SDMC installs CCTV cameras in 40 schools
With an aim to keep the school premises safe and secure for its students, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) on Thursday has installed CCTV cameras in 40 schools. SDMC Mayor Shayam Sharma stated that all cameras installed in the schools will be monitored. Such monitoring would commence in 40 more schools where the cameras are installed. The monitoring mechanism will also keep an eye over security of all children and issues related to qualitative delivery of education. The Mayor said to ensure proper monitoring every zone will constitute a team in their respective zone. The SDMC’s control room will also enable the officers sitting in the Civic Centre to monitor the security of students in the school. “The Corporation is committed to provide foolproof security to the students enrolled in the schools. We will soon install CCTV cameras in all schools,” he said.
Manoj on people’s misconception about AIDS
In a function organised at New Delhi’s Mavalankar Hall on the occasion of World AIDS Day, Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari said, “We will have to think to ensure that politics is seen as a medium of human service. It is sad that despite extreme advancement of medical science people hold all kinds of misconceptions about diseases, like AIDS and TB, due to which the patients have to face social isolation.” He said there is no doubt AIDS is a deadly disease but due to misconceptions people’s hateful behaviour towards the patients puts them under depression. People think that AIDS is a sexual disease while with the passing of time medical science has found that in most cases callous blood transfusion causes spread of the infection.
Be in touch with books, people told
On the occasion of centenary year of 154-year-old Hardayal Municipal Heritage Public library, Shobha Vijender, Municipal Councillor North Delhi Municipal Corporation and Honorary Secretary of the library has appealed to the people of Delhi to participate in large numbers in the seven-day celebrations being organised and express their love for books and libraries. She said the historical heritage building is being renovated and modernised to meet aspirations of today’s day book readers. “All arrangements are being made in the library so that importance of books, which are losing their importance, could be maintained even in modern technological era. Appealing to the young generation to stay connected with the books, she said how much complicated, complex and digitalised the life gets, the book will remain real guide for the man. People who remain in touch with books, won’t have to face problems in their life,” said Gupta.