Arvind Subramanian, Former Chief Economic Advisor, Resigns as Professor from Ashoka University

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New Delhi:Eminent economist Arvind Subramanian has resigned as professor from Ashoka University, two days after noted political commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s exit from the institution. Subramanian, former chief economic advisor, had joined Ashoka University as a professor in the Department of Economics in July 2020.

“Dr. Subramanian has resigned,” a senior faculty member of Sonipat (Haryana) based Ashoka University said. A query sent to Ashoka University regarding the resignation remained unanswered till the filing of the story. Subramanian was appointed Chief Economic Advisor on October 16, 2014, for a period of three years and was given an extension in 2017.

However, he quit the job with close to one year of his tenure remaining and returned to the US. Subramanian’s official contract was till May 2019.

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haryana school closed: Haryana government to shut over 1,000 schools, 43 in Gurugram

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GURUGRAM: After closing over 2,500 state-run schools in the past three years, the Haryana government is now finalising a list to permanently close over 1,000 schools that have 25 or fewer students enrolled. In Gurugram, the move will lead to the closure of some 43 schools where around 650 students are currently studying. The department has asked all the districts to submit an updated list of all such schools by this week.

Of these 1,057 schools in the state, 743 are primary schools and 314 middle schools, officials said. Similarly, of the 43 schools in Gurugram that have appeared in the first list, 32 are primary schools with around 438 students and 11 are middle schools with over 200 students. Out of these 43 schools, over 13 have less than 10 students enrolled and five have no students at all.

An education department official told TOI, “This is a regular exercise carried out by the department. Schools with fewer students put stress on resources so we try to rationalise it by merging. That way we also ensure healthy students to teachers ratio in other schools. We have directed all the schools to comply with the orders, and will submit the data in a day or two.”

Last year, TOI reported that the government was contemplating shutting down over 1,000 schools in the state in a bid to “rationalise the resources”. The exercise was deferred after the teachers protested against the decision. The department had given them time to increase the enrollment before finally undertaking the merging exercise.

Teachers, however, have contested that it violates the Right to Education (RTE) Act that mandates the availability of schools within a one km radius.

They argued that many girls don’t enroll in schools or drop out due to the unavailability of schools in the vicinity and their parents don’t allow them to travel.

“It took so much time to get sanctions for these schools and merging them instead of evolving them is not a good move. As per the RTE, there should be schools within one kilometer for every student. And if schools are merged at this rate, then it’s concerning,” said Dushyant Thakran, district head of Haryana Prathmik Shikshak Sangh.



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India records 35,886 fresh Covid-19 infections, highest in 102 days | India News – Times of India

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NEW DELHI: India recorded its highest Covid-19 tally in 102 days on Wednesday with 35,886 patients testing positive for the virus as Maharashtra continued to be the worst affected state, accounting for 64% of the daily count in the country.
Maharashtra added 23,179 fresh cases, the highest in six months since September 17 (24,619 cases). With this, Maharashtra reported a 30% increase in cases compared to Tuesday, taking the total caseload of the state to 23,70,507. From March 1-17, the daily cases in the state have risen four times.
The daily case count in several cities in Maharashtra was higher than the total case count of worst affected states like Punjab, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

For instance, Nagpur (with 2,698 cases) alone surpassed the daily count of the four states, which recorded cases in four digits — Punjab (2,039), Gujarat (1,122), Kerala (2,098), Karnataka (1,275). With 2,698 fresh cases, Nagpur city, for the first time in pandemic, registered more daily cases than Mumbai, which recorded 2,377 cases.
The tally in Mumbai was almost three times the tally on March 1 (855).
Apart from Maharashtra, as many as 17 states and Union Territories on Wednesday logged the highest count of fresh cases since January or earlier.

These were: Punjab (2,039 cases, highest since September 23), Karnataka (1,275, highest since December 9), Gujarat (1,122, highest since December 16), Tamil Nadu (945, highest since December 29), Chhattisgarh (887, highest since January 9), Madhya Pradesh (832, highest since December 31), Haryana (555, highest since December 20), Delhi (536, highest since January 6), Rajasthan (313, highest since January 13), Bengal (303, highest since January 24), UP (261, highest since January 26), Telangana (247, highest since Jan 20), Chandigarh (201, highest since September 26), Himachal (167, highest since January 1), J&K (126, highest since January 17), Uttarakhand (110, highest since January 23) and Puducherry (52, highest since December 2).

According to figures released by the Union health ministry in Delhi, daily new cases in the country are increasing at around 43% week-on-week, whereas a 37% rise in daily new deaths has been recorded.
Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said data shows that 70 districts in 16 states have registered over 150% increase in cases during March 1-15, whereas the infection is rising at 100-150% in 55 districts in 17 states.
“Most of these districts are in west and north India,” he said, adding that Maharashtra still accounts for 60% of all active cases as well as 45% of new deaths. The average daily new cases are also increasing rapidly in the state. The weekly moving average of new cases shows it has risen from 7,741 cases on March 1 to 13,527 on March 15.

The average test positivity rate at 16.4% in Maharashtra is far higher than the cumulative national average of 5%. On March 1, the positivity rate was at 10.9%. However, the tests to detect the infection have not increased proportionately with the test positivity rate, Bhushan said.
Similarly, in states like Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, tests have failed to keep pace with increasing number of cases and positivity rates.

In many states and UTs like Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, the share of RT-PCR is also significantly low.
The Centre has advised states witnessing a surge to increase tests in proportion to the positivity rate and also maintain the share of RT-PCR at a minimum of 70%.
The health ministry has also asked states to ensure strict adherence to mask wearing, physical distancing and hand hygiene along with greater vigilance and monitoring at the highest levels for all potential events where crowds gather.

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Majority of IT firms eye shift out of Haryana

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A majority of IT-ITeS firms in Haryana were willing to shift operations to other States/ countries as they fear the the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Bill, 2020, providing 75% job reservation for locals, could adversely impact operations and hiring, as per a Nasscom study.

Given the Act applies to new hires, the impact is expected to be severe in 1-2 years as the industry sees a high attrition rate. Some 80% of the companies that participated in the study stated that the new law will negatively impact their future business operations and investment plans, A majority of them said this would result in shifting/ growing their operations to other States and in other countries, as per the study.

The study was conducted between March 4-7 among 70 IT-ITeS firms in the State, to understand the impact of the new law. Over 500 IT-ITeS firms in Haryana employ over four lakh people directly.

It further said the majority of the survey participants expressed concerns over recruitment strategies as the law would significantly increase the compliance burden and therefore limit the industry’s ability to hire people at will.

“Such a legislation will also make it difficult to adopt and follow diversity and inclusion policies and initiatives and will lead to discriminations,” it observed.

Nasscom study also found Haryana faced various skill gaps, where salaries are less than ₹50,000 per month, in the areas of communication (written and spoken), AI, Machine Learning, Analytical and Statistical skills, finance and accounting, programming, Data Science, R&D and engineering.

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Haryana no confidence motion: Who said what in House

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Bhupinder Singh Hooda,
Congress

Farmers who have died at Delhi’s borders should be given the status of martyrs. JJP’s manifesto mentioned that 10 per cent bonus shall be given on crop procurement. Neither a law was framed nor was a bonus given. The BJP’s manifesto ensured double income for farmers and a MSP guarantee… With taxes being imposed on pesticides and fertilizers, expenditure incurred by farmers increasing manifold, and diesel prices increasing, how will you double farmers’ income?

The government passed a 75% reservation Bill for Haryana youth in the private sector. JJP’s manifesto never mentioned that it will only be in the private sector…You changed domicile rules from 15 to 5 years. Then, you say that it will not be applicable on reserved category jobs in the government sector. How will this happen?

Manohar Lal Khattar,
BJP

Once the three laws are implemented and if then it is felt that there is any loss to the farmers interest. We shall do anything and everything to protect it. I give a guarantee that mandis will not be shut down and MSP will also continue.

Market fee in mandis is not imposed by way of any Act, it is a mere circular/ notification that is issued. It will continue like the way it is going. Opposition is provoking farmers to think that if the laws are implemented, farmer will lose his land, he will lose his income etc etc. Farmer is not thinking it, but you are forcing them to think it…People who are agitating feel that they have legitimate right to protest. They think they have freedom to do so. But freedom is not an absolute freedom…

Congress party will continue to sink, even deeper…Who all have instigated farmers, getting the toll plazas free, who all are instigating protestors, people are watching it. So far it has caused Rs 212 crore loss. Since Nov 26, industries associations have apprised us that they have incurred loss worth Rs 11000 crore, till date…

Raghuvir Singh Kadiyan
Congress MLA

Naina Chautala (JJP MLA from Badhra) had been saying that she will die, but never support the BJP. I would request her to lead like Jhansi ki Rani, and boycott this government and support this no confidence vote. Dushyant Chautala, who is not present here currently, should also listen to his conscience, close his eyes, and if he is able to see Chaudhary Devi Lal’s picture, he must withdraw support…

Balraj Kundu,
Independent MLA

As such, there is nothing in this no-confidence motion. The numbers make it clear, the government has absolute majority. I am not with the Congress party that moved this motion, but I am with farmers…I will support the government if any of the ministers can tell me even a single benefit for farmers in these legislations.

Politics being played on farmers should be stopped. We should have mercy on them. He should be given justice…I suggest the CM become a mediator, and ensure that talks resume between farmers and the Union government. We all will stand with you. I will vote in favor of this no-confidence motion, but only in the farmers’ interest.

Dr Kamal Gupta,
BJP MLA

You are moving a no-confidence motion? No-confidence motions don’t change governments. You are misleading farmers. We are giving bicycles and cars to farmers. But you are telling farmer that if he rides the bicycle, he will fall… you are saying that if he drives a car, he will meet with an accident. We are making farmers entrepreneurs, but you don’t want them to be self reliant. You want farmers to continue to be dependent on you…

Shakuntla Khatak,
Congress MLA

Shakuntla Khatak, Congress MLA from Kalanaur, recited a poem on farmers, and said she supported the no-confidence motion. Khatak requested Khattar with folded hands to pay attention to women and children who are sitting at Delhi’s borders. She also mocked at Khattar’s yesterday statement where he ridiculed Congress legislators including Hooda to be sitting on the tractor that was pulled by women Congress legislators.

Harvinder Kalyan,
BJP MLA

Why are these farm legislations called black, just because these came out from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pen? If one constructs a house and some discrepancies in electricity and water pipelines are later detected, do you correct those discrepancies or raze the entire house? Farmers’ issues are an extremely sensitive matter. The Congress should not play politics on such a sensitive subject. Being a farmer myself, I emphasize that these three farm legislations must be implemented and taken forward to ensure their welfare. An environment is being created to ensure no MLA from the ruling party can enter any village, but Opposition must not consider it their achievement.

Sombir Sangwan,
Independent MLA who withdrew support from BJP-JJP govt

I’ll tell you what is the reason BJP and JJP leaders are not allowed to enter villages. These three laws have absolutely nothing good for farmers. We should pass a resolution in Vidhan Sabha and send it to the Union government…I request this House to enact some legislation, ensuring MSP. I have met MLAs from across party lines, they all know these laws are anti-farmer, but they are not coming out and speaking because of various reasons.

Aseem Goel,
BJP MLA

BJP legislator Aseem Goel calls Congress legislators traitors. I salute farmers, but you all are traitors. They (Congress) don’t allow us to enter villagers so that villagers do not hear the other version. Because if villagers heard the correct version, it is not us but Congress who will not be allowed entry in villages…Jo log naare lagaate hain ke bharat tere tukde honge inshallah-inshallah.. Congress unke saath mil chuki hai…

Kiran Choudhry,
Congress MLA

It was BJP’s election manifesto to implement the Swaminathan report.. but, we all know what’s happening to it. On April 14, 2016, PM inaugurated a system connecting mandis with the Internet. What happened to that? It had no impact. Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said ‘mandiyon ki umar poori ho chuki’. She has said this to assure corporates. We all know when farmers will not be able to enter mandis, the mandi system and MSP will get abolished on its own. The real problem is MSP. Why couldn’t a MSP law be enacted? …

Why isn’t SYL water an issue today. When I talk about it in the House, I am not allowed to. The three black laws (farm legislations) are enacted only to favour corporates… I condemn how the government is forcefully imposing them on farmers. Agriculture is a state subject… in Rajya Sabha, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had said that agriculture is a state subject… why is Haryana’s rights being encroached upon? It is being said that mandis will not shut down. Even we don’t say that. But we understand that with these laws, these mandis will gradually die its own death…

Randhir Gollen,
Independent

A farmer who feeds the entire country is in bad shape today. I think that almost all farmers of Haryana are in debt, their land is mortgaged in banks. But, the real farmer is who works in the fields. The environment that is prevailing for over 100 days in Haryana is not good. We have 90 MLAs in Haryana Vidhan Sabha, of which 60-70 are associated with farming/agriculture. Congress is instigating farmers to hold protests.

60 persons protested outside my office yesterday and asked me to vote against the government. Why should I? 41,000 voters have elected me. They will decide what I should do, not the 60 Congressmen who protested outside my office… Congress is worried only about how to get back into power. I believe our government has been doing the best for farmers’ welfare. The no confidence motion moved by the Congress has nothing to do with farmers. It will have no impact on the government. I support the government, and vote against this motion.

JP Dalal,
Agriculture minister

It is right that farmers’ conditions across the country is not that good. But, I would like to compare figures of farmers’ income during Congress and our tenures. If farmers’ condition is such today, it is only due to Congress that had ruled for a majority period. They are misleading people that these are black laws.

They said mandis will shut down, they said MSP will be abolished, but they have not been able to quote even one such incident. They are misleading the naive farmers… Farmers are with us. We have their blessings. I am a farmer’s son. We stand committed to double farmers’ incomes. We can’t make Congress happy, but we shall surely make farmers happy.

Jagbir Singh Malik,
Congress MLA

Everybody should vote listening to their conscience… nobody should vote under pressure of the Whips. It has been over 100 days since this agitation began. BJP did everything, held tractor rallies, tried to hold meetings in villages, but people didn’t listen to you. You called them (farmers) conspirators. Agriculture Minister J P Dalal had said that farmers had to die. You must apologise to all farmers… you have been saying that dying by suicide has become a fashion for farmers.

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5,128 UAPA cases, 229 sedition cases lodged in five years: Government | India News – Times of India

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NEW DELHI: As many as 5,128 cases under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA and 229 on charges of sedition have been lodged across the country in a five-year period from 2015, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.
Manipur topped the charts in terms of cases lodged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, with the northeastern state alone accounting for 1,786 or 34.82 per cent of the total cases.
Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy tabled the data for a period of 2015 to 2019 in response to a query by Rajya Sabha MP Abdul Wahab.
The data, updated till December 31, 2019, was based on a compilation by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Reddy stated.
A total of 897 cases were lodged under the UAPA in 2015 followed by 922 in 2016, 901 in 2017, 1,182 in 2018 and 1,126 in 2019, it showed.
According to the data, 30 cases were lodged on charges of sedition in 2015 followed by 35 in 2016, 51 in 2017, 70 in 2018 and 93 in 2019.
Manipur lodged 522 cases under UAPA in 2015 followed by 327 in 2016, 330 in 2017, 289 in 2018 and 306 in 2019 — the maximum among all states and union territories during the period except for 2018 when Assam had 308 such cases, it showed.
In terms of sedition cases, Bihar topped the list in 2015 with nine such cases followed by Haryana in 2016 with 12 cases, Assam in 2017 with 19, Jharkhand in 2018 with 18 and Karnataka in 2019 with 22 cases.
Reddy replied in the negative on whether it is also a fact that the provision of UAPA is being used callously against minorities and backward sections of the society.

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Unbeaten survivors tell their stories of resilience and determination

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Three survivors – of acid attack, child sexual abuse and suicide loss – share with us their journey of healing and transformation

Ritu Saini, 25, counsellor, Chhanv Foundation, NOIDA

Her face was burnt, but not her belief in life

Ritu Saini played her real life role in Deepika Padukone starrer Chhapaak

Ritu Saini played her real life role in Deepika Padukone starrer Chhapaak
 

The josh in Ritu Saini’s voice is unmistakable. Even while speaking over the phone from Bhubaneshwar where she is busy attending a friend’s wedding, happiness and confidence resonate in her voice.

Ritu has spent the last seven years battling scars. “I have writhed in indescribable pain, could not eat or drink as blood oozed out of my mouth, spent sleepless nights, felt lonely lying almost caged on the hospital bed for three months. But, never for a day did I lose hope, because giving up would mean my inability to dream for my future,” she says. “Today I am in a happy space.”

Her friendly nature and communication skills make her the best guide for burn victims who walk into Chhanv Foundation, a non-profit organisation, that works for the rehabilitation of acid attack survivors. Ritu has also worked at Sheroes Hangout Cafe in Agra and Lucknow and today is able to take care of her mother’s treatment for breast cancer along with her four older siblings. Her father passed away two years ago and she says it was the rock solid support of her family that has taught her not to give in to despair and sorrow.

At 17, she was a State-level volleyball player, and dreamt of becoming a national sports coach or an IPS officer. But her relatives changed the course of her life over a property dispute. On May 26, 2012, when she stepped out of her home in Rohtak, Haryana, to go for her daily practice session, “Two men on a motorcycle came towards me and in a flash I felt I was drowning in a sea of fire,” she says. The acid dissolved her facial features, neck, shoulders, breasts, and hands; the flesh, tissue and bone melted and fused together.

She says when she looked at herself in the mirror for the first time after months of the attack and cried inconsolably, it was her mother, who told her that she was the most beautiful child inside-out and nothing could snatch opportunities away from her. “That day I stopped covering my face,” she says.

Soon after, social activist Alok Dixit, the founder of Chhanv Foundation, walked into her life with a job offer at Sheroes Cafe where she learned accounts and management and later shifted to the foundation’s rehabilitation centre at NOIDA as counsellor. In between, Ritu tried to return to her first love, volleyball but her low vision forced her to hang up her sporting boots.

Four years ago, a small role in Hindi film Akira helped her realise that every opportunity is God-sent. She landed another acting opportunity in 2019. “This time I was playing my real life role as a counsellor of a centre that helps acid attack victims for Chapak and shooting with Deepika Padukone is a lifetime memory,” says Ritu.

“I have learnt to enjoy my present and like anybody else carve out my future on my own strength and ability,” says Ritu, who after 14 operations, skin grafting, plastic surgery and four laser sessions, exudes faith in life. Her eye lids, eye lashes, eyebrows are transplanted, her left eye is artificial, and she is still under treatment.

“I believe what did not kill me has actually made me stronger,” she says.

She shifted the focus of the dialogue

Anuja Amin, 36, Child abuse educator, Ahmedabad

Unbeaten survivors tell their stories of resilience and determination

Anuja Amin is against the use of the “good touch, bad touch” narrative propagated as part of sex education in schools. “Who says you feel bad from a bad touch? Is it not natural human physiology to derive pleasure from what we call the bad touch?”Instead, what she now proffers is safe and unsafe touch.

This distinction stems from her own experiences that began when she was five. She remembers her househelp touching her over her clothes, and then carrying on as if nothing had happened. “I was also molested by our watchman who would press my breasts and say you are born to please a man, and I thought it was normal for little girls to go through this,” says Anuja, who failed her school exam at 13 when the supervisor sat next to her pressing her thighs. “I was terrified that day and asked my parents to send me to a boarding school.”

When she came home during the holidays, she had some of her relatives behave similarly. “Hugging your relatives or sitting in your chacha’s lap are never seen as wronged expressions of love. I was always a people-pleaser who never raised objections. Nobody took my clothes off to violate me,” she says.

Anuja went abroad to complete her studies. It took her some years to process the trauma of child sexual abuse. “I realised that a layer of clothing means nothing when you take away someone’s consent,” she says.

In 2010, a Government of India study highlighting rampant child abuse in the country and that every second child is a victim at the hands of known and unknown people, drew her attention. “I had forgotten none of my experiences. Abusers often say ugly things and scar you forever, and I wanted to feel worthy.”

Anuja returned to India in 2010 for a spiritual workshop in Kerala and quit her job the same year. She broke her silence just before her wedding, and shared incidents from the past with her mother, who was shocked, and her fiancee, who was understanding and supportive.

With a part of the burden off, Anuja began researching child sexual abuse and connecting with organisations like Rahi, but found little material that would help children to understand consent and not be compelled to make a moral distinction between the good and the bad. In 2015, she founded Circles of Safety to educate kids and parents on the concept.

Stranger-danger is only 10%, with 90% danger from people children know and trust. When a child realises the touch is not appropriate, the guilt or shame increases and that is why the need to shift the focus of the dialogue, she explains.

Anuja has designed a comprehensive sexuality education programme for grades I to XII with age-appropriate body safety rules and other inputs. The pilot project was run in two private schools in Ahmedabad in 2019-2020. In their feedback, the teachers, parents and students said they were no longer uncomfortable discussing sex and related issues. “The pandemic year delayed the systematic implementation of the module,” says Anuja who is in the process of networking with schools beyond Gujarat.

Her worry is there can never be a checklist for offenders of child sexual abuse. They are helpful, friendly and take their own grooming time to endear themselves. “It is difficult to judge the face; we need to look at their behaviour.”

She calls her curriculum a preventive and rights-based model with the child at the centre. “When my three-year-old daughter says I do not want to be hugged by so and so, I understand and respect her decision,” she says and adds, “all of us need to react responsibly and sensibly.” Adults assume that broaching topics related to sexuality ‘corrupt’ children’s minds and so avoid such conversations. But children who are armed with accurate information are more likely to make safe choices and set personal safety boundaries, feels Anuja.

She stands strong

Nandini Murali, 57, suicide prevention activist, Madurai

Unbeaten survivors tell their stories of resilience and determination

Until four summers ago, Nandini Murali was a freelance writer and a cancer survivor. In April 2017, her husband, urologist Dr T R Murali, took his life, and their home became a ‘crime scene’. “I died with him,” she says, not just because of the tragedy, but also because she was surrounded by the morbid curiosity of those who came to ‘console’ her. “It seemed everybody wanted to hear a singular, tangible reason to explain his death and the police investigations made it worse,” she says. Estrangement from his side of the family was another blow. “What you see is a new me, who has shed the veil of stigma, shame, secrecy, and silence to tell my true story so that others can empathise with survivors of suicide loss.”

In those moments of grief Nandini found her voice when her spiritual guru advised her not to surrender to victimhood. Her parents, brother, uncles and a few friends stood by her in her journey. “Suicide loss survivors have every right to remember their loved ones by the way they lived their lives, and not how they lost to life,” she says.

Nandini began reading up on suicide and discovered that survivors of suicide loss were unseen and unheard. The pain of her lived experience and the culture and stigma of toxic silence propelled her to establish SPEAK (speakinitiative.org), a suicide prevention initiative of MS Chellamuthu Trust & Research Foundation, on her husband’s first death anniversary.

Carla Fine’s book No Time To Say Goodbye inspired her, and Nandini decided to write her own. It took her two years to write Left Behind, a therapeutic process, part memoir, part helping hand to those who have had the same experience. The focus of both her efforts is to enable members to build resilience in a safe, supportive and non-judgemental space.

Unbeaten survivors tell their stories of resilience and determination

The process of learning to re-live after loss is non-linear, says Nandini. “Self care for survivors is about extraordinary self-compassion that requires strength and courage,” she writes. In transmuting her pain to purpose she gives out an important message: to look truth straight in the eye to be able to cope with loss and grief.

If you are in emotional, mental, or physical distress, call Sneha 044-24640050 or Aasra 9820466726 or SPEAK2us 9375493754

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Application window closes today, apply now at hsssc.gov.in

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March 3, Wednesday, is the last day to apply for the Sanskrit Post-Graduate Teacher post advertised by the Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC). Interested candidates who have yet not applied can visit the official website – www.hsssc.gov.in to fill out the form. The registration process for the same began on February 16. The commission has announced a total of 534 vacancies under this recruitment drive. Only those who hold an MA or Acharya in Sanskrit are eligible to apply for HSSC Sanskrit PGT recruitment 2021.

Steps to apply for HSSC Sanskrit PGT Recruitment 2021:

Step 1. Visit the commission’s official website at hssc.gov.in.

Step 2. Click on the pdf link for Advt No. 01/2021 under the advertisement tab.

Step 3. Read the instructions carefully and click on the application link given in the pdf document.

Step 4. Fill out the personal details and upload the required documents in the specified file size

Step 6. Pay the application fee of Rs 500 (for general category) through e-challan.

Step 7. Download a copy of the HSSC Sanskrit PGT application form and e-challan as candidates will be required to produce a hard copy of the filled application when called upon.

Direct link to the application form:

http://adv12021.hryssc.in/StaticPages/HomePage.aspx

Here are some important details about HSSC Sanskrit PGT Recruitment 2021:

Essential qualification: Applicants must have Sanskrit/Hindi in their Class 10 as a subject and should hold a Masters or Acharya in Sanskrit with a minimum of 50% marks along with B.Ed or equivalent degree from any recognised board or university. It is also mandatory to have a certificate of Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test (HTET) or School Teacher Eligibility Test (STET) in the respective subject.

Age Limit: 18 to 42 years

Pay Scale: Level-8 (Rs. 47,600 – Rs 1,51,100)

Selection Process: The HSSC Sanskrit PGT selection process will be conducted on the basis of a written exam comprising 90 marks and socio-economic criteria and experience that will have a weightage of 10 marks.

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