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Ganga fish, now a health hazard
The high level of pollutants in the Ganga has resulted in the equally high level of toxins in the fish of the river. Alarming facts came to light in course of the study and analysis of fish conducted by R K Sinha, the senior investigator of the Ganga pollution monitoring project run by Patna University.
An important finding at Patna was that DDT found in the fish was 16,000 times more than that in water.
Surprisingly, while DDT, BHC, dieldrin and aldrin are banned all over the world, DDT is still officially used in India as a preventive measure against kala-azar and malaria. Even BHC and aldrin are available in the open market and are used quite extensively for agriculture purposes.
These chemicals which are biologically non-degradable compounds, come into the river as agriculture and health drive runoffs and the concentration is much higher than the permissible limit. These get accumulated in the body and can lead to serious ailments like cancer or adversely affect the kidneys and brains of those who consume the river fish regularly.
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Computerisation in High Courts
The Centre has urged ten State Governments to set up computerized Inquiry and Facilitation Centre in their High Courts without delay. The States are Bihar ,Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa, Punjab and Haryana, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal, Tamil Nadu and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The Governments of the states have been requested to release necessary funds for computerization of High Courts located in their States.
There are 21 High Courts in the country. Of these, eleven are computerized.
With the setting up of computerized Inquiry and Facilitation Centre in the High Courts, the public can know the fixing of date of hearing and status of the case on payment of requisite fee, publication of daily cause lists, supply of certified copies of judgements and generation of notices.
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More schools needed
Altogether 37,72,999 children, in the age group of 6-14 are out of school system in 37 districts of Bihar.
The State has 37381 primary schools and 9834 upper primary schools. The proportion of the primary and upper primary schools in the state is 4:1. The government paper says that so far no major steps could be taken for narrowing this vast proportional gap between the primary and the upper primary schools.
The drop-out rate among the students, as per the state government statistics is also alarming. It is 59 per cent among male students between class one and five. For girl students under this category, it is 58.81 percent. Drop-out rate for scheduled caste students under this category is 60.71 per cent and for scheduled tribe students, it is 56.22 per cent.
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HIV spreads tentacles in Bihar
Bihar having an HIV positive population of 1.6 million is yet to activate itself to control this disease.
As per government records, 2.06 per cent (1.6 million) of Bihar's 80 million population was HIV positive. However, reports of NGOs and private pathologists reveal that 3.5 per cent of the population has tested HIV positive.
A recent survey by the Helping Hand Foundation (HHF) in the red-light areas of Gaya, Bettiah and Munger found that the government had not taken steps to spread awareness about the disease even in these high-risk areas.
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WHO unhappy over paucity of immunisation officers
The International polio surveillance review team of World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed its strong disapproval at the failure of the state government to fill up the vacant posts of district immunisation officers (DIOs) in majority of the 37 districts of the state.
The WHO team, which recently visted 12 districts of the state, Patna, Bhojpur, Begusarai, Nalanda, East Champaran, West Champaran, Gaya, Aurangabad, Rohtas, Muzaffarpur, Madhubani and Jehanabad, has informed the medical education and family welfare minister, Dr Shakeel Ahmad, that even in the districts where DIOs were posted ,they were not mobile. With a view to increasing the mobility of DIOs, the WHO has offered to supply vehicles provided the state government sends the relevant documents to Delhi after condemning the old vehicles.
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