Ludhiana: The Punjab State Commission For Protection of Child Rights has written a letter to secretary, Punjab School Education Board; secretary, CBSE; all the district education officers of the districts and deputy commissioners, recommending conducting examinations via offline and online mode for Classes IX and XI after taking consent of parents.
Ludhiana figures among leading districts from where a significant number of students have tested positive for Covid-19 soon after the schools reopened.
The letter said, “The academic year 2020-2021 was very badly affected by Covid-19. All schools and institutions were trying to provide education through online mode. In the month of February, the government decided to reopen the schools with the option of imparting education online and offline mode with the consent of parents. Now, as the examination of all the classes are approaching, it has come to the notice of the commission that the examination of classes IX to XII be conducted v
Ludhiana: A day ahead of the strike called by traders and shopkeepers associated with the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), the movement has .
Ludhiana: In an unusual complaint, a member of Lodhi Club has now demanded that those candidates contesting elections of the club should be disqualified who are sending bulk SMS, Whatsapp messages to him seeking vote as it is leading to mental harassment to receive so many messages daily from them.
In his complaint sent to the Varinder Kumar Sharma, club president-cum-DC, complainant Rohit Sabharwal, who is also an RTI activist, has said, “The elections of the Lodhi Club are scheduled to be held on March 7 and due to these upcoming elections I am receiving SMS and Whatsapp messages in bulk from various candidates on my mobile number, asking me to vote for them in the elections, which is annoying and harassing. I know for whom I will vote, so it will be appreciable if the other candidates do not bother me.”
Ludhiana: In a unique step aimed at helping the drug dependents to lead a normal life by bringing them into the mainstream, the district administration has directed 50 officials of various departments to identify 10 drug dependants each, or 500 such persons in all, to provide them job opportunities through skill development or other training programmes.
Presiding over a meeting in Bachat Bhawan, Ludhiana deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said the state government has launched ‘Mission Red sky’ to save the state’s youth from drug abuse by skilling them and providing them placements.
He said that under this mission, each of the 50 officials would identify 10 drug dependents, who are getting treatment from Out Patient Opioid Assisted Treatment (OOAT) Centres and provide job opportunities to them by enhancing their capabilities through skill development/ training programmes at the District Bureau of Employment and Enterprises (DBEE), so that they can earn a livelihood l
Ludhiana: In what could be termed as good news for street vendors who are unable to arrange funds to meet their working capital requirements, they will now be able to avail a loan of Rs 10,000 under the Atam Nirbhar Nidhi Scheme of the central government. The state government is now encouraging the vendors to take benefit of this scheme and for this purpose special camps in banks in Ludhiana and other cities have been planned by the government.
On Wednesday, DC Varinder Kumar Sharma appealed to the street vendors of Ludhiana to take benefit of the scheme of the Centre. Giving more information, he said, “Street vendors can easily avail loan to the extent of Rs 10,000 under the Prime Minister street vendor’s Atam Nirbhar Nidhi Scheme. On the directions of chief secretary Vini Mahajan, we will organise special camps in the banks to receive the applications from the street vendors every Saturday, for which the instructions have already been issued to all branch managers of the bank