Focus on making homes safe, gender-balanced
The Hindu
Pratheeksha aims to change society’s attitude through family
The Women and Child Development Department has envisaged a programme to create safe and gender-balanced homes in the wake of women and children being subjected to violence and harassment in their own homes. The project, Pratheeksha, is being envisioned as a one-stop centre under the department and its slogan is ‘social development through families.’A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.