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Hello Jammu News at 3:36:00 PM 0

New Delhi, Aug 7: The Supreme Court today expressed concern over incidents of rape in the country and said that women are being raped "left, right and centre".

A bench comprising Justices M B Lokur, Deepak Gupta and K M Joseph pulled up the Bihar government for funding an NGO which ran the shelter home in Muzaffarpur where girls were allegedly raped and sexually abused.

The bench referred to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data and said that every six hours, a woman is raped in India.

The court referred the NCRB data and said 38,947 women were raped in India in 2016.

"What is to be done? Girls and women are getting raped left, right and centre," the bench said.

Advocate Aparna Bhat, who was appointed as an amicus curiae in the matter, told the court that no compensation has been paid to the alleged victims of sexual assault at the Muzaffarpur shelter home.

The lawyer also said that one of the girls, who was allegedly raped at the shelter home in Muzaffarpur, was still "missing".

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), which conducted an audit of shelter homes, told the court that out of 110 such institutions in Bihar, "grave concerns" have been raised about 15.

To this, the Bihar government told the apex court that nine cases of sexual abuse have been lodged involving these 15 institutions run by various NGOs.

The hearing in the matter will resume at 2 PM.

The apex court had earlier restrained the electronic media from showing, even in morphed form, images of the alleged victims of rape and sexual assault at the shelter home, observing they cannot be compelled to "relive the trauma" again and again.

The bench had said that it had not restrained the police authority from conducting probe and if they want to question the alleged victims, they would have to take assistance of professional counsellors and qualified child psychiatrist in consultation with National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences in Bengaluru and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai.

Over 30 girls were allegedly raped at the shelter home run by Brajesh Thakur, the chief of the state-funded NGO.

The alleged sexual exploitation of the girls was first highlighted in an audit report submitted by TISS to the state's social welfare department in April.

An FIR was lodged against 11 people, including Thakur, on May 31. The probe has now been taken over by the CBI.

In all, sexual abuse of 34 inmates out of 42 was confirmed in their medical examination, while two others who were unwell were yet to undergo medical tests.

The TISS audit report stated that many girls at the shelter home had complained of sexual abuse. A special investigation team was formed to probe the complaints.

The NGO running the shelter home in Muzaffarpur was blacklisted and the girls were shifted to shelter homes in Patna and Madhubani.

Women staff members of the shelter home and Thakur were among those who were arrested by the police in connection with the case. (PTI)
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Hello Jammu News at 11:48:00 AM 0

New Delhi, Jun 23 :  A special handbook has been made to inculcate soft skills in policemen at the grass-root level while dealing with children who are abuse victims.
The handbook teaches ways a police officer can communicate with a child, how he can make the child understand that he wants to help the child, among other things.
It was written by a team led by PM Nair of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and was published by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D).
"Police act as a watchdog, as the first responder for the child who is in a crisis and what we need from our police officers at that point of time is empathy and compassion and that is what this handbook aims to teach them," said A P Maheshwari, Director General of Bureau of Police Research and Development.
It also tells about specific duties of criminal justice actors that include state government and other agencies.
The book will also give procedures that are to be followed by the police special juvenile police unit.
Officials said the handbook would be distributed in all the police stations and will also have procedures for medical examination and emergency medical care of children.
"We are going to launch a nation-wide, district-wise programme of generating soft skills so that we can see empathy and compassion in every police officer whenever he sees a child in need," Maheshwari said.
Calling police officers gatekeepers of human rights, Nair said it is a "one-stop book" for the investigators that links text to context.
"The increase in the crimes against and women and children is mainly due to lack of empowerment in capacity building of the enforcement agencies, if we can do it together we can make a difference and focus on that point. This book exactly focusses on that point," Nair said.
Last week, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had asked the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) to work towards imparting training in soft skills to all policemen in the country.PTI
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Hello Jammu News at 4:25:00 PM 0

Guwahati, Jun 8: Parents in today's nuclear family setup often find it difficult to deal with the crucial first five years of a child's life and early childhood educationist Vasavvi Acharya seeks to address issues like this in her just published book.
"Many research studies reveal that the first five years of a child's life play a pivotal role in the complete development of the brain but many are still unaware of the importance of an enriched environment imperative for the development of a child," the author says in "The First 5 Years: Demystifying the crucial period of parenting".
Parenthood is a blessing and should never be taken for granted, says Acharya, who is associated with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati as a faculty and is also the managing director of Inner I Foundation, the parent company of the preschool brand 'Tender Petals'.
With increasing work pressure or demands of society, some parents tend to ignore the need of personal care, quality time, love and comfort that a child needs to grow up well, she points out.
"Over the years, I was loaded with innumerable queries from parents regarding their child's behaviour, attitude, likes and dislikes, character traits, teaching morals and values and this encouraged me to write this book for young and expectant parents," she says.
The book is a guide for parents who want to "know more about rearing their child in the most nurturing manner".
"Without the comforting presence of elders in nuclear families and with both parents often working outside the house, it helps immensely to have a book of this kind at hand to understand the psychological and physiological aspects of the growing toddler and be guided on how best to handle the inevitable challenges," says author-columnist Mitra Phukan.
The book is sectioned into four parts with the first dealing with psycho-social development, brain development, socio-emotional development, emotional intelligence and quotient and basic characteristics of toddlers and ways to deal with them.
The second section focuses on how to shape children the right way, need to talk, being a role model for the child, instilling values, impact of storytelling, importance of fairy tales, teaching children empathy and spending quality time with the child.
The third section highlights the ways to deal with a child's curiosity, creativity, handling disobedience and lying, how much stress a toddler can handle and above all addresses the most important issue that most modern-age parents have to deal with is how to deal with screen addiction.
The final section has some very interesting subjects like finding the right preschool for a child, what to look for in a preschool facilitator, the child's first day at school and classification of parents in different categories like the over involved, uninvolved, difficult, over sensitive and the unaccommodating parent.
"The author has successfully created a judicious combination of the science and art of raising a child from birth to five years and a must read for parents and teachers to understand their children given the complexities of modern life and society," says editor of Guwahati Plus Swapnil Bharali. (PTI)
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Hello Jammu News at 5:24:00 PM 0


Bengaluru, Jan 11: Atleast 20 people die in Karnataka every day due to tobacco related diseases with cancer being the main scourge, according to the latest Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS-2).
Releasing the factsheet of the survey conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Karnataka Assembly Deputy Speaker N H Shivashankara Reddy said every year the state reported 2680 tobacco related deaths.
According to GATS-2, the overall tobacco use prevalence has declined significantly among adults from 28.2 per cent in 2009-10 to 22.8 per cent in 2016-17 and this was less than the national average of 30 per cent. Smoking among adults had decreased from 11.9 per cent to 8.8 per cent during the period under review.
The prevalence of tobacco use among persons aged 15 to 17 had decreased from 6.8 per cent to 3.7 per cent and the mean average at initiation of tobacco use had increased from 17.7 years in GATS-1 to 19.8 per cent in GATS-2. The average monthly expenditure on cigarettes for daily cigarette smoker had increased to Rs 1802.2 as against Rs.642.8 in GATS-1. The average monthly expenditure on bidi worked out to Rs 352.9 in 2016-17 as against Rs 211.7 in 2009-10. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 7:04:00 PM 0
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            LEH, AUGUST 18: Minister for Cooperatives and Ladakh Affairs, Chering Dorjey, today chaired an interface meeting with LAHDC members, NABARD and Banks, and Bi-monthly structured meeting of DDMS at Conference Hall here.
          The CEC, LAHDC, Dr Sonam Dawa, Chairman NABARD, Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, CGM NABARD, Dorjey Mutup Executive Councilors Tsering Wangdus, Tsering Sangdup, Councillors, District Officers, Officials from NAPCONS, SKV, TISS, NABARD, Banks and progressive farmers from Leh attended the meeting.
          Mr Dorjey expressed gratitude and great hope from the visit of NABARD chairman to Leh. Speaking about the geographical and climatic peculiarities of Ladakh, the Minister stressed on the  need for specific area development of the arid region. 
          He said the projects under NABARD are rural development centric with holistic way of funding and capacity building, "In order to ensure people of the region take advantage of these schemes/projects it is very important for all the government representatives to become aware of NABARD schemes," he said.
          Highlighting the potential of better economic growth in the region, Mr. Dorjey asked the NABARD and other officers to promote sectors such as sea-buckthorn, apricot, Pashmina, high density apple with their technical guidance and skill development. 
          He also underscored the problem faced in irrigation, damages caused due to flash flood, possibility of seed storage and the need to develop border areas which he said is important for defence and security purposes. 
          The Minister was informed that more than 95% of villages in Leh district are connected with road under NABARD and PMGSY schemes and assurance that the remaining villages will be connected through proper road network soon. The Minister also made the announcement in the meeting to open a new branch of SBI bank in Diskit, Nubra.
          In his address, the CEC expressed gratitude to the officials of NABARD for the detailed presentation about their organization which he said has helped in a better understanding about their objectives and projects. He urged the district officers to prepare comprehensive project reports to take maximum benefit from NABARD Schemes. 
          Endorsing the Minister, Dr. Dawa also stressed on developing land based sustainable economy in Ladakh and to reduce dependency on tourism for economic growth.
          Chairman NABARD pointed out that the lack of financial literacy was the main challenge in Ladakh and stressed on creating banking awareness through a social movement to change the reluctant attitude of people towards banks. 
          He asked the Council to create basic infrastructure, adopt new technologies, create a separate cell with outcome based activities, develop organisational plan at granular level and prepare an actionable plan for separate projects to improve digital connectivity in the region. 
          He expressed willingness to support the Hill Council in land development, vegetable development, sea-buckthorn and apricot processing and trainings in Pashmina development. He also said that a proposal to appoint two Ladakhis as Assistant Project Manager in NABARD will be put to their Board members and soon an ATM of NABARD will be opened in Leh.

          Three letters of intent were also signed between NABARD, SKAUST-K and Tata Trust for promotion of developmental activities in Leh district, and NABARD and SBI for financing of 50 small dairy units of two animals each in Leh district. Mementoes were presented by chairman NABARD to the Minister and CEC, LAHDC Leh.
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