Boating facility at Kaithal Lake

Kaithal: Deputy Commissioner Sunita Verma launched boating facility at Bidhkyar Lake in the town recently. She said with the introduction of this facility more people would visit the lake and the adjoining Jawahar and children parks. She also took a round of the lake in a pedal boat. She said as many as seven boats would remain in the service to ferry visitors and five divers had been deployed for the seafety. She said a contractor had been directed to provide life jackets and each passenger would be charged Rs 40 for boating. She said a number of steps had been taken to ensure proper maintenance of parks and she also sought public cooperation for this purpose. She also issued directions for deployment of sufficient police staff for the security of those coming to the parks. The DC also informed that any one coming to the park with their pet animals was liable to pay fine. RS Mittal, SE irrigation, Vikram Singh, executive officer of the Municipal Council, Kuldip Malik, secretary MC, and other prominent citizens were present on the occasion.

Seminar on Punjabi poetry

Yamunanagar: SPS Janta College, Sarasvati Nagar, organised a national seminar on ‘Punjabi Poetry in Haryana’ on Friday. Dr Amrik Singh, executive director of the Janta Group of Institutions, said Dr Narinder Singh Virk, deputy chairman of the Haryana Punjabi Academy, was the chief guest on the occasion. Dr Ranjit Kaur, MD of the Janta Group of Institutions, thanked the participants for making the confluence of the Punjabi scholars a grand success. Dr Sukhdev Singh, Devender Singh, Dr HS Kang, Dr Ranjit Singh, Dr Narinder Singh, Dr Tilak Raj, Satwant Kaur Maan, Dr Gursharan Kaur, Dilbir Kaur, Dr Ranjit Kaur and Dr Gurpreet Kaur spoke on the richness and variety of the language.

‘Build environment-responsive designs’ 

Sonepat: A Gurugram firm named Design 21 organised a one-day energy conservation building code seminar at DCR University of Science and Technology in Murthal on Friday. Prof Rajindra Kumar Anayath, Vice-Chancellor, inaugurated the seminar. He stressed upon building environment-responsive designs and using indigenous material for construction. “Our ancient culture teaches us to live in sync with the nature and our efforts should be to use only locally available material to preserve our natural resources,” he said. Prof SK Garg, Registrar, stressed on building net zero energy houses. The inaugural programme ended with distribution of plants among the participants by Design 21. 

GJUST signs MoU with Food institute

Hisar: Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUST) and Fair Quality Institute (Food Analysis and Industrial Research Qualified Institute), New Delhi, will work together in the area of research and academia. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between both the institutions. Prof Tankeshwar Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of the GJUST, said both the universities had agreed upon registration of research fellows and project fellows working at FQI. He said both the institutes would share laboratory, infrastructure facilities and cross-institutional faculty/researcher instructions for academic, technical and technological advancements and exchange students and scientists. Both the institutions also agreed upon conducting research projects, seminars and workshops. Fair Quality Institute, New Delhi, is a prestigious institute working towards research and development of food and food products and ayurvedic products. The institute organises training in quality control for students and industrial personnels. The institute is NABL accredited.

80-year-old keeps public park litter-free

Chandigarh: Sohan Lal Arora (80) is a good samaritan who can be often spotted picking plastic bags, bottles and other waste littered in a public park in Panchkula town and putting it in dustbins. Arora, who retired as a regional manager from Punjab National Bank more than two decades ago, has been doing this for the past eight years ever since he has settled in Sector 20 of Panchkula town. People come to the park for their morning and evening walks, often consume eatables or drink water or soft drinks and throw plastic bags, bottles in the open. However, the moment Arora arrives in the park for his morning walk, he starts picking the waste one after the other and by the time he finishes six rounds of the 500-meter track, the park is free of trash. “This is part of my temperament. As a young boy, I used to keep my room clean so that I could concentrate on my studies. During my job, too, I used to make sure that all my subordinates kept the office clean as it enhanced their performance,” tells Arora. Arora said he had been following this practice ever since he shifted to Panchkula in 2010 and now it was part of his daily habit. “People are gradually becoming conscious of sanitation. When I started it in 2010, I used to find too much litter in this park, but now a very few people litter in the open,” he said. 

Contributed by Satish Seth, Shiv Kumar Sharma, BS MALIK, Deepender Deswal AND Sushil Manav