Saturday, August 4, 2012

Ten special buses for college-going girls in Sirsa

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, AUG 4
Sirsa administration has started ten special buses for college-going girls, plans to set up digital classrooms in 71 schools across the district, and instal rain water conservation systems in schools to meet the shortage of drinking water.
        Disclosing this here today, an official spokesman said that in order to give a boost to higher education of women, the district administration had started ten special buses for girls to take them from villages to colleges. Some of these would be driven by women drivers.
      Though city bus service had proved to be a boon for the people, making commuting from one place to another easy and hassle-free, special buses would spare college-going girls lot of inconvenience, and help save time for studies, he said.
Digital classrooms are being set up in 71 senior secondary schools all over the district. Schools with projectors and computers, have already been shortlisted for the purpose. An MoU has been signed with the American India Foundation to execute the plan.
    Syllabus for these digital classrooms will be uploaded in Hindi for the benefit of students. Also, Digital Equalizer Software-installed computers would be provided in the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Sirsa, for training teachers in pedagogy and methodology, the spokesman added.
   Rain harvesting systems have been set up on a pliot basis in two schools in the villages of Ali Mohammad and Beharwala Khurd. Under this project, rainwater is collected on the roof of the school, stored in water tanks and then used for drinking purpose after purification.
Rainwater harvesting system has been made part of the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and it will be started in 126 schools of Sirsa and 500 schools all over  Haryana”, he said. With a view to ensuring safe drinking water supply for villagers, Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems have been provided in villages which get water supply from tubewells.
.             Concrete steps have been taken to check the menace of female foeticide in the district. Tracking systems have been installed in 39 ultrasound centres to keep a check on pre-natal sex determination tests. These systems will soon be installed in all the 59 registered ultrasound centres of the district. A control room would be set up at the civil hospital to monitor these systems, the spokesman added.

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