Yoga campaign fades

The much-hyped campaign to promote yoga in the city has lost its zeal with the passage of time. When the UT Administration held International Day of Yoga last year in the city, a number of plans were announced by the Administration, but not many of the plans reached to the implementation stage. It was planned to start yoga classes in government offices for employees, but no office has started the classes so far. Yoga classes are only limited to NGOs working in the field. To make the yoga as a mass movement, a lot of things still need to be done by the departments concerned.

Phone blues

Ringing cellphones are disturbing Judges at the UT District Courts. Normally, carrying cellphones inside courtrooms is prohibited. However, a Judge has got a notice pasted outside his courtroom door that no cellphones should ring within the radius of 15m from the courtroom. Visitors entering the District and Sessions Court also have to keep their cellphones outside the courtroom on the sitting benches. Often visitors remain apprehensive about the safety and security of their cellphones left unguarded outside.

Gory images

Two headlines-grabbing and violent events of the week reported from Mohali –killing of Ekam Singh Dhillon and a dog biting off a part of lip of a 3-year-old child – have generated some of the most horrific photographs published by newspapers recently. Not only have the readers shed tears but many complained that they really couldn’t bear to look at the pictures as they were just too upsetting. “My three-year-old cried for half-an-hour after she saw the dog bite victim’s blood-spattered picture published on the front page of a newspaper. The media must practice restraint when publishing such gory images,” remarked a school teacher.

Minister absent, babus free

As Haryana Local Government Minister Kavita Jain gave Panchkula District Grievance Redressal meeting held the other day a miss, many officers took advantage of it. The meeting, chaired by Deputy Commissioner Gauri Parasher Joshi, was not attended by Deputy Commissioner of Police Anil Kumar Dhawan, who has been present in the previous ones. That too when a complaint pertaining to grave allegations, including that of bribery, against an Assistant Sub-Inspector was reported. Municipal Commissioner Lalit Siwach was on leave while HUDA Chief Administrator RS Verma left the meeting within 20 minutes.

(Contributed by Ramkrishan Upadhyay, Sandeep Rana, Charu Chhibber & Ishrat Banwait)