Minister Om Prakash Yadav refreshes memories with tea seller in Narnau city

Mahendragarh: Ram Kisan, a tea seller at Jalebi Street in Narnaul city, was, as usual, making tea for customers. Suddenly, someone put hands on his shoulders from behind. He immediately turned around and got emotional on seeing his old customer who was none other than Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Om Prakash Yadav. Ram Kisan called him ADO sahib while the minister hugged him in response. Actually, Yadav had worked as Agriculture Development Officer (ADO) before joining politics and used to visit the tea shop frequently when he was posted here. This time, he came here after a long time and had tea while refreshing old memories with Ram Kisan. Later, the incident became the talk of the city.

Covid hits school functioning

Hisar: School education is deep in trouble due to the second wave of Covid. While the students who were expecting classroom studies to resume have got stuck in the second consecutive session, private school teachers and other staff in private schools are the worst-affected as the schools are unable to pay salaries to their staff. The private school association has been demanding that the government should allow them to hold classes. “We are facing acute financial crunch and thus have to cut down salaries. We have even sacked the staff as the schools are not getting fee from students. The parents argue that they will pay fee only when the schools start holding classes offline. Though we have organised online classes during the previous season, the parents are not convinced and bargain hard when we ask them to deposit the fee,” said a private school owner. He added that this session is likely to be worse than the previous year as we hadn’t even started the admission process when the government issued orders of the closing down of schools.