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- The Chandigarh State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) celebrated 9th National Legal Services Day under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Mahesh Grover, Executive Chairman, SLSA by organizing a number of functions here on 9th Nov.
- Mahavir Singh, Member Secretary, SLSA said that the authority has conducted an awareness-cum-literacy programme in the Model Jail, Burail where inmates were made aware about the significance of National Legal Services Day.
- They were also told about the working of the Authority and the aims and objects of the Authority.They were also told about the various NALSA Schemes.
- On the occasion, their problems were redressed by Mr V K Kapoor, Chief Coordinator NALSA Schemes. Mr Gautam Bhardwaj, Mrs Inderjeet Bassi, Ms Arti Rampal, Ms Pratibha Bhandari, Sh Naveen Sharma also attended the programme.
- Functions were also held at Senior Citizens Home in Sector 43 and Old Age Home Sector 15, Snehalaya (village Maloya) inmates were told about legal aid to senior citizens scheme and legal aid to children and child friendly scheme of NLSA.
- More such functions were held at Nari Niketan, Palsora village, where rural people were told about various schemes and formation of Aadhaar Cards, Voter Cards, PAN Cards, SC certificate by Gopal Attari, Ms Harpreet Kaur and Ms Yogita, Para Legal Volunteers.
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- A farmer’s house in the nondescript Kirugavalu village is the country’s largest private rice museum A serpentine road from Mysuru cuts through lush green fields and leads to an obscure village dotted with run-down houses and petty shops with thatched roofs.
- Sidestepping a passing herd of sheep, I enter a narrow lane and reach a 75-year-old house with a row of pillars.
- It is this house, in the nondescript Kirugavalu village in Karnataka’s Mandya district, that is the country’s largest private museum of different varieties of paddy.
- It’s the culmination of 20 years of hard work by Syed Ghani Khan, a farmer, who is also a conservationist at heart.
- Armed with a degree in archaeology and museology, Khan always wanted to be a museum curator, but had to take up his family’s farming vocation after his father fell ill.
- A few years into farming, the chemical pesticides began to take a toll on Khan’s health. “This was the turning point; I decided to switch to organic farming,” he says.
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- A highly sensitive diagnostic test for pulmonary TB and pleural TB has been developed by a multi-institutional team led by Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi from the Department of Biotechnology at AIIMS.
- The diagnostic test makes use of a DNA aptamer (a small single-stranded DNA molecule that binds to a specific target molecule) that shows high binding affinity to a TB antigen.
- Sputum samples were used for diagnosing pulmonary TB while pleural fluid was used for diagnosing pleural TB.
- The sensitivity of the diagnostic test for pulmonary TB and pleural TB was 94% and 93%, respectively.
- Specificity was 100% for pulmonary TB and 98% for pleural TB.
- The results were published in the journals ACS Infectious Diseases and Analytical Biochemistry.
- In the case of pleural TB, the aptamer-based lab diagnosis was far superior to even Xpert. While the sensitivity was about 22% with Xpert, it was about 93% with aptamer.
- “Xpert relies on the presence of bacteria, which is nearly absent in pleural fluid, while the aptamer-based testing relies on bacterial antigen and so has high sensitivity,” says Pooja Kumari from AIIMS and first author of the paper on pleural TB test.
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