Suburbia

Kapoor said any industry involved in exploiting children by promoting child labour should be condemned.

“The need of the hour is to educate the illiterate labour in our factories,” he said.

Quoting a World Bank report, Kapoor added that at the present rate of development it will take at least 70 years for India to catch up with the rest of the world.

However, with tremendous advances in information technology we can hope to narrow down this gap, he said.

He was of the view that the optimum use of Info Technology can expedite growth and increase the rate of development.

Panun Kashmir conference

Panun kashmir, an organisation of Kashmiri Pandits, will honour Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on the first day of second World Kashmiri Pandit Conference for his cooperation and support to the migrant Kashmiri pandits.

The conference is to be held at the Siri Fort Auditorium in the Capital on January 30 and 31.

Addressing a press conference in Noida, convener of the program Dr Agnishekhar told newspersons that the community is in the danger of extinction as their birth rate has fallen alarmingly. “We are living in miserable conditions in refugee camps in Jammu, Delhi and other parts of the country,” he said.

He alleged that the National Conference government in Jammu and Kashmir is continuing it’s double speak over the issue, promising them a dignified return to Kashmir on the one hand and unleashing a war on the exiled community on the other.

He alleged that the State government has failed miserably to protect and preserve the property of the pandits and their religious, cultural and educational institutions in violation of the Preservationand Protection of Migrant’s Property Act. He said the encroachments and fraudulent possession of their properties and distress sales continue unabated.