Samay Singh Meena takes charge as Superintendent of Police of Kallakurichi
The Hindu
2017 batch IPS officer Samay Singh Meena takes charge as Superintendent of Police in Kallakurichi, focusing on crime prevention and public complaints.
Samay Singh Meena took charge as the Superintendent of Police of Kallakurichi district on December 16. He succeeds N. Mohanraj who had opted for voluntary retirement.
A 2017 batch IPS officer, Mr. Meena had earlier served as the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic (East), Greater Chennai Police, prior to being transferred and posted in Kallakurichi.
He had earlier served as the Commandant of the Tamil Nadu Special Police Battalion at Ulundurpet in Kallakurichi district.
Mr. Meena said that his focus would be on the prevention of crimes against women and children, in addition to the maintenance of law and order and prevention of crimes. Swift action would be taken on complaints and petitions received from the public, he said, adding, steps would be taken to eradicate smuggling of ganja and illicit distillation and sale of arrack in the district.
“Writing, in general, is a very solitary process,” says Yauvanika Chopra, Associate Director at The New India Foundation (NIF), which, earlier this year, announced the 12th edition of its NIF Book Fellowships for research and scholarship about Indian history after Independence. While authors, in general, are built for it, it can still get very lonely, says Chopra, pointing out that the fellowship’s community support is as valuable as the monetary benefits it offers. “There is a solid community of NIF fellows, trustees, language experts, jury members, all of whom are incredibly competent,” she says. “They really help make authors feel supported from manuscript to publication, so you never feel like you’re struggling through isolation.”
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.