SRINAGAR: On Friday, authorities rescinded several orders of the Chief Education Officer (CEO) and Zonal Education Officers (ZEOs) pertaining to the cancellation of the deployment of teachers and the utilization of services of teachers on a need basis.
According to the news agency KNO, the Joint Director of School Education in South Kashmir has rescinded four orders that were issued by ZEOs and a CEO of South Kashmir.
“The four orders issued by the Chief Education Officers and Zonal Education Officers are hereby rescinded ab initio,” the official said.
The official has also sought an explanation from one of the ZEOs for non-compliance with orders and instructions.
“Zonal Education Officer Awantipora and Kakapora is directed to come up with a reply to the office of the Joint Director of School Education in South Kashmir within two days explaining why disciplinary actions, as warranted under the rules, shall not be initiated against the non-compliance of orders and instructions issued in the subject matter,” it reads.
The orders that were rescinded by the authorities include the one issued by the Chief Education Officer Pulwama regarding the cancellation of deployed teaching staff.
Another order that has been rescinded was issued by Zonal Education Officer Awantipora regarding the utilization of services of teachers on a need basis.
Likewise, the Joint Director of School Education in South Kashmir has rescinded the orders issued by the Zonal Education Officer Awantipora Pulwama regarding the cancellation of deployment of teachers working on academic arrangements at HSS Level.
Similarly, the official has also rescinded the orders of Zonal Education Officer Kakapora Pulwama regarding the cancellation of deployment of teaching staff in and outside the zone.
Pertinently, KNO reported on Thursday that the School Education Department is undecided about the cancellation of the deployment of teaching staff in schools.
SRINAGAR: After a gap of 32 years, Kashmiri Pandits from different parts of the country on Friday thronged the Regenya Mata Asthapan temple at the Badipora area of Chadoora in central Kashmir’s Budgam district and performed Maha Yagye (Hawan).
They expressed joy over returning to their native village after a long time and celebrating the festival. They said the event was a “symbol of hope and reconciliation” for all the communities in the valley.
Setting an example of communal harmony and brotherhood, the local Muslims came together to extend best wishes to Pandits and helped the devotees in the smooth celebration of the religious event.
‘’This event was held after 32 years and we received a lot of love from the local residents,” a local devotee, Bhushan Lal Koul said, adding that the love and warmth they received from the muslim brethren made us all emotional.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Budgam S F Hamid also paid a visit to the temple and participated in the Hawan.
“Seeing Muslims and Pandits attending each other’s functions after a 32-year break is a testament to our community’s brotherhood and solidarity,” the DC said, adding, “This event showcased the changing ground realities in the region where Kashmiri Pandits are gradually returning to their homes and rebuilding their lives.” (KNO)
SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday addressed the National Seminar on “National Education Policy-2020: Exploring the Prospects” at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi.
The Lt Governor highlighted various aspects of the National Education Policy and shared the vision to meet the challenges of future workplace.
“Under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, NEP 2020 has brought transformative reform in education. It has ensured that education system meets the challenges of 21st century and enables youth to become job giver rather than job seeker,” said the Lt Governor.
The National Education Policy encourages Knowledge, Innovation and Independent thinking for students’ Holistic Development. Global outlook with an emphasis on Indian knowledge tradition makes the learning a lifelong process, observed the Lt Governor.
The Lt Governor said the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence will have greater impact on fourth industrial revolution. He said, since automation is changing workplaces across the world, youth will need reskilling, tech up skilling & mental flexibility to adapt to ever-changing needs of the industry.
The Lt Governor called upon the Universities & educational institutions to focus on 6Cs – Curiosity, Choice, Collaboration, Creativity, Communication and Critical Thinking, to empower youth. Our campuses & classrooms should reflect the change and issues affecting the world, he added.
The Lt Governor also highlighted the advantages of multidisciplinary Education.
“Education nurtures our soul. NEP emphasises on establishing balance in living & life and to inculcate the desire for lifelong learning process. Real education in the true sense starts from where the syllabus ends and a student begins to discover him or herself,” said the Lt Governor.
Our National Education Policy aims to transform higher educational institutions as knowledge hubs that will create vibrant communities; bridge the gap between disciplines; enable artistic, creative development of students; promote research & innovation and make the education more inclusive, he said.
As we are moving towards multidisciplinary education, it is important that we focus on bridging the technology gap and make our campuses a nursery of talents, who will make immense contribution to India’s knowledge economy, the Lt Governor added.
The Lt Governor also shared the efforts to implement NEP-2020, in letter and spirit, in J&K UT.
Prof Anand Kumar Tyagi, Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, HoDs, faculty members, resource persons and students in large number were present on the occasion. (KNO)
City Traffic Police seize 4 sports bikes for violation of rules
JAMMU, APRIL 28: Taking Strict action Stunt Bikers, Traffic Police City Jammu today seized 4 sports bikes for violation of traffic rules under MV Act.
SOT Narwal, SI Amritpal Singh seized the sports bikes during a routine checking in the area.
Meanwhile, Dy. SP Traffic City South, Bikram Kumar has appealed to parents to do counselling of their children and tell them not to indulge in dangerous driving and stunt biking on public roads.
The SSP traffic City Jammu also stressed upon strict action under M.V Act/rule besides counselling of the public against stunt biking.
SRINAGAR: After days of being stranded on the Srinagar-Sonamarg-Gumri (SSG) road, over 11,000 vehicles have finally made their way towards Kargil as officials worked to clear the path through the Zojila pass.
An official said that the vehicles, both private and commercial transports, had been stuck due to heavy snowfall and landslides in the region.
According to reports, the stranded drivers and commuters were advised to check traffic updates and follow traffic advisories before setting out on their journey.
SSP Traffic Rural, Ravinder Paul Singh, said that more than 1,100 vehicles had crossed through the pass in the last two days alone.
The clearing of the pass by officials has brought a sense of relief to the stranded commuters who had been facing difficulties due to the unavailability of food and basic amenities. (KNO)
JAMMU, APRIL 28: Chief Engineer (Distribution) JPDCL, Jammu has informed that the power supply to Ghatti, Jakhole, Bakhta, Chainpura, Gura Pandita, Dorsi, Purkhoo, Mishriwala, Chanuchak, part of Domana and adjoining areas shall remain affected on April 29 from 7 am to 11 am.
Similarly, the power supply to Chakroi, Satraiyn, Pindi, Dadlehar, Chohalla, Badyal Qazian, SKUAST, Kullian, Kotli Shah Dullah, Simbal, Badyal, Kadyal, Abdullian and adjoining areas shall remain affected on April 29 from 7 am to 12 noon.
Likewise, the power supply to Janglote, Kharote Morh, Janglote Village, PHE Installations, Hospital, Kathua City, AIR, Jammu University Campus, KV School Janglote, Krishna Colony, Indira Colony, Pranta, Padyari and adjoining areas shall remain affected on April 29 from 8 am to 2 pm.
Meanwhile, Superintending Engineer (Distribution) JPDCL, O&M Circle Kathua has informed that the power supply to Industries under Feeder-II, IV and Rakh PHE shall remain affected on April 30 from 10 am to 2 pm.
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Srinagar, Apr 28: Winner of several State, National and International Awards Maqbool Jan, an artist from Srinagar’s Lal Bazar area continues to take papier-mâché technique and water colours to new heights and demands its introduction as subject education institutions.
Though there is no such school where the youth of Kashmir Valley are taught the art of papier-mâché, Jan has trained dozens of students so far who too are masters of this art now.
Mohammad Maqbool Jan (58) from Mughal Mohalla in Lal Bazar area of Srinagar while talking to news—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that he has been associated with this art since childhood as he had to learn this art very early due to the untimely death of his father.
“Our whole family is associated with this art and have been earning our livelihood very well besides that I have taught dozens of persons who too are taking art pieces on their own level,” he said.
Hardwork always pays and we have been always working to promote this art, Maqbool said while adding that he has participated in various exhibitions and has consistently received excellent responses for his craft.
Maqbool said that his innovative and creative skills were rapidly recognized and he won several state awards.
He was awarded the prestigious UNESCO Seal of Excellence for handicrafts in 2007-2008 while he has won state award in 2013 and four National Awards.
“I want to see that our new generation should see their culture through art and we have to work to bring innovations in this art so that it gets more and more recognition at international stages,” he said.
“As music has been introduced as a subject in educational institutions but the government is yet to introduce paper mache as a subject in educational institutions so that we can have local trainers but in absence of such things, we have to bring trainers from outside J&K,” Jan said.
There is no such school where the youth of Kashmir Valley are taught this season, he said,while demanding that a curriculum be prepared by institutions in the Kashmir Valley to promote this art form, he said.
“We need to respect these arts as sufi saints introduced in Kashmir and have been passed on orally from one generation to the next and still there are dozens of artists who have been associated with this art,” he said. “I want the papier-mâché art to reach our future generations, but given the paltry income an artist is able to generate it is difficult that youth will find interest in it.”
He said that government must take steps to help artists so that art can be taught to next generations that will help them to earn livelihood and boost tourism sector as well—(KNO)
Rishi Sunak is under pressure to stop appointing Conservatives to key positions at the BBC after Richard Sharp’s resignation prompted criticism the party had undermined the broadcaster by flooding it with cronies.
Sharp quit as BBC chair on Friday morning after an investigation concluded he had failed to disclose key information about his relationship with the former prime minister Boris Johnson when applying for the job in 2021. Sharp helped facilitate an £800,000 loan guarantee for Johnson when he was in the running to take over the broadcaster but did not tell the appointments panel.
His resignation plunges the BBC into another period of uncertainty and mires the Tories in a further row over the behaviour of some its most senior members and appointees. It follows the recent resignation of Dominic Raab as deputy prime minister over bullying allegations and the sacking of Nadhim Zahawi as party chair over his tax affairs.
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But it also gives Sunak an unexpected opportunity to put his stamp on the broadcaster by appointing a new chair for a four-year term.
Lucy Powell, the shadow culture secretary, said Sharp had caused “untold damage to the reputation of the BBC and seriously undermined its independence as a result of the Conservatives’ sleaze and cronyism”. She called on Sunak to run a “truly independent and robust” recruitment process for Sharp’s replacement, saying that only this could “restore the esteem of the BBC after his government has tarnished it so much”.
Ed Vaizey, the Conservative peer and former culture minister, said the prime minister should make sure the next appointments process was “beyond reproach”.
Peter Riddell, who was public appointments commissioner when Sharp was given the job, said Johnson had been “conflicted” during the appointments process. He called on Downing Street not to leak the name of a chosen successor over the coming months in an effort to put off other candidates.
The report by the barrister Adam Heppinstall found Sharp had created a “potential perceived conflict of interest” by failing to tell an interview panel in late 2020 that he had discussed the BBC job with Johnson prior to sending in his application. Johnson went on to appoint Sharp to the job, months after friendly media outlets had been briefed that the former Goldman Sachs banker was Downing Street’s choice for the role.
Sharp was also criticised for not disclosing a discussion with the head of the civil service during the recruitment process, at which he introduced a man who would later organise a £800,000 personal loan facility for Johnson. At this time the prime minister was struggling with his personal finances due to the costs of his divorce. It is still not known who ultimately loaned him the money.
Sharp, a Tory donor who was previously Sunak’s boss at Goldman Sachs, quit on Friday morning. He concluded his continued presence at the BBC “may well be a distraction from the corporation’s good work”, while saying the lack of disclosure during the application process had been unintentional.
The BBC director general, Tim Davie. Photograph: Hannah McKay/AP
Sharp had originally indicated he intended to fight to save his job, but he ended up resigning immediately after its publication. Tim Davie, the BBC director general, was spotted visiting Sharp’s house on Thursday afternoon, prompting speculation the chair was encouraged to quit.
The investigation into Sharp’s appointment was particularly damning on the way the application process for the job was handled. Other candidates were put off from putting forward their names for the BBC job by the perception it was already lined up for Sharp, while at every stage it was made clear Downing Street wanted him to have the job.
Sunak will have the opportunity to select his preferred candidate for BBC chair, with the hiring process – and the independence of the preferred candidate – likely to be subject to enormous external scrutiny. The government has the ability to appoint the chair of the BBC and several other directors, in addition to setting the amount of money it receives from the licence fee.
One Downing Street source said they had been blindsided by Sharp’s resignation, given the indication he intended to fight on. “The PM really hasn’t been thinking about a successor to Sharp,” the source said. “He’s been focused on lots of other things, but not this.”
Rather than immediately accept Sharp’s resignation, the government has asked him to remain in the role for two months so it can select an interim chair before starting the lengthy process of finding a full-time replacement.
Under the terms of the BBC’s charter, the temporary chair has to be one of the seven non-executive directors who sit on the broadcaster’s governing board. They include public figures such as the former television presenter Muriel Gray, the financier Shumeet Banerji, the Welsh academic Elan Closs Stephens and the accountant Shirley Garrood.
The most explosive option available to Sunak would be to appoint the former BBC journalist Robbie Gibb, who became Theresa May’s director of communications when she was prime minister. He was appointed to the BBC’s board as a director by Johnson’s government and has repeatedly criticised perceived anti-Brexit and anti-Tory bias in the corporation’s output.
The simplest option would be to give the job to Damon Buffini, the deputy chair, who has been tasked with improving the BBC’s commercial performance. Another leading candidate is Nicholas Serota, the chair of Arts Council England.
Nicholas Serota, director of Arts Council England. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian
The government will then have to start the process of recruiting a full-time chair of the BBC to serve a fresh four-year term. This gives Sunak the unexpected opportunity of putting a Tory-backed appointee in charge of the BBC’s board until 2027, making it harder for a potential Labour government to shape the national broadcaster if it wins the next election.
Sharp’s resignation comes at a troubled time for the broadcaster, which is facing a financial crisis after 13 years of cuts to its funding under a Conservative-led government. This week MPs criticised it for being too slow to move away from its traditional television and radio channels towards a digital future, saying the BBC risked being made irrelevant by rivals such as Netflix.
Michelle Stanistreet, the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said Sharp “had lost the dressing room, he had lost the respect of senior figures in the broadcasting industry and besmirched the reputation of the BBC”. She urged the government to appoint a chair who would champion public service broadcasting.
Labour has called for the recruitment process, which is likely to take most of the summer, to be transparent and independent. The party is already running its own panel to review the workings of the BBC, which met for the first time last week. It will come up with policy proposals on strengthening the BBC’s independence from government, especially when it comes to appointments.
But top BBC appointments have always been in the hands of the government of the day, an influence that Labour may be loth to give up if it wins the next general election.
In his resignation statement, Sharp said that “for all its complexities, successes, and occasional failings, the BBC is an incredible, dynamic, and world-beating creative force, unmatched anywhere”.
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SRINAGAR: Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur on Friday said that G20 under India’s Presidency has set new milestones for the country.
Maintaining that India’s rich art, culture and heritage has left lasting impression on the delegates from across the world, Union Minister said, “Around 103 delegates participating in the Y20 pre summit in Leh are mesmerized by the monasteries, sangam and landscape of Leh and they want to return to Ladakh again.”
Stating that despite statements by many that the pre summit should not be organized in Leh, the Y20 pre summit concluded successfully.
haring details on the outcomes of the Pre Summit in Leh, Union Minister said that there is a consensus on the five themes of Y20 summit among the participating countries and international organizations. He also informed that important suggestions have come on the future challenges including reskilling and Upskilling. |
“The meeting focused on the five Y20 themes of Shared Future: Youth in Democracy and Governance ; Future of Work: Industry 4.0, Innovation & 21st Century Skills; Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Making Sustainability a Way of Life; Peace Building and Reconciliation: Ushering in an era of No War and Health, Wellbeing & Sports: Agenda for Youth,” he said.
Earlier the Union Minister held Yuva Samvaad with the delegates and said that the runway is ready for youth to take off, whether it is for economy or education, sports or entrepreneurship,skill development or digitisation, and the youth – now have a mission to make a global impact.
He also said that the Y20 summit is providing an extraordinary opportunity for the youth and the world alike to shape their national as well as international discourse and in many ways be proactive in finding solutions to problems our respective regions face.
He further remarked, “I am confident that the young generation will make the advancements of the last century look miniscule compared to the milestones that this new (youth) generation will discover.”
He said that Young people should know that you are living in the greatest time to be alive and encouraged them to – Dream, read, write, think and act fearlessly.
He also added that the Y20 themes have been carefully selected to empower young people to create, collaborate, and contribute to the G20’s development agenda and the global community as a whole.
“We firmly believe, that at the end of this decade, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet will have evolved significantly and data science would have occupied much deeper parts of our lives. Youth should be prepared with these skills,” Thakur said.
He urged that Youth must move away from the constraints of the past and exploit the opportunities of the present, to unleash the potential of their countries in the future!
For the better part of three decades, The Jerry Springer Show took the talkshow format into increasingly outlandish areas. Springer, who has died aged 79 of pancreatic cancer, presided over what amounted to a three-ring circus, as guests revealed a steady stream of betrayal in relationships they seemed to model on tawdry pulp novels and porn films.
This led to a cycle of what the writer David Sedaris described as “championship wrestling in street clothes … Curse, fight, disentangle. Curse, fight, disentangle … repeated with tedious precision”. Meanwhile, the studio audience would be pumping fists in the air, chanting “Jer-ee! Jer-ee!” while, just outside the fray, stood Springer, at once bemused by the antics and aghast at the way his guests treated each other.
Not just the ringmaster, Springer also tried to play the empathetic therapist, like Oprah Winfrey, but in a bar brawl. “The truth is, in most cases, we get treated the way we permit ourselves to be treated,” he told us, and each show ended with Jerry advising us to “take care of yourselves, and each other”.
The formula worked. The Springer show ran from 1991 until 2018, nearly 5,000 episodes, and, at its peak in the late 1990s, passed Oprah as the most-watched daytime talkshow. It wasn’t the first of its kind: Geraldo Rivera had evolved from news to trash, while Jenny Jones specialised in revealing guests’ sexual secrets. But Springer’s appeal to chaos influenced countless imitators, and, more crucially, the rise of so-called reality television, in which contestants chosen for their exhibitionism tried to outdo each other in humiliations and conflicts created and scripted by the producers.
The influence seeped over into politics, with the rise of Donald Trump, but Springer got there first. In 2003, as Springer contemplated a serious run for the US Senate from Ohio, the conservative magazine National Review worried he might attract “non-traditional voters who believe most politics is bull … slack-jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos, pervs and whatnots”. In other words, the way many viewed Springer’s audience.
Springer actually came to American television via serious politics. Born in Highgate tube station, London, during an air raid, he spent his early years in East Finchley. At the age of five he moved to Forest Hills in Queens, New York, where his father, Richard Springer, owned a shoe shop and his mother, Margot (nee Kallman), was a bank clerk. Both parents were Jews who had fled Landsberg in Prussia (now part of Poland). Years later on the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? he learned the details of the deaths in concentration camps of both his grandmothers; he lost most of his relatives to the Holocaust.
Springer was active in drama at Forest Hills high school, then took a BA in political science at Tulane University in New Orleans and a law degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in 1968. That summer, he worked on Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign; after Kennedy’s assassination, he began working at a law firm in Cincinnati, at which he had interned while a student.
In 1970 he lost a race for Congress, but was elected to the city council as a Democrat in 1971. Three years later he resigned for “personal family considerations”, which turned out to be his visiting a sex worker across the Ohio River in Kentucky, and paying her with a personal cheque.
In 1975 he was re-elected to the council for the first of three terms, serving as mayor in 1977-78. During his comeback, he argued that his use of a personal cheque to pay for sex at least proved “his credit was good”. He also opened his own law firm, Grinker, Sudman and Springer. After finishing third in the Democratic primary for governor of Ohio in 1982, Springer turned to broadcasting, joining the NBC affiliate WLTW as a political reporter, then becoming joint host of the main evening news show, which catapulted the station from last to first in the local ratings.
Jerry Springer greets supporters in Cincinnati during a failed campaign in 1982 to become the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio. Photograph: Ed Reinke/AP
In 1991, Multimedia Television, which owned WLTW, began syndicating The Jerry Springer Show, in a political format much like Phil Donahue’s. It soon began to change, especially after Richard Dominick arrived as producer. He had worked on National Enquirer-style tabloid supermarket papers, and for Jones. His real genius lay in taking the talk format away from celebrities and experts, and focusing on ordinary people and their own scandals.
At its peak, Springer was getting upwards of 8 million viewers in daytime, and TV Guide named it the “No 1 worst show in the history of TV”. Dominick also produced two spin-offs: a VH1 backstage documentary series about making the show, and a show starring Springer’s top disentangler, the security chief Steve Wilkos.
Jerry was spun off on his own as well, playing a thinly disguised version of himself in the film Ringmaster (1998) and the US president in The Defender (2004), directed by Dolph Lundgren. He replaced Regis Philbin as host of America’s Got Talent for three years, and from 2010 to 2015 hosted Baggage, a dating game on the Game Show Network.
He guested on television shows, everything from The X-Files to Roseanne; hosted Miss World and Miss Universe beauty pageants and appeared on World Wrestling Entertainment shows. In 2006 he went on Dancing With the Stars to learn how to waltz at his daughter Katie’s wedding.
He was also a success in his country of birth, where imitators such as Jeremy Kyle were not free to generate the same intensity with their content. Springer had more straightforward talkshows on ITV in 2000 and Channel 5 in 2001.
In 2003, Jerry Springer: The Opera, written by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, debuted, and ran for almost two years. It won four Olivier awards, including best new musical, before going on tour. In 2005, a BBC broadcast of the musical drew 55,000 complaints, and protests at BBC studios.
The same year ITV ran The Springer Show against Trisha Goddard, who had left it for Channel 5; despite being toned down he triumphed over Goddard in the ratings. He acted in a West End production of Chicago in 2012, guested on Have I Got News for You, and covered Trump’s 2016 election as president for Good Morning Britain.
The Jerry Springer Show ended in 2018, though it is still syndicated by the CW Network. In 2019, Springer began Judge Jerry. It ran for three years. As Springer said: “Television does not and must not create values; it’s merely a picture of all that’s out there – the good, the bad and the ugly.”
While TV might not create values, Springer showed it certainly could amplify them, especially the bad and the ugly.
He married Micki Velton in 1973; they divorced in 1993. Springer is survived by Katie.
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