3 VISION WATCH RAIPUR THURSDAY OCTOBER 09, 2014 Chief Minister denies any financial crisis in state Raipur, (VW) Denying that any financial crisis is existing in the state, Chief Minister Dr. Raman Singh clarified that the government has not imposed any ban on fresh recruitment in government departments either. Dr. Singh said that the government will take relevant information from departments before they are given go ahead signal for making fresh recruitments. He said that the government wants to invest in social sector heavily for the next five years, reiterating that no financial crisis is being faced by the state. Meanwhile, Dr. Singh left for New Delhi on Wednesday, necessitating changes in dates fixed for departmental review meetings. These meetings would now be held on October 13 and 14. He is also expected to discuss the issue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s participation in the "Rajyotsava" ceremony to be held from November 1. Though the Chief Minister has invited Narendra Modi, an approval from PMO is being awaited. C H H AT T I S G A R H www.visionwatch.in Meeting to discuss preparations of Rajyotsav to be held on October 13 National Cleaning Campaign 2014: 'Systematically rearrange files in government offices by end of October' Raipur, (VW) Under National Cleaning Campaign, State Government has issued instructions to systematically rearrange the official documents and files in government offices. Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand has instructed all the departments to check all the official documents and files. Unnecessary documents should be archived and the documents with expired time-limit should be destroyed as per the given rules and procedure. He has instructed to finish this work by the end of October. Thereafter, the senior officials would conduct sudden inspections of their department offices. The Chief Secretary has is- sued circular to Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and Secretaries of various departments along with all the Divisional Commissioners, District Collectors and CEOs of District Panchayats. He has mentioned in the circular that for the pledge of Clean India, special attention is being paid to cleanliness. From September 25 to October 31, not only the office premises will be cleaned but also the files and documents inside will be rearranged. It has been noticed that even after the final redressal of cases, neither the unnecessary files are sent to record room nor the outdated files are destroyed. It is noteworthy that in each department, the redressed files should be sent to record room and after a certain period of time it is disposed off as per the procedure. But owing to the work-pressure, officers are unable look after this process of archiving and disposal of files. As a result, such files remain piled up at offices only. After final redressal, the files are either bundled and kept aside or are locked up in cupboards and racked that are hardly checked. Such bundles of files consume much of space and gather dust over the time. He has instructed that under Cleanliness Campaign, not only the office premises and rooms should be cleaned but the cup- boards, racks, tables and bundles should also be checked and rearranged. The outdated files should be sent to record room or should be disposed off as per the relevant rule applied. While cleaning the record room, the expired files should be disposed as per the given procedure and norms. Officials have been instructed to finish this work by the end of October. It would be the responsibility of Department Secretaries and Head of the Departments to ensure aforementioned works in respective offices. Chief Secretary mentioned in the circular that concerned senior officials will conduct sudden inspection in the offices, after the month of October. Raipur, (VW) Meeting of the SubCommittee, constituted for organizing Rajyotsav 2014 event, will be chaired by Additional Chief Secretary Home, Jail, Transport, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Development Department NK Aswal on October 13. Minute-to-minute programme schedule of inauguration and concluding programme of Rajyotsav would be discussed in the meeting. Necessary instructions would be issued and various departments will discuss the major points related to preparation. General Administration Department has already issued orders in the context from Mantralaya. The sub-committee includes Principal Secretary PWD, Principal Secretary Energy Department, Secretary Culture Department, Principal Chief Forest Conservator, Commissioner Revenue Department, Inspector General of Police Raipur Range, Director Public Relations, Managing Director CSIDC, Collector Raipur, Superintendent of Police Raipur, CEO Naya Raipur Development Authority as members. Hearing and speech impaired children make beautiful craft pieces with Organdie fabric and macramé thread Raipur, (VW) Students of Mathpuraina, Raipur based Government School of Visual and Hearing Impaired are excelling in various forms of craft. They make beautiful flowers with organdie fabric and table-covers using macramé thread. Moreover, these children also have good command in stitching, embroidery, weaving, drawing, greeting card making, envelope-poster making, flower-pot making and idol-making. Komal Dhruv, Sagar Dubey and Gangaram of standard 8th, Milap of standard 7th, Phoolsai and Dolamani of standard 6th and Gaurav Kashyap of standard 5th told in sign-language that they love creating craft-pieces using thread, fabric, papers and clay. The craft-pieces made by these students are sold at events like Rajyotsav, Disable Day programme in December etc. Moreover, visitors to the school also purchase these craft-pieces. Teacher of this school Sandhya Shukla said that in this government school for visual and hearing impaired, children are educated and trained in various interesting and employmentoriented skills. They have also been given training in stitching and embroidery. Students here make beautiful bedsheets, table clothes and stitch frocks, salwars, petticoats and kurtis with expertise. She said that the school offers class 1 o 12th for visually impaired children and classes 1 to 8th for speech and hearing impaired children. Total 239 students are enrolled here, which includes 165 visually impaired and 65 speech and hearing impaired students. Patients bear the brunt of doctors` strike Raipur, (VW) The situation might worsen at Ambedkar Hospital as striking junior doctors have threatened to paralyze emergency medical services if their demand of a substantial hike in their honorarium is not met. Hundreds of patients visiting OPD ward are wandering around as junior doctors remain relentless despite the Principal Secretary threatening tough action against them if they do not call off their strike. Though hike in their honorarium remains their main demand, junior doctors are also exerting pressure on the government to provide them safe drinking water, AC-Cooler at trauma centre and canteen facility at the hospital. Patients are now dependent mainly on services being provided by nurses as long queues can be seen before pathology and radiology departments being managed by regular employees. Patients waiting for surgery are also not sure when they will be operated upon. The most difficult problem is being confronted by children, women and those suffering from bone related diseases and cancer. After examining patients, few senior doctors are referring them for pathological tests or x-ray examination but they are not getting services on time. In absence of technicians and paramedical staff, problems of patients have only aggravated. Patients visiting trauma centre have the same fate as medical care is alarmingly delayed due to the strike. Several attendants of patients complained that the medical facility is not being provided on time despite admission of their dear ones to Ambedkar Hospital. Junior Doctors Association President Dr. Kunal Pal and other doctors claimed that their demands were not considered despite the fact that they raised them with authorities concerned on several occasions. They said that they will not return to their work until at least 10 percent increase in their honorarium is made and their other demands are not met. Hospital Superintendent Dr. Vivek Choudhary claimed that the strike had not impacted the functioning of the hospital much. Senior doctors are treating patients and even pathology and radiology departments are functioning normally. DME Pratap Singh had offered an increase of Rs. 2500 in their honorarium and junior doctors are considering it. Official sources said that Junior doctors working in states like Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Assam and Gujarat are getting lesser honorarium in comparison to Chhattisgarh doctors. Honorarium of junior doctors was increased two years back. Junior doctors are PG medical students too and hence they are supposed to persue their studies but instead they have gone on strike. They will not be awarded degrees if they continue their agitation for a long time, the senior official added.