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Monday, Apr 25, 2005

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Disability

NEW DELHI : To discuss the issue of the need for trained manpower to cater to the requirements of persons with disabilities in South Asian countries, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and the Rehabilitation Council of India are organising a two-day "International Conference on Human Resource Development in the Area of Disability Rehabilitation" in the Capital from Monday.

Representatives from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and India will take part in the conference. The event provides participants an opportunity to exchange experiences, materials, and technologies and identify areas of bilateral and multilateral linkages in the field of disability.

Job quota

NEW DELHI : The BJP Councillor and Member of the MCD's Standing Committee, Vijender Gupta, has alleged that the Delhi Government was planning to scrap the job quota in its schools reserved for the municipal school teachers. The quota was formed by virtue of an agreement signed in 1970 between the Delhi Government and the MCD at the time of transferring of the municipal senior secondary and middle schools to the State Government.

Under the agreement, every year hundreds of MCD primary school teachers are appointed in the middle and senior secondary schools on seniority basis. He has warned of an agitation against the Delhi Government and the Congress if the MCD teachers' quota in the government schools was reduced or withdrawn.

Eye camp

NEW DELHI : A free eye camp would be organised jointly by the Tarun Mitra Parishad and Mitra Sangam Delhi at Tagore Public School here on April 27 in which patients would be administered treatment, given medicines and lenses.

According to a Parishad's release, the medical team of St. Stephen's Hospital would check eye patients and select them for cataract operations at their hospital.

The president of the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Harsh Vardhan, would be the chief guest at the eye camp, while the manager of Tagore Public School, Chander Kant Arora, would preside over the function.

Illicit liquor

NEW DELHI : Two persons were arrested for allegedly supplying illicit liquor in the Capital on the eve of Mahavir Jayanti which was declared as a dry day, police said today. Sheesh Pal and his younger brother Raju were arrested by Delhi police on April 22 near Tigri More in north-west Delhi while entering the city from Haryana border, police said adding 11 cartons of liquor of Haryan excise was allegedly recovered from their possession.

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