Rajan is organising secy, HPSLA

Rajan Sharma has been appointed the organising secretary of the Himachal Pradesh School Lecturer Association (HPSLA). He said his aim would be to make the government aware of the problems of the lecturers. He would work hard to restore Old Pension Scheme, implement the pension-related decisions in favour of contract lecturers, increase the quota of promotion for principals from lecture cadre, increase medical allowance etc, Sharma added.

Govt teacher to get achievers award

Satish Kumar, a teacher at the Government Senior Secondary School, Cheog, near Shimla, would be conferred the Global Achievers Award by Rohtak-based Guru Foundation on October 31 in Haridwar. The foundation gives the award to achievers in the field of education. Kumar is a Sanskrit teacher and his research papers have been published in several reputed magazines.

Webinar on RTI act

RTI expert Gopal Krishan Sanghiak would talk about various aspects of the Right to Information Act in a webinar organised by the Umang Foundation on October 17. Foundation’s trustee Sanjeev Sharma said the webinar would be the fifth in a series of programmes to mark the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’. Sanghaik is a course coordinator of HIPA and an associate professor of public administration at Kotshera College.