LPU to impart physiotherapy training to SSA teachers

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Lovely Professional University

03 March, 2011

A series of training sessions will be organised by the Physiotherapy department of LPU to impart training to the IERTs from all the districts of Punjab. Training will be given in 6 batches by the end of March, 2011.

GETTING GOOD feedback from the training session held last year, the Department of Physiotherapy of Lovely Professional University has got a requisition from Deputy Manager, Inclusive Education for Disabled (IED), Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, Punjab (Govt of India) to impart physiotherapy training to its approximately 500 IERTs.

As such, a series of training sessions will be organised in the department to impart training to the IERTs from all the districts of Punjab. Training will be given in 6 batches by the end of March, 2011.

The inauguration ceremony of this training program was held at Shri Baldev Raj Mittal Auditorium of the university. Madam Adarsh Kaur, CEO, SSA Jalandhar was the chief guest on the occasion. Jai Vishal, Coordinator, SSA Jalandhar was the guest of honour and engineer H R Singla, Director General LPU, presided over the ceremony. Dr Monica Gulati , Dean LFAMS and HOD, Physiotherapy Department accompanied him. Many IERTs were also present along with Students and faculty of Physiotherapy Department.

Welcoming all the participants on this occasion, H R Singla said, "We are happy that our university is imparting training to form an army of trained personnel, who in turn will be able to wage a war against ailments going door to door with a message and guidance of awakening. Our Department of Physiotherapy will certainly prove itself up to the expectations entrusted upon it, leaving no stone unturned."

Under six groups the training will be imparted to 376 IERTs from different districts of Punjab, separately and systematically as per the schedule. It has begun with Jalandhar (remaining), Kapurthala (remaining), Amritsar, Fatehgarh Sahib to continue for Ferozepur, Faridkot; Patiala, Mohali, Ropar; Sangrur, Mansa, Barnala, Bathinda, Moga; Nawanshahar (remaining), Hoshiarpur (remaining), Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran and ending with Ludhiana, Muktsar on March 29, 2011.

It is worth noticing that Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is Government of India's flagship programme for achievement of Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) as mandated by 86th amendment to the Constitution of India. It is being implemented in partnership with state governments to cover the entire country and address the needs of 192 million children in 1.1 million habitations.