HYDERABAD BUZZ: Students advocate use of clean energy!

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Express News Service / Last Updated : 09 Aug 2011 10:04:20 AM IST.

HYDERABAD: The state-level science exhibition, Inspire, at the St Patrick’s School in Secunderabad, saw the common theme of sustainable development for most exhibits on display.

The department of science and technology initiative called Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) had participants from 11 districts, exhibiting innovative scientific models. The winners of the exhibition will represent Andhra Pradesh at the national event from August 14-16 at New Delhi.

Under the INSPIRE scheme, selected students from each school from a district are given Rs 5,000 to create a scientific model. The initiative aims at promoting scientific research among students from class VI to post-graduate level.

Among the exhibits, the electronic cycle fashioned out of spare parts and used rechargeable batteries garnered maximum attention from participants and visitors alike. Sai Sri, a Class IX student at the Zilla Parishad High School, Injuram and her father Venkateswara Rao, an English teacher at the same school, developed the model with a budget of Rs 3,500 in two months’ time. “We sourced the various parts from a cycle-repair shop and used four 12-volt rechargeable batteries for the model. The cycle can average 60-70 km per hour after being charged for three hours,” explains Sai Sri, who aspires to be an IAS.

Out of the 737 exhibits, many used renewable sources of energy and addressed local problems of clean drinking water, by tapping into solar power to boil or purify water.

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GITA IN SCHOOLS SCANDAL: Attend Gita classes or leave India: Karnataka minister!

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Deepa Balakrishnan , CNN-IBN / Updated Jul 20, 2011 at 02:18pm IST.

Bangalore: A circular issued by the Karnataka government has asked teachers to set aside three hours a week for classes on the Bhagwad Gita, which hasn't gone down well with the 8,600 minority schools in the State. Education Minister Vishveshwar Hegde Kageri said that any protestors against the Gita classes should leave the country.

"Only those who want to promote religious ideologies of foreign countries are protesting the Bhagwad Gita classes. If they want to promote their ideologies, they have no place in this country. They should leave," Kageri said.

The minority schools petitioned to the Governor on Tuesday to Kageri from his post.

Minorities Instiutions' Federation Chairman C R Mohammed Imtiaz said, "It's unconstitutional. It's a breach of the oath he's taken. We've asked the governor to dismiss him."

The Karnataka government now says that the Gita classes are not compulsory for all schools to implement.

01) I do not know to which school he has gone or gone at all;

02) He is only a Minister of a State, which is an integral part of India;

03) And that doesn't make him Sole-Proprietor of India and the Indian Constitution;

04)  To become a Minister, he has taken an oath of office & secrecy and also allegiance to constitution, which he has breached now, by declaring something "Unconstitutional";

05) I feel this minister can be prosecuted under Indian Laws and also debar him from holding any public office;

06) Finally, the G.O. pertaining to the teaching of Gita in Schools would be declared 'Null & Void', if the same is challenged in a court of law;

07) Hope the relevant Constitutional Authorities or Appropriate Courts take complaisance of his crime, Suo Motu, and act accordingly! 

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