SKHF's chartered flight with over 170 stranded Kannadigas takes off from Dammam for Mangaluru
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Dammam: A chartered flight with 173 stranded Kannadigas including eight infants took off from Dammam International Airport on Monday. The flight, arranged by Saudi Kannadiga Humanity Forum (SKHF) took off from Dammam at 2 pm KSA time and is expected to land at Mangaluru Airport later at night.
SKHF, an NGO was recently formed to help stranded Kannadigas in Saudi due to the COVID-19 crisis in their repatriation to India. The NGO was formed under the leadership of Zakariya Jokatte, who is also the president of the Bearys Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) Jubail Unit and KS Shaikh Karnire, Director of Expertise Contracting Company, Saudi Arabia.
The passengers who would take the flight to Mangaluru on Monday were shortlisted through an online portal, where people with emergencies for repatriation had to register themselves to be flown back to the home state. Those on the flight included aged people, people with medical emergencies, people struggling due to loss of jobs, pregnant women, and others.
The members of the organization were on Monday afternoon present at the Dammam International Airport to assist the people in regulating formalities to board the flight.
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FM Sitharaman launches 'VijAIpatha' labs in govt schools in Karnataka
Hampi (PTI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday launched Cyient AI Labs (CyAILS) -- 'VijAIpatha', aimed at democratising access to Artificial Intelligence, STEM and Robotics education in government schools here.
In a series of posts on 'X', the minister's office shared pictures of the initiative launched at a girl's government school in Hosapete taluk and said that under the pilot phase, five world-class AI, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and Robotics laboratories are being established in government schools.
Each lab will be equipped with high-performance computers, AI-ready software, robotics kits, IoT devices, sensors and secure broadband connectivity.
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"Aligned with NEP 2020, Digital India and Hon'ble Prime Minister @narendramodi's mission of Viksit Bharat 2047, the programme integrates CBSE's AI curriculum and strengthens technology-enabled learning in public education," it said.
Focusing on rural and semi-urban India, the initiative introduces future technologies at the school level, helping build early digital fluency, computational thinking and innovation capacity among students, the minister's office said.
"Benefiting over 2,000 students and training more than 200 teachers, 'VijAIpatha' is a scalable CSR model fostering innovation, career readiness and grassroots digital empowerment," it added.
According to the office, the initiative has been designed as a scalable, replicable and sustainable model that can be adopted across districts and states in collaboration with government education departments, positioning it as a benchmark CSR model for a national AI education rollout.
