Monday 11 April 2011

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SABLA scheme launched for adolescent girls in Bihar

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 06:44 PM PDT

PATNA: SABLA, a scheme for empowerment of adolescent girls, launched on International Women’s Day this year, includes a complete nutrition programme for adolescent girls in the age group of 11 to 18 years. 

The scheme launched by state welfare minister Parveen Amanullah will be run using the Integrated Child Development Scheme ( ICDS) platform in 12 districts of Bihar. These districts are Patna, Buxar, Gaya, Aurangabad, Sitamarhi, West Champaran, Vaishali, Saharsa, Kishanganj, Banka, Katihar and Munger.

“As many as 21,66,269 adolescent girls have been identified so far for the scheme,” the minister told TOI.

There are two major components under the scheme: one, a nutrition component for ‘out-of-school girls’ in the age group of 11 to 14 years and for ‘all the girls’ in the age group of 14 to 18 years, and second, non-nutrition component for ‘out-of-school’ adolescent girls in the age group of 11 to 18 years and a vocational training under National Skill Development Programme for girls in the age group of 16 to 18 years.

The basic objectives of the scheme are to enable self-development and empowerment of adolescent girls, improvement in their health and nutrition status, spread awareness about health, hygiene, nutrition, adolescent reproductive and sexual health, family and child care. The programme also aims at upgrading their home-based skills, life skills and vocational skills. The project will also include bringing back the out-of-school adolescent girls under the ambit of formal and non-formal education. The adolescent girls will also be guided about the existing public services, such as primary health centres, post offices, banks, police stations and others.

A ‘Kishori card’ will be given to each adolescent girl, wherein details about her weight, height, body mass index, iron and folic acid supplementation, referrals and services received under SABLA will be written. The card will also contain information about important milestones in the girl’s life, like joining school, leaving school, marriage etc.

‘Kishori Diwas’ will also be celebrated as a special health day once in three months, where their general health check-up will be done. ‘Kishori Samooh’, a group of 15 to 25 girls, will be formed at the anganwadi centre level. One girl from amongst them will be selected as ‘sakhi’, the peer monitor, who will provide guidance and motivation to peers.

A training kit will be provided to adolescent girls which will have a number of games and activities, making the learning process an interesting one. Anganwadi sevikas, who will oversee the running of the project, have already been given a preliminary training for the same.

Expenditure on the scheme will be equally shared by the Centre and the state.

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Sewage Treatment Plans along the bank of Ganga to make it pollution free

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:44 AM PDT

PATNA: For making Ganga pollution free, the state government would set up sewage treatment plants along its banks from Buxar to Bhagalpur. 

A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the officials of Bihar State Ganga River Protection Authority held under the chairmanship of chief minister Nitish Kumar here on Saturday.

Briefing mediapersons after the meeting, state urban development department principal secretary Shashi Shekhar Sharma said the meeting reviewed the progress of schemes being executed under theNational Ganga River Basin Authority for protection of the river. He said that it was decided at the meeting that all the towns on the river bank from Buxar to Bhagalpur should have sewage treatment system.

The state government has sanctioned plans for sewage plants at Buxar, Hajipur, Munger and Begusarai, the principal secretary said and added that officials concerned had been directed to prepare detailed project reports of the rest 21 towns located on the banks of Ganga.

Sharma said the CM directed the authorities to accelerate the pace of work for developing and beautifying the river bank in the state capital with thrust on ensuring quality works. 

Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, urban development minister Prem Kumar, water resources minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary and chief secretary Anup Mukherjee were prominent among those who attending the meeting.

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Shatrughan to host Bhojpuri Kaun Banega Crorepati

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 03:41 AM PDT

Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha is all set to give popularity challenge to Amitabh Bachchan by hosting ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ in Bhojpuri.

Siddarth Basu, the maker of Kaun Banega Crorepati, the programme that revolutionized Indian television as well as Amitabh Bachchan’s sagging career, has succeeded in roping in Sinha for the Bhojpuri version of the show.

Sinha popularly known as “Bihari Babu” would step into Amitabh’s shoes as the Bhojpuri host for the show, which would be telecast on Mahua Channel.

Shooting is expected to start from May next and the programme would run for over a year.

Sinha, BJP MP from Patna Saheb, was not available for comments but sources close to him said he agreed to do the show to promote and project Bhojpuri language spoken by a large number of people in Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh.

Outside India, Bhojpuri is spoken in Guyana, Suriname, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius.

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The journey from a ticket collector to a true leader

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 11:37 PM PDT

INDIA'S Cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a true leader. He led from the front in high-stress conditions to help India beat neighbours Sri Lanka and win the Cricket World Cup for the second time, after a long gap of 28 years. 

There couldn't be better endorsement for Dhoni's outstanding capabilities than from the world's best batsmen and international icon Sachin Tendulkar and outgoing national team coach Gary Kirsten. While Sachin said that MSD is the best captain he has played under, Kirsten said that the skipper not only leads by example and puts in maximum effort on the field but also feels it the most when the team loses.

"Dhoni is a leader by example. I have never seen a player give as much effort to every game. He leads by example. He is the 100 per cent man. I've never seen him lose his temper. He loves taking responsibility and when the team loses, no one feels it more than him," said Kirsten. "He is a great leader. He is the captain for next few years, no doubt."

Dhoni started off as an extravagantly flamboyant and destructive batsman, but soon transformed himself into a cool and sharp mind which has helped win his team nearly every major trophy worth winning. India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, CB Series of 2007–08, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2008 and 2010 against Australia 2–0. Under his captaincy India acheived numero one ranking in Tests. His Test, ODI record is best among all the Indian captains up to date. He also captained his club team Chennai Super Kings to victory in IPL 2010 and followed it up with the Champions League title in the same year.

He is now captain of India in all three forms of the game and also led the team to their first ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Under Dhoni's captaincy India became the first team after a gap of more than 20 years to clean sweep Australia in the Test series. Dhoni also led team India to number one position in ICC rankings in Test cricket for the first time. Dhoni has also been the recipient of many awards including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first Indian player to achieve this feat), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 2009.

Born in Ranchi, Bihar (now in Jharkhand) Dhoni was a ticket collector with South-Eastern Railways and a football goalie before venturing into cricket. A fan of Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist, one of his childhood idols was, ironically, team mate Sachin Tendulkar

 

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