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REGIONAL BRIEFS and REGIONAL POTPOURRI |
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Mrs Inder Paul Kaur Bhatia, Principal of the DAV Centenary Public School, Fatehabad, is a woman committed to the cause of children's education. Through hard work and dedication, she has become a force to reckon with in the field of education in this area, in a short span of 10 years. Through her innovative instincts, she had been evolving ways and means to make children's education interesting and less of a burden for kids. Mrs Bhatia quit a lucrative and easy job of college lecturer in 1989 and became founder-principal of the DAV Centenary School . The school started in a building with only 100 students, but within a few years she was able to transform the school into one of the best educational institutions of the area. The school now boasts of a strength of over 1000 students and has its own building and a ground spread over five acres of land. The school has well-equipped science labs, a computer lab, a library, a sports wing and a co-curricular activities wing. Mrs Bhatia has the distinction of being the first principal in the area and perhaps in the whole of the state to introduce "no homework no bag" concept of teaching among the lower classes. Her easy method of teaching is now being recognised by the state government in its district primary education programme. This is a big step in lessening the burden of heavy bags from young shoulders. Even for higher classes, she has set the timetables in such a way the students have to study only three subjects in a day. This arrangement has helped in lessening the number of books and notebooks to be carried by students. In addition, it gives more time to teachers to follow up what they have taught their students. Besides her experience in children's education, Mrs Bhatia has been active in public life too. She is a member of the Haryana State Literacy Committee, vice-president of the local Bharat Vikas Parishad and District Sports Society and founder-president of the Inner Wheel Club. She has been honoured by various organisations for her work in children's education. Mrs Bhatia has been organising seminars and symposia for improving the quality of school education. "How to develop creativity in students" and "how to make classroom teaching interesting" are a few examples of the topics of the seminars and symposia organised by her. These seminars bring out new ideas in improving the quality of education. Second award for physician Dr S.N. Chugh, Associate Professor of Medicine at Pt. B.D. Sharma Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, has been honoured with the Dr Sainani Oration Award by the Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine for academic excellence and contribution in the field of medicine. The award carries a gold medal, a citation and cash. Dr Chugh delivered his oration lecture on aluminium phosphide poisoning in India which was published in the academy journal. Speaking about this dreadful poisoning, which has recently arisen in India, he said mortality due to celphos was very high in the absence of an antidote and the younger generation would be particularly affected, if timely preventive steps were not taken either by government agencies or by the World Health Organisation. He stressed management aspects and emphasised the need for restricting the free sale of celphos. This is the second award for this Rohtak specialist. Dr Chugh was conferred the Searle Oration Award last year by the Association of Physicians of India. He has done pioneering work in the field of poisoning which has been recognised worldwide. Caring for a cow An aged cow with a fractured hind leg was brought by a Samaritan to a small grassy corner of the District Hospital compound here. Having gone dry she had been forsaken by her owner. While nobody cared to give her shelter or food before the accident, there has been no dearth of caretakers after the mishap. Citizens, mainly the poor, have not only enabled her to get up on her three working legs but also fed her. A labourer, who carts citizens' merchandise brings a stack of grass for her each morning and evening. He cuts the grass in a forest 10 km away from the hospital. Others bring left-over chapatis, wheat flour, and peelings of fruit and vegetables. Another person makes many trips to the hospital corner carrying water in a borrowed leaking bucket. He is sometimes seen coaxing her to drink. This correspondent observed three persons, including an old woman who walked with the aid of a stick, dropped assorted food items before the cow within an hour. Dr B.K. Bharadwaj, Medical Officer of the District Hospital, says a few stray cows go up to the injured one towards the evening. They pass the night lying huddled with her. |
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