast video clippings purportedly showing her involvement in a pornography and prostitution racket. — IANS
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MCD member shows communal amity
New Delhi, September 3 The residents thanked the councillor for his gesture. The event concluded with a beautiful display of fireworks.
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DU students protest 'unfair result'
New Delhi, September 3 "We have sat down on a relay hunger strike because of this ridiculous result. Over 65% students from across DU have flunked the exam. We worked hard for the papers and are not going to take this lying down," said Abhijit. He added that students had a meeting with the vice-chancellor who assured them that he would look into the matter. However, no action was taken subsequently. "The response to our request by the committee members is very negative. We want justice. We have begun this relay hunger strike and intend to keep the protest going till talks are held with the V-C and the committee members," Abhijit said. Two students from ARSD College, one from DDU and one from Shyam Lal College sat down on the strike on Monday. |
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Malhotra remanded in 9-day judicial custody
New Delhi, September 3 Allowing CBI’s plea, special judge S.K. Kaushik remanded Malhotra to judicial custody till September 12. Malhotra moved an application stating that he was apprehending danger to his life and sought security both inside and outside the jail. The court directed the Tihar jail superintendent to ensure Malhotra’s safety. Whenever he is sent from Tihar jail to Tis Hazari lock up, he should be kept separately, it said. Meanwhile, the interim bail application of Malhotra would come up for hearing on September 7, as his counsel D.C. Mathur was not present in the court today. The other accused in the land scam case, in judicial custody were, Phillip Toppo, Arun Kumar Mishra, both were deputy directors in the MCD and, assistant director Jeet Ram Gaur.—PTI
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Helpline launched for women passengers
New Delhi, September 3 She also urged the drivers to voluntarily observe speed restrictions while driving on roads. She was speaking in a function organized to launch Helpline Phone Service No. 52555 and 9971755555 and inaugurate a comprehensive training programme for DTC drivers and conductors. Transport minister Haroon Yusuf, chairman and managing director, DTC, Anshu Prakash and a large number of DTC drivers and conductors were present on the occasion. Dikshit added that the new training programme would bring awareness amongst DTC drivers and conductors to deal with women, old people and physically challenged persons. They would be imparted practical training to understand the difficulties being faced by these categories of passengers. An NGO, Jagori, along with DTC, is striving for safety in the buses. Women passengers would be able to dial helpline numbers in case of any problem. The complaints received through the helpline would be properly addressed and monitored. The All India Confederation of Blind has been requested to provide input and suggestions in case of difficulties faced by blind passengers in city buses. Dikshit exhorted the DTC bus drivers to voluntarily observe speed restrictions to curb accidents on roads. She instructed CMD DTC to establish a new upgraded training centre with a driving track for the drivers.
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Mayor to award 100 municipal teachers
New Delhi, September 3 Deputy Mayor, S.S. Bajwa; chairperson, standing committee, Vijender Gupta; leader of the house, Subhash Arya; leader of the opposition, Jai Kishan Sharma will also attend the function. Chairperson of the education committee Prithvi Raj Sawhney, will preside over the function. Municipal commissioner Ashok Kumar Nigam will also be present. Municipal teachers will present a cultural programme on the occasion. Sawhney informed that awards would be given to 100 teachers, who were selected from a total of about 18,000 teachers, at various stages. For each stage, a committee was constituted. After these stages, the best 100 teachers are to be awarded. Out of these 100 teachers, 20 are headmasters. While, 72 are general teachers, five nursery teachers, a physical, music and art teacher. This year, out of 100 award recipient teachers, 66 are female. Municipal teachers are honoured with a cash prize of Rs 5,000 a recommendation certificate and a memento. Sawhney further informed that the MCD was imparting primary education to 9.55 lakh students between the age group of 5-11 years, through the chain of its 1,799 municipal primary schools, 45 aided schools and 725 recognised schools, with the help of more than 18,000 teachers. He said that to generate interest and awareness for studies among students, they are provided with free cooked meal, textbooks, uniforms and jerseys. He claimed that the municipal teachers are trained in its in-service teachers training institute. Recently, learning through computers has also been introduced, which is being extended to all municipal primary schools in a phased manner.
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Safety convention to begin from Sept 5
New Delhi, September 3 The union heavy industry minister, Kanti Singh will inaugurate the convention. "The convention aims at focussing on issues related to the safety and quality and advising the government, state and local bodies on steps necessary to ensure safety in engineering aspects in various fields including, construction, mining, transport, power and industries," said Dr G.S.Yadava, chairperson, Institute of Engineers, Delhi. |
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Eight dacoits held
New Delhi, September 3 Last evening, police received an information that the accused had gathered in a park in Inderpuri. The group had allegedly come to plan a crime. Following a tip off, the police team surrounded the alleged dacoits and asked them to surrender. Instead of surrendering, they opened fire on the police. However, they were arrested after a brief scuffle. |
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School refuses admission to child with disability
New Delhi, September 3 According to Social Jurist advisor Ashok Agarwal, a few years back, the committee had taken up the issue on denial of admission to the children with disabilities at Jahangirpuri. "It was resolved that no MCD school would refuse admission to any child with disability. And if any child with disability is denied admission, strict action would be taken against the principal of the school concerned. But despite the resolution, MCD schools are still refusing admission to the children with disabilities," he said. Giving what he termed as a "classic example of insensitiveness on the part of the school", he said an 11-year-old Syaid Umar with moderate mental retardation has been denied admission by MCD Primary School in Begum Pur Village. "After we came to know that the school has been refusing admission to the children with disabilities, I visited the school on August 25 and requested the in-charge of the school to grant admission to Syaid. The in-charge and some other teachers started pleading that they were unable to handle mentally retarded children in the absence of a special teacher and an attendant in the school," Social Jurist advisor Ashok Agarwal said. Later, they agreed to admit Syaid provided he produced medical certificate that he was within the 'educable category', he added. 'Education Volunteer' Santosh Singh agreed to procure the medical certificate. The child was examined by National Institute of Mentally Handicapped, New Delhi, and the institute issued certificate on August 29 that the child had Moderate Mental Retardation with I.Q.45. "When Santosh Singh approached the school again on September 1 and requested for admission, he was told by the in-charge that the last date of admission had expired on August 31 and the school could not grant admission. It is also interesting to note that August 31 was a holiday," Agarwal pointed out. He said the constitutional mandate is that all children up to age of 14 years should compulsorily be in school. "If it is so, where the question of expiry of date of admission arises? However, in this case, the child's parents with the help of Santosh Singh had been approaching the school for the past two months but the admission was not granted." The NGO has now requested Gupta to take appropriate action in this matter and also ensure that in future no child is denied admission by any MCD school "on flimsy grounds like birth certificate, medical certificate, residential proof and expiry of date of admission".
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Couple held for kidnapping
Faridabad, September 3 Salman, grandson of Abid Hussain, a resident of Basawa Colony, was kidnapped by his tenants, Vijay and his wife, Seema, on August 27. The boy was later kept in detention at Rattanpura in Dhaulpur, Rajasthan, at the residence of Ramcharan, brother-in-law of Vijay. The kidnapper had asked the relatives of Salman to had over a sum of Rs 25 for his release at Gola Mandir in Gwalior. According to the district police chief, the police rescued Salman in Rattanpura and arrested Ramcharan and Seema from the spot.
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Teachers for poll duty: Verdict reserved
New Delhi, September 3 The apex court will decide the issue while delivering its verdict on an appeal by the Election Commission, challenging a 2004 ruling of the Delhi High Court, banning deployment of schoolteachers for election-related duties. The verdict was reserved Friday by a bench of Justices S.B. Sinha and H.S. Bedi after conclusion of arguments by the poll panel, which requested the apex court to lift the ban. The High Court had banned deploying schoolteachers in election duties, including the revision of electoral rolls, which continues round the year and year after year. The High Court had given its verdict on a petition by St Mary's School, contending that asking teachers to do poll duties as also to carry out census operations adversely affects studies in schools. The poll panel urged the apex court to reverse the High Court ruling saying that if the age-old practice of using government schoolteachers was discontinued, the poll body would face a severe logistic problem and manpower crunch in carrying out the gigantic exercise critical to Indian democracy. A battery of senior advocates, including senior counsel K.K. Venugopal, Election Commission counsel Minaxi Arora and Election Commission legal consultant and its former principal secretary S.K. Mendirata told the bench that various statutory provisions, including the Representation of the People Act, 1950 and 1951, mandate the commission to deploy various government officials including government schoolteachers for election-related duties. Arora said it was in public interest to "reconcile the conflicting situations" to protect the interest of students along with the commission's efforts to hold "effective elections". She contended that the High Court was wrong in imposing a blanket ban on the utilisation of services of schoolteachers as both school buildings and schoolteachers form an essential logistical and manpower ingredient in conduct of elections. She said the commission could not have any objection to the High Court order had it given some leverage to the panel in deciding to deploy teachers during non-teaching hours or weekends. She sought to assure the apex court bench that the poll panel would "try as far as possible" to deploy teachers during non-teaching hours and weekends. "But outright banning the use of their services for poll duties was wrong,"
said Arora.—IANS |
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Accommodation scheme for tourists
New Delhi, September 3 After inaugurating the scheme, Dikshit termed it as an endeavour in the direction of meeting the shortage of tourist accommodation in the city in the 2010 Games. Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna has passed an ordinance for this. "The scheme comes at a time, when in coming years, there is likely to be an influx of tourists in the city for the 2010 Commonwealth Games," Dikshit observed. She said that the bread and the breakfast scheme aimed at providing an affordable accommodation to foreign tourists, who visited the city, which was the venue of several international conferences, seminars and festivals, as well as to those, who made a private visit to the Capital. "It will be a boon for those, who do not have any corporate or institutional support to back them and are looking for a family atmosphere during their stay here. The guests will experience the tradition and warmth that Indians are famous for," Dikshit said. The bed and breakfast (registration and regulation) ordinance 2007 allows people, who intend to offer their house to guests, through a system of registration by a prescribed authority. The condition is that there should be adequate space to house the guests. The owner should be able to provide quality food prepared in hygienic conditions and proper sleeping arrangements to the guests. A classification committee of the Delhi government will inspect and evaluate the services to be provided, after which the prescribed authority will grant registration to the owner. Once the property is registered, it will be included in the list of bread and breakfast director of the Delhi government, which will then be available on Delhi tourism's website. Speaking on the occasion, state tourism minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said, "With today's launch, Delhi has become the first state in the country to bring an ordinance on the bread and breakfast scheme. A legislation in this regard will be brought in the Assembly soon." The minister added that the implementation of the scheme would meet the shortage of tourist accommodation in the city and would generate employment. ''The distinct advantage of this scheme is that the owner of the accommodation will not have to undertake any marketing effort to sell the space in his property. The government will market the space. Other advantages are that one does not have to pay any vat or luxury tax.
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JNU plans to spread wings to SAARC countries
New Delhi, September 3 "We want to attract students from all over the world to study in our university. Hence we are planning to open our entrance examination centres in Pakistan, and consecutively in all the SAARC countries soon," H.B. Bahidar, chief proctor of JNU, told IANS. As of now, JNU has its examination centres in three South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries--Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The SAARC has eight countries as members-- India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan. This initiative of JNU will help aspiring students from India's SAARC neighbours to appear for the entrance examination in their own countries and then come here to pursue studies. The proposal, however, is yet to be given a green signal by the academic council of the university. "These plans will first have to be agreed upon by the academic council of the university. Once that happens, we will start opening the centres in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the rest of the SAARC countries, one by one," Bahidar said. Bahidar said that the university gets a good number of overseas students, with those from Bangladesh topping the list. "Many students from Sri Lanka also come to the university to pursue studies in Buddhism," he said. The varsity also has plans to open an entrance centre in Bahrain to attract expatriate Indians from the Gulf region. "We do not have a centre in the Gulf countries. The centre in Bahrain will help aspiring expatriate Indians to appear for the test and pursue studies with us," Bahidar said.—IANS
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Betting racket busted, one held
New Delhi, September 3 An information about the racket was received yesterday. Following a tip off, a decoy customer was sent to check the culprit's house. A deal was clinched between Manish and the decoy customer. As soon as the accused received the money, a raid was conducted and Manish was nabbed. The items used in the functioning of the racket, including a television set.
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Haryana to offer 10,000 rooms for Games
New Delhi, September 3 Haryana tourism minister Kiran Chaudhary today told an IATO convention that in view of the Games, her department would upgrade its complexes near the Capital. Chaudhary said that emphasis was being laid on connecting all important tourism destinations with good roads. She said that the government had set up a network of 44 tourist complexes in the state.
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Strict action against power thieves: L-G
New Delhi, September 3 Individuals indulging in such an illegal activity are warned to refrain from carrying out the theft of power, failing which they will be subjected to stringent punishment, as per the Electricity Act, 2003 (amended in 2007). Those engaged in the nefarious activity of power theft will not only be penalised, but would also be put bars.
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NDMC official gets RI for bribe
New Delhi, September 3 Corruption is like cancer. If not detected in time, it will surely lead the country to disastrous consequences, special judge S.K. Kaushik said while convicting former sanitary inspector of NDMC, Jai Bhagwan, under Sections 7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. According to the prosecution, Bhagwan, 50, had abused his position and demanded a bribe of Rs 200 from Ram Singh, for permitting him to sell boiled eggs in front of Charat Palika Hospital in Moti Bagh on January 15, 1999. The Delhi police's anti-corruption branch arrested Bhagwan, while he was taking the bribe from Singh, who had lodged a complaint earlier.
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Renowned scientist Mitra passes away
New Delhi, September 3 A climate scientist of repute, he worked last as a professor in the Department of Radio Atmospheric Science at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) here. Mitra served as the director of NPL from 1982-86 and held the prestigious position as the director of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) from 1986-91. "He never retired in life. A beacon light for every scientist in India and abroad, Mitra sir brought fresh ideas for the development of science," said M.K. Tiwari, head of the NPL's department of radio atmospheric science. "He was senior to us and I feel privileged to have worked with him. He is a name to reckon with both in India and aboard," Tiwari told IANS. Born in Kolkata on February 21, 1927 to a schoolteacher, Mitra got his education there. He inculcated academic values from his father. He was a brilliant student. After obtaining master's degree in Physics from Kolkata University, he joined S.K. Mitra, the doyen of ionospheric research in India, for his doctorate, at a time that was considered the golden era of Indian ionospheric science. Besides being bestowed with several awards, Mitra has over 200 research publications and numerous books to his credit. He guided over 20 Ph.D students. Mitra joined the NPL in 1954 and his early work involved earth's near-space environment, with ground-based and space techniques.
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Freshers' party held
New Delhi, September 3 The party provided an opportunity to freshers and seniors to interact. The event, which has been a tradition since 2000, marks the formal beginning of a new life for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Institute. The event aims at developing the individual skills of students. Some freshers admitted that they did not participate in extra-curricular activities in school, but were excited to participate and perform at the college level. On this occasion, 'Mr and Miss Fresher' were also chosen.
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