Handloom expo at JSS Urban Haat
The Hindu
A handloom expo featuring exhibition and sale of handloom products from across the country got underway at the JSS Urban Haat on the outskirts of the city on Saturday. The exhibition is being conducte
A handloom expo featuring exhibition and sale of handloom products from across the country got underway at the JSS Urban Haat on the outskirts of the city on Saturday.
The exhibition is being conducted by Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, Cauvery Handlooms, Bengaluru and the Department of Handloom & Textile & Commerce, Government of Karnataka in association with JSS Mysore Urban Haat.
A release said the exhibition will be on till January 2, 2022 and more than 60 weavers and weavers’ societies from across the country will be participating in it. The handloom wares on exhibition and sale include materials from Kanjivaram, Molkalmuru, Jaipur, Bhagalpur etc., apart from dress materials from Kashmir, Bengal, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat etc.
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.