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All Cooperative Group Housing Societies (CGHS) will now be required to videograph all meetings of the managing committee, sub-committee and general body to keep a copy for the benefit of their members.

The CGHS will submit the same to the concerned Assistant Registrar Cooperative societies/Deputy Registrar Cooperative societies (ARCS/DRCS) whenever asked for, and at the time of forwarding the case for approval of transfer/list of members.

Every cloud of worry has a silver lining of hope. However, with educational institutions likely to remain shut for a prolonged period due to outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, the future of lakhs of students seems to be at stake now.

Amid the lockdown, school management, teachers and students look worried about scheduled course completion, upcoming academic session and the exams. If the lockdown or the virus scare continue for a longer period, the burden on students as well as the teachers is very likely to double.

The residents would now be able to talk directly to the chief minister and senior officers of all important departments from the office of the deputy commissioner of their district through this advanced system.

Though Dikshit inaugurated the new video conferencing facility from the Delhi secretariat on Tuesday, the residents of west Delhi had their first interaction with the chief minister on Friday last week.

The nationwide lockdown due to Pendomic Covid-19 has initially thrown higher education in deep crisis but the universities and very many colleges in India have been able to adopt Online teaching from home.

It is all the more gratifying that the young students have found Online Classes both interesting and greatly satisfying, says eminent Academician Prof PB Sharma, Vice-Chancellor of Amity University Gurugram.

Courts in Jammu and Kashmir have been connected with jails through video-conferencing

To expedite the process of disposal of cases, courts in Jammu and Kashmir have been connected with jails through video-conferencing. The facility was inaugurated by Jammu and Kashmir High Court justices Alok Aradhe and Ali Muhammad Magrey from the district court complexes in Jammu and Sringar respectively. Aradhe is the chairperson of the computer and e-courts (e-governance) committee while Magrey is the panel's member. The inauguration was attended by DGP (Prisons) Dilbagh Singh, Commissioner Secretary Home R K Goyal, Secretary Information Technology Saughat Biswas, and other officers of the state administration, prisons department and judiciary.

Today the CM interacted through video conferencing with a group of expatriates based in Dubai who have been hit by the recent ‘Apple-a-Day’ flat scam in Kochi. Jacob Punnoose IPS, DGP of Kerala Police was present on the occasion. Earlier, on Monday at the video conference with District Collectors, he reviewed the monsoon related damage in the State and announced compensation for those affected on the basis of his interaction with them. P Prabhakaran IAS, Chief Secretary and Nivedita P Haran IAS, Additional Chief Secretary attended the VC along with him.

A telemedicine system has been installed at the Nashik Road Central Prison through which medical experts at the Nashik civil hospital can be contacted for advice on the health condition of the inmates.

The telemedicine system at the civil hospital, a combination of telecommunication and information technologies to provide clinical healthcare at a distance, has been linked with the prison for the purpose.

This will prevent prisoners' attempts to escape during transportation to the hospital, the authorities said.

Today Francis is a marketing manager in a leading corporate firm in Kenya. The turnaround happened when Francis decided to pursue his bachelor's degree from New Delhi's Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), said to be the world's largest university.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has joined hands with the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) to implement spoken English programme for the tribals in the rural areas of Narmada, Surendranagar, Bharuch, Surat and Junagadh through VSAT connectivity, a media report said on Tuesday.

Union Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot led the rural crowd during the 10-minute interface at the nondescript village, 40 km from Ajmer, while Mr. Obama was accompanied by Sam Pitroda, Advisor to Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations, at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai.

After launching Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN), chief minister B S Yeddyurappa said the new system will obviate the need of officers from Bangalore travelling all the way to Gulbarga or any other distant place and vice-versa to just hold a meeting. This will not only ensure transparency but also save time and cost, he added.

The villagers showed the world's most powerful leader how e-governance has changed the lives of the people in the village through the video conference.

Imagine a situation wherein a high level ministerial meeting involving policy makers and others from different places is going on and suddenly a few of them leave the session midway to attend some emergent situation in their respective states leaving the meeting abandoned.

This abrupt disruption of the meeting could have been avoided and its organising cost reduced and unwarranted travel of some of the participants could be checked had the conference banked upon Telepresence technology.

Picture “The Jetsons” character Mr. Spacely screaming at his subordinate, George Jetson (below), except that Mr. Spacely is actually a doctor and he’s nice and wearing a doctor’s white garb and tenderly treating George Jetson, his patient.

The satellite named after the country's prominent education hero Ki Hajar Dewantara will be connected to 50,000 points (schools).

The agency's head Adi Sadewo Salatun said on Friday that "tele-education satellite" will refer to concept implemented by many countries like India, China and Nigeria.

“India may be in a position to leapfrog, avoiding 20th century straightaway into the 21st century. I look forward to the day you will be a model for countries around the world,” he told villagers of Kanpura near Ajmer while interacting with them from Mumbai through video conference.

The move is also expected to save government significant sums by cutting down on the number of vans and officers needed to guard prisoners when they leave the security of the prison.

President Obama was briefed by the villagers on how e-governance is changing their lives in the village.

Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology (IT) Sachin Pilot briefed President Obama about the IT revolution in India and how it has transformed the lives of the villagers.

"Through this initiative, our idea was to give the US President a flavour of rural India," Minister of State for Communications and Information and Technology Sachin Pilot told PTI after he moderated during a 10-minute interaction between Obama and villagers from Kanpura village, in Ajmer district.

Optical fibre cable (OFC) technology from Mumbai was used to power the six-minute session, which was moderated by minister of state for communications and information and technology Sachin Pilot from Rajasthan.