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Srinagar, Jan 07: Srinagar’s private institute Tyndale Biscoe and Mallinson School Sheikhbagh has put hundreds of students and their families in trouble, as three students on tour to Gulmarg turned COVID-19 positive forcing the school authorities to cancel the visit midway, but the school turned negligent by not informing families of the students

 Many parents told Srinagar based news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) that the school did a major negligence by not informing the families about the covid positives nor did they do the mandatory tests while returning the students. 

 “The school has risked hundreds of persons including parents and students by not informing them about covid positive cases. Neither the school tested the students while bringing them home,” parents said. 

 The parents said that after the students told them about their three colleagues turning COVID positive, they carried their tests themselves. 

 “Why didn’t the school management inform us about the students turning positive while on tour? Who knows how many may have got infected with virus while coming back or how many parents may be infected,” they parents alleged. 

 The parents said the management played with the lives of students and parents by concealing the information about three COVID students. 

 “It is a major negligence by the school management. The administration in Srinagar must take the school to task for hiding information about COVID positive students and not informing the parents,” parents added.

Despite repeated attempts school management couldn’t be contacted; however their version will be updated once available(KDC)

 

 

New Delhi, Jan 07: Senior IAS officer from Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Shahid Choudhary has got a national award for outstanding efforts in Covid pandemic management during his tenure as Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar.

Currently Administrative Secretary to Jammu and Kashmir Government in the Department of Tribal Affairs and Chief Executive Officer of Mission Youth, Dr Choudhary received the National Award 2020-21 conferred by Department of Administry Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Government of India, for outstanding efforts in Covid-19 management as Deputy Commissioner,

The National Award carries a Gold Medal, Citation and Rs 2.00 Lakh cash. The award recognises use of Information and Communication Technology in efforts aimed at Covid-19 management and containment.

These included Covid Call Centre and Management System, Mobile and Web Apps for contact tracing and symptom tracking, Real-Time Integrated Covid-19 Management System, Quarantine management, House to House survey, Public outreach through social media communication and Audio-Visual messaging, Home delivery of ration, essentials and medicines, Helpline for women and children, special arrangements for pregnant women, diabetics, cancer patients and other non-covid emergencies, and various other efforts. NGOs, Volunteers and Civil Society organisations roped in for Covid-19 response system played a key role.

The award was presented by Dr Jitendra Singh, MoS PMO and Ministry of Personnel in presence of K T Rama Rao, Minister for Urban Development, Industries & IT, Ajay Praskash, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt of India, Somesh Prakash, Chief Secretary, Telangana and V Srinivas, Secretary DARPG, Govt of India, at the 24th National Conference on e-Governance inaugurated at Hyderabad today, reported Srinagar based news agency Kashmir Dot Com.

The year-long multi-stage selection process included nominations, screening, field verifications, data scrutiny, inspections, independent public feedback, audit, interactions and third-party evaluation. A total of 231 nominations finalised from across the country were shortlisted for presentation by the selected models.

Pertinently, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary is also recipient of country’s highest civil services award, the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration 2014, National Award 2014 by ECI, National Award for e-Governance 2015 by Ministry of Personnel, Govt of India, National Award for Women Empowerment in 2017-18, National Award for Girl Child Education in 2019, Excellence in Governance Award 2019, Election Award 2016, Red Cross Awards 2015, 2017, Governance Award 2015 and several other accolades for his outstanding contribution as Deputy Commissioner of various districts including Reasi, Udhampur, Kathua, Rajouri, Bandipora and Srinagar. He was also deputed to Singapore, Kingdom of Lesotho, South Africa and Republic of Georgia by the Govt of India and Election Commission of India. (KDC)

Srinagar reports 52 cases, case tally at 342,419, death toll reaches to 4,530, active cases reaches to 1,819, recovery rate at 98.14 percent

Srinagar, Jan 05: In a sudden spike, first time after over six months, Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday reported 418 fresh positive cases of COVID-19, thus taking the number of total active cases in the Union Territory to 1,819 while no death was reported in last 24 hours.

As per the data available with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), J&K has witnessed highest positivity rate of 0.7 percent first time after June last year.

Positivity rate on Wednesday is 0.7 percent as 418 cases are found positive from 59,716 tests conducted in last 24 hours while as on 30th June last year 364 cases were found positive from 53,662 with 0.67 positivity rate besides that previous highest positive cases in over last six months was 415 on 27 June last year.

With no more deaths, the death toll in J&K stands at 4,530 and 418 fresh positive cases reported on Wednesday have pushed the tally of positive cases to 342,419.

Of the exact number of 342,419 cases, 215,574 are from Kashmir division and 126,845 from Jammu division.

Officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that among 418 new cases, 107 belong to Kashmir division while as 311 are from Jammu division, adding that the total number of positive cases in Kashmir division have reached to 215,574 including 212,318 recoveries and 2,331 deaths while as total number of positive cases in Jammu division have reached to 126,845 including 123,752 recoveries and 2,199 deaths.

The officials said that the total number of active cases in Jammu and Kashmir are 1,819 including 925 from Kashmir division and 894 from Jammu division.

With 140 more recoveries, the tally of total recoveries in Jammu and Kashmir has reached 336,070 which is 98.14 percent of the total cases.

“Cases tested positive in J&K include 52 from Srinagar, 13 from Baramulla, 16 from Budgam, 08 from Pulwama, 09 from Kupwara, 00 from Anantnag, 03 from Bandipora, 04 from Ganderbal, 01 each from Kulgam and 01 Shopian in Kashmir division while as 311 from Jammu division include 109 from Jammu division, 15 from Udhampur, 05 from Rajouri, 03 from Doda, 10 from Kathua, 03 from Samba, 03 from Kishtwar, 06 from Poonch, 01 from Ramban and 156 from Reasi,” officials disclosed.

Meanwhile, authorities said that no fresh cases of Mucormycosis popularly known as black fungus was reported in the UT and the tally stands at 51.

As per officials figures, 79,048 positive cases including 883 deaths and 77,687 recoveries are from Srinagar, 26,050 including 291 deaths and 25,628 recoveries are from Baramulla, 24,557 including 24,276 recoveries and 217 deaths are from Budgam, 15,759 including 15,512 recoveries and 195 deaths are from Pulwama, 15,003 including 167 deaths and 14,783 recoveries are from Kupwara, 16,749 including 16,517 recoveries and 208 deaths are from Anantnag, 10,185 cases including 10,051 and 111 deaths are from Bandipora, 11,041 including 10,878 recoveries and 82 deaths are from Ganderbal, 11,562 including 11,428 recoveries and 118 deaths are from Kulgam and 5,620 including 5,558 recoveries and 59 deaths are from Shopian.

In Jammu division, 54,484 including 52,841 recoveries and 1,157 deaths are from Jammu district, 11,509 including 11,335 recoveries and 139 deaths are from Udhampur, 11,395 including 11,135 recoveries and 239 deaths are from Rajouri, 8,083 including 7,891 recoveries and 137 deaths are from Doda, 9,415 including 9,232 recoveries and 153 deaths are from Kathua, 7,192 including 7,053 recoveries and 120 deaths are from Samba, 4,859 including 4,809 recoveries and 44 deaths are from Kishtwar, 6,632 including 6,497 recoveries and 100 deaths are from Poonch, 6,086 including 6,006 recoveries and 67 deaths are from Ramban and 7,190 including 6,953 recoveries and 43