Mangaluru: BIT, BEADs, BIT Polytechnic mark Gandhi Jayanti with talk on 'Mahatma's vision for India'
Mangaluru: Bearys Institute of Technology, Bearys Enviro-Architecture Design School and BIT Polytechnic to mark Gandhi Jayanti, organized a talk on Mahatma Gandhi’s vision for India.
BIT Principal Dr. SI Manjur Basha delivered the welcome note to begin the event where Motivational Speaker and Former Advisor of Talent Research Foundation Rafeeq Master was invited the chief guest and speaker.
Rafeeq in his address spoke about Swaraj and simplicity and emphasized on how leader lead the way for the team unlike bosses who order the team to work. He also spoke about the Eighteen-point program that Mahatma Gandhi wanted to implement.
“Mahatma Gandhi's vision for India was of a country where Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians were all treated equally. He advanced the idea of unity in diversity and never linked any religion to the idea of the country. Satyagraha (firmness in truth) and sarvodaya (welfare of all) are the core concepts of Mahatma Gandhi's political philosophy. Satyagraha became the alternative nonviolent resistance soul force of the oppressed against injustice” he said.
Dr. Aziz Mustafa, Director BIT Polytechnic and Ar. Ashok Mendonca, Principal, BEADS also graced the occasion.
The event concluded with National Anthem.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
