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Shortage of Textbooks Hits Uri Schools, Parents Aghast

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Zaffer Iqbal
Uri, May 6 (GNS): Most of the students enrolled across various schools in Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district are suffering for the want of text-books for over a month now, which has expectedly affected the education scenario in the frontier town.
A delegation of parents told GNS that despite the fact that the classes have started well before a month, still most of the students have not been provided with the textbooks by the respective schools.
A parent, part of delegation, told his son is reading in class 5th but EVS, Mathematics and Kashmiri books have not been provided to him as of now.
Another parent with a somewhat similar claim said his ward, reading in Class 2, is yet to receive his Urdu book.
Expressing their resentment, the delegation said the lackadaisical approach by the schools in the area have reduced free education to merely a joke.
“If this remains the situation, how well will our wards learn?”, another delegation member said.
“We appeal Director School Education Kashmir to take necessary action and provide complete books to their children as soon as possible so that the education of their wards is not affected anymore”, they said.

When contacted, a School Education Department official admitted they have lack of availability of several books. “We have taken up the matter with higher-ups and hope that all the books required are made available at an earliest”, the official told GNS. (GNS)
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( With inputs from : thegnskashmir.com )

May 6, 2023
Turkey’s post-quake constructions face labour shortage challenge

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Ankara: After the massive February 6 earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria killing 59,259 people and damaging millions of buildings, the government in Ankara is building tens of thousands of housing and infrastructure projects in the region round the clock to meet the pledge of completing them within one year.
However, the government faces a big challenge to reach the goal set by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan due to a severe labour shortage in recent years, and the problem is likely to worsen as the number of constructions sharply increased after the catastrophe, reports Xinhua news agency.
More than 13 million people living in 11 provinces were affected by the destructive earthquakes, and a large number of survivors were still homeless, according to the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).

“We will completely revive our earthquake cities by building 650,000 new houses. We are carrying out comprehensive urban transformation projects to prepare our whole country for earthquakes,” Erdogan said.
The government aims to finish 319,000 of the houses by the end of May, Turkish Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum said last week.
But construction industry veterans pointed out that the workforce is not sufficient to meet the demand for so many projects.
As a structural problem in the sector, the labour shortage needs to be addressed as soon as possible by training new workers and improving working conditions.
In 2018, the number of construction workers in the country was nearly 2.3 million, but this number plummeted to nearly 1.5 million after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Hasan Kirlangic, chairman of the Construction Workers’ Union, told Xinhua.

He noted that construction workers have fled the sector for higher-paying or less physically demanding jobs in other industries or countries.
“Construction is a heavy industry and the labour force is dwindling due to relatively low wages. Besides, there is a shortage of new workers due to a lack of training,” Kirlangic explained.
Meanwhile, the earthquakes further complicate the labour shortage of the sector, and the number of construction workers will not be enough for the target of building more than 600,000 houses, Kirlangic warned.
Kirlangic urged the government to take urgent measures if it wants to meet its commitment to building new homes for quake victims in one year.
“If wages, safety, healthcare, and housing conditions are improved, the previous boom in the labour force can be restored,” he said.
Erdal Eren, president of the Turkish Contractors Association, told the Turkish parliamentary inquiry commission earlier this month that the country does not have the workforce to build permanent residences in the earthquake zone by the deadline set by the government.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 25, 2023
Shortage Of Essential Drugs For Drug Victims In Srinagar

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SRINAGAR: There is a shortage of essential prescribed medicine for the treatment of drug victims in Srinagar city, according to reliable sources. Drug victims who are either admitted to de-addiction centres or being taken care of by their families are finding it hard to obtain the prescribed medicine.
Official sources said that last month, District Magistrate Srinagar Aijaz Asadh stressed on ensuring the availability of medicines to drug-affected patients at authorized medical stores, on proper prescription duly signed and sealed by the concerned doctor, during a meeting he presided over.
The health officials present at the meeting admitted that there is a non-availability of the prescribed essential medicine for the treatment of drug victims at medical stores.
One chemist candidly admitted that he does not keep medicine given to drug victims at his shop. He explained, “I don’t want to put myself in trouble. You know there are clear-cut directions from the top that medical stores must maintain the proper register or database of sold medicine, and the Drug Control Department would audit the prescriptions at medical stores. During the audit, officials repeatedly ask questions about the sale of such drugs, so to avoid the problem, we don’t keep such drugs.”
It is worth noting that the Drug Control Department has been instructed to cancel the registration of those chemists who violate the laid-down guidelines under the Drugs & Cosmetic Act. [KNT]

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 8, 2023
Even war can take place for shortage of water: Goa Minister

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Panaji: Goa Agriculture Minister Ravi Naik on Friday advised the need of storing rainwater as in the coming future war could take place due to scarcity of water.
Naik, speaking during the Assembly session, said that stored rainwater can be used for agriculture and horticulture purposes.
“Everywhere water shortage is taking place, there could be more scarcity. In the future war can happen due to shortage of water,” Naik, the former Goa Chief Minister, said.
He added that if rainwater is stored in the state, then it can be exported to Arab countries and get petrol from them.
“We get a significant amount of rain in the state, which is not utilised. If we construct dams and store the water for agriculture and other purposes, it will help us. We can even export the water to Arab countries and bring fuel from them. We get around 126-inch rain. But this water goes to the sea, we can bring it in use by constructing dams,” Naik said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 31, 2023
Shortage Of Teaching Staff In Schools Will Be Addressed After Rationalization: DSEK

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SRINAGAR: Director School Education Kashmir Tasaduq Hussain Mir has said the issue pertaining to shortage of teaching staff in Uri will be addressed soon after rationalization as his office has already directed the all CEOs to provide actual posting of RRTs and RETs.
Speaking to the news agency GNS on the sidelines of a function in Uri, Director of Education Kashmir Tassaduq Hussain Mir on Wednesday last said that they are going to launch an annual transfer drive in which the soft, hard and very hard zone categories and eligible staff will be posted as per set protocol.
He said the shortage of teaching staff in Uri schools would be addressed by or before the month of April. “I have already directed all CEOs to provide actual posting of RRTs, RETs and we are going to rationalize them on the basis of enrolment of their sanctioned posts”, he said.
He further said a new enrollment drive was being started for children across ten districts of Kashmir and the purpose of his visit to Uri was to assess the educational facilities with children having only government schools to get their study from.
“Last year we saw 1,18,000 new enrollments of children in Kashmir, but this year we are trying to increase it and this year our target is also to enroll dropouts and specially-abled students so that no one in society is deprived from education”, he said adding their goal is inclusive education.
The news agency GNS has learnt from sources that around 300 RRTs from four educational zones of Uri, including Uri, Jullha, Chandwari and Boniyar, have been deployed by the department to other desirable places instead of their actual place of posting in which around 50 teachers have been attached to outside their educational zone due to which there is a severe shortage of teaching staff in schools in remote areas of Uri.
The department has appointed a single teacher in each primary schools of Hathalanga, Sohura, Khatein, Torali, Mothal, Chrunda, Batar, Lajdi Boniyar, Korali Boniyar, Maidan Boniyar and Bankhod Boniyar, due to which education students has been severely affected. (GNS)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

March 16, 2023
Shortage of teaching staff in schools will addressed soon after rationalization: DSEK Tassaduq Hussain in Uri

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Says already instructed all CEOs to provide actual posting of RRTs, RETs
Zaffer Iqbal
Uri, Mar 16 (GNS): Director School Education Kashmir Tasaduq Hussain Mir has said the issue pertaining to shortage of teaching staff in Uri will be addressed soon after rationalization as his office has already directed the all CEOs to provide actual posting of RRTs and RETs.
Speaking to GNS on the sidelines of a function in Uri, Director of Education Kashmir Tassaduq Hussain Mir on Wednesday last said that they are going to launch an annual transfer drive in which the soft, hard and very hard zone categories and eligible staff will be posted as per set protocol.
He said the shortage of teaching staff in Uri schools would be addressed by or before the month of April. “I have already directed all CEOs to provide actual posting of RRTs, RETs and we are going to rationalize them on the basis of enrolment of their sanctioned posts”, he said.
He further said a new enrollment drive was being started for children across ten districts of Kashmir and the purpose of his visit to Uri was to assess the educational facilities with children having only government schools to get their study from.
“Last year we saw 1,18,000 new enrollments of children in Kashmir, but this year we are trying to increase it and this year our target is also to enroll dropouts and specially-abled students so that no one in society is deprived from education”, he said adding their goal is inclusive education.
GNS has learnt from sources that around 300 RRTs from four educational zones of Uri, including Uri, Jullha, Chandwari and Boniyar, have been deployed by the department to other desirable places instead of their actual place of posting in which around 50 teachers have been attached to outside their educational zone due to which there is a severe shortage of teaching staff in schools in remote areas of Uri.

The department has appointed a single teacher in each primary schools of Hathalanga, Sohura, Khatein, Torali, Mothal, Chrunda, Batar, Lajdi Boniyar, Korali Boniyar, Maidan Boniyar and Bankhod Boniyar, due to which education students has been severely affected. (GNS)
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( With inputs from : thegnskashmir.com )

March 16, 2023
Srinagar-Jammu highway closure triggers mutton shortage in Valley

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Srinagar, Jan 31: The closure of the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway due to landslides and snow triggered shortage of mutton in Kashmir.
In Srinagar, non-availability of mutton was reported from several areas of Srinagar.
Stakeholders associated with the mutton trade acknowledged to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) shortage of mutton in markets due to the highway shutdown.
General Secretary of Kashmir mutton dealers association Mehraj-u-Din told KNO that more than 80 trucks of sheep are stranded on the highway.
Responding to a query about the status of the revision of mutton rates he said their scheduled meeting with the administration on Saturday last week was postponed after which they are yet to get information on a fresh date.
“We are waiting for a fresh date for the meeting as we have already made a draft to finalise the revision of mutton rates”, he said.
The Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Kashmir had sealed more than 100 mutton shops across the valley stating that the drive was launched to control pricing after receiving reports that mutton is being sold at high rates and beyond the government fixed rate—(KNO)

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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

January 31, 2023