Broom making training for special children

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issues,” he says. Exposure and abandonment of children
by parents or others is a cognisable offence in India and
the guilty is punishable under section 317 and section
491 of Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Act carries a maximum jail term of 7 years. But, there is a catch.
It’s a bailable offence. “Even if police arrest a person
red handed, he can easily walk away on bail. Looking at
circumstances, we need a stronger law,” AK Jain, high
court lawyer, argues. Child rights activists and advocates
believe that bringing such parents to law who leave their
children to die on streets is the need of the hour to check
this malpractice, especially in Rajasthan. Jain says the
reported cases are just the tip of ice-berg. “The irony is
that 90 per cent cases go unreported; in some cases police are unwilling to register a case because it’s very
tough to find any evidence.”
efforts to protect the big cat are on the right track but
there are still more serious efforts needed. He also
showed keen interest in making a movie on tigers and
said that if the government asks him to do so, he will
gladly do it. The veteran actor also expressed his desire
to make a film on legendary wildlife conservationist,
Fateh Singh Rathore. He also mentioned that the relocation of villages was being conducted by the government
up till now, however, corporate and NGOs have also come
forward to play their part in the relocation.
Big B took to twitter to express how he felt in the lap
of nature. “A veranda, thatched roof, an angan, a charpoy,
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The TTD was virtually unknown in the Tibetan diaspora.
Their assessment was that the cash that was discovered
was a routine development among the Tibetans residing
in India who did not have any other means to conclude
their land deals. The IB sent across a detailed note claiming that the cash had come in from China through intermediaries in Hong Kong and was being used by the Karmapa to fund espionage activities against the Tibetangovernment-in-exile in Dharmashala.
Matters came to a head when the Karmapa, who was
named as an accused in the case, filed an application
stating that his name be dropped from the case as he did
not have anything to do with the cash.
But the IB, backed by the union Ministry of Home Affairs, stuck to its guns while R&AW was left to fight
a solitary battle in the meetings of the National Intelligence Board (NIB). The NIB is the apex intelligence sharing mechanism in India’s security architecture with the
IB, R&AW chiefs sharing the table with the National Security Adviser (NSA), the foreign secretary and the
home secretary.
The IB felt that the Karmapa and his affiliates had created a maze of organisations that did not have clearance
to receive funds from abroad. The IB argued that the Karmapa had created two organisations, the Saraswati
Charitable trust and the KGT since 2003, concealing the
Tibetan identities of its trustees.
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People help children crossover the muddy path, caused due to incessant rains, on way to
their school, at a Bikaner village, on Saturday.
The channel rubbished Gogoi’s allegations as
‘baseless and unjustified’. A CD containing the
entire footage was submitted to Assam’s director
general of police JN Choudhury. The DGP said
they would further their probe if there was anything substantial and conclusive in the CD.
“The video footage in question was an edited
version and might have been doctored. We’ve
requested chief minister Tarun Gogoi to send it
for a forensic test,” said Electronic Media Forum
Association, Assam president Nava Thakuria. He
said the association would take action against
the journalist if the evidence proved conclusive.
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Broom making training for special children
DNA correspondent
Special kids at workshop on Saturday
A school and a non-governmental organisation came together for mentally-challenged
children to work towards sustainable livelihood and a spirit of camaraderie.
A three-day workshop on broom-making
was organised by Rupayan Sansthan and the
Navjyoti School on the eve of Disability
Awareness Day. The workshop started at
Jodhpur district from Thursday and concluded on Friday. The initiative could provide some of the state’s most vulnerable
children with a path toward a better future.
The workshop organised was as an extension of the broom survey work initiated by
Rupayan’s intern from Foundation for Sus-
tainable Development (FSD) Kevin Nikolaus, Jennifer Jang and in cooperation with
Rupayan research team. The plans and materials for the first three experimental classes are already in place and over the next
week, the programme will be analysed and
improved.
Broom-maker Jitu Kohli from
the Kohli community taught
fundamentals of their craft to
over 10 students and in so doing
pass on the skills for a sustainable livelihood. Jitu belongs to Koli (a broom maker
community) who were originally making
date palm broom, and now making popular
Phul-Jhadu instead of date palm. The material comes from (Assam). Rupayan Sansthan
secretary Kuldeep Kothari said that when
they asked Jitu to work with mentally-challenged children he was happy and hoped
that they would learn the craft very soon.
He added that the benefits are mutual and
will help the mentally-challenged children
truly and give them a spirit of camaraderie.
“It serves as a reminder that
though the mentally-challenged
may learn and behave differently,
they still have a great deal of talent and potential to add to the fabric of our
society. When these students leave Navjyoti they will leave with the ability to make
a life for themselves in a community,” said
CP Sancheti, vice-chancellor, Navjyoti
School.
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the youth,” said Arup Bose who handles publishing at
Srishti. “We have a huge young population, which is not
only English literate but prefers to communicate in English. Also, the rising numbers of young Indian authors
using easy, colloquial language and identifiable situations in their books have played a huge part behind the
boom.” A parallel literary plane had been established and
its celebrities were hitherto unknown names like Ravinder Singh, Karan Bajaj and Amish Tripathi, among others.
The sales figures for their books were substantial enough
for the big guns of Indian publishing to sit up and take
note of popular fiction.
Literary fiction isn’t always a dud and prizes can help
drive up sales. Booker prize winner Aravind Adiga’s Last
Man in Tower, yet to be released as a paperback, reportedly sold 25,000 copies within months of its launch.
Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts, has sold over
500,000 copies (which is almost five times as much as
Twilight’s sales figure). Bhagat’s 2 States: The Story of My
Marriage also sold 500,000 copies, but within a year
whereas Shantaram was published in 2003. No wonder
Indian publishers are intent upon finding the next popular fiction superstar.
Pan Macmillan recently published Jaal, which attempts to tap into India’s fascination for mythology. Random House India has titles like Girl Plus One and The
6pm Slot, which hope to encourage a chick lit readership.
The emphasis is on quick, pacy, low-priced reads rather
than elaborate plots and literary flair.