Shiruru Welfare Trust President visits “Touheed”

Renowned physician and the president of the Shiruru Welfare Trust, Shiruru, Dr. Syed Hassan recently visited “Touheed“.  Syed Abdul Khader (Bashu), one of our esteemed patrons also accompanied him. Both the distinguished guests were accorded a cordial welcome by the trustees of Touheed.

Dr. Hassan expressed his appreciations for the efforts of the Management in bringing about a sea-change in education in this small village in a short span of 18 years.

Later he inaugurated the newly installed “English Laboratory” exclusively for improvement of grammar and spoken English in students. Br. Abdul Khaliq, chairman of Touheed, trustees and Mr. M.G.Banavalikar, HM were also present on the occasion.

 

High Court passes positive judgement on language policy

 

High Court says unaided schools can now teach in English. The message is loud and clear and this indeed is a victory of the private schools that were fighting with the state of Karnataka for the last 14 years…..

 

In the 318 page judgment, the Hon. HC observed “…..the Govt. policy compelling children studying in other government recognized schools (private) to have their primary education only in the mother tongue or the regional language is violative of Article 19 (1) (g), 26 & 30 (1) of the Constitution.

 

If the parents want their children to have primary education in English, they are not committing any crime…It is not illegal nor opposed to public policy. The choice of medium of instruction is left to the parents and children….”

 

From now onwards, private unaided schools such as ‘Touheed’ can switch over officially to english right from class 1 to SSLC (X)…A great relief for the students as well as for the parents…

 

 

School bus accident

Our school bus commuting the students as usual from Byndoor to the Touheed English Medium school, Ganguli, met with an accident at the Maravanthe beach near Trasi on the National Highway -17 at 9.00 am yesterday ( on 24^th June 2008. )

 

The bus was plying from Byndoor to Ganguli.  A lorry carrying manganese ore was speeding from behind….it overtook the school vehicle and immediately applied breaks ……At the same time a KSRTC bus was speeding from the opposite direction. Our bus driver did not have any other option but to ram the vehicle to the rear of the manganese carrier.

 

Due to the accident, about 20 students sustained injuries and were immediately rushed to the Chinmayi Hospital Kundapur…out of them, over ten, with minor injuries, were sent home after first aid and eight were got admitted for further investigation and treatment. The injured include the bus driver Ahmed and the conductor Shabbir with fractured legs and arms. A couple of students have their legs fractured…..with head injuries….Alhamdulillah, all of them are totally out of danger and Insha Allah, they will be back home by a week. We appeal to all of you to please pray for the speedy recovery and long life of all the victims of this accident.

 

With all sincerity we acknowledge the timely services extended by Br. Saibu and Br. Toufeeq Shabuddin (sons of Late. Shabuddin Abdul Samad, Rehmaniya Mohalla, Ganguli) who rushed to the spot immediately and carried the injured to the hospital.

 

We are also thankful to Br. P.M.Abdul Sattar, Ganguli and Br. Mujawar Abu Muhammed of the Century Hotel, Kundapura for their co-operation and the on-the-spot help.

 

We are also thankful to the Sub-Inspector of Police Kundapura, Mr. Thimmaraju and his associates who ably handled the situation at the accident spot, helped us in shifting the injured to the hospital and extended their total co-operation and guidance in filing the FIR/ complaint/ insurance claim/ release of the damaged vehicle etc.

 

Our special gratitude goes to the respected parents of our students, who in this moment of distress displayed patience and calm and stood besides us.

 

We are thankful to our overseas units who regularly maintained contact with us and kept their members well informed about the developments from time to time. We thank our wellwishers for their enquiries, guidance and prayers. Our thanks are also to ‘Sahil Online‘ and media persons for prompt and authentic news coverage.

 

The hospital is being thronged with visitors, prominent among whom are the management members from the Shums School, Bhatkal, Zia Education Society, Kandlur, Dr. Naveen Kumar Charles, Principal, GVNS, Shiruru, officers from the Education department, honorable members of the Ganguli Muslim Jama‘th, Madrasa Misbah-ul-uloom, Ganguli and so on…

 

Adequate arrangements have been made for food, medication, check-up etc for all the patients and their attendants at the hospital entirely at our cost.

 

Position as at 3^rd July 2008….

 

All the injured have been discharged from the hospital by now. All praises to the Almighty Allah…..