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Teachers given lessons in oral health Ludhiana, August 27 In his inaugural address, Dr Jaison lauded the efforts of CDC in making the school teachers aware of the various aspects of oral health and suggesting them to adopt simple oral hygiene practices to keep the oral cavity clean and healthy. Dr Basant Pawar, Deputy Director CMCH, presided over the function and called upon the school teachers to promote oral hygiene and oral health by educating the children about the need to keep the mouth and teeth healthy and clean. He reiterated the resolve of CDC to reach the masses through the teachers. Dr John Abraham, Medical Superintendent, highlighted the role of the teachers in establishing various healthy habits in children. Dr J.L. Joshi, Principal, CDC and Deputy Director CMC, while welcoming the teachers explained the basic aim and objectives of the teachers’ training programme in maintaining good oral health and propagating the same among the students and other community members. Dr Joshi explained that ignorance and neglect of the basic facts about oral health was the only cause of increase in the incidence and prevalence of various dental diseases particularly dental caries, gum diseases, irregular teeth, bad oral habits and bad oral ulcers particularly oral cancer. He told them to avail of and make full use of the specialised dental services such as implant dentures, fixed orthodontic treatment of irregular teeth, crown and bridge work, fixed denture prostheses and all types of dental ailments of pediatric patients and aesthetic and cosmetic dentistry etc. He further revealed that sensitiveness to hot and cold pain, swellings and other symptoms appear only when the disease is already in an advanced stage. Dr Joshi reported that already 400 school teachers from Ludhiana, Samrala, Machiwara and Pakhowal blocks had been given training in dental health education by Christian Dental College. Under the ongoing school dental health education programme of the CDC, which was started way back in 1984, as many as 98,350 schoolchildren had been
covered. Under the community dental health care programme, the college had provided total dental care services to 47,946 persons in the villages at their doorsteps. Out of all these, 1,223 patients were given dental prophylaxis, 7,461 patients’ teeth were restored with silver amalgam restoration and 13,915 badly decayed teeth were
extracted. Under a special programme for poor and deserving senior citizens in rural areas, 200 full sets of artificial dentures had been provided at the doorsteps of the villagers. As a gesture of goodwill and respect to the teachers, Dr Joshi announced that all patients referred by the school teachers will get 20 per cent concessional treatment in Christian Dental College. Dr N.C. Mann, Senior Consultant CDC, stressed the importance of periodic check-up at least after every six months because of the peculiar nature of dental diseases which do not look threatening and do not show any symptoms at the onset. He deplored the spate of advertisements featuring popular actors and actresses in the TV propagating the use of various tobacco products such as pan-masala, pan-parag, gutka, chutki, zarda etc which had resulted in an increased incidence of oral cancer even in the younger age group. A special lecture on the role of diet and nutrition in the growth and development of oro-dento facial structures and on the maintenance of good oral health was delivered by Dr Manisha Prabhakar, Professor of Pedodontia. Causes and prevention of gum diseases was explained by Dr
M.P. Singh. Special audio-visual aids, oral health exhibitions and demonstration of correct method of brushing were also organised. Representatives of the schools expressed their gratitude to the Principal for organising such a useful training programme. |
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Winning
is a habit with this orator Ludhiana, August 27 In the current session alone, she has won four prizes in the inter-school competitions. In one of the most recent events, an inter-school ‘Aao Bune debate contest’ was organised in the district by Vardhaman Spinning Mills and students from more than 10 schools had participated in it. Preeti had spoken for the motion on the topic ‘Men have failed, let women take over’ and her oratory skills won her the first prize in the event. Another recent inter-school event was a state-level declamation contest held at DAV Public School, Sector-8, Chandigarh, in which teams from all over Punjab and Chandigarh had participated. Preeti spoke on the topic ‘Democracy v/s dictatorship’ and won the second prize in the individual category along with a running trophy for the school. Few months back, a mock Parliament session was held in Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, BRS Nagar. A debate was held in the session on the topic ‘Democracy in India is dead’ in which teams from eight top schools of the district had participated. The confidence, expression and much-thought provoking matter on the topic penned down by Preeti won her a second prize. The Sahodaya School Association, representing all district schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, organised an inter-school declamation contest in February this year. Preeti spoke on the topic ‘Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper’. Recalling the event, the young vibrant girl said she had penned down a short poetical stanza on the same topic to begin with and just as she read it out, the entire hall echoed with applause from the audience. Finally, she won the second prize alongwith a running trophy for the school. Similarly, at an inter-school declamation contest held in SDP Senior Secondary School earlier this year, Preeti spoke on ‘Drug addiction’ and won the first prize. However, for Preeti her most prized achievement was when she won the first prize in the state-level multi-media presentation making competition held in the school last year. ‘‘We were told to pick any of the five topics and make video, audio and text clippings on Power Point regarding the same. I had chosen the topic “Empowerment of women in India’ and I got the second prize.” Preeti’s brush with such competitions began quite early when she was just in Class I. She used to take part in poetry recitation competitions held at school level. “When I was in Class IX, there was a short story writing competition in my school. Two hand painted sceneries were shown to us and we were told to write a story based on either of the two pictures. I used the best of my imagination and wove a story around one of the two themes. I won the best story prize.” “But without the help of my teacher, Ms Suzi, I would have been nowhere,” said Preeti as she acknowledged the support of her school staff in her success. “She helped me write the matter for oration, introduce better words in my speech, add anecdotes to make it more lively and even corrected my pronunciation. Further suggestions came from Ms Neena Khanna, Principal, who listened to all my oration at least two days before the competitions and pointed out ways by which it could be improvised,’’ she added. Taking in view her leadership qualities, Preeti has been appointed vice-president of the Humanities Forum of the school which conducts all such events. Currently busy with her studies, she feels she would get less time now for any more participations. She, however, hopes to continue to take part in competitions in college also. “Afterall, this is going to help me gain a lot of confidence which is a pre-requisite for becoming a journalist,” Preeti explained. |
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Role
of higher education stressed Ludhiana, August 27 The speakers were Ms Sukhwinder Kaur, senior counsellor, IGNOU, and Ms Roopy Juneja. They highlighted the importance of higher education and mode of distance education through IGNOU. The students were also made aware of IGNOU’s programs like CIC, BCA, BIT and MCA. |
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ICAR
team visits PAU Ludhiana, August 27 They also exhorted the
scientists to undertake research work towards environmental safety. The team of scientists at PAU comprising Dr Tarlok Singh, (Ms) S.K. Randhawa, Dr R.K. Bhatia, Dr Surjiot Singh and Dr Lall Singh Brar also met Dr K.S. Aulakh Vice-Chancellor and Dr G.S. Nanda, Director of Research of the
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Lecture
on trends in IT Ludhiana, August 27 Mr Kartik gave an overview of various trends affecting the IT industry. He emphasised the importance of various emerging technologies. He also talked about various new technologies like NET, L-Commerce, Corba etc.
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Integration
week held at Sacred Heart School Ludhiana, August 27 Unity in diversity of India was depicted by children dressed up as Bengalis, Gujaratis and Punjabis. Social evils prevailing in our society were well reflected by children dressed up as walking posters. Each day, the assembly was enriched with an insight into rich heritage of our country.
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Anticipatory bail denied Ludhiana, August 27 Makkar had pleaded in his bail application that he was falsely implicated in the case of forging and fabrication of advance licences and advance release orders. He said he was working as an agent on a commission basis and had arranged genuine licences from M/s R.K.Impex for traders such as R.C.Jain and Hastima Jain. He further pleaded that he appeared twice before the authorities of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and had not committed any offence. Makkar said he paid lakhs to the department out of the commission that he earned.
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