Hoshiarpur: Continuing the mission to light up lives of visually impaired, the Rotary Club, Hoshiarpur, arranged corneal implant of 16 corneal visually impaired patients in December 2020. Rotary Club chief Gopal Vasudeva told the members that out of 16 patients, 13 were from Punjab, one each from Haryana, Himachal and Uttar Pradesh. Secretary Parveen Palial said the patients were operated upon by Dr Rohit Gupta of Guru Ka Langar Eye Hospital, Chandigarh, and Dr Shakeen Singh of Amritsar. Project chairman Manoj Ohri said all the operations were done at the club’s expenditure and medicines were provided to the patients free of cost. Ohri said the operation was undertaken in collaboration with the Rotary Club Plano Metro, Texas, US. He appealed that if anyone comes across any person who’s visually impaired due to corneal blindness, they should contact the Rotary Club, Hoshiarpur (Mid Town). Assistant governor of club Satish Gupta said service to humanity was the main aim of the Rotary Club. OC

Ensure individual attention: DEO

Nawanshahr: District Education Officer Jagjit Singh exhorted teachers to ensure individual attention on each and every student to transform ‘Mission Shat Pratishat’ into reality. The Education Department has chalked out a meticulous plan for achieving ‘Mission Shat Pratishat’ through simplified learning material, question banks, model test papers as per the revised syllabus and structure of question papers are being provided to the students. Progress report of students on the basis of previous house examinations has been done and micro planning for preparing weak, average and meritorious students, for the ensuing board examinations has been formulated, he said. He was addressing the meet of district and block mentors of different subjects, zila sikhiya sudhar team to take stock of the progress report. The DEO asked them to ensure that learning material, question banks, model test papers and other latest guidelines should reach to the students. He asked them to mobilise teachers and students to download ‘Punjab Educare App’ for easy access to requisite material and latest information. TNS.
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