AWARD: Dr Dharam Swaroop Gupt, poet, critic
and journalist has been selected for the National
Millennium Award, for his service to the promotion of the
Hindi language, at the 10-day-long Millennium World Hindi
Conference to be held at New Delhi from September 14 to
September 23. Dr Gupt has been the Principal of MLSM
College, Sunder Nagar, and DAV College, Malout. He is
also the chairman of Sambhay Theatre Group and the Swami
Ram Tirath Education Society. He has remained a member of
the Academic Council of Panjab University and Himachal
Pradesh University. Dr Gupt has reviewed more than 300
books and writes profusely for newspapers and magazines.
APPOINTED:
Mr S. Navjinder Singh Mallah has been appointed the
President of the Nationalist Youth Congress, U.T. He will
be arriving along with Principal Gurbachan Singh,
President Chandigarh Nationalist Congress Party, from
Delhi on Tuesday.
MEETING: A meeting of the Bharatiya Janata
Yuva Morcha, district No 4, Chandigarh, was held under
the chairmanship of Mr Shashi Shankar Tiwari, ex-district
president, district No 4, BJYM, Chandigarh, at Shaheed
Bhagat Singh Colony, Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh. The
problems being faced by the residents were discussed.
APPOINTED:
Mr Mohinder Singh has been appointed as the chairman,
Kisan Cell, Chandigarh Nationalist Congress Party with
immediate effect.
MEETING: A meeting of the Himachal Maloya
Niwasi Sudhar Sabha was held on Sunday. The issue of
water tariff hike by 600% was discussed in detail. The members expressed their views that earlier the consumers
were charged Rs 50 for two months but two months ago the
rate of water charges were increased to Rs 100. Now the
consumers are getting a bill of Rs 293. In this colony
the daily wage workers and labourers reside. They get Rs
40-50 as daily wages and cannot afford to pay this amount
for the water bill.
PLANTATION: The State Bank of Patiala, Sector
32, in collaboration with Sanatan Dharam Hari Mandir
Sabha, planted over 50 Ashoka saplings in the Pracheen
Hanuman Mandir , Sector 32 here on Monday. Mr Raj Kumar
Sharma, President of the Mandir Sabha, Mr S.C. Dhal,
branch manager, State Bank of Patiala, Mr B.D. Kalra,
general secretary of the Sabha and residents planted the
saplings.
EYE DONATION: The Food Craft Institute, on Monday,
organised an eye donation awareness camp in collaboration
with Eye Bank Society, PGI. A paper reading contest on
the theme of eye donation was also organised on this
occasion. 40 students of the institute participated in
the contest. The contest was judged by Dr Pankaj Gupta of
Eye Bank Society, Dr Upwinder Kaur from GCG-42 and Mr
Parveen Goswami, Senior Manager, Food and Beverages,
Hotel Mountview. The winners were given away the prizes
by the principal, Mr Alok Shivpuri.
DONATION: The Canara Bank
employees have donated note books, geometry boxes, rhyme/
picture books, carrom boards and other things for the
students of Government Middle School, Kaimbwala village,
behind Rock Garden, in a meeting arranged in the school
here on Monday. These items were distributed to the
school children by the General Manager, Mr K. Raghunath,
of Canara Bank. He also planted a tree in the premises of
the school.
HONOURED: Dr Naresh, Professor of Modern
Literature at Panjab University and a multi-lingual poet
and writer has been selected for the National Millennium
Honour for his services to the promotion of the Hindi
language and literature. He will be honoured at the
10-day ‘Millennium World Hindi Conference’
being held in New Delhi from September 14 to September
23.
DISCUSSED: A meeting of the All India
Entrepreneur Cell, Nationalist Congress Party, was held
at the office of the traders cell, Sector 26. The
problems faced by the traders and manufacturers from the
Sales Tax, Excise Tax, Income Tax and other departments
were discussed. The Sales Tax Department was warned that
if its policy did not liberalise the party would hold an
agitation after a fortnight.
BLOOD DONATION: A blood donation camp was
held at the Maharashtra Bhavan on the occasion of Ganesh
Pooja festival here on Sunday. The campaign was conducted
by the doctors and technicians of the Government Medical
College and Hospital, Sector 32.
DHARNA: The dharna held by
the student organisation of Panjab University SOPU, and
the students of various science departments entered its
12th day on Monday. The students have given a notice that
the strike will intensify even more.
COMPETITION: The winners of the
group song competition organised by the Adult Education
Department, UT, for its learners on August 31 will be
honoured on Friday. 20 teams, from different centres
located in the villages and colonies of Chandigarh,
participated. It was a novel experience for all of them.
The theme of the competition was ‘literacy’ and
the singers highlighted the importance of female
education through their songs.
RESULT: Government College, Sector
46, Chandigarh, has achieved a 100 per cent pass
percentage in the BBA (I) examination of Panjab
University and claimed that no student from their college
failed.
ONE KILLED: A
person running a chemists shop in Mundi Kharar was killed
while Darshan Singh Sodhi, a press correspondent from
Kharar, along with a friend was injured in a road
accident which occurred on Jhungian road here on Monday
evening. Both of the injured have been admitted to the
Civil Hospital, Kharar. The police has started the
investigations.
REMANDED: Budhi Singh on Monday, was sent to
judicial remand by the UT Judicial Magistrate (First
Class) till September 18, in a case of misappropriating
money. The accused was a cashier of the Central Bank at
Manimajra and was arrested on a complaint filed by the
Senior Manager of the Bank, Ms Geeta Kapoor, and a case
under Section 409 of the Indian Penal Code was filed. The
complainant, Ms Geeta Kapoor, alleged that the accused
had deposited Rs 1.50 lakh less at the time of closing
the bank.
ELECTED: In a meeting of the women wing
of Panchkula Consumer Forum Mrs Madhulika Kanwar was
elected as Convener Women Wing and Mrs Prarna Saini as
the Secretary Women Wing of the Forum.
