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NIT to offer admission to NRI students
Jalandhar, February 22 Stating this here today, Dr Moin Uddin, Director, said the NRI students could take as many as five per cent of the total seats in the institute. Since the institute already had 430 seats and an approval for another 180 seats, he said, at least 30 NRI students could take admission in the institute in the new session.
The director added that the fee structure for the NRI students would be different from the usual fee structure. “The NRIs would have to shell out five per cent more than the regular fee,” he added. The NIT authorities are also planning to start the Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA), whereby foreign nationals studying in any country, including India, and Indian students studying abroad could apply for various engineering programmes for limited seats in the new session. The director added that the students could also apply under the cultural exchange programme or the self-supporting schemes of the Government of India. The NIT authorities are also in the process of constructing a modern hostel for boys. Under its new expansion mode, NIT has also planned to spend Rs 5 crore to raise buildings for the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, and the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering. A language laboratory, with two studios, is also coming up on the campus. It has also been decided to set up an IT Park and a computer centre at a cost of Rs 12 crore. According to the director, the IT Park would have laboratories that could be leased out to private companies for revenue generation. The institute is adding yet another facility by introducing single-point to multi-point video conferencing at a cost of Rs 20 lakh, whereby teachers abroad could relay their lectures to the students here and vice versa. Dr Moin Uddin said the system would operate through VSNL lease line as well as wireless connection. He said that the institute had already received equipment for Edusat connection, which would be installed by ISRO personnel soon. He added that a studio for the purpose would be set up at a cost of Rs 5 lakh.
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Victims demand strict action against fake travel agents
Jalandhar, February 22 Extending his party’s support to their agitation, the working president of the Lok Bhalai Party, Mr Avtar Singh Mullanpuri, said the party would work dedicatedly towards the rehabilitation of these families, who were duped by the fake travel agents. Mr Mullanpuri, and the president of the union of the families cheated by the travel agents, Mr Kuldeep Singh Amritsar, called for checking the mushrooming of the travel agents all over the state. The leaders of the two fronts, in the memorandum submitted to the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Ashok Gupta, called for registration of cases against such fake travel agents for crimes like human trafficking, illegal confinement, knowingly throwing the victims into jails in foreign countries, starving the victims and non-payments of salaries by the companies. The leaders also demanded that the money taken by the fake travel agents from the victims be returned with interest. They further called for the constitution of a “manpower export corporation” for youths aspiring to go and work abroad. Special courts for dealing with the cases related to the fake travel agents was also one of their demands. The other demands included calling upon the Centre for blacklisting the companies belonging to the Arab countries, which flouted the work agreements with their employees. |
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Residents to observe bandh
Phagwara, February 22 Thousands of commuters have been demanding the resumption of work on the railway over bridge for the past three years. Coming forward for this cause, physically challenged Vipin Vinayak has been sitting on an indefinite 10-hour hunger strike since the past 12 days. Expressing solidarity with Vinayak, the activists of Shiv Sena (Hindustan) today announced that they would join him in his hunger strike. The work on the bridge was started in May 2002 and it has been hanging fire since then. |
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Three held for attack on bank employee
Jalandhar, February 22 The police said those arrested included Rajan Khanna and his relatives Pushpinder Khanna and Sumeet Khanna. They had been arrested under Sections 353, 186, 341, and 323 of the IPC, the SHO added. — TNS
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One killed in road mishap
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