Inviting Suggestions for Traffic reforms

Inviting Suggestions for Traffic reformsജില്ലയിലെ ട്രാഫിക്‌ സംബന്ധമായ പലവിധ പരാതികൾ ഫേസ്‌ ബുക്കിലൂടെ പലപ്പോഴായി ലഭിക്ക...

Posted by Collector, Kozhikode on Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Mental hospital to get rehabilitation centre: The Hindu

KOZHIKODE: The Government Mental Hospital at Kuthiravattom here will soon have a rehabilitation centre inmates cured of their illness.

 

The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Minister for Social Welfare M.K. Muneer at the centre on Sunday.

 

The hospital would be thoroughly renovated, sources said. A special committee had been constituted to prepare a report on the steps to be taken to improve the facilities at the hospital and raise it to international standards.

 

The District Collector; the District Medical Officer (DMO); the Managing Director of the Handicapped Welfare Corporation; the Superintendent of the hospital; the representatives of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the National Institute of Technology, and the Karnataka Mental Health Association, the Engineer Consortium; architects; and mental health experts will be on the core committee. The committee will submit a report to the Minister in a month.

 

Another report will be prepared by an expert committee after visiting the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru and other major institutes of mental health.

The renovation activities will be undertaken as soon as the core committee submits the report.

The Minister visited the hospital wards and the garden being readied.

 

Author: Staff Reporter

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Proposals invited to run restaurants under DTPC

Friends from tourism sector! Excellent business opportunity... looking for vibrant groups who could take up running of...

Posted by Collector, Kozhikode on Monday, April 6, 2015

Join DCIP, be compassionate: Calicut New Media

Are you a compassionate, and benevolent person with professionalism,the district administration requires your service?

A new venture has been launched  on Saturday  in Kozhikode.

The District Collector’s Internship Program (DCIP),the brain child of Kozhikode District Collector N.Prasanth is claimed to be a project for social well-being.

Dr.M.K.Muneer,Minister for Social Justice, while inaugurating the program at Collector’s Conference Hall in Kozhikode, said it is first of its kind in India.

He further said that each and every individual has an instinct for doing some social service.However, many can’t engage due to their busy schedules.

With this program ,professionals in various sectors can join and contribute their service and get recognized in their social life.

Dr. Muneer launched the logo of the DCIP.

The main objective of the project is to promote young minds,having some virtues like compassion and benign and bring them to the mainstream. By doing so,their service can be used for the upliftment of the poor and marginalized community.

The project is being implemented with the support of like-minded persons and individuals.

Collector N.Prasanth said ,”This program enables a person to complete a challenging and responsible task,successfully. It also equips the fellows to get  the experience of various stages of government functioning.Homes for destitute,old-age homes,palliative care centers,institutes for deferentially abled persons,mental health institutes,etc.will get priority in this project",said the collector.

There are two internships,planned for this program;Senior Development Fellow (SDF),and Junior Development Fellow (JDF).Professionals between the age group of 21 and 45 can become SDF while the age criteria for JDF is 18-35 years.

The selected interns can report to the collector,directly.District Collector will issue certificates to the fellows those who complete the internship,successfully.

The project ensures the youth’s creative involvement and contributions in governmental projects.Modern technology can be utilized for the benefit of downtrodden people. The DCIP, being supported by the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, is a social service project and no remuneration or allowances will be provided for the fellows-District Collector N.Prasanth clarified.

Divisional Forest Officer Aman Deep Kaur IFS, spoke on the occasion.

Interested people can register their name online.For further information ,please contact collector’s office.

CNM

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Kozhikode buses to get unique numbering system

KOZHIKODE: People from all walks of life have favoured the introduction of a unique numbering system for city buses in the wake of increasing number of people arriving from other states to the city in search of jobs. According to the officials, more than fifty thousand migrant labourers are working in the corporation limit alone. They have been arriving mainly from the states of West Bengal, Gujarat, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Jharkhand, and Uttaranchal and employed mainly in the construction sector, beauty parlours, hair saloons, hotels, restaurants and shops. The system will also be of help to aged persons who have been finding difficult to read the name boards of places fixed on the buses.

 

K Narayanan, former KSUDP project manager of the City corporation, said that unique numbering system in the city buses will be a great help for the aged people. "The system has been executed successfully in Kannur. It will be a great help for those who arriving for the first time in the city and hundreds of non-Keralites who are depending on the city bus services for travelling," he said.

 

Puthussery Viswanathan, secretary of Kozhikode Residents Apex Council said that the council had submitted a memorandum to RTO two years back to introduce unique numbering facility in city buses. "The memorandum was submitted on the basis of discussion held at one of the meetings of the apex council. The people from other states, who arrives in the city is always seen asking for bus numbers to board the buses as they can not read English and Malayalam nameplates," he said.

 

K Radhakrishnan, state secretary of Bus Operators Organisation, said that the buses operated by the ex-servicemen cooperative society which was stopped more than fifteen years back had unique numbering system for each route. "We will welcome the move in case the authorities implement it in the city buses. The system will be of great help to people from other state who are arriving in the city in search of jobs," he said.

 

Kozhikode Regional Transport Officer K Premanandan said that so far the department has not received any information from the higher ups for the introduction of unique numbering system. "The proposal was there in one of the schemes of the Regional Town Planning office. The proposal will be discussed at the time of its execution," he said.

 Meanwhile, Regional Town Planner KV Abdul Malik said that unique numbering system for buses is one of the components of the on-going study being conducted by the office to carry out the re-routing of the buses. "The unique numbering system was successfully introduced in the buses in Karnataka and Kannur. The study will examine the feasibility for the introduction of unique numbering system in the buses here. The proposal will be submitted to state government soon," he said.

 

Author: Sreedevi Chitharanjan

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Posted by Collector, Kozhikode on Wednesday, April 1, 2015

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Posted by Collector, Kozhikode on Wednesday, April 1, 2015