Indian deaf cricket team calls on kejriwal
The players and members of the Indian Deaf Cricket team met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday at the Delhi Secretariat. The visiting team thanked the Chief Minister and said that it was for the first time that any Chief Minister met them. They said that though they have been playing for long, there was no platform for them. They apprised the Chief Minister of their victory in 2005 at the international level and said that despite of that they did not get any recognition. The Chief Minister told the delegation that he was proud of the team and said that he wanted them to keep winning. The Chief Minister was also taken aback when the players told him that they were not receiving any support from the BCCI. He also asked the team to submit a representation on financial issues and assured them that he would look into it. “You people have been performing under such circumstances, this is really great. We will extend all support to you. We will meet again when you win next and come back,” said the CM.
Health min launches de-worming programme
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain launched the Mass Deworming Programme Round Third for children of school and pre-school age on Wednesday at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, New Multan Nagar. It is expected to cover 35 lakh children of Government and Government-aided schools, MCDs, NDMC, Cantonment Board Schools and anganwadis. For mass de-worming in Delhi, Tab. Albendazole 400 mg which is chewable and palatable flavor would be administered to the students from Class 3rd to class 12th (In-Schools) and above 7 years to 19 years for out-of-school children through anganwadis and suspension Albendazole for class Nursery to class 2nd (in-school) and 1 to 7 years for out-of-school children through anganwadis.
Cong accuses Kejri of ‘duping’ guest teachers
Hitting out at the Aam Aadmi Party Government, the Delhi Congress on Wednesday accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of “duping” the guest teachers of Government schools and asked him to regularise their services immediately. The Congress alleged that the Government has been totally ignoring the teachers who have been sitting on dharna for the past 11 days in front of the Old Secretariat. “Kejriwal had told a lie that he had signed on the file for regularising the services of the guest teachers during his 49-day rule, but before the order could be implemented, he resigned. AAP has also put on its website that Kejriwal had signed on the file, but we wonder what happened to that file now,” Delhi Congress spokesperson Sharmishta Mukherjee said.
AAP’s crocodile tears on farmers’ loss: NMC
The Delhi Municipal Corporation alleged that the Delhi Government was shedding ‘crocodile tears’ on the issue of loss of Rabi crops to farmers due to unseasonal rain. leaders in the corporation also demanded that the Government should rather show its concern by compensating rain-hit farmers than to ask the Centre to announce the relief fund. North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC) chairman Mohan Bhardwaj said that if the Chief Minister had so much sympathy with the farmers, then he should announce the compensation to the farmers of Delhi for their loss rather than demanding from Centre to announce compensation of Rs50,000 per acre.