Haryana Diary

Kurukshetra police go hi-tech to nab traffic rule violators 

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Kurukshetra: After a dry run for about six months, the police have started the video evidence management system to nab violators of traffic rules. SP Simardeep Singh says the system records and sends the web link of a traffic offence to the violator through an SMS. Officials said Kurukshetra had become the first district in the state to use such a technology.

During the trial period, several offenders were let off with a warning. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is assisting the police implement the system. A team of NIC experts at the Mini-Secretariat keeps an eye on traffic violators throughout the day. A high-resolution CCTV camera has been installed at the traffic intersection point near the new bus stand on Pipli road. The SP said cameras would soon be installed at other busy points in the city. “It captures the registration number plate of the vehicles violating traffic rules. A video link of the traffic offence is then sent to the violator,” said the SP. Sources said the mobile phone numbers given during vehicle registration were being used to nab the violators.

Police plan special drive to make state ‘child beggar free’  

Kurukshetra: The Haryana police has planned a special drive to help rehabilitate underprivileged children who have taken to begging or hawking for a living. SP Simardeep Singh said here that Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) in the districts would be roped in for the welfare initiative. It is being proposed after KP Singh, DGP, asked the district SPs in a recent meeting to make Haryana free  of child beggars. Also, the police teams would investigate the possibility of organised gangs behind child beggars. “No data or study was tabled at the meeting suggesting any evidence of children being forced into begging. But we want to rule out the nuisance at the ground level,” said the SP.

Only one Faridabad govt school selected for ‘smart class’ programme 

Faridabad:  Government Model School in Sector 28 here is the only school chosen out of 330 across the district for start of the smart class room facility in a couple of months, said sources in the Education Department. The Education department had recently invited applications from the schools in this connection, it is added. “Only this school has been found to meet the parameters for selection, including the result or pass percentage, students’ strength and infrastructure, ’’ claimed an official at the local District Education Office  . He said the smart class technology was likely to reduce the burden of school bags and help students compete with their counterparts in private schools that had already introduced this technology. Chatar Singh, president of the district unit of the Haryana Rajkiya Adhyapak Sangh, asked how a city could get smart when just one school had been selected for technology which already existed in private schools. 

Umang launched to improve quality of education in Ambala schools 

Ambala:  The Centre for Civil Society (CCS) in collaboration with National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA) on Sunday launched ‘Umang’, a programme to improve the quality of education in budget schools of Ambala district, identified by the Federation of Private Schools Associations, Haryana.

Kulbhushan Sharma, president of NISA, said: “The whole programme is aimed at improving educational techniques and developing independent thinking among students. As many as 42 schools have been identified for the programme in the first phase. Students of the identified schools will take a test after which 20 schools would be selected for an intensive two-year training programme for school principals, teachers and students.” 

Murthal college girl adjudged best NSS volunteer

SONEPAT: Yogita of Government Women College, Murthal, was adjudged the best NSS volunteer of MD University, Rohtak, in the selection interview held on the university campus on September 15. Moni of the same college got the third position in the competition. Dr Jyoti Raj, programme officer of the college, said the NSS unit-1 of the college bagged the best unit award of the university this year also. This NSS unit has been getting this award since 2011-12.  Dr Raj, one of the country’s 10 programme officers decorated with President Award last year, said two NSS volunteers of this college, had also received  President Award earlier .