Education
Haryana Police questions Ryan staffers in Mumbai, trustees elusive
Mumbai, Sep 12 (IANS) A two-member team of the Haryana Police on Tuesday questioned a few staffers at Ryan International School’s Kandivali headquarters here in the wake of the murder of a seven-year-old boy in its Gurugram branch.
The team visited the school premises in a quiet residential locality and questioned the staffers, mostly administrative, and examined some documents.
However, none of St Xavier’s Educational Trust members — including Augustine F. Pinto, his wife Grace Pinto and their son Ryan Pinto — were available at the school. A Mumbai police security vehicle, some parents and media persons were present there till late in the evening.
Haryana Police’s visit here comes in the wake of the murder of seven-year-old Pradhuman Thakur on September 8 at Ryan International School in Bhondsi area near Haryana’s Gurugram city.
In a related development, hundreds of parents on Tuesday morning staged vociferous protests outside Ryan International School in Sanpada, Navi Mumbai, and demanded steps to ensure safety and security of their children studying there.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday adjourned to Wednesday morning the hearing of the Pintos’ plea for anticipatory transit bail to visit Haryana to move a court there.
Barring the Pinto family, the names, whereabouts or eligibility of other members of the trust — that manages a majority of the group’s schools — remains unclear.
The trust was registered as a public charitable body in Maharashtra in the early 1980s.
–IANS
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Education
As many as six new nursing colleges to be functional in Haryana soon
Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.