LIC associates with Ramakrishna Mutt in social services
(Press Release) - At the time when the Hyderabad Branch of Ramakrishna Mutt is celebrating their Golden Jubilee, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has today handed over medical equipment to the Hospital maintained by the Trust. Sri Puneet Kumar, Zonal Manager handed over the Bio Chemical Analyzer at a function held in the Mutt campus. Swamy Bodhmayananda, Adhyaksha of the Mutt and Sri Purnachaitanya, incharge of the Vivekananda Health Centre have received the equipment on behalf of the Trust. Around 500-600 patients visit the hospital every day out of which nearly 150 require blood tests. Till now, these tests were performed manually. The equipment now provided generates the results in no time with accuracy.
Sri Puneet Kumar, Zonal Manager spoke on the occasion and said that through the LIC Golden Jubilee Foundation, LIC has been supporting organizations working for the social cause. This year 23 organizations were given support so far in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka States with fund of over Rs 8.50 Crores. When identified that the Ramakrishna Mutt is in need of certain equipment LIC decided to support this trust also.
Sri Bodhmayananda explained that the Hyderabad Branch started in the year 1973. The Trust is running Vivekananda Institute of Languages, Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence and Vivekananda Health Centre. The services are available for all. The Hospital has 30 specialist doctors, 30 employees and 15 volunteers. Medicine is provided to the patients in their pharmacy on no profit basis and will be at free of cost to the needy. He thanked LIC for coming forward and supporting their cause.
Sri GBV Ramaiah, Sri Promoda Kumar Sahoo and other senior officials from LIC were present on this occasion.
Dated at Hyderabad on 13th January, 2025.
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
