Friday, September 8, 2000, Chandigarh, India |
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HSA, PUSU threaten to
lock up
campus offices CHANDIGARH, Sept 7
The Haryana Students Association and the Panjab
University Students Union in a press conference today
said they would start locking up campus offices
which failed to deliver desired services to students”. Mr Bhupinder Bhuppi from HSA
said the organisations had organised a one-day silence in
protest yesterday to highlight the academic problems.Gurpreet Singh Gappi from the PUSU
and Rohit Sharma, a former presidential candidate of the
PUSU, were also present on the occasion. It was said the
university should announce the date of declaration of
results along with the dates of examination and normal
schedule for re-evaluation of results. Improvement of
seating in the examination halls was also stressed. |
Narang: literacy must to
remove
backwardness CHANDIGARH Dr C.L. Narang, Director, NSS, Panjab
University, said that it was unfortunate the number of
illiterates was highest in our country. He said it was
due to the illiteracy that people in backward areas were
deprived of the benefits of the national development
schemes launched by the Centre. Prof Prasad, programme
officer of the college, said only literacy could save our
country from the backwardness. Ms Shyama Nagi,
president, Traders Union, and social worker, said there
were a number of school dropouts in the colonies of the
city due to economical compulsions. |
IT
scholarship test CHANDIGARH |
Bail plea
dismissed CHANDIGARH, Sept 7
The bail application moved by Mohammad Karim, a
Muzafernagar resident, was today dismissed by UT Chief
Judicial Magistrate, Sant Parkash. Karim was arrested in
a case of cheating and fraud on a complainant by Mohinder
Singh and others.The complainants had alleged that the
accused had taken money from them for arranging jobs for
them in Dubai. |
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