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Admission war
Colleges adopt new ways
Jalandhar, July 9
While SMSes on discount offers from garments, shoes and other stores were common till the past, now even academic institutes have started making use of this new-age service for reaching out to the youth to fill up their seats for various courses. With the mushrooming of the colleges in every town and seats available in plethora for every stream, it has become a Herculean task for average colleges to get students and this time they are even trying SMS for easy, quick publicity.

New education policy in two months: Sekhwan
Nawanshahr, July 9
The process of promotion of various cadres and formulation of a new education policy to revamp the school education system in the state would be completed within two months, said Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan at a district-level seminar on reforms here on Saturday.

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Chief Minister to lay foundation stone of sewerage project on July 11
Amritsar, July 9
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal would lay the foundation stone of mega Amritsar Sewerage Project worth Rs 430 crore on July 11.

Gurdaspur admn moves in to protect newlywed couples
Gurdaspur, July 9
Following directions from the state Home Department, the Gurdaspur administration has identified four government guest houses in this district where newlywed couples, fearing a backlash from their relatives, can get protection.

NRHM Mission Director takes stock of health scheme, warns officials against lapses
Nawanshahr, July 9
Krishan Kumar, Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), on Saturday held a meeting with the officials of the district Health Department and paramedical staff especially ANMs to monitor the implementation of the ‘Janani Surakhaya Yojana’ started to promote institutionalised deliveries in government hospitals. He took stock of the number of deliveries conducted in various hospitals and the timely payment of cash incentives announced by the government to the beneficiaries under different schemes.

Crime File
Stolen mobile phone does snatchers in
Nakodar, July 9
The police arrested three snatchers, including two minors, on Saturday after tracking the mobile phone that they had stolen on June 22.

	Admission war Colleges adopt new ways Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service Jalandhar, July 9 While SMSes on discount offers from garments, shoes and other stores were common till the past, now even academic institutes have started making use of this new-age service for reaching out to the youth to fill up their seats for various courses. With the mushrooming of the colleges in every town and seats available in plethora for every stream, it has become a Herculean task for average colleges to get students and this time they are even trying SMS for easy, quick publicity. In fact, the colleges have been trying every mode. They have appointed agents in other states and have fixed commission ranging between Rs 5000 to Rs 10,000 for every student that they can get in. Some of the colleges have given this offer to their own staff and have asked them to go out in adjoining rural belts, visit door-to-door and ask youth to take admission in their college. Punjab Technical University, itself, has gone on social networking sites like google, facebook and twitter for promotion of admission. Dr Rajneesh Arora, Vice-Chancellor, said, “We have specifically asked these sites to show advertisements on blogs of only those users who are of the age between 18 and 25. That is our target audience and this way we are also able to get cost effective packages.” On the use of such practices, Dr Jaspal Singh Randhawa, Principal, Lyallpur Khalsa College, opined, “This simply indicates that there is a race among colleges to get maximum admission. Several private colleges have come up which are totally running as commercial set ups have been treating student as a commodity.” Prof Lakhbir Singh from DAV College said, “Education institutes nowadays just seem to be shops available at every step. There was a time when the number of colleges was limited. They used to offer top quality education and carried a name. Therefore, they did not have to indulge in marketing to get students. Instead, they themselves got plenty of admission from all around and had to rather announce that admission was closed.” Things are completely reverse, he said adding, “New corporate style colleges have opened up which train students in electrical or computer engineering. Armed with degrees but no depth of knowledge, these students are not even able to change the fuse or repair computer system at their own place. That is the reason why when a company arrives in a college for placements, they are able to pick not more than 30 students out of an initial lot of 1000.”
	New education policy in two months: Sekhwan Our Correspondent Nawanshahr, July 9 The process of promotion of various cadres and formulation of a new education policy to revamp the school education system in the state would be completed within two months, said Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan at a district-level seminar on reforms here on Saturday. The seminar was attended by educationists, members of the village education committees and school management committees.
	Chief Minister to lay foundation stone of sewerage project on July 11 Tribune News Service Amritsar, July 9 Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal would lay the foundation stone of mega Amritsar Sewerage Project worth Rs 430 crore on July 11. It is expected to redress the long pending demand of the residents of the peripheral areas of the city to get basic civic amenities. After an inordinate delay of over five years, the actual work on the ambitious sewerage project, jointly sponsored by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), state government and Amritsar Municipal Corporation (AMC), would get underway. JICA would extend a loan of Rs 348 crore on nominal interest for the project while the remaining Rs 83 crore would be shared by state government and the MC. Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board chairman Dr Baldev Raj Chawla informed that contract bids for south zone sewerage and north zone sewerage had been approved.
	Gurdaspur admn moves in to protect newlywed couples Tribune News Service Gurdaspur, July 9 Following directions from the state Home Department, the Gurdaspur administration has identified four government guest houses in this district where newlywed couples, fearing a backlash from their relatives, can get protection. Deputy Commissioner Mohinder Singh Kainth said this had been done to ensure safety of couples who had gone in for inter-caste marriages. Runaway couples can take shelter at the PWD and the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) guest houses at Gurdaspur, PWD guest house at Pathankot and Officers Hostel Community Development Training Centre, Model Town, Batala. Couples can stay here for a maximum of 10 days and in this period they can avail legal aid through the district legal services authority. The government will bear all their expenses. However, if the couple decides to stay for more than 10 days, their case will be taken up by the district administration.
	NRHM Mission Director takes stock of health scheme, warns officials against lapses Our Correspondent Nawanshahr, July 9 Krishan Kumar, Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), on Saturday held a meeting with the officials of the district Health Department and paramedical staff especially ANMs to monitor the implementation of the ‘Janani Surakhaya Yojana’ started to promote institutionalised deliveries in government hospitals. He took stock of the number of deliveries conducted in various hospitals and the timely payment of cash incentives announced by the government to the beneficiaries under different schemes. Krishan Kumar took a serious note of the lapses in proper implementation of the schemes and warned the officials of stern action. While making his mobile number available to the ANMs, he asked the Civil Surgeon Dr Bhag Mal, District Health Officer Dr ML Bansal and SMOs to make their mobile numbers available to the ANMs also so that they could report them discrepancies in providing the incentives to the beneficiaries.
	Crime File Stolen mobile phone does snatchers in Our Correspondents Nakodar, July 9 The police arrested three snatchers, including two minors, on Saturday after tracking the mobile phone that they had stolen on June 22. The arrested youths were Rickey (16), Bhinda (17) (both belonging to Sarin village) and Basu (23) from Jalandhar. On June 22, these youths robbed Narinder Singh, belonging to Godhey village, of Rs 3,500 and a mobile phone. After the incident, the nabbed youths continued using the phone. Rs 57K snatched Hoshiarpur: Three youths snatched a bag containing Rs 57,500 from Gurmail Singh of Laveen, at Gambowal village on Friday evening. An employee of HP Gas Agency, Dasuya, Gurmail was returning to the godown when the incident happened. A case under Sections 383, 427 and 34 of the IPC has been registered. Dowry case Hoshiarpur: Leena Aggarwal, daughter of Mohinder Pal of Anand Gali, Katcha Toba, has filed a complaint against her husband Pyush Aggarwal, father-in-law Surinder Kumar and mother-in-law Prem Lata of New Shivpuri, Ludhiana accusing them of torturing her for dowry. She was even thrown out of the house when she failed to meet their demand. The police registered a case under Sections 406, 498 A and 34 of the IPC against the three.