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Adivasis flock Jangubai temple
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| Adivasis of Mankguda in Danthanpalli to Jangubai temple |
Thousands of Adivasi devotees from Maharashtra and Telangana districts are coming here to have darshan of Goddess Jangubai to fulfill their vows.
As Adivasis
believe that goddess Jangubai used to stay in the caves, the religious heads
of eight Gond clans are now lighting an earthen lamp in the cave. Having darshan
of Jangubai gives a spiritual experience which cannot be described in words.
Adivasis come
with their families and other villagers as a group. They stay in the jungles
only during the night time and start their journey covering all their religious
places enroute to the Jangubai temple.
The
pilgrimage to the Jangubai may even take one week or more for the people of
distant places in the Adilabad and other parts of Telangana and also bordering Maharashtra,
Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Odisha.
The material
required for religious event and other luggage will kept in bullock carts and
some time place their children in them and the elders walk on foot.
They strongly
believe that Jangubai is powerful goddess and their wishes will be fulfilled if
they pray for her. Though they have been performing special pujas at Jangubai
from the time immemorial, the number of devotees coming to the temple is
increasing now.
Jangubai temple chairman Marapa Bhajirao, said the
special pujas will be performed at the temple thrice in a year and it starts in
the pusyamas and will continue in the entire month and added the drinking water
has become major problem for the devotees and the Telangana government must
make proper arrangements.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015
No cells in schools , colleges
The Telangana government has banned the use of
mobile phones in all educational institutions in the state. The move follows
the rise in misuse of cellphones in schools. As of now, neither students nor
teachers will be allowed to carry mobiles into class rooms.
Commissioners of school education, Telangana, issued
the orders to this effect on December 31, 2014. He has asked the district education
officers and the regional joint director of school education to implement the instructions.
The orders stated that ‘use of cellphones in
educational institutions is prohibited’ and that “neither teachers nor students
should be permitted to carry mobiles in classrooms”.
Mixed reaction to mobile ban, parents for counseling :
In view of the orders issued by the commissioner of the
school education, Telangana issued orders that cellphones would not be allowed
in classrooms. The school managements are making provisions for lockers for the
safe- keeping of mobiles.
However, it is
not clear if the students can avail of het same facility.
The move was recommended by the Committee on safety and
Security of Women and Girls in Telangana under the chairmanship of Poonam
Malakondaiah, the principal secretary to the government, agriculture.
She said, “We
had undertaken a detailed exercise and the committee spoke to head of over 100
private and government educational institutions found the use of cellphones to
be a diversion”.
Students, however, nurse their own concerns.
Namerah, a student of Class VIII, said, “It is not that all students misuse the
phones. I want a mobile with me so that I can call someone if I don’t feel safe
or if something happens.”
Taking pictures or videos of girls will definitely go
down if the order is implemented. However, misuse outside the school can’t be
ruled out. Students should be counselled in schools”, said Rafia Syeda, mother
of three school- going children.
TS United Teachers’ Federation district general
secretary A. Venkat welcomed the move and said a few union members including cellpones
in the classroom since 2012. He said cellphones disturbs teachers and students.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Colleges stoop to conquer students
The fee- reimbursement scheme seems to have done
much bad than good to the students pursuing engineering in various private colleges.
However, the scheme has enabled managements of private engineering colleges to
mint money for some time.
Now, a majority of them are reeling in financial crisis
due to inordinate delay in release of funds for the scheme. The students have got
engineering degrees but are not able to secure proper jobs due to lack of
necessary skills.
Initially, there were four engineering colleges in
the Adilabad district. Now, there are only two- one at Mancherial and other in
Adilabad district headquarters.
The two other colleges, one at Kagaznagar and the
other at Nirmal, were closed down. The college in Nirmal was shifted to Hyderabad.
The less number of colleges in Adilabad has
been promoting managements of other colleges in Warangal, Karimnagar, Nizamabad
and Hyderabad to lure the students belonging to the district.
Despite lack of infrastructure and qualified faculty,
these colleges even offered seats on ‘Buy one get one free’ basis to attract more
students to their institute. If a student gets ready for admission in college,
the managements promised to offer one other seat in same college to the kin of the
candidates.
Some managements even offered Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000
as good will to the students taking admissions in their college eyeing the reimbursement
scheme. The government reimburses Rs 35,000 tuition fee in addition to the
hostel charges for the each student.
Just as the scheme, which was introduced by former chief
minister late Chief Minister Y.S Rajasekhar Reddy promoted many to set up
private engineering colleges, many students, through not having command on
sciences and mathematics , got admitted to the colleges because the state was
paying their fee.
Some management ran the colleges in poultry sheds
too and recruited jut passed B.Tech students as faulty members.
However, in separate Telangana, the ‘FAST’(Financial
Assistance to Students of Telangana) scheme proposed by the Telangana state
government in place of fee reimbursement scheme which declared 1956 as the cut
off date for being considered as native of the state and eligible for FAST, hit
the admissions to engineering colleges.
It was reported that nearly 80 engineering colleges
in the state are on the verge of closure due to lack of infrastructure and
teaching faculty after inspections conducted by the committee constituted by
the state government.
Deputy Director of Social Welfare Ankam Shankar said
nearly 600 students were studying in the two private engineering colleges in
the district. Students belonging to previous batches have also not got their post
matric scholarships (including fee reimbursement) renewed for the 2014-15 due
to delay in issuing of guidelines for ‘FAST’.
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