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BD Arya Girls College’s employment generation scheme takes women places
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14 blocks without permanent BPEOs in district
Going places at eight
Young World
Drugs seized from medical store
DG writes to Railways for station near Science City
MC panel okays projects
worth Rs 25.5 cr
Southern Air Command are volleyball champions
HR summit held at LPU
NDA coaching classes from May 25
Mobile phone thief arrested
2 injured in clash
NDA block to be ready by year-end
4 ETT teachers take to water tank protests
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BD Arya Girls College’s employment generation scheme takes women places
Jalandhar, May 18 When Sunita, a Class XII dropout and housewife, got enrolled for the course, she ensured that she picked up her lessons quick to grab a good job somewhere. A mother of one, she left her studies six years back. However, the employment generation scheme has rekindled her hopes of speaking better English and to start a career ahead. This is not the lone case. For Vandana, a Class VIII dropout, the scheme is nothing short of a dream. At present she is undergoing training in cosmetology. She lost her father at a tender age. “The financial problems of my family forced me to leave studies mid way. Even now we have a hand-to-mouth existence. And I want to ensure that
this training makes me financially independent,” she said. Gurbakhshish Kaur, lecturer in English, said the girls were being taught basic communicative
English. “We are teaching them telephonic conversation, daily office communication along with an understanding of grammar. The response is good. The girls are picking the basics pretty fast,” she said. Ever since the course started on April 19, the college authorities have been receiving a good response. At present, a total of 285 students, including girls, are taking classes in cosmetology, spoken English, basic computer, fine arts, block printing, tie and dye, stitching, tailoring and embroidery, apart from cooking classes in the weekends. The students would be provided certificates by Guru Nanak Dev University. Principal Dr Sarita Verma said the scheme was aimed at helping dropout girls. “We are also providing free bus service to ferry rural girls. The aim is to make the girls from deprived sections self-employed,” she added. Another girl, Amandeep Kaur from Jandu Singha village, a Class
XII dropout, was also all praise for the training. “I am learning cosmetology and wish to start a beauty parlour at my home. Due to some reasons, I could not pursue my studies but this
training will help me in becoming independent”, she added. Initially the scheme was introduced by the state government but red tape led to its failure. “As there was no response from the government we took up the initiative on our own. We spoke to Guru Nanak Dev University Vice-Chancellor Dr A.S. Brar regarding the scheme and he gave us the go-ahead,” she added. |
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Metered water supply scheme
Jalandhar, May 18 The Government of India will offer all major schemes for local bodies including the Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for small and medium towns and Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission have called for mandatory metered supply and cent per cent recovery of water bills. The state on the other hand has given total waiver for water supply to owners of plots in less than 5 marlas. The flat rate has not been hiked by 10 per cent for the past two years. There are arrears worth crores of rupees due and recovery is close to 80 per cent only. The officials of the Municipal Corporation revealed that they had already apprehending refusal on various schemes for the same reason. Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia has been saying that the ruling alliance would first need to build a consensus before pursuing ahead with it. “It is a major public concern and we cannot just proceed like that. It will definitely take some time,” he had recently quipped. Political observers, on the other hand, maintain that the scheme would not at all be implemented by the ruling government in its tenure. “Even if they start today, it will certainly take them some months to build a consensus. By that time, it will already be the last year of the SAD-BJP coalition. They will definitely not want to implement any decision owing to which the public would have to shell out more money for a basic utility like water. They would rather avoid giving opposition a chance to make any such election issue”, they opined. Even the legislators and councillors have been opposing the metered supply scheme for the same reason, owing to which the state government continues to be
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14 blocks without permanent BPEOs in district
Jalandhar, May 18 The Block Primary Education Officer is responsible for the proper functioning of schools and makes it possible by conducting routine inspections in schools falling under the jurisdiction of his or her block. On an average, each primary education block in the district consists 60-70 primary schools. Ironically, in 14 primary education blocks of the district, Centre Head Teachers (CHT), who are otherwise responsible for monitoring day-to-day functioning of five-six schools, are bound to keep an eye on 60-70 primary schools scattered over a block and are working as BPEOs on temporary charge. The District Education Officer (Primary) could not be contacted for comments. However, the district education authorities cite the reason of delayed promotions and frequent retirement of teachers for the situation. The Permanent Block Primary Education Officers are working only in Bhogpur, Jalandhar East-I, Nurmahal, Goraya-II, Shahkot-II and Jalandhar East-III. “Students studying in those schools where such CHTs are originally posted have to bear the brunt of this departmental lacunae as no teacher replaces him or her in the school once the CHT start functioning on the administrative post of the BPEO,” said an employee. “Moreover, due to temporary nature of the job and responsibility, such temporary BPEOs hold no authority over the staff of hundreds of primary teachers working in a block,” he added. With increasing recruitment of graduate and postgraduate candidates as primary teachers, continuity of undergraduate teachers on administrative posts are also being questioned by newly recruited teachers. “In some states, candidates working as Block Primary Education Officer are recruited from the lecturer cader. Or there can be a direct appointment through a screening test. A number of problems are being faced in even those blocks where the post of BPEO remained filled for years. Such problems can only be overcome by recruiting highly qualified persons for administrative posts,” said a teacher. |
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Going places at eight
Jalandhar, May 18 But things are a bit different now. Her phenomenal
dancing steps are wooing audience in the country and even abroad. Avneet Kaur, a student of Class III at Police DAV School, recently made her way to the super 16 of Dance India Dance Little Masters contest, and the city couldn’t be prouder. Just at the age of eight years, she has brought fortunes to her family and herself and has become a renowned personality even before wining the much known reality show. Avneet, for whom dance has become a synonymous to life itself, has been selected not only for Dance India Dance but also in other leading reality TV shows featured on Colors and Sony TV. While taking to The Tribune, father of the enigmatic dancer, Amandeep Singh, said she had been simultaneously selected to appear in Chak Dhoom Dhoom telecast on Colors TV and Boogie Woogie on Sony TV. “She opted for Dance India Dance on her own and she is rightly delivering justice to her talent and confidence there,” added Amandeep. He said before appearing in “DID Little Master” she had acted in the feature film “BMC Chowk to Bathinda” in a children’s film “Miracle” and in the Honhar Reality Show, telecast on Sadhna Channel in 2009. “Now organisers of reality shows want her to apply for her passport as they want to take her to the USA, South Africa, England and Canada as member of their teams, which will perform there in promotional shows for their channel,” said the parents. |
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Young World
Jalandhar, May 18 Out of the total selected, Mallika Sikri, Arun Wadhwa, Ajay Dev Chhokra, Arjun Sharma, Animesh Sood, Utkarsh Priyadarshi are from electronics and communication engineering while Simardeep Kaur and Mini Bahl from information and technology and Vikas Kumar from electrical engineering discipline. Meanwhile, HCL Info Systems Limited organised a campus placement drive in CT Group of Institutions, Jalandhar, for BTech 2010 batch in which 13 students were selected for the post of trainee trainers at the package of 1.2 lakh. Selected students will go through 3-month training in HCL on their specialised modules where their technical skills will be enhanced. The students would be later sent to various offices of HCL across India. Mother’s Day
The students and staff members of Kamla Nehru College for Women, Phagwara celebrated Mother’s Day. Students of commerce house participated in various items organised on the occasion. Investiture ceremony
The Sanskriti KMV School organised an investiture ceremony on the school campus. Principal of the school, Dr Nisha Bhargava appointed Himanshu Sharma as head boy and Amandeep Kaur as the head girl. Aditya Sharma and Minal Jain were appointed as assistant head boy and assistant head girl, respectively. House captains and vice captains were also given badges. Auditorium
The Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya started the state of the art auditorium ‘Ragini’, which was inaugurated by S.K. Sama, Vice-President of DAV College Management Committee, Delhi. The auditorium with a seating capacity of 800 has ultra modern, latest features of sound proofing, inbuilt light system and wooden stage. On this occasion the students also presented a colourful cultural programme. Fashion exhibition
The Department of Fashion Designing of the local BD Arya Girls College held an exhibition on the college campus. As many as 50 students of the college displayed their creations in the exhibition. Principal of the college Sarita Verma appreciated the works of the students. CT Hostel Night
The CT Public School organised ‘Silver Nite’ to welcome the new comers. On the occasion, the students presented a colourful cultural programme. The programme concluded with an exquisite performance of bhangra by girls. |
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Drugs seized from medical store
Jalandhar, May 18 While talking to The Tribune, District Drug Inspector Kulwinder Singh said acting on the repeated complaints by the residents of the locality, a raid was conducted on the Saytam Medicos today and nearly 3,100 capsules of Proxyvon, 1,050 tablets of Lomotil, 11 codeine containing cough syrups and 20 injections of Pentazocine (Fortwin) were seized from the shop. “Owner of the shop failed to show the bills of purchases of this much quantity of drugs. Moreover, such drugs falls under Schedule X of the Drug and Cosmetic Act and cannot be sold without the written prescription of qualified doctor. However, chemists were selling the drugs without any such prescription,” said Kulwinder Singh. He said the raid was conducted on the same shop even one month back but the drug authorities failed to recover anything illegal from the shop. He said a case has been filed under section 65 of the Drug and Cosmetic Act and has been forwarded to the office of the State Drug Control Authority and any action could only be taken as per the recommendations given by the authorities concerned. |
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DG writes to Railways for station near Science City
Kapurthala, May 18 Besides, the Railways had been requested to set up a station at an appropriate place near Science City for the facility of visitors, he added. Expressing happiness over approval by the state government for a rail over bridge (ROB) at Wadala level crossing, near Science City, and for four-laning of the Jalandhar-Kapurthala road, he said Science City was pursuing both the projects. Dr Khandpur said he would also request the state government to make an elevated road in the Basti area on the Jalandhar-Kapurthala road for a congestion-free ride for the visitors. Over 15 lakh people have visited the PGSC since its inauguration on March 20, 2005. The PGSC has added several new attractions, including a dinosaur gallery with movements and special sound effects and a two-seater aircraft too. |
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MC panel okays projects
worth Rs 25.5 cr
Jalandhar, May 18 As many as 118 items for various development works, including roads, water supply and streetlights, were listed on the agenda, of which 38 were kept pending for negotiation with the contractors. MC officials earned a profit of Rs 1.32 crore vis-a-vis last year by recalling a tender for streetlight maintenance. The officials are said to have broken the lobby of contractors by relaxing certain conditions and allowing more contractors to join the race. |
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Southern Air Command are volleyball champions
Jalandhar, May 18 The Southern Air Command team beat the Training Command team 25-18, 21-25, 25-22 and 25-16. Air Cdre H.S. Arora, Air Officer Commanding, Air Force Station, Adampur, was the chief guest. South Western Air Command outplayed Western Air Command 23-25, 25-21, 25-17, 22-25 and 15-08 for the third and fourth positions. Probable players to represent the Indian Air Force
in the forthcoming Inter-Service Championship were also announced. |
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HR summit held at LPU
Jalandhar, May 18 “They should lay emphasis on special chapters for industrial training as there is an immediate need for the ready-to-serve human resource rather than misfits to the culture. Such ties will enable the students to get fully acquainted with the industry requirements and work culture,” HR leaders from top corporate offices opined during an HR summit held at Lovely Professional University last weekend. Corporate luminaries and acclaimed career experts like Dr Nand Kishore Rathi Chief Navigating Officer, Loratis, Pramath Nath, HR Business Partner for Asia, Pacific and Japan, HP, and Abhay Kapoor, GM, HR, Ranbaxy Labs, were among those who attended the event. |
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NDA coaching classes from May 25
Jalandhar, May 18 DSWO Deputy Director Lt-Col Manmohan Singh said that female candidates who had applied for the CDS and OTA entries could also attend this course. “The candidates can get the brochure from the DSWO and can register their names before May 24,” he added. |
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2 injured in clash
Phagwara, May 18
Personal enmity was said to be the cause of clash, the police said.
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NDA block to be ready by year-end
Jalandhar, May 18 Besides, the pending projects of Sainik Bhavan, Padhiana, Ex-Servicemen Yoga Centre, Shahkot, and the local Punjab State War Memorial would also be completed on time. Addressing the tri-monthly meeting of the District Sainik Board in the district administrative complex, he said the funds for the completion of these projects would be given by the government at the earliest. |
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4 ETT teachers take to water tank protests
Kapurthala, May 18 Infuriated over the government’s decision taken in the cabinet meeting on the recruitment of ETT teachers, four protesters, including the presidents of the Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala units of the Unemployed ETT Teacher Union, climbed the water tank while scores of others staged a dharna around the tank this morning. The protesters had assembled in the hometown of Punjab Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur. The minister was to attend a school function at Bidhipur village this noon. Gurpreet Singh, president of the Kapurthala unit of the union, Krishan Kumar, president of the Hoshiarpur unit, Parminder Singh and Sukhwinder Singh, decided to lodged their protest in this way. Receiving information, the district administration, including Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Superintendent of Police and District Education Officer, reached the spot with heavy police force. Their efforts to pacify the protesters proved futile till late this evening as the agitators were still atop the tank. The police rounded up some relatives and friends of the four who tried to feed them by scaling the staircase of the tank. |
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“I feel confident now,” this attempt to speak English publicly was enough to prove that the free-of-cost employment generation scheme implemented at BD Arya Girls
College.
Jalandhar, May 18
Kapurthala, May 18
Talking to The Tribune, PGSC Director-General Dr R.S. Khandpur said he had written to the Railways to make a Tarn Taran-Goindwal Sahib-Sultanpur Lodhi rail circuit.