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SOPU-INSO alliance wins all 4 seats
Chandigarh, September 4 With a turnout of nearly 61 per cent, the elections were more or less peaceful though a minor scuffle at the law canteen diverted the attention of security personnel for a while. Hours before the results were announced, the trends started coming in and SOPU supporters began celebrating. Amit, who has been the former president of the student council at GGDSD College, secured 3,276 votes, followed by Arshbir Singh Johal (PUSU) with 2,606 votes and Ashwathy Rajan of ABVP who finished third with 336 votes. For the post of vice-president, SOPU’s Virender Boora emerged the winner with 2,945 votes followed by Neha Chanana of PUSU with 2,263 votes. Though the council has seen women vice-presidents, it is for the first time that a woman won the post of general secretary. Deepika Thakur of INSO won this post with 2,880 votes followed by Tenzin Negi of PUSU with 2,310 words. The ABVP’s, Kunal Kumar, who had claimed in the open house debate that both SOPU and PUSU leaders had failed to open placement cells at the PU, secured 913 votes. The post of joint secretary went to Gaurav Agarwal who won with 2,985 votes. Rajdeep Dhillon of PUSU lost by a margin of nearly 500 votes. It was a double victory for the UIAMS department whose student, Amit Bhatia, was declared president. Students of the department had been denied the right to vote until last session, but this year they manage to get themselves on the voter’s list. This was the second consecutive victory of SOPU, though the alliance had changed this year. INSO candidate Deepika got the edge over the other candidates with the inception of the women’s front. The ABVP suffered a blow despite an impressive speech of its presidential candidate, Ashwathy Rajan, in the open house. The only independent candidate for the post of vice-president, Meenu Gupta, secured 368 votes.
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Rage, violence follow
Chandigarh, September 4 Miscreants outside SD College not only tore the uniforms of policemen, but also beat them up in full public view. The police, however, did not take any action in the absence of any formal complaints by the college authorities. The students pelted stones and crashed the main gate even as policemen tried to stop them. Rather than admitting to the gravity of the situation, the police preferred to play down the entire incident in an attempt to digest the humiliation. The SHO of the Sector 34 police station said nothing serious had happened. Meanwhile, a group of unidentified students fired into the air in Sector 10, triggering panic in the residential area while a DAV student and an INSO activist was beaten up by students armed with baseball sticks and iron roads in Sector 15. The students in two vehicles fired the shots. Panic-stricken residents said they heard four-five rounds of fire. The police said some students, who were out to celebrate victory, fired the shots and their pistol fell. SP (City) Madur Verma said it was a .22 mm revolver used for killing birds. They also seized some pellets from the spot. A case has been registered under the provisions of the Arms Act on the complaint of a constable.Earlier, Pawan Kumar, a BA-II student of DAV College, was assaulted by some students armed with baseball sticks and iron rods at Sector 15. Pawan, an INSO activist, was assaulted after he got off an autorickshaw after casting his vote in the college. He was badly injured in the attack and was taken to the Sector 16 Government Multi Speciality Hospital. He told the police that among others, Karambir Singh, Gokul and Sarpanch had attacked him. The police has registered a case. The trio had been booked in another case following violence at DAV College yesterday. Violence was not just confined to boys as even girls at the Sector 42 Government College also clashed with one another following which they were taken to police station. The tension that prevailed throughout the day indicated the intolerance of the youth when it comes to defeat. In the past also, most violence-related incidents during student elections have been a fallout of hurt egos at the results.
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Ranchi IGP duped of Rs 20 lakh
Panchkula, September 4 Nirmala Amitabh Chaudhary, IGP, Ranchi, in a complaint with the local police, alleged that Sonepat resident Sujit Khatri and Delhi residents Ajay Aggarwal and Gyan Devi misused the bank drafts issued to them by her for purchasing property in her name. A case under Sections 420, 406 and 120-B of the IPC has been registered against the accused. The Panchkula SP said Chaudhary had given a draft for Rs 20 lakh to the accused to purchase a 2-acre land at Bhanu, but instead of purchasing the land in her name, the accused purchased it in the name of someone else using the same drafts.
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Teacher’s Day awards run into controversy
Chandigarh, September 4 Three out of the five principals, who are being awarded this year, belong to the non-UT cadre. The proposed names of the principals are Sanjay Walia, Indu Bala, Indra Beniawal, Suman Sharma and Shiv Kumar. Besides lecturers and teachers, 25 names have been proposed from the administrative and clerical staff. However, the UT government teachers’ union has raised objection to the same in a press note. “What is the criterion of selecting clerical staff at the first place? The teachers may be awarded on the basis of ACRs, but what is the basis of selection of the others? There should be a clear policy,” Vinod Sharma of the union said. Meanwhile, Khushwinder Sharma, former District Education Officer, has been selected for lifetime achievement award. However, an inquiry is under way on the misuse of funds when he was serving. The union representatives had also met DPI (S) Samwartak Singh to convey the resentment among teachers in this regard. He assured them that the practice of giving these awards to non-teaching staff shall be stopped and from next year, these awards would be given to teachers of the UT cadre only.
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MC undertakes cleanup drive
Chandigarh, September 4 Under the drive, all departments of the corporation take up works pertaining to their jurisdiction in the area and give it a facelift. The drive commenced in the morning under the supervision of Dr Roshan Sunkaria, MC Commissioner, in coordination with senior officials of the corporation. The staff of the health and horticulture departments removed malba from roadsides, cow dung from SBS colony, Mauli Jagran, and cleared congress grass and shrubs from green spaces and parks. Road culverts and rainwater drains were cleaned up and trailers were engaged for collection of garbage. Eight trailers and sufficient numbers of rickshaws, handcarts and mechanical sweepers were engaged for removal of garbage from streets and roads of the area. The enforcement staff of the municipal corporation challaned 42 encroachers and recovered various items displayed on public land and roadsides in Mani Majra and Mauli Jagran during the drive. Two JCB machines and four tippers were used to remove malba from various areas. During the removal of encroachments, affected people agitated against the corporation alleging that the corporation had not served them with notice. Officials told shopkeepers to remove encroachments on the MC land, as there was no need to issue notices. The authorities had launched a campaign to make them aware about government policies and educate them on not encroaching upon government land. An official said the drive was a pilot project of the corporation and after seeing its results such drives would be implemented in other parts of the city. During the drive, the MC Commissioner visited various areas with area councillors Sunita Chaudhary and Anil Kumar Dubey of Mani Majra and Mauli Jagran, respectively. He instructed the Chief Engineer to check the feasibility of road widening in motor market, Mani Majra, and internal roads and take up landscaping of green belt in Mauli Jagran.
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Now, tourist info centre at Capitol Complex
Chandigarh, September 4 The administration has selected the site for the proposed centre under the pedestrian bridge, and its drawings have already been approved by the UT architecture department. The construction work for the centre having modern facilities has been assigned to the engineering department, which will bear the entire cost. The centre will be manned by officials of the tourism department. Currently, the city has tourist information centres at the ISBT-17 and the plaza-17, and one tourist information counter each at the railway station and airport. Majority of tourists visit the city to see and study the architectural works of Le Corbusier in the Capitol Complex. The decision to set up the centre and provide services there has been taken to save tourists from the time-consuming process of obtaining introductory permission letter, necessary to visit buildings in the Capitol Complex. All tourists have to obtain permission letter for visiting the structures designed by Le Corbusier in the Capitol Complex. Currently, it can be obtained from the tourist information centre, Sector 17, tourism department, Sector 9, and the College of Architecture only on working days and, that too, after following a cumbersome procedure. “With the opening of the centre in the complex, the tourists will be able to get letters there without any hassle. They will not have to rush to other centres for getting the permission letters,” said a spokesperson for the tourism department. The Capitol Complex comprises the Secretariat, the Vidhan Sabhas, the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Open Hand Monument and the Tower of Shadow. The Master Plan of Chandigarh is based on human body and the head lies in the Capital Complex and legs towards southern sectors. As head controls the body, Le Corbusier put government buildings in the Capitol Complex for the then Punjab Government. With a view to providing access to tourists on holidays, the Home Secretary-cum-Tourism Secretary has been negotiating with the governments of Punjab, Haryana and the authorities of Punjab and Haryana High Court for getting the architectural buildings in the Capitol Complex opened on holidays.
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Bilingual theatrical bonanza at Tagore Theatre
Chandigarh, September 4 The epic Sikh historical drama hailed as the British bilingual theatrical bonanza of religious and socio-cultural relevance, which was staged 18 times in Europe, was brought to the city by the Punjabi Theatre Academy, UK, and Punjabi Natak Akademy, Mohali. The mega production has been designed to inspire progeny of NRI’s born and raised in foreign lands to know, imbibe and adopt the rich cultural and ethical values and heritage of Punjab, said TPS Sindra, director of many social theme-based productions in UK. The play marked with inordinate delay and mundane beginning picked up later to effectively convey the message of humanism, mutual harmony, to fight injustice with bravery and unflinching zeal as propounded by the great Sikh Gurus. Since the Gurus cannot be shown in flesh and blood, it was indeed challenging for writer and director TP Sindra and Gaurav Sharma, respectively, to illustrate their divine vision, mystic ideals and superhuman wisdom. He relied on the dominating narratives by Bhavana, devotional Gurbani recitals and simultaneous audio-visual effects and acting spells on the stage. TP Singh, Sukhandeep and Harmeet from London and Narinder Neena, Bhavna, Rubina, Mohit, Jasbir Singh, Mukesh, Sunny Gill and Balkar Sidhu played the main roles. The presentation and production design apparently suited to the foreign milieu and needs improvement.
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Auto dealers to be authorised for registration of new vehicles
Mohali, September 4 Necessary provisions in the existing rules were being made to allow the new facility. The Chandigarh administration introduced the practice during 1990s but discontinued following certain problems. DS Jaspal, Principal Secretary (transport), said transport teams had been sent twice to Delhi to study the facility currently available there. The purpose of the new facility was to make the facility user-friendly. Under the recommended change for registration under Section 41 of the Motor Registration Act, a dealer would issue certificate of registration in a form as prescribed by the Central Government. The certificate would also specify the type of motor vehicle, its design, construction and use. The transport department was also contemplating to authorise educational institutions to issue learners licence to its students. The secretary said the department was contemplating to make the registration and licensing branch fully computerised so that people did not have to visit the office for related works.
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Rs 5,000 cr turnover in tricity by 2020
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 4 Strengthening of social infrastructure and education through public-private partnership were the other recommendations of the conference. Meanwhile, Sunil Kant Munjal, chairman, Hero Corporate Services, interacted with members of the TiE, Chandigarh-Punjab chapter, during the conclave. TiE president Puneet Vatsayan said the aim of the interaction was to inspire budding entrepreneurs and understand the underlying values that helped build a successful organisation. Munjal emphasised the need for entrepreneurs to excel through quality and meeting the customer expectations, which was a challenge in a highly diverse market like India. He asked businessmen to sensitise their employees towards customers by making them realise that it was not the company that paid them their salary but their customers. Major recommendations
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Tribunal quashes court martial proceedings against Lt-Gen
Chandigarh, September 4 In its order passed yesterday, a bench comprising AFT chairman Justice AK Mathur and former Army vice-chief Lt-Gen M L Naidu, held that the Army could not rely on the same court of inquiry proceedings that had earlier been quashed by the high court to convene the GCM. Lt Gen SK Sahni, former Director-General Supplies and Transport (DGST), had been attached to Headquarters 11 Corps in September last year for disciplinary proceedings. The GCM was ordered in November and he was to be tried on nine charges. He had retired from service by that time and had been recalled from retirement under provisions of the Army Act. General Sahni had moved the Delhi High Court, which stayed the court martial in November and the matter was still pending before it. When the AFT became functional last month, the case was transferred to it A court of inquiry (COI) had, in 2006, indicted General Sahni and several other officers including a Major-General and two Brigadiers for alleged irregularities in procurement of dry rations for the army. In July 2006, the GOC-in-C, Western Command, had ordered disciplinary action against the General and Brigadiers, while administrative action was recommended against the Major-General. The Delhi High Court had, subsequently set aside the COI on grounds that mandatory provisions of law were not complied with during the proceedings, but also gave liberty to the Army to exercise any other power available to proceed against the accused. Procurement of cereals with lower specifications, improperly upgrading stock of dal arhar knowing that it contained harmful elements and failing to withhold payment worth lakhs for a consignment while quality inspection report was still pending were charges pertaining to his tenure as DGST that cropped up during the proceedings. Charges pertaining to his tenure as Commandant included financial misappropriation.
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Three cops suspended for dereliction of duty
Chandigarh, September 4 The police said on September 3, head constable Vidyanand and constables Jit Ram and Tasvir were deployed for traffic regulation duty at Government Press trafficlights. During surprise checking, it was found that they stopped a car bearing outside registration, as its registration number plate was not according to the prescribed pattern. They let the vehicle leave without . They were placed under suspension for not
properly discharging their duties and sent to the Police Lines.
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2 more test positive
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 4 Nodal office SK Gera said samples of two patients admitted to the GMCH, including daughter of a doctor of the hospital, were found positive. The sample taken from the girl’s father, who is also employed with the GMCH, however was found negative, he said. The other patient was a woman from Mohali who was pregnant and reported with symptoms of flu at the GMCH. In all, 2,100 persons had so far reported in the screening areas of city hospitals. While samples of 186 persons were sent to the laboratory, only 20 samples were found positive, he said.
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Plans drawn for Senior Citizens’ Day
Chandigarh, September 4 According to a press note, the programme includes a large number of medical camps, gala events and a brisk-walk competition. In order to sensitise the youth to special needs of older persons and to bridge the generation divide, functions have also been planned in schools, besides an inter-college debate at DAV College, Sector 10. Two functions which have traditionally drawn massive turnout of older persons are the brisk-walk competition followed by interaction with the IGP on September 24. The grand finale will be held at Government College for Girls on October 1. Maj-Gen MS Kandal (retd), president of the association, said the main aim of the programme was to focus the attention of society and the administration to the special needs of the older persons.
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Dharna by govt, MC employees
Chandigarh, September 4 They demanded the Chandigarh administration to grant bonus to all employees working under the administration, revise pay scales and condition of services on the pattern of the central government, regularise daily wagers and initiate appointment on compassionate grounds. Addressing the dharna, Rakesh Kumar, convener of the association, appealed the administration to adopt pro-employee policies. It was unanimously decided to hold a protest torch light procession by the end of this month if their demands were not accepted by the administration.
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ISKCON celebrates ‘World Holy Names Week’
Chandigarh, September 4 A large number of devotees had participated in the
programme, said Nand Maharaj Das, president, local unit. Devotees were dancing on the rhythm of kartals and
mridangas, while chanting name of the holy God Shri Krishna. The event also marks the 50th anniversary of ISKCON's
founder-acharya Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's renunciation at the age of 70.
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Drive to enforce ban on polythene bags
Chandigarh, September 4 The administration has imposed a ban on the use and sale of polythene bags in the city with effect from October 2, 2008. Such drives will be carried out on a regular basis to enforce the ban.
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Rains deepen potholes
Mohali, September 4 Thanks to the apathetic attitude of the PWD authorities, the road near the sales tax barrier has developed potholes, deep enough for vehicles to get trapped. The rains have further compounded the matter as potholes are not noticed due to stranding rainwater.
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Down but not out
Chandigarh, September 4 Ask them how they take their defeat and their reply goes “honsle abhi bhi buland hain and we will continue to work for the students.” All said and done, defeat hurts. But how well one takes that hurt to move on depicts the true character of any leader. The candidates who make promises without reaching confidence and intimidating body language all of a sudden disappear in a shell after the defeat. This reflects the inability to accept failure. Whether their promises just centred around perks of featuring on the student council? What does the opposition have to say this time? We bring to you the overall atmosphere from the opposition camps on the evenings after the results were declared. The air in the PUSU camp was not tense for a start. While the disappointment was obvious, the spirits were high. PUSU’s presidential candidate who lost to SOPU’s Amit Bahtia said: “All of us are still charged up. Strategies for the coming year are already sketched out because we have realised that we have become stronger this year. The votes that our party gathered today are just independently for PUSU, while the opposition both parties were alliances. Had they contested individually, picture would have been different.” “Anyhow, we have realised that if we work the whole year, we will be stronger the next year. The camp is rejoicing because of the stronger PUSU independent foothold in the university now,” he added. On the other hand, ABVP-SOI camp’s resentment was evidently visible. While some had accepted the defeat there were others who could not stop the blame game and hidden tensions were surfacing with every passing hour. On the other hand, ABVP presidential candidate, Ashwathy Rajan said: “The brand names are hard to compete with. But this time, we were expecting much more votes. The results are not up to our expectations. But we will still continue to work for the students.” However, there are some candidates who blame the evident regionalism in the university for their defeat. General secretary candidate from ABVP, Kunal Sharma said: “We slipped into a weaker position after we couldn’t establish an alliance. But even so, the only votes we got were from students from UP and Bihar. Students here still don’t accept us, forget seeing us as their leaders.”
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College councils at a glance
Chandigarh, September 4 The high-voltage election fever finally came to an end today with results finally getting declared in colleges, along with the student council elections, class representatives of respective departments were also elected today. With polling that commenced at 10 am, overall not more than 50 per cent turnout was registered at most colleges. While in DAV College just 40 per cent voting was registered following the violence in the college yesterday, SD College-32 registered a meager 38 per cent polling. Various colleges, including Government College for Girls-11, Post Graduate Government College, Sector 11, and MCM DAV had certain unanimous victories on many student council posts. Student Councils for the
2009-10 MCM DAV College, Sector 36 President: Anupreet Kaur Arora of BA III Vice-president: Simranjeet Kaur Bhalla of BCom II Joint secretary: BA I,
Anukriti General Secretary: (no nominations filed) GGDSD College, Sector 32 Party in power: Sanatan Dharam Hostel Union
(SDHU) President: Himanshu Chauhan BBA III Secretary: Vikas Bansal BSC III
(BINF) DAV College, Sector 10 Part in power: Students organisation of Panjab University
(SOPU) Vice-president: Sukhmani Kaur (571 votes) Secretary: Mr Deepak (595 votes) Joint secretary: Harjot Singh (716 votes) Government College For Girls, Sector 11 General secretary: Gurpreet Randhawa BCom II (no president, no vice president) Government College For Girls, Sector 42 President: Neha
Verma, BSc III Vice-president: Neena Sharma, BSc III General secretary: Akwinder Kaur, BSc III Joint secretary: Aanchal Sharma, BA III Postgraduate Government College, Sector 11 President: Mandeep Singh, BPed IV Vice-president: Neha
Thakur, BBA III General secretary: Bhawna Nimbrayan BSc II Joint secretary: Ajay Kumar BA III Guru Gobind Singh College For Women, Sector 26 President: Prerna
Nandle, BA III Vice-president: Ramandeep Kaur, BCom II General secretary: Neha Sharma, BA III Joint secretary: Navneet Kaur
Shergill, BCom II Guru Gobing Singh Khalsa College Sector 26 Party in Power
(CSU or the Chandigarh Student Union) President: Sukhbir Singh Vice-president: Puneet Sharma General secretary: Deepak
Soi Joint secretary: Sandeep Khokar Government College, Sector 46 President: Harwinder Singh Vice-president: Angad General secretary: Nitin
Behl Joint Secretary: Soni Deci
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Dept representatives elected
Chandigarh, September 4 SOPU party candidates won the elections of department representative in the University Business School, UBS, by a margin of 80 votes. A similar success story was repeated in the University Institute of Engineering and Technology, UIET, which has strength of nearly 2,500 students. Four candidates of the same party won by a margin of 160 votes in this institute as well. While the overall voter turn out remained decent in the council elections (6,714 out of 11,000), the students turned up in huge numbers to elect their DR and council at 10 am. Meanwhile, after the declaration of results, the representatives of different departments shared their vision on the improvements to be brought about in the current academic year. “The canteen of the geology department has been lying closed since one year. I wish to bring about a change in the system and re-open it. I will also work with the authorities to replace the old lab equipment,” said Zuvreet Kaur, elected DR of geology department. Meanwhile, the focus of the DRs of UIET was on Industrial tours for the students. “I will like to bring about an active change in the placement drive and also stress on a fruitful industrial interface,” promised Kuldeep Singh, DR of UIET department. However, the representatives of the lesser-known departments were excited to bring recognition to the department. “I wish to open a systematic placement cell for our department. The police should train the students to become physically fit,” said Kushal Sharma, an MA (II) student.
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PU still not ready for woman president
Chandigarh, September 4 The only woman presidential candidate in this year’s elections failed to even gather 400 votes at a university with more than 11,000 students. The fact that the Student Council at PU has gone without a woman president this year as well is still a fact that everyone might digest. But the polling results have clearly reflected that students did not even consider a woman as their president. Women in the past have been vice-presidents on the PU student council, but never a president. Women in PU politics have always required a strong alliance support where the major party plays upon the image of the girl candidate, the candidate herself attracts more votes because of the alliance tag. At least one woman has made it to the student council as the general secretary-INSO’s Deepika Thakur. But again the SOPU -INSO alliance comes into picture reinforcing that it was ABVP’s Aswathy Rajan, the only women presidential candidate who lost to SOPU’s Amit Bhatia said: “I am not disappointed because I didn’t make it. I will still continue my work as the campus president. What struck me was the fact that students didn’t support me. I really thought the scenario might change this time. Even the faculty was pretty supportive. Even the girls did not support me. But after the elections its pretty evident that students here are not even thinking on those lines.” Student leader from one of the other parties comments: “The voters here are drawn by other factors rather than work. Everyone says they work “working” councils. But the polling clearly reflects they want their “own”, they want “big brands”, and powerful regional parties to come into power.”
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SOPU claims evening studies
Chandigarh, September 4 The department with strength of 1,000 students has an independent council of its own. Though the voter turn out was poor today, Sukraj Singh
Brar, (SOPU), a student of BA III, secured 266 votes and he won the post of president by a margin of 59 votes. Vice-president Yogita
Bansal, of the same party, got 246 votes, while Gurcharan Singh and Pradeep Sharma were declared the General secretary and joint secretary of
the council. — TNS
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State Awards
Chandigarh, September 4 Raising objection on the inclusion of ministerial staff and teachers on deputation in the award list, the Government Teachers’ Union met DPI Samwartak Singh and claimed that there was no policy or act to justify it. Reportedly, three out of five principals, who are being awarded this year, belong to the non-UT cadre. The proposed names of the principals include Sanjay Walia (Haryana), Indu Bala (Haryana), Indra Beniawal (Haryana), Suman Sharma and Shiv Kumar. Besides lecturers and teachers, 25 names have been proposed from the administrative and clerical staff. However, the UT Government Teachers’ Union has raised objection on the same in a press note. “What is the criterion of selecting the clerical staff? The teachers may be awarded on the basis of ACR’s but what is the basis for the selection of others. A clear policy should be made,” said Vinod Sharma of the union. Meanwhile, former district education officer (DEO) Khushwinder Sharma has been selected for the lifetime achievement award. However, an inquiry is underway on the misuse of funds when the former DEO was serving. The union representatives had also met the DPI (S) Samwartak Singh in this regard and conveyed the strong resentment of the teachers against the matter. The DPI assured that the practice of giving these awards to the non-teaching staff should be stopped and they would be given to the teachers of the UT cadre only from next year. Meanwhile, the union has called upon the teachers to meet and discuss the issue at the Lion Club tomorrow where Cabinet minister Pawan Bansal will also be present.
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NIPER faculty bats for green chemistry
Mohali, September 4 Ionic liquids are salts in a liquid state and are touted as ‘green’ alternatives to the traditional volatile organic solvents used in the chemical manufacturing process because these charged liquids are reusable and less volatile. In the chemical manufacturing processes for drugs and pharmaceuticals, the volatile organic solvents are required in large quantities but are not recovered completely after the completion of the synthesis. The volatile organic solvents are the main cause in damaging the environment. Green chemistry, also called sustainable chemistry, is a chemical philosophy encouraging the design of products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. Chakraborti said it was found that a more sustainable path would be to use ionic liquids as recyclable catalysts in chemical processes. He said he chose an imidazolium-based molecule for his catalytic ionic liquid that had the imidazolium moiety as the
cation, which is relatively non-toxic and is used in synthetic chemistry. The research work of Chakraborti on the mechanism of catalysis by
ionic liquids was recently published in a journal of the American Chemical Society.
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Teacher’s Day celebrated
Mohali, September 4 Students from various streams participated in the debate. Tiny tots of Kindergarten at Gian Jyoti Global School, Phase2, celebrated Teacher’s Day amid much fanfare. These little kids were dressed up like their teachers. Students presented colourful hand-made cards and flowers to their teachers. Principal Ranjeet Bedi said students kept in touch with the history and culture of India through celebrating such important days at school. On the other hand, ITFT Education Group, Chandigarh, also celebrated Teacher’s Day on its college campus at Hoshiarpur village on Chandigarh -Mullanpur here today. Dr Gulshan Sharma, executive director, ITFT, said in the present changing scenario, when the old family bonds were crumbling down and the youth were being attracted to many ills that plagued the society like drug addiction, bad company, negativity in behaviour, and stress and depression, teachers should provide the right guidance and emotional support to their students. A colourful cultural programme of dance and songs was presented by students. A dance with pigeons presented by Manpreet and Bhavya, students of MSc airlines, tourism and hospitality management, was the highlight of the programme. Seminar
A two-day seminar on “Bar Tending” was organised by Chitkara School of Hospitality in collaboration with Institute of Bar Operations and Management (IBOM), New Delhi. Founder and President of IBOM Sandeep Verma graced the occasion by sharing his experience in the industry.
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Classes X, XII toppers to be honoured
Panchkula, September 4 A team of the students of the hotel management institute will also present a live demonstration of cookery show and a fire show by jugglers will also be organised. The hotel will also be organising a children mega event, which includes a beauty contest and dance competition for the children up to the age of 15 years. The main attraction of the event will be the latest collection of traditional and western outfits from top designers of Chandigarh and Panchkula.
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