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Power cuts sleep of residents
Chandigarh, May 25
Residents are facing sleepless nights in the sweltering heat due to frequent, unannounced power cuts in the middle of the night. Residents of Sectors 8, 10, 11, 22, 26, 45, 50 and 61, besides certain others, have been sweating it out over the past few weeks.
The scorching heat has telephones in more than half a dozen complaint centres ringing throughout the night.
Though the electricity department has claimed that it has streamlined the load shedding period, frequent power disruptions, mostly during night, and voltage fluctuations during the day are a routine affair, particularly in the southern sectors.
Strawberry Fields faces de-recognition
Chandigarh, May 25
The education department has served a notice on the Strawberry Fields School, Sector 26, for gross violation of stipulated requirements, appointment of unqualified teachers, non- implementation of reservation for economically weaker sections
(EWS) and non-compliance with fire safety norms.
An adult literacy project in progress at an NSS camp in Chandigarh on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
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BEd (education in learning disabilities)
Not-so-special start for PU’s first batch
Chandigarh, May 25
Indifferent attitude towards children with learning disabilities in city schools can be gauged from the fact that not a single out of the 14 students enrolled in the first batch of BEd (special education in learning disabilities) of Panjab University has been placed this year.
Slapping Incident
Principal repatriated
Chandigarh, May 25
After being found guilty of slapping a student, Indu Bala, principal of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, has been repatriated to her parent state, Haryana.
The decision came after an inquiry conducted by the education department today.
Shopkeeper hurt in assault
Chandigarh, May 25
A group of hooligans allegedly assaulted a shopkeeper and his family with rods and sharp-edged weapons at Mauli Jagran here late tonight.
Sanitation Work
Contractors fail to set up complaint centres
Workers far less than specified in agreement
Mohali, May 25
Violating the terms of agreement, contractors carrying out sanitation work in the town have not set up proper complaint centres and the number of safai sewaks employed by them are far less than the strength specified in the agreement. The facts came to light after Mohali municipal council president Kulwant Singh conducted raids at various parts of the town here today.
Job Bonanza: Ability Fair 2010
Corporates open arms for differently-abled
Chandigarh, May 25
Despite being the only applicant for a post advertised by a petroleum company, Deepak (26), a BTech, MBA, was rejected because of his 75 per cent visual disability in 2009.
Scribes protest against conversion of
wage board
Chandigarh, May 25
Members of the Chandigarh-Punjab Union of Journalists wore black badges all over the state in protest against move to convert the GR Majithia Wage Boards for journalists and non-journalists into a tribunal on May 24. The union sees in it clever scheme to deprive the journalists of their due.
‘Rs 5-cr needed to clean up N-choe’
Chandigarh, May 25
Just over a month after The Tribune raised a storm over sanitation concerns going down the drain, the Chandigarh administration yesterday informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court about the formation of an expert committee to look into the problem of discharge of sewerage in n-choe.
Ruchika Case
Sacred Heart welcomes court’s verdict
Chandigarh, May 25
Sacred Heart School, which had once allegedly expelled
Ruchika, welcomed today’s court verdict, which came as a surprise to all.
“We accept the court’s verdict and appreciate it. If the court found him guilty of molesting our deceased student,
Ruchika, then it is great that he got punished after 20 long years,” said Father Thomas, the school’s official spokesperson.
Teachers’ evaluation
non-serious, claims PUTA
Chandigarh, May 25
The Panjab University Teachers’ Union (PUTA) has termed the teachers’ evaluation conducted by the Panjab University Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC) as “non-serious”, “arbitrary” and termed the approach of the students as “casual towards a sensitive
matter” in a press release issued today.
BCom admission goes online
Chandigarh, May 25
Panjab University is going to make admission to BCom course online from this session.
Chief coordinator of BCom admissions Karamjit Singh convened a meeting of representatives of 11 colleges of Chandigarh where the BCom course is offered.
100 teachers without salary for 2 months
Mohali, May 25
At the time when teachers should be teaching students in government schools, around 100 teachers with the Zila Parishad in the Dera Bassi block are running around to get their salary for the past two months.
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