Mangaluru: Two Endosulfan victims with 85% and 65% disability clear SSLC examination comfortably
The two students secured 65% and 44% marks respectively
Mangaluru: Two students at Endosulfan day care centre in Koila, overcame all obstacles to pass SSLC examinations results of which were announced on Tuesday. The two students Manoj and Revathi are 85% and 65% disable respectively.
Manoj son of Bhaskar Gowda and Revathi scored first class (64 percent) in the SSLC examinations. Manoj suffering from 85 per cent disability wrote the examinations with the help of his scribe Mayur. Interestingly Manoj, who has undergone four surgeries, never sought any subject exemptions and faced the examinations like any other students.
Manoj is keen on securing a job in the government in order to look after his elderly parents. Revathi the daughter of Babu Mugera and Leela cleared SSLC examinations with 44 per cent marks. Revathi who hails from scheduled caste community was assisted by her scribe Likitha.
Revathi grinning from ear to ear is keen on pursuing PU. Both Manoj and Revathi had decided to write their examinations at government school in Uppinangady. However Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) Y Shivaramaiah intervened and ensured that they wrote their examinations at a school in Ramakunja, which was close to their Day care centre for endosulfan victims in Koila in Puttur taluk.
Seva Bharathi in a press release congratulated the students and staff for achieving a feat. Seva Bharathi also thanked education department for the cooperation extended to their teachers and endosulfan victims.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
