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DELHI THE HINDU 4 NORTH & EAST SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE COVID19 toll Virus halts J&K’s ‘Durbar move’ rises to 11 Rajasthan announces fi nancial in Punjab for the fi rst time in 144 years SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT assistance for ‘corona warriors’ CHANDIGARH 23 new cases reported in the Union Territory on Friday One more COVID19 pa The Centre had announced a ₹ 50 lakh insurance cover for frontline health workers tient died in Punjab on Fri Peerzada Ashiq narch Maharaja Gulab Singh cision to halt the ‘Durbar day, taking the tally to 11, Special Correspondent notifi cation of Medical & Srinagar in 1872, the ‘Durbar move’ Move’ comes as COVID19 according to a State go JAIPUR Health Department stated For the fi rst time in 144 years, would see shifting of the Civil cases shows an upward trend vernment statement. In a major decision to help that this act would invite pe the J&K administration has Secretariat in summers from in the Union Territory. Jam The health department out “corona warriors”, the nal action under Section 188 decided to halt the annual Jammu to Srinagar and in mu & Kashmir on Friday said one patient, hailing Congress government in Ra (disobedience to order duly shifting of the capital, called winters from Srinagar to Jam crossed the 200 mark, with from Jalandhar, who tested jasthan on Friday an promulgated by public ser ‘Durbar move’, from Jammu mu. In January 1987, the then 23 more samples testing positive, died on April 10. nounced a fi nancial assis vant) of Indian Penal Code. to Srinagar in J&K due to the Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi positive. As many as 21 new cases tance of ₹ 50 lakh to the next Additional Chief Secretary ongoing COVID19 crisis, as had asked then Chief Minister “The total positive cases in were reported from the of kin on the death of an em (Medical & Health) Rohit Ku 23 fresh positive cases Farooq Abdullah to stop the J&K is 207, as 23 more cases State, taking the total of ployee performing the du mar Singh said police offi c pushed the total in the Union practice. However, the ‘Dur were reported. Jammu has 39 COVID19 positive cases to ties for controlling the CO ers performing duty in the Territory to 207. bar move’ was continued to and Kashmir 168 such cases,” 151, it added. VID19 pandemic. The curfewbound areas, where “In view of the extraordin allow it to at as a bridge bet said J&K government spokes The government, mean Centre had earlier an A medical team in curfew-bound Walled City of Jaipur on COVID19 positive cases had ary circumstances due to CO ween two diverse cultures of person Rohit Kansal. while, has made it manda nounced a ₹ 50 lakh insu Friday. * ROHIT JAIN PARAS been detected, would be gi VID19 pandemic, the Civil the Kashmir Valley and the Among the fresh cases are tory for the people to wear rance cover solely for the ven measured doses of hy Secretariat at Jammu shall Jammu region. seven nonlocal members of masks in public places to frontline health workers. defence staff , Anganwadi ing people’s lives. He said droxychloroquine for pro continue to remain function the Tabligi Jamaat, who were check the spread of the vi Chief Minister Ashok Geh centre workers and accredit traders were playing an im tection against infection. al and the ‘Durbar move’ em Sanitation drive in touch with a Chattabal rus. lot said the State government ed social health activists. portant role in maintaining This had been recommend ployees shall work on ‘as is Meanwhile, the Srinagar man who has already tested Health Director Avneet had expanded the purview Mr. Gehlot said at a video the supply chain of essential ed by the National Task where is’ basis. It will allow Municipal Corporation (SMC) positive for COVID19. Kaur said anyone coming of assistance to include regu conferencing with trade and commodities. Force for COVID19, he said. Kashmirbased staff to work has been directed to carry Deputy Commissioner, Sri out of their homes for offi lar and contractual em industry representatives The State government al The number of COVID19 from Srinagar and Jammu out extensive sanitation and nagar, Shahid Iqbal Choud cial or other essential work ployees as well as those get here that the State govern so imposed a ban on spitting positive cases in the State based staff shall work from fumigation drives in the Civil hary said that detection of would have to wear a cloth ting honorarium for their ment would take an “appro at public places after chew soared to 520 on Friday with Jammu,” said an order issued Secretariat in Srinagar, where eight more positive cases in or triplelayer mask, viola work. The provision will cov priate decision” on lifting ing of betel leaf, gutka and 57 more cases detected in by the General Administra the offi ces will open after six Srinagar should not panic lo tion of which would be er all municipal and health the lockdown while taking tobacco products to contain eight districts as well the Ar tion Department in Jammu. month break on May 4. cals. “This is a classic tracing punishable under the law. workers, home guards, civil into account the issue of sav the spread of COVID19. A my's facilities. Introduced by Dogra mo The J&K administration de success story,” he said. ‘Not all soldiers carry weapons, some carry stethoscopes’ Odisha to scale up testing Dealing with COVID19 has brought back the nobility of the profession, say doctors in Indore Advanced facility will test about 1,000 samples per day Sidharth Yadav tline. “Seniors have my back. was clouded in professional Special Correspondent week,” Dr. Pati said on Friday. dispel mistrust in the mind of Bhopal They’ve said if I have doubts ism. It has given back the BHUBANESWAR With the Cobas 6800 set to their fellow villagers. Those Just before entering the CO during night duty, when profession its lost charm. We Odisha is all set to scale up be used for testing, the Od who will be found negative in VID19 ward, Gaurav Jain there are no consultants, I are getting to fulfi l our dream COVID19 testing with the Re isha government has an testing will be allowed to en double checks his personal could call them any time,” of serving humanity,” said gional Medical Research nounced it will screen about ter their villages,” he added. protective equipment (PPE) said Dr. Jaiswal. Ravi Dosi, 39, who heads the Centre (RMRC), Bhubanes two lakh people, including a The government was — the mask is set, check. The Eventually, as diff erent de department, and is faced war, readying an advanced large number of migrant la strictly following the guide gloves are in place, check. partments of the hospital with an employee refusing to testing facility to test about bourers who would return to lines specifi ed by the Indian The face shield is intact, teamed up and divided res return to hospital fearing in 1,000 samples a day. the State in future, said State Council of Medical Research check. ponsibilities, it eased some fection these days. The machine – Cobas 6800 Director of Medical Educa to enhance COVID19 testing, “Of course at some level pressure. Others can screen – is a highthroughput ma tion and Training C.B.K. clarifi ed Sanjay Kumar Singh, we are scared too,” said Dr. patients, start treatment ‘Scared for our families’ chine having automated plat Mohanty. Secretary, Information & Pu Jain, a secondyear junior re based on the protocol and Dr. Dosi admitted not a sin form to carry out faster and blic Relations Department. sident of the Department of Doctors at the Sri Aurobindo Medical College and check oxygen levels. gle day went by when he eff ective testing of samples to Migrant workers At present, RMRC, Bhuba
Respiratory Medicine at the Postgraduate Institute, Indore. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT “Whereas we can guide wasn’t scared, but not for detect COVID19, according to “We are concerned about the neswar, AIIMS Bhubaneswar Sri Aurobindo Medical Col treatment. Even miniscule himself. “We are more Sanghamitra Pati, Director of migrant workers who are un and SCB Medical College & lege and Postgraduate Insti When the stream of cases every day,” said Dr. Jain, who contributions count. It's scared for our families. At RMRC. der tremendous mental Hospital at Cuttack are carry tute, Indore, one of the CO trickled in around March belongs to Gwalior district. teamwork after all. Not all times, you see patients pass “RMRC, Bhubaneswar, is stress to reach their homes. ing put COVID190 tests. VID19 hospitals treating 125 end, the department’s doc He felt insecure: “We didn’t soldiers carry weapons, away on ventilators in se one of the two centres in the The government wants them MKCG Medical College & Hos patients. “Doctors may run tors, including junior resi know how to handle it. ” some carry stethoscope,” conds and have nightmares country to have this testing to be with their families in pital, Berhampur. and Insti out of equipment, but we are dents, were caught un The junior most resident, said Dr. Jain. of the same happening to equipment. With this, we can stead of sending them to qua tute of Life Sciences, Bhuba never going to run out of love awares. “We didn’t expect it. Jyoti Jaiswal, 26, was thrilled “Dealing with COVID19 you. How devastating it will increase our testing capacity rantine facilities,” said Dr. neswar. have already been and compassion we are re Many of us don’t have that to take on a greater responsi has brought back the nobili be for our families. But we from current 300 to 1,000 Mohanty. authorised to commence test ceiving from everyone now.” kind of skill. We are learning bility of being at the fron ty of the profession which have to remain optimistic.” samples per day by next “The faster screening will ing soon. With the passing of Shanti Hiranand, the Begum Akhtar era is formally over HC order on vehicle use
She was our last dition. Shantiji taught music raag pilu. would teach only when she She went even beyond partially modifi ed almost until the last months She admits, “I had no idea was in the mood. Soon Shanti keeping her mouth shut. She tangible link to the of her life. what raag pilu was. I had just was an appendage of the fa saw to it that the place which Relief for senior citizens, doctors legendary artiste Shantiji was born in Luck learnt the bhajan as one mily. She was joined by is the fi nal resting place of her now into a forwardlooking would learn any fi lmi song. another student, Anjali Ba guru lived up, even if mini Correspondent Court comprising acting Saleem Kidwai business family which en Since I was performing on the nerji, and Begum Akhtar did mally, to the stature of the ar CUTTACK Chief Justice Kumari Sanju couraged education and did radio at the time, I was used what no other female artiste tiste she was. Along with In a partial modifi cation of Panda and Justice Biswa With the passing of singer not frown on her interest in to the radio station sending has done before – marked keeping Begum Akhtar’s mus its Thursday’s order on the nath Rath on Friday follow Shanti Hiranand (19322020), music and even enrolled her me a song set to a particular them as formal students and ic alive, this will be to the use of twowheelers during ing an appeal made by the early on Friday morning after in Bhatkhande Music Insti tune and I would just go and herself as a formal Ustad by eternal credit of Shanti the ongoing nationwide State government seeking a a brief illness, an era, fi rst tute at the age of six or seven. record them. I also did a lot of conducting a gandabandh Hiranand. lockdown, the Orissa High clarifi cation on the High shaken to its core by the pass She moved to Lahore briefl y choral singing. I had a high ceremony. The Begum Akhtar era is Court on Friday made it Court’s Thursday order. ing of Begum Akhtar in 1974, with her parents where she Shanti Hiranand pitched voice and I could sing Begum Akhtar, being the formally over. As Shanti sang clear that only “senior citi The High Court on fi nally comes to an end. For fi rst recorded for radio. After loudly.” Begum Akhtar com tempestuous person she was, in her fi rst recording, a Sha zens” and “handicapped Thursday had diluted the nearly fi ve decades, almost Partition, she returned to she could learn from Begum plimented her and asked her tested this gurushishya rela keel Badayuni ghazal: persons” are allowed to use government’s blanket ban singlehandedly Shanti Hira Akhtar. In her memoir Be- what she wanted to learn tionship hard and it goes to Fasana e shab e gham their vehicles to go to mar on use of vehicles, saying nand kept the music of her le OBITUARY gum Akhtar: The Story of My from her. Shanti didn’t know Shantiji’s credit that she was khatm hone wala hai ketplaces for the purchase that the government should gendary Ustad alive. With her Ammi, Shantiji recalls this what to say because as she ad never found wanting and ‘Shakeel’ chand sitaron of essential items like veget fi rst come out with a com gone, so has our last tangible Lucknow and continued to fi rst meeting. Without an ap mits, “I had no idea about her stayed unquestionably loyal men ji nahin lagta. ables, fruits, grocery items posite plan on availability link to Begum Akhtar. For sing for the radio. Around this pointment, she had taken a music or what I wanted to to her Ammi till her end. She (The story of the night of and medicines. of essential commodities nearly fi ve decades Shantiji time Begum Akhtar, after her rickshaw and turned up at learn from her.” never said a word that could grief is about to end “The police authorities locally before imposing a performed and recorded gha brief retirement from music, Begum Akhtar’s house and af This fortuitous meeting led be considered disrespectful ‘Shakeel’, the heart is no shall also give relaxation in ban on the use of vehicles. zals, dadras and thumris in had formally returned to re ter a brief wait was granted to classes from the next day of her Ustad though there is longer distracted by the mobility of doctors and The court had also res the tradition of Begum Ak cording for All India Radio. an audience where a harmo onwards. Soon she had prac still today an audience hun moon or the stars.) health workers on produc trained the police from col htar but also diligently taught In 1952, an offi cial at the ra nium was forwarded towards tically moved in with her gry for salacious details of her Saleem Kidwai is a Luck- tion of their identifi cation lecting fi nes from vehicle it to many who wanted to be a dio station suggested to the her for an impromptu audi teacher because Begum Ak Ustad’s life, and many egged now-based historian and and certifi cates,” said a Di users until the third count part of the great singer’s tra young Shanti that perhaps tion. She sang a bhajan in htar, whimsical as she was, her to tell tales. author. vision Bench of the High of default.
BIRTHDAY OBITUARY & REMEMBRANCE REMEMBRANCE Institutions off er emotional support to youngsters DEATH They are coming up with helpline facilities so that the aff ected can reach out to experts on time LEGAL NOTICE Bishwanath Ghosh suddenly been disrupted and year adults can be overheard Kolkata why there is restriction on go planning holidays, but this Recognising that the lock ing out of home. year there is no such plan down due to COVID19 could The West Bengal Commis ning — everything looks un be taking an emotional toll on sion for Protection of Child certain. This is likely to add to youngsters and children, in Rights has off ered helpline the stress,” said Dr. Sanyal. stitutions in West Bengal are numbers so that parents can “The idea behind the hel coming up with helpline facil reach out to experts about pline numbers,” she said, “is ities so that the aff ected can guidance on how to deal with to create awareness among reach out to experts. children undergoing stress parents. First of all, they must The University of Calcutta, due to the lockdown. Last take [the lockdown] as an op West Bengal Commission for week, it circulated a list of 17 portunity to spend more time Protection of Child Rights experts — including psychia with their children, which and Maheshtala College are Children hold a picture of Jesus Christ on the occasion of Good trists, paediatricians and many are unable to other
some of the institutions that Friday in Kolkata on Friday. * PTI counsellors — who can be wise. This is a good time for have roped in mental health reached at specifi ed times of mental bonding.” professionals and counsellors for us?’ They are undergoing notifi cation that the depart the day. to address problems of the immense stress and it is im ments of psychology and ap “Small children are unable ‘Engage children’ young in the face of an unpre portant we talk to them,” said plied psychology would pro to understand what exactly is “Secondly, parents should ac cedented global crisis. Dr. Rumpa Das, principal of vide free counselling services the matter — why are they not commodate them and engage “My students and their pa Maheshtala College. to all students of the universi going to school, why they them. These two things are PUBLIC NOTICE rents are extremely anxious The college has not only ty. It listed the names and cannot go out to play? They very important. Suppose a about the future. They come formed a core team to coun numbers of the professors can sense something is the mother is cooking, she can al I, SMT. Sudarshan gupta, W/O Late Sh. L. C. Gupta, R/O:− D 596, from economically disadvan sel students, parents and who could be reached at a matter but they don’t know ways make the child partici street no 9, bhajanpura, delhi− taged background and they nonteaching staff but has al specifi ed time in a day or what exactly it is. In such sit pate in the process in a small 110053, debarring my son Mr. Neer- aj Gupta and Vandana Jain( his are unable to comprehend so tied up with an organisa week. uations children can turn way. If nothing else, she can foresaid wife) from all my move- what’s going on. One girl tion called Samabyathi Emo But it is the children that cranky and need attention,” lift the child and get it to stir able and immovable assets from to- asked me the other day, tional Support Group to are probably among the said Dr. Nilanjana Sanyal, a [an underpreparation dish] day (09/04/2020) onwards with my own consent because of violent be- ‘Ma’am, are we all going to extend help to the needy. worsthit by the nationwide practising psychoanalyst who with a ladle. The child will havior of Vandana Jain. I’ll not die?’ Another girl asked me, On Wednesday, the Univer lockdown, unable to compre is on the panel of experts. feel it is contributing [to the be responsible or concerned for their future actions. ‘Will life ever be normal again sity of Calcutta also issued a hend why their routines have “Normally, this time of the cooking],” Dr. Sanyal said.
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