DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2016 (PAGE 7)

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Jan 16:Ellaquai Dehati Bank Officers'Association (EDBOA),Srinagar, has expressed seri-ous concern over the instruc-tions issued by the StateGovernment that the migrantsof the State shall open theiraccounts in J&K Bank only forthe disbursement of the relieffund.

The issue was raised dur-ing a meeting of the associa-tion with customers, held heretoday. President of the associ-ation, MK Raina, said that ear-lier such instruction wasissued for the Governmentemployees of the State withregard to disbursement ofsalaries.

He wondered how suchincubus orders are issuedwhen all banks are governedby the Reserve Bank of Indiaby laws and eventuallybelongs to the public sectorundertakings and not theState Government undertak-ings.

Raina said that the StateGovernment always demoral-izes the morale of the rest ofthe financial institutions byissuing such discriminatoryorders and thus posing prob-lems to the public.

The meeting decided totake up the matter with thehigher authorities and withother financial institutions inthe State and hoped that theState Government will revertback the status.

JKAACL organizesmulti-lingual poetic meetExcelsior Correspondent

KATHUA, Jan 16: Jammuand Kashmir Academy of Art,Culture and Languages inassociation with Triveni KalaKunj, Kathua, organizedmulti-lingual Mushaira inRajiv Gandhi College ofEducation, Kathua.

R K Sharma, ProgrammeExecutive, All India Radio,Kathua, and a senior poet,presided whereas PankajDogra, Chairman of theCollege, was chief guest onthe occasion. Besides, AshokGupta, Editor Dogri, JKAA-CL, Dr Usha Monga, presi-dent and Vijay Sharma, gener-al secretary of Triveni KalaKunj, were also present in thepresidium.

The poets who recitedtheir poetry, included DrUsha Monga, Vijay Sharma,Sanjay Sehgal, Sham LalKhajuria, Shashi PalKhajuria, Rajesh Kumar,Daleep Singh Savan, HazooraSingh, Ramesh Singh Galoch,Balak Ram Mehra, AjaySharma, Kuldeep Kippi, DayaRam Daya, Raj Kumar andDr Sunita Bhadwal whileSonali, Manju and Savita ofthe college also participatedin the Mushaira.

On this occasion, a booktitled “Lala Jagat Narayan” atranslated version in Dogri

was also released. The book,in question, was originally inHindi consisting of lifeaspects of Lala Jagat Narayanand has been translated intoDogri jointly by Yash PalNirmal, a Sahitya AkademiAwardee and Dr SunitaBhadwal, a renowned poetessof Dogri.

Delivering presidentialaddress, R K Sharma appreci-ated the J&K CulturalAcademy, which has gearedup its activities not only inthe cities but also the remoteand border areas. He alsocomplimented Triveni KalaKunj for taking sincere effortsin organizing such literaryprogrammes.

Earlier, Pankaj Dogra saidthat such type of activities notonly encourage the studentsbut also help in pruning theirall round development. Hefurther requested theAcademy to organize suchtype of programmes in futurealso.

The programme startedwith the welcome addressdelivered by Vijay Sharma,general secretary of TriveniKala Kunj.

The proceedings of theprogramme were conductedby Dr Rattan Basotra, Asstt.Editor, and vote of thanks waspresented by Ashok Gupta,Editor Dogri, JKAACL.

Residents project demandsExcelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 16: The residents of Panchayat Halqa Jar, Paddar,district Kishtwar was held under the chairmanship of SarpanchMool Raj Rathore, in which panchayat members and sarpanchstook part.

During the meeting, various problems being faced by the resi-dents of Paddar were discussed, which included power failure,drinking water scarcity, opening of Degree College, opening ofdispensaries, execution of the identified roads under PMGSY, etc.

The participants appealed to the concerned authorities toredress the issues on priority basis.

Among others present were Nand Lal, Sarpanch Lingri, SonamDorjay, ex-board member ST, Reshi Parihar, senior leader NC,Mohan Lal, Bodh Raj Chesoti, Mainder Singh Rana, etc.

Mentor workshop organizedby SSA concludes

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 16: A six dayworkshop for DistrictCoordinators and ResourceTeachers for Children withSpecial Needs (CWSN) con-cluded today.

The workshop was conduct-ed under Inclusive Education(IE) component of SarvaShiksha Abhiyan (SSA) with aview to enriching the DistrictCoordinators and ResourceTeachers with the latest system-atic tools and techniques oftraining children with variousdisabilities such as CerebralPalsy, Mental Retardation andAutism Spectrum Disorder inthe age group of 6-14 years. Thevaledictory function was chairedby Saugat Biswas, State ProjectDirector, SSA / RMSA.

There are 24343 childrenwith special needs enrolled invarious schools of the State.Thedisabilities include low vision,blindness, hearing impairment,speech impairment, orthopedicimpairment, mental retardation,multiple disabilities, cerebralpalsy, learning disability andautisms spectrum disorder.

The School EducationDepartment through 74 resourcerooms, which have been estab-lished by SSA across the Stateare manned by ResourceTeachers and DistrictCoordinators. These resourcerooms are equipped with variousaids and appliances for the sup-port of the CWSN. Eighteen

District Coordinators and 17Resource Teachers participatedin the six day workshop. Apartfrom State Level ResourcePersons,Urfana Amin, RafiqReshi and Taha Tufail, specialexperts Dr.Suman Agarwal,Ms.Pooja Thapliyal andMs.Preeti Siwach were invitedfrom outside the State.

Dr.SumanAggarwal andPooja Thapliyal, experts from"Sarthak",New Delhi trained theparticipants regarding the diffi-culties and acceptance of cere-bral palsy and mentally retardedchildren apart from curriculumadaptation and behaviour modi-fication. The experts shared thetechniques to teach CP and MRchildren with the participants.

Preeti Siwach from "Actionfor Autism", New Delhi, sensi-tized the Resource Teachers andDistrict Coordinators regardingAutism Spectrum Disorderamong the children, difficultiesfaced by them, their acceptancein society and classroom situa-tions apart from behaviourmodification and teachingstrategies.

On the concluding day,Saugat Biswas, State ProjectDirector, SSA/RMSA tookdetailed review and feedbackabout the problems faced inimplementation of the compo-nent in the field from the DistrictCoordinators and the ResourceTeachers. The SPD assured thatthe various problems that havecome to light, shall be addressedin the near future.

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 16: DistrictLevel Task Force Committeemeeting under Prime MinisterEmployment GenerationProgramme (PMEGP) was heldunder the chairpersonship ofSheetal Nanda, DeputyCommissioner Samba. In themeeting, 19 project proposals forestablishment of employmentgenerating ventures viz mfg ofbrooms/floor wipers, cement tiles,steel fabrication, boutique, dhaba,brass band etc having the projectcost of Rs 1.31 crores werecleared/ approved for sponsoringto different bank branches inDistrict Samba for sanction.

The meeting was attended byKrishan Lal, GM DistrictIndustries Centre Samba, , EOMunicipality Samba, bankers andother committee members.Besides these, the meeting wasalso attended by Romesh Chanderand Mohd Bashir ,SarpanchPanchayat halqas Badheri andPurmandal as members on behalfof panchayati Raj Institutions.

Woman protesters injuredduring anti-PDD protest

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Jan 16:Several woman protesters wereinjured after police used forceagainst anti-Power Develo-pment Department protesters atBrein locality of Nishat area onthe outskirts of summer capital.

Scores of residents, mostlywoman, took to streets at Breinand staged protest against PDDover installing insulated powerlines in the area to preventpower-pilferage.

As the protest grew strong,the police rushed to the spot andurged protesters to disperse butthe latter refused after whichcops resorted to baton chargeand teargas shelling, triggeringclashes between two sides.

Reports said the policeaction left several womeninjured while one of them wasshifted to hospital for treatment.The situation in the area wastense when reports last came inwhile a large contingent ofpolice was deployed in the areato maintain order.

Party holds rally at Bishnah

Opposition misleading people: BJPExcelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 16:Highlighting the people-centricand pro-development schemesand projects launched by BJPled NDA Government at theCentre, Member of Parliament& former State president of theparty Jugal Kishore Sharma,while addressing public gather-ing at Bishnah under "VikasSushasan Sankalp Rallies, saidthat for the first time the peopleare feeling that a stable, strongand transparent Government isthere at the centre.

He said that the belief of themasses is getting stronger witheach passing day as the newworks being initiated by it arethe beginning towards a selfsufficient, well developednation, where women, youth,farmers, border people, ex-ser-vicemen, down trodden, all feelthat each one of them is beingincluded in the scheme of thingsof NDA.

He said that recruitmentdrive for border youth, provi-sion of five marla plots for bor-der people at safer places andPradhanmantri Fasal BimaScheme are few path breakinginitiatives of the Union govern-ment. He informed the gather-ing that the Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh will beapproached to visit the borderareas for on the spot assessmentof the situation and the prob-lems being faced by them.

Former State President &

MLC Ashok Khajuria said thatit is most unfortunate that theleaders of opposition partiescannot see the development andwelfare schemes but keep mis-leading the people on false,baseless propaganda. He saidthat these parties must changetheir mindset and make it ahabit to digest the realities andappreciate the government forits sincere efforts towardsdevelopment and good gover-nance.

Former Minister & MLAChander Parkash Ganga saidthat the BJP in the State hadgone to the people with thepromise of good governance,development and ending cor-ruption and during our 10month government, there wasnot even a single case of corrup-tion, work culture was intro-

duced and various schemesmeant for welfare of commonpeople were launched. He saidthat the developmental activi-ties will continue to be under-taken and asked the people toavail the benefits of welfareschemes.

Ex-MLA Ashwani Sharmasaid that Bishnah Constituencyhas been getting due care andattention by the BJP and theparty MP and ministers in previ-ous Coalition Government did alot for development of its areas.

This public rally was organ-ised District PresidentBrijeshwar Rana.

The gathering was alsoaddressed by Brijeshwar Rana,Madal Presidents Ramesh Sainiand Naryan Sharma, H.S.Pummy, Vijay Saini and LocalSarpanches.

BJP leaders at a rally at Bishnah on Saturday.

CRPF organises educational tourunder Civic Action ProgrammeExcelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 16: The 06 BnCRPF, deployed for security ofShri Mata Vaishno Devi, Katra,organised an educational excur-sion "Bharat Dharsan" underCivic Action Programme from3rd to 14th of January, 2016, fora group of 43 students and 3teachers belonging to remotestvillage Kanjli.

During the tour, the studentsvisited various sites of national,historical and cultural impor-tance besides meeting seniorofficials and dignitaries.Besides, the students and teach-ers toured Punjab, Delhi, UttarPradesh and Rajasthan andstayed at CRPF camps atJalandar, Delhi, Mathura, Agraand Jaipur respectively.

The tour provided an oppor-tunity to the students and teach-ers as well to meet and interactwith Dr. Jitender Singh,Minister of State, PMO, KirenRijuju, Minister of State forHome Affairs and PrakashMishra, DG CRPF.

Apart from meeting digni-taries and senior officials, the

students and teachers had anopportunity of sightseeing andvisiting various sites of nationaland historical importance likeRashtrapati Bhawan at NewDelhi, Parliament House, CgoComplex Lodhi Road, IndiaGate, Red Fort, Humayun'sTomb, Qutub Minar,Akshardham Mandir, LotusTemple, Kingdom of Dreams,Lord Krishna's birthplace atMathura, Masjid, RaghunathMandir, Prem Mandir, Agra FortAt Agra, Tajmahal, FatehpurSikri, Hawamahal at Jaipur,Jantar- Mantar, Amer Fort,Albert Hall,Birla Mandir, etc.

The tour was flagged off,earlier, by Dr. M. K. Kumar,Addl CEO SMVDSB, Katra.

On completion of tour, thestudents and staff were receivedby Sunil Kumar, Commandant06 Bn CRPF at BnHeadquarters, Yogashram Katra.

Following the reception, thestudents had interaction withsenior officials M. C. Panwar,DIG, CRPF, Kootah, SunilKumar, Commandant 06 BnCRPF, Surjit Kumar, SSP Reasi,and other officials of battalion.

EDBOA’s concern over Govt instructionsto migrants on account opening

DC Samba chairs DLTFCmeeting under PMEGP