விருது 2007 ரெக்கமெண்டேசன் - 2

குட்டீஸ்க்கு விருது ஏன் தரவேண்டும்? நீங்களும் பாத்துட்டு உங்க கருத்து சொல்லுங்க.
இதுவும் டைம்ஸ் நியூஸ்

Purnia | All of 15 years, she looks diminutive and frail. But Farzana — all of 15 — displayed exemplary courage when she dived into the swirling currents of Parman river to save five drowning persons, including a couple of minors. On September 13, 2007, Farzana was washing clothes at Biseri Ghat when she spotted an overcrowded country boat capsizing in the river. Without a minute’s pause, she jumped into the waters, pulled out a drowning infant and swam to safety. She went back again and again, and returned with four more. The five saved by her included a woman. The daughter of a farm labourer, Farzana has since then been admitted to Class I in Kasturba Gandhi Girls’ Boarding School at Baisi, on the directive of the Bihar CM, whose government has also recommended her name for a bravery award.

குட்டீஸ்க்கு விருது ஏன் தரவேண்டும்? நீங்களும் பாத்துட்டு உங்க கருத்து சொல்லுங்க.

குட்டீஸ் என்ன செஞ்சிருக்காங்கன்னு பாருங்க அப்புறம் நீங்க முடிவு பண்ணி விருது குடுத்தாலும் சந்தோசம் இல்லாட்டியும் சந்தோசம். அட்லிஸ்ட் இந்த Brave & Intelligent boy க்கு ஒரு "well done" அப்படின்னு பாரட்டினிங்கன்னா அதுவே போதும்.

இது இன்றைய ஹூப்ளி/பெங்களூரு இந்தியா டைம்ஸ் நியூஸ்.
Chikmagalur | Manjunath, is a farm labourer in Shivani village in Karnataka’s Tarikere taluk. On November 25, 2007, his presence of mind saved the lives of over 2,000 passengers on board the Arsikere-Harihara passenger train. When he went to tend his grazing bullocks, he saw part of the railway track lying out of alignment. He removed his shirt and went running along the tracks for over a kilometre. When he spotted a train, he began waving his shirt. The train driver first wondered if he was trying to commit suicide but nonetheless halted the train. The passengers’ anger turned to relief when Manjunath informed them about the faulty track. Later that day, the villagers felicitated him and his parents. But Manjunath remains quite unaffected by the adulation, saying, ‘‘I only prevented the train from getting derailed.’’

இப்ப சொல்லுங்க இந்த பையனுக்கு Bravery Award குடுக்கனுமா இல்லயா ?

125 பிராணிகளிடத்தில் இரக்கம் தேவையா?-அனுபவம் அனிமல் தெரபி

இது ஒரு உண்மை அனுபவம் நீங்களே பார்த்து நல்ல தீர்ப்பா சொல்லுங்க

இது இன்றைய பூனே டைம்ஸ் நியூஸ் - அனிமல் தெரபி
Statutory warning: pets good for your health

Pune: Recently, when ‘Tyson’ visited a couple of HIV/AIDS affected children to spend a fun-filled day with them at the city-based NGO Manavya, the otherwise reluctant children shed their emotional and social inhibitions to play with him just like any other kid of their age. For, Tyson was unlike any other friends they have ever had — he did not judge them and their condition.

For one thing, Tyson is a dog, who is specially trained in animal therapy. Animal therapy, a process through which psychologists, paediatricians and other medical practitioners use animals as a medium of healing, has been catching on in India for the last few years.

One of the famous examples of animal therapy is that of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, whose Maltipoo named Sukhi was largely responsible for helping him overcome the health problems he had had last year.

Clinical psychologist Minal Lonkar Kavishwar has been into pet therapy for over four years and was one of the first to introduce it in India. Explaining exactly why pet therapy works, Kavishwar says, “Unlike human beings, animals do not judge us according to our deeds, financial status or anything else. Their unconditional acceptance fulfils our primal requirement for love. This is what has a positive psychological impact on affected people.” Kavishwar says she has seen pet therapy working wonders for mentally-challenged children, patients of depression and cancer and even disaster-affected people.

This was something that prodded her to start animal therapy for cancer patients at the Ruby Hall Cancer Centre here with Kiara, a one-yearold Golden Retriever, who is a trained therapy dog. The project kicked off two weeks ago.

Says Kavishwar: “Animals can sense changing moods of a person even before he/she can realise it. The strong intuition that animals possess, coupled with the special training imparted to them, makes them very sensitive to patients’ needs.”

116. புது முயற்சி விவசாயம் + அக்ரி டூரிசம்

அன்பு அத்தை, மாமா இதை கொஞ்சம் பாருங்க, நம்ம ஊர்லயும் இது மாதிரி பண்ணமுடியுமா....

இது இன்றைய பூனெ டைம்ஸ் செய்தி

Sunil Bhosale, a farmer from Jogawadi village, Baramati taluka is on top of the world. A farmer whose annual income barely exceeds Rs 40,000, Bhosale was able to earn Rs 6,000 in just a day last Saturday. He has recently thrown open his 10-acre farm to tourists and on the very first day he was able to reap a profit of Rs 4,500.

Farmer Ghanshyam Kelkar is busy planning to turn Teteghar, a village near Pune with a population of 3,500, into an agri-tourism village. A handful of farmers in this village have already played host to tourists from Pune. More and more farmers near Pune as well as all over Maharashtra have found an ancillary activity, a profitable add-on to traditional farming in agri tourism. And, the credit goes to the Baramati-based Agri Tourism Development Corporation.

Started with a view to boost rural economy, ATDC became operational in 2006, says Pandurang Taware, sales and marketing director, ATDC. Agri-tourism involves attracting tourists to farms and allowing them to enjoy a handson experience with the rural way of living. Tourists can participate in farm activities or just chill out at the farms, eat home-cooked food, take a bullock cart ride or visit places of interest around the villages. Some farmers also plan to tieup with folk singers or dancers to present folk art forms to the tourists. Tourists can also buy vegetables or grains grown on the farm.


In order to gauge the potential for agri-tourism in Maharashtra, ATDC undertook a survey in Pune and Mumbai. The survey concluded that 43 per cent (12 lakh) people in urban areas did not have relatives in villages. “And these are our target customers” says Taware. Himself a farmer, Taware first experimented with agritourism through his pilot project in Baramati. The project is spread over 110 acres of land. The first tourist visited this project in October 2005 and so far, 19,000 tourists have visited Taware’s farm. Seeing the response, he initiated the setting up of ATDC and imparted training to farmers near Pune and other parts of Maharashtra on agri-tourism. According to a Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) report, rural tourism in India is estimated at Rs 14,000 crore, says Taware.

So far, ATDC has trained 52 farmers from Pune, Ahmednagar, Karad, Sangli, Satara, Buldhana. It is a week-long training programme and costs a farmer Rs 5,000. The farmers are given a crash course in how and what attracts tourists, how to maintain a farm, hospitality management etc. The affordability factor too is high in the case of agritourism. The maximum tariff charged to a tourist for a room varies from Rs 200 to Rs 500 a night. The tariff is reasonable, says Taware as their target market is the educated class, be it middle or high-income.

The criterion in selecting a farmer and farm is based on two things, says Taware. The tourist must be able to participate in some farming or farmrelated activity and he should have something to buy at the farm, be it grain, fruit or vegetable. Moreover, only those people who are into farming already are trained by the ATDC. For, although agri-tourism can be a profit-making business, the intent is not to turn farmers away from traditional farming completely. “Agri-tourism cannot be an alternative to farming,” Taware states.

It can, however, be an alternative to costly and plastic tourism, says Ghanshyam Kelkar. As technology advances, he says, people want more and more to experience the old way of life.

Rohini Bansal, a tourist from Pune, agrees. She recently visited a farm near Jejuri. Meenakshi Moolani, president of Spectrum, a study group which visited Bhosale’s farm, reveals that she spent a major part of her life in urban areas. “So spending a whole day experiencing rural life is just what I was looking at,” she states.

AGRI-TOURISM DIRECTORY In order to facilitate tourists and farmers, ATDC has recently released a directory of farmers engaged in agri-tourism all over Maharashtra. The directory comprises basic information such as the farmers name and contact number, the farm’s location, what’s available at the farm and places of interest around the farm. The directory is available at the ATDC office on Fergusson College road, MTDC offices in Maharashtra, book stores, railway stations and airport. The cost of the directory is Rs 50. ATDC also plans to distribute the directory in schools and IT offices. “We want to do all that we can to sell agritourism,” says Taware. Tourists who wish to avail of agri-tourism can refer to the directory to book rooms in advance.

94. ரியல் ஸ்டார் குட்டீஸ்'க்கு பிடித்த ஹிரோ

நீங்க சினிமால இல்லாம நிஜத்தில ஹீரோ போலிஸ் பாத்து இருக்கீங்களா, இங்க பாருங்க இவர் ஒரு மாவட்ட சூப்பரிண்டன்ட் ஆப் போலிஸ், இவர் குட்டீஸ்களின் ஹீரோ, கெட்டவர்களுக்கு சாமி/போக்கிரி/தல/காக்க காக்க சூர்யா.

குட்டீஸ் எப்படி ரவுண்டு கட்டி ஆட்டோகிராப் வாங்கராங்கன்னு பாருங்க. இவர் ஒரு நிஜ சூப்பர் ஸ்டார்.

இந்த நிஜ போலிஸ் பேரு KRISHNA PRAKASH SP for SANGLI District.






நீங்க இவர போல ஹீரோ போலிஸ் பாத்து இருக்கீங்களா, அவர பத்தி சொல்லுங்க தெரிஞ்சிக்கரோம்.

71 இன்றைய நல்ல செய்தி 06-12-07 (U)

இன்றைய பூனெ டைம்ஸ் முதல் பக்கம். இந்த அண்ணனின் சாதனையை பாரட்டி வாழ்த்துவோம் வாருங்கள்.
Rickshaw Driver’s Son In Merit List In Fourth Attempt

Pune: Krishnant Gholap (18), the son of a rickshaw driver from Nana Peth, has broken all barriers to stand 163rd in the All-India merit list of the National Defence Academy (NDA), which was declared on the internet on Wednesday evening.


Krishnant, a first-year mechanical engineering student of the Sinhagad Institute, achieved this feat after three unsuccessful attempts earlier this year. He failed to make the NDA list in January 2007 and the navy and army lists through the ‘technical entry scheme’ (TES) in July and August 2007 respectively.

However, these setbacks only added to his resolve. “You cannot doubt my sincerity and determination, Sirs,” Krishnant told the NDA interview panel. “This is the fourth time this year that I am trying to get into the armed forces.” Perhaps it was this statement that clinched the seat! Krishnant studied at New English School (NES) Ramanbaug, a prominent Marathi medium school, and in a short span of two years gained enough mastery over the language so as to conduct this entire interview in flawless English.

“It is a common misconception that young recruits in the armed forces must be the sons of defence officers,” says Krishnant, smiling. “I wanted to prove this theory wrong and I am glad I succeeded.”

Krishnant has excellent academic credentials. He secured 90.93 per cent in his SSC and an equally impressive 89.17 in his HSC. In fact, he topped the HSC science stream at the Poona College in May this year.

It was NDA cadet Ajinkya Umranikar, an alumnus of NES Ramanbaug, who fired in Krishnant the desire to join the armed forces. “I realised that the country has too many doctors and engineers and too few good army officers. The army is a noble profession in which you serve the country without any expectations,” says Krishnant.

52. இன்றைய நல்ல செய்தி - 03/12/07 (கண் தெரியாத மாணவரின் சாதனைகள்)

Disability no excuse for unemployment பூனெ டைம்ஸ் ஆப் இந்தியா பக்கம் 5- வாங்க வாழ்த்துவோம்

Social Organisation Opens Jobs Cell For The Differently-Abled In City

Pune: According to the 2001 Indian census, there are total 15.69 lakh physically-challenged persons in Maharashtra alone, comprising of 9.33 lakh male and 6.35 lakh female.

Though the figures are high, when it comes to employment, only around 1 per cent of physically-challenged people get employment opportunities.

“And most of the differently-abled persons from this one per cent are selfemployed,”
says Rahul Deshmukh, president, Snehankit Association. “That’s not all. The government’s three per cent reservation policy for the disabled is also being misused by persons who have very minor disability, such as missing finger and things like that. Those, who really need the reservation, do not get the benefits,” he pointed out, adding that totally disabled persons have failed to avail the benefit of the reservation policy.

Keeping this in mind, Snehankit Association, that works for the welfare of the visually-impaired, has decided to start a ‘disability employment cell’ on the occasion of World Disability Day on December 3. With the main aim of placing all kinds of differently-abled people, the cell will also be run by such persons.

“People have several misconceptions about hiring differently-abled persons. But they fail to understand that the attrition rate among disabled is very low. Also the costs of training spent on such persons turns out to be a huge investment,” says Deshmukh.

The cell has already placed one visually-disabled person in the accounts section of a city-based chemical manufacturing company. As of now, the employment cell has a vacancy for ten persons for a city-based corporate entity.

“We are starting our activities from December 3. We invite differently-abled persons to send in their resumes to us so that we can screen them and have further interviews,” said Deshmukh. Overall, there are various posts that can be occupied by the differently-abled persons, Deshmukh added.

For instance, posts such as industrial counselling, labour welfare officers, public relations officers, industrial social workers, voice processes in the BPO industry, liftmen, typists and telephone operators can be easily given to such persons.

Differently-abled persons can contact rrahuldeshmukh@yahoo.co.in for further information.

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அவரை பற்றி இன்னும் கொஞ்சம் (from his Resume)

12ம் வகுப்பில் எடுத்த மதிப்பெண் 81.33 % Pune Board 13வது ராங்க்
பி.எ (Sociology) Pune University 75% 4th ராங்க்
B.ED. (History, Marathi ) Pune University 66% First Class 2003-2004 O Grade
M.A. (Sociology ) Pune University 82.51% First Class With Distinction ராங்க் 1

மற்ற படிப்பு

Certificate Course in Child and Family Counseling – Pune University
With Grade A, Awarded the Best Project- 2004.

Diploma in Social Work – Tilak Maharashtra University With 67%. Passed in 2004-2005

Certificate course in Information Technology From MITech With 75.20 % & Grade B

MSCIT Course completed from Siddhi Computer Education with 80%

PRIZES & ACHIVEMENTS:

Won a number of prizes in State Level Competitions like - Swimming, Essay writing and Elocution during College Days.

Writer of two volumes of a Marathi Book – ‘MAITRI NIBHANDHASHI‘ for Standard Vth to VIIth and for Standard VIIIth to XIIth. Great thinker of Maharashtra G.P. Pradhan has given his Prefix to the book & Book was published by Anmol Publication.

AWARDS:

Rewarded as the ‘Best Student of the Year’ by Koregaon Park Blind School, Apate Prashala Sir Parshurambhau College, Pune for respective years .

Special Award had been given by the social welfare Department of Pune & Solapur For Greatest Educational Achievement.

Received ‘CHIRAG AWARD’ (2006) from Rotaray Club of Pune Up-town.

Received ‘VIDYA VRAT’ Award of 2005 from Vidya Institute of Management.

HOBBIES:

Reading, Meeting people, Making Friends, Helping others & Traveling

STRENGTHS:

Optimistic Attitude,
High Grasping Power
Good Communication Skills
Good Presentation skills
Leadership Skill
Hardworking, Punctual, and Sincere.

இன்றைய சக்சஸ் ஸ்டோரி 02-Dec-07

இன்றைய பூனெ டைம்ஸ் பக்கம் - 12 . லெட் அஸ் ஆல் சல்யுட் தெம்.

A BPO enabled by the differently enabled

It’s a company with a difference — the difference being its 81 employees who are people with different kinds of disabilities including physically challenged, hearing impaired and visually challenged persons. The company, Vindhya E-Infomedia in Bangalore, has grown from a small data entry firm launched in June 2006 to a fullfledged non-voice BPO with profits touching a crore. Its profit in the initial months was just Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000.

Pavithra Y S, who started the company, attributes its success entirely to the ‘‘dedication, focus and hard work’’ of her employees who, she says, are not just as good as any employee but ‘‘better in every way’’. ‘‘I am very proud of the sense of belonging that each employee has in this company of 96 people. This company is not owned by Pavithra but by every employee of Vindhya who made it what it is today,’’ she says. She found most of her employees through the Karnataka government’s department for the disabled and the NGO Enable India.

Pavithra did have to invest money and effort in the initial training of her employees, which included brushing up their computer skills, increasing their typing speed and putting them through English classes as most were from a rural background.She has even learnt sign language from her hearing impaired employees. ‘‘Earlier, I used to write down what I had to say to them. Now I can speak to them in sign language. This is important to me because no employee ought to feel alienated in the company,’’ says Pavithra.

Her efforts have paid off. Vindhya has almost zero attrition. After the company started providing accommodation close to the office, even a couple of people who left the company have come back. They are now moving into a 400-seater office space, adding more to their staff, who they say, will definitely be from the disability sector. — RN

10 வயது குட்டீஸ் சாதனை

இன்றைய பூனெ டைம்ஸ் 22-11-077 முதல் பக்கம்.

10-yr-old makes Satara proud

Satara: Citizens of Satara will be proud while welcoming a new postal stamp, which would be based on a painting by Swarali Vishwanath Bhakare, a 10-year-old student here.

The department of posts commemorates Children’s Day every year by bringing out stamps designed by children. The designs are selected by holding an all India competition. For this year’s stamp the competition was conducted on November 14, 2006on the theme ‘The magic of the night’.

Swarali Bhakare, daughter of constable Vishwanath, won the first prize in Group I and B. Karthick of Pudukottai in Tamil Nadu won the first prize in Group II.

The postal department will release about eight lakh stamps of these designs from December 1. The stamps will be priced at Rs 5.

Swarali was studying in the fourth standard of Annasaheb Raje Bhosale primary school when she participated in the competition. Swarali told TOI that she wanted to pursue a career in painting and loves swimming and dancing. She had bagged a state-level gold medal in a painting competition and has won several local contests.

“She is a bright student. I have a dream to enrol her in the J.J. School of Arts,” her father, himself an arts graduate, told TOI.

Swarali is studying in Std V at the Anant English School and taking her drawing lessons at Kala Niketan under the guidance of Shekhar Hasbnis.

“Her uncle Kailas Bhakare is also a good painter, who helps Swarali in paintings. At home her mother Sangita, also an art graduate, helps her and her brother Partha who is in Std II, with their studies,” Vishwanath said.

The police and postal departments and many local mandals have felicitated the emerging artist.

Swarali Bhakare’s painting will be depicted on a Rs 5 postal stamp to be issued on December 1

ருபினா வளர்த்த அம்மாவுக்கா இல்ல பெற்ற அம்மாக்கா உங்க கருத்து என்ன?

இன்று டைம்ஸ் ஆப் இந்தியா பூனே நீயுஸ். உங்க கருத்து என்ன ?

உங்க ஓட்டு பெற்ற அம்மா என்றால், எதனால் என்று பின்னூட்டம் இடுங்கள்.

Aurangabad: Two women here are locked in a custody battle over four-year-old Rubina causing the police and local residents much consternation.

The child was given to Sangeeta Shinde, a resident of Nagsennagar slum shortly after she was born because Vijubai Jagdhane, the biological mother, was too upset after the birth to care for her. However, Sangeeta too found it difficult to bring up the baby and approached Rashidabi Shah, who has three sons and three daughters.

Rashidabi, who was working as a housemaid, took the child and named her Rubina. At the age of four, Rubina was admitted to a nursery school in Shahnoorwadi.

Meanwhile, Vijubai, who lives in Paithan after having married again, came to regret her decision to give up her child and decided she wanted her daughter back. She searched for Sangeeta who had moved to another slum. A few days ago, she managed to contact Sangeeta, who directed her to Rashidabi. However, Rashidabi refused to let go of Rubina.

“Ask her (Rubina) whom she wants to live with?” an angry Rashidabi told head constable Shivaji Jine, who is handling the case. “Why did Vijubai abandon her in the first place? I must have my Rubina back.”