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Leasehold system to go in city CHANDIGARH The UT Administrator, Lt Gen J.F. R. Jacob (retd), today issued orders to allow allotment and auction of residential property on free hold basis thus doing away with the 27 year old leasehold rules. The fresh allotments will be made under the provisions of the Chandigarh (sale of sites and buildings ) Rules, 1960, a spokesperson of the Administration said. This is targeted at
getting a good price in the auctions which have not been very encouraging in the past few years. In the past, the auctions were not getting good bids on bigger plots due to the ground rent that needs to be deposited under the leasehold allotments. The ground rent is about 2.50 per cent of the cost of land. So if someone boys a one kanal plot in an auction for say Rs 50 lakh he has to pay up Rs 1.25 lakh each year as ground rent. Such clauses do not exist in neighbouring Panchkula and S.A.S Nagar thus a large number of buyers invest in the two townships while Chandigarh loses out. It is not logical that a person first bids for property in an auction to buy it on leasehold and then pays conversion charges to get it changed to the freehold basis. And another drawback of the leasehold scheme is if someone wants to sell his house that is a leasehold property it can be sold only on General Power of Attorney or a Special Power of Attorney. This is risky for the new buyer and give rise to several property related disputes. Though the Chandigarh Administration has forwarded copies of the order to the Municipal Corporation and also to the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB). Sources said the CHB flats will come under the purview of free hold allotment, when the Government of India amends the scheme for conversion of the CHB and society flats from leasehold to freehold. The scheme awaits clearance from the Government of India. Included in the scheme is a provision under which the change of allotments will be changed to the name of GPA holders name but all this will have to wait till New Delhi thinks it is appropriate to change. |
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Truckers block highway DERA BASSI Sources said a group of armed sadhus headed by Ramdas allegedly trespassed into the house of Mr Kuljeet Singh Randhawa, president of the truck union, at about 4.30 a.m. and assaulted his two servants. Relations between Ramdas and Mr Randhawa were strained for the past many months. According to Mr Randhawa, "a group of sadhus armed with a gun, a pistol and tridents, besides other weapons forced their way into my house at Bakarpur village and beat up my two servants — Prakash Ram and Dalbira". ‘‘Seeing them being manhandled I managed to escape from the back door and informed the police at Dera Bassi. Sub-Inspector Ajaib Singh along with his team reached the spot and arrested Ramdas along with his men. The accused were identified by me at the police A case under Sections 341, 323, 452, 355, 144, 436, 298, 148 and 149, IPC, was registered against Ramdas, Parakh Singh, Lehari, Kalyan Das, Ramesh Das, Hari Ram, Sukh Rama, besides 25 other sadhus of the dera in Mubarikpur. Meanwhile, commuters and helpless bus passengers stranded on the highway.Traffic queues could be seen for miles and the most hard hit were passengers of long-route buses plying between Delhi and Chandigarh and even beyond. Trucks and other vehicles too could be seen parked on the roadside. The agitating truckers were also joined by the local transporters and taxi operators. The truckers could be seen arguing with cops, who were trying to disperse the crowd. Later the blockade was removed on an assurance of Mr H.S. Bhullar, DSP, that the culprit would be arrested after proper verification. Meanwhile, the accused claim that they have been taken by Ramdass to the Randhawa's residence on the pretext of conducting a
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Ration card loses legal sanctity CHANDIGARH Ration card, which for the last half a century was sought as a vital document for proof of residence by various government agencies, will no longer be a must for the purpose of identification. The Union Government in its directive to the Administration has directed that the Food and Supplies department before issuing any ration card must ensure that the card is not used as an instrument of identity or proof of residence. It further states that the ration card should be stamped with a seal saying “ration card is meant for withdrawal of rations and not for any other purpose.’’ Official sources reveal that this is another significant move to decrease the importance of the ration card. They Central Government had, earlier increased the prices of the goods distributed under the public distribution system (PDS) to check its misuse. However, some time ago, without a ration card you could not get items like coal and cement besides other essential commodities. But the recent directive is a step further to check its misuse. This will also save a common man from the botheration of procuring a ration card for getting a passport or a driving licence made or for applying for a Housing Board flat. In all these cases, it was mandatory to have this document as proof of residence. Though the document has been received by the Administration, it is yet to be circulated among the public dealing departments as they are not aware of the orders. They continue to ask the common man for a copy of the ration card for any of the above purposes. The indifferent attitude of the officials to such directives is further brought out by the fact that nearly three years ago the then Home Secretary, UT had directed that the voter I-card instead of the ration card be treated as proof of residence and domicile. The voter-I cards issued by the Election Commission should be utilised for the purpose of identification by various government departments and agencies. But till date this has not been followed. In the orders issued, the HS had specified that since ration card was being misused on a large-scale, including black marketing of commodities in the open market. Hence, the authorities should not insist on a family ration card as proof of residence. |
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Giddha marks the end of youth festival CHANDIGARH Among the four teams of GCG-11, MCM DAV College, Dev Samaj College, Sector 45 and GCG-42 who participated in the quiz, the team of Palka Sahni, Swati Chaudhry and Mukesh Bura of MCM DAV College won the first prize while the teams from Dev Samaj College, Sector 45 stood second and GCG-11 team stood third. The one act play called Nagpaash won the first prize performed by the team of Shveta Sharma, Megha Rana, Amandeep Kaur, Gopika Karol, Gopa Gupta and Suneet Brar from GGS College for Women, Sector 26. The team from GCG-11 won the second prize for their play Mukti Didi and GCG-42 bagged the third Prize for their play Pinjar. The individual prizes in acting went to Amrit of GCG-11who stood first while sweety of GCG-42 got the second prize and Shweta Sharma of GGS college won the third prize. For histrionics, Gurpreet Kaur of Dev Samaj College, Sector 45 won the first prize while Hemjeet of GCG-42 won the second prize and Ruby Charak of GCG-11 won the third prize. The day ended with the giddha performances and in an extremely stiff competition, MCM DAV College team of Jaskaran Preet, Ramanpreet, Parminder, Diljeet, Kirandeep, Harsimrit, Harjeet, Amandeep, Rupinder, Raminder and Tejinder won the first prize. GCG-42 team was declared second and GGS College team was declared third. Tanzula Ahmed of GGS College, however, bagged the individual prize in the giddha performance while Jagbir of GCG-42 won the second prize and Ekta of Dev Samaj College won the third individual prize. The day’s event were punctuated with various thanksgiving occasions and the visit of the chief guest, Home Secretary, UT Administration, Mr R.S. Gujral, who appreciated the efforts of the college and complimented the participants. Ms Sneh Mahajan, former Principal, MCM DAV College, was the guest of honour and she gave away mementos to the Principals of the participant colleges. Some other students of the college Neeru, Pooja, Onkarjit, Ninderjit, Meenakshi, Sarabjit were thanked with mementos who had worked in decorating the stage each day. The prize distribution ceremony was one full of delighted reactions from the crowds with each college’s supporters standing up their screams of happiness everytime the name of a winner from that college was announced. The GCG-42 students also claimed that the play which had been selected for the second position should have been disqualified as it had gone beyond the last call of time up. Mr I.S. Dhillon, Director Youth Welfare, Panjab University, gave away the prizes and clarified that the problem in case of judgements, if any, had to be brought to the notice of the judges immediately not after the results were declared. Ms Upwinderjit, Dr P.K. Singh, Mrs Manjit Brar conducted the stage today. Rinku Kalia, a noted singer of the city and a faculty member of GCG-42 regaled the audience with a Punjabi number on the
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Politician-criminal nexus ‘must be broken’ CHANDIGARH, Nov 2 — Concerted efforts have to be made to break the nexus between criminals and politicians as a first step towards a corruption-free society, the best guarantee for which are the citizens themselves. Unfortunately, there is no premium either on performance or honesty. Though corruption is a global phenomenon but it has assumed serious proportions in India as it has been affecting the common man. These are some of the observations made at two seminars organised as a part of the Vigilance Awareness Week celebrations in Chandigarh and SAS Nagar today. Among the speakers at these seminars were Mr Hari Jaisingh, Editor, The Tribune; Justice Kuldip Singh, a retired Judge of the Supreme Court; Mr Justice R.S. Mongia of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Prof K.N. Pathak, Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University; Mr Someshwar, Chief Commissioner (DZ), Central Excise; Mr Inder Raj Soni, Commissioner, Central Excise Commissionerate-I here; Dr B.R. Sharma, former President of the Indian Academy of Forensic Sciences; Dr M.J. Zarabi, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Semiconductor Limited; and Dr ( Mrs) Sudha Sharma, Chief Vigilance Officer of Semiconductor Limited. Speaking at a session on “Corruption — a national challenge” organised by the Chandigarh Commissionerate-I of the Central Excise , Justice Kuldip Singh cautioned against the reducing distance between criminals and politicians maintaining that the politician of the country was dishonest, corrupt and mixed up with the mafia. . The unholy alliance between the criminals and politicians has been proved by the Vohra Committee report, which was unfortunately gathering dust, he added. Justice Kuldip Singh wanted that serious efforts should be made to prevent the entry of criminals into politics. “We have to cleanse the system which will be possible only if persons convicted by a court in a criminal case or charge-sheeted in a criminal case or against whom a chargesheet has been filed in a court or has been absconding in a criminal case should be debarred from contesting any election. Most of these provisions have been incorporated by the Law Commission in its report. The Chief Election Commissioner, too, wants that those with a criminal background should be debarred from contesting elections to the Legislature,” he said recalling how a three-member committee set up by a media organisation on the eve of the last General election had identified 70 criminals from a list of 500 nominations screened by it. Justice Kuldip Singh held that involvement of Ministers, including Prime Ministers, in scandals and scams, has created a general impression that all politicians are corrupt. Similarly, because of the growing harassment of the common citizen, the impression is that all public servants are dishonest. This, he said, is an alarming situation. Earlier, Mr Justice R.S. Mongia said corruption was a known phenomenon. The main worry was how to combat, control or eradicate it. The present system of governance, he observed, was “substantially” alright. Recommending deterrent punishment, including the death sentence, for those convicted in corruption cases, he says this was one measure to eradicate this problem. Procedural delays and archaic laws, he said, should be replaced with people-friendly rule and regulations. Character building of general masses and their determination not to bribe anyone for anything would be major steps towards eradication of corruption, Mr Justice Mongia added. Earlier, Mr Hari Jaisingh talked about deterioration in quality of public men since Independence. Politicians until the middle of the 70s were idealists, performers and perfectionists. The question before the nation, he said, was how to create the right atmosphere for a corruption-free society. One week of Vigilance celebrations was not enough as the menace was too deep rooted. “How do we create a transparent system ? We continue to follow the rules, regulations and procedures which even their framers, the British, have changed. We have to simplify things ,” he said suggesting that people of the country must be able to question wrong doings, question wrong politicians and question wrong rules. Mr Hari Jaisingh said he did not agree with the adage that people get the government they deserve. “We deserve better governance. We deserve better politicians and a better set of rulers,” he said maintaining that the system has to guard against those who want to settle personal scores in the garb of fighting corruption. He also talked about how criminals were getting into august houses of the Legislature and wanted that the nexus between the criminals and the rulers had to be broken in the fight against corruption. At present, he said, “the system gangs up to discredit honest citizens.” Prof K. N. Pathak, Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University, stressed the need for inculcating values among youngsters and maintained that public vigilance could contribute immensely in the fight against corruption. Earlier, Mr Inder Raj Soni, talked about various steps taken by the Commissionerate to provide a transparent and corruption-free service to the assessee by reducing his contacts with the field staff. Mr Someshwar,in his address of welcome , suggested creation of a “Forum for fighting corruption in public life” which would provide assistance to any aggrieved person against any state agency. He was hopeful that a large number of eminent persons would volunteer to work for this Forum. Speaking at a session on “Diminishing standards of public morality — a challenge for 21st century” organised by the Vigilance Wing of he Semiconductor Limited at SAS Nagar, near here, Mr Hari Jaisingh said that the biggest problem for India was to create the right atmosphere and provide opportunities to people to grow. Unfortunately, he said, the middle class had become a part of the drift. The corrupt were surviving because of the indifference of the people in general and middle class in particular. “The quality of society”, Mr Hari Jaisingh said, “depends upon the response system of the people. Because of the growing corruption, the life of the average man has become full of struggle . For him even bribe does not work. Cumbersome rules and regulations are a major stumbling block. We need to have transparency and an open system. Unnecessary secretiveness has given credence to corruption.” Advocating strongly for right to information, Mr Hari Jaisingh suggested some of the institutions, which were pillars of democracy must be protected and strengthened. Unfortunately, these institutions were being weakened, destroyed or impaired. Dr B. R. Sharma said the problem of corruption was extremely serious. Everyone was suffering from it as a defaulter, as a victim or as a fighter though the last mentioned group was the smallest. the concepts of morality, he said, were changing as most of people had become money-minded. Dr Sharma said that the education system, which had gone haywire, needed to be remedied and improved. He suggested both long term and short term measures to fight corruption. Earlier, Dr M.J. Zarabi said corruption had to be checked if India wanted to be an economic and IT power in the world. In her address of welcome, Dr Sudha Sharma talked about various activities being organised by the Vigilance Cell from time to time to educate the employees.
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Officially, city is pollution-free CHANDIGARH, Nov 2 — Going by the concentration of pollutants in the air, Chandigarh is pollution-free and there has not been any significant increase in the annual average of the pollutants. Considering the datas of two most pollution prone areas namely Industrial Area and Sector 17, the pollution levels in the city are considerably lower than the permissible limit. These two areas are considered the "most prone" because of the industries in the Industrial Area and heavy rush of traffic in Sector 17. The level of pollutants like sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen (Nox) and Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) in these two area reveal that the pollution is very much under control. Datas available for 1999 reveal that concentration of sulphur dioxide in Industrial Area was 6.2 units, that of Nox was 16.9 and SPM was 422 units against the permissible limits of 80 and 60, 80 and 60 and 500 and 200 units for sulphur dioxide, Nox and SPM for industrial and residential areas, respectively. Similarly, in the Sector 17 the annual average of pollutants came out to be 6.0, 13.3 and 263 units of sulphur dioxide, Nox and SPM, respectively, accounting to much below the permissible amounts. Datas of the past five years reveal that the level of sulphur dioxide has come down from 24 units in 1995 to 6.5 units in 1999 in the Industrial Area. Thanks to the checks imposed by the Chandigarh Pollution Control Board on the industries to ensure the installation of pollution control units. In Sector 17 also sulphur dioxide levels came down from 10 units in 1995 to 6 units in 1999. The concentration of oxides of nitrogen also noticed a decline from 28 units in 1995 to 13.3 units in 1999. The levels of SPM have although gone up during the past five years rising from 153 in 1995 to 263 units in 1999 in Sector 17 and from 280 units to 422 in Industrial Area. These are well within the permissible limit, experts say that the rise cannot be solely due to the pollution. Certain environmental conditions like dust storms and burning of paddy stubble can also result in the raised level of
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MC to be
computer savvy soon CHANDIGARH, Nov 2 — The progress of the computerisation work of Municipal Corporation was reviewed during a meeting held today under the chairmanship of the Commissioner, Mr M.P Singh. It was mentioned that two software programmes relating to complaint monitoring and personnel management Information system have been developed by NIC, which would be demonstrated on November 9. Mr Amar Pal, a Senior Executive officer of NIC, informed that the work of providing LAN network has been completed and was likely to become
functional within the next seven days. The Executive Engineer, Electrical, was asked to make a list of the officers to be connected with optical fibre being laid by consortium of private companies. He was also asked to explore the feasibility, both from the technical and economic aspects, whether MCC should go for RF connectivity or leased line from the Department of Telecommunication for an internet connection. Meanwhile, two dial up internet connections shall be obtained for Commissioner and Chief Engineer of the Corporation. The list of various properties/buildings of MC and their location will be submitted to NIC for the land use software programming. Officers upto the rank of Executive Engineers have already been trained to work on computers. The Executive Engineer (Electrical), will identify the lower officials who are to be trained for working on computers. The functioning and usefulness of inter active voice recording system for receiving complaints was also discussed. Mr Ajay Rampal informed that the system works only as a numeric system. Various types of complaints shall be listed under various heads so that these can be codified
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City women demand female cops at cinema halls CHANDIGARH, Nov 2 — It’s a classic Hindi movie scene enacted daily, not on the giant screen but outside the city cinema halls. Men in khaki, clutching batons in sweaty hands, push aside guys requesting girls and women to buy tickets, but do not miss the opportunity of breathing down their necks in the exercise. Harassed is what the city damsel feels. Faced with such a situation, do we need women cops to control crowd at city cinema halls or the movie lovers are satisfied with the policing? At least the women cine goers want women lady cops. However, when it comes to policing at cinema halls, either of the sex are dealt with male cops only. Ms Navjoot Kaur of Mata Gujri Hall, Panjab University, believes, “Ours is a traditional society and no woman would liked to be handled by a male cop”. A normal scene at any of the city cinema hall is that youngsters approach girls standing in the queues to buy tickets for them also. And the cops posted at the venue in order to keep the boys at an arms length quite often stand very close to the ladies. And quite often the cops are seen pushing women too. And when the guy accompanying them objects, he receives nice thrashing at the hands of the khakhi clad chaps who feels that their ego has been challenged. A survey by Chandigarh Tribune reveals that the city women want that there should be at least one lady cop deployed at the cinema halls during the rush hours. Women standing at the ticket counters feel harassed and humiliated when a male cop tries to control them. “When the city Administration have lady cops why cannot be they deployed?”, asks Ms Shimpy, a postgraduate student at Panjab University. Ms Poonam, Sector 40, who had gone to watch Mission Kashmir at Nirman Theatre believes that there should be at least one lady cop. “I am not saying that the women create problems by pushing around or break the queue”, said Ms Poonam and added, “actually we women should get more protection”. Mr Ashwani Malhotra, manager Picadally Cinema, Sector 34, said, “Till date we have not received any complaint from our women customers”. Mr Vinay Ghambhir, manager Batra Cinema, Sector 37, agrees that there should be ladies cops during a new releases. He said, “It would be better if a lady cop is put on duty”. However, he believes that it is the male young crowd that creates the real trouble. There are about 120 lady cops with the Chandigarh police and most of them are deployed at police stations or with the crime against Women Cell. A senior police official said in fact women cops were required at many places in the city and the situation would improve very soon as more women would join our team. When contacted, Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr Parag Jain welcomed the suggestion and said, “The idea is good and a lady cop could be deployed when a new movie is released”. However, he put the blame on the management of cinema halls, if the women were harassed. “They should make arrangements so that gents and ladies queues should be properly segregated”, said the SSP. However, he asserted that till date he had not received any complaint from any city woman regarding harassment at the hands of cops. |
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‘Funds for SCs\STs being underutilised’ CHANDIGARH Addressing a press conference here today, he said the utilisation of the funds made available to Punjab by the Central Government under the special central assistance (SCA) and the special component plan (SCP) had been far from satisfactory. Giving statistics, he informed that out of Rs 9.5 crore only Rs 6.1 crore were spent by Punjab during 1996-97. The situation was still worse during 1998-99 when only about Rs 4.86 crore could be spent out of a total amount of Rs 8.9 crore. However, the track record of Haryana was better. Under the SCP the allocation during the 8th Five Year Plan was 13.56 per cent which was considerably lower than the required percentage of 19.75. The utilisation of the allotted amount, however, had been 13 per cent which was quite satisfactory, he added. Mr Bhuria, who along with Mr Harinder Singh Khalsa, member and Mr Bir Singh Parsheera, joint secretary, visited Amritsar, Ludhiana and Chandigarh since October 30, said the delegation had meetings with the SC welfare associations to ascertain the grievances of the associations with regard to the implementation of the service safeguards and welfare and development programmes for the SCs. The commission also called on the Governor and Chief Minister of Punjab and also the Chief Minister of
Haryana.The position in respect of the implementation of service safeguards, the SCP and atrocities against the SCs\STs was reviewed at a meeting with the Deputy Commissioners sand the SSPs and senior officers of Punjab and Haryana. Claiming that both the states have
agreed to set up state commissions for the SCs/STs, he expressed concern at the literacy level of the SCs in Punjab which was only 41.09 per cent. The implementation of various educational development schemes has been thoroughly unsatisfactory. For a prosperous state like Punjab the percentage of 53.80 SC families below the poverty line was a testimony of the states' failure to implement the poverty alleviation programmes with sincerety. Mr Khalsa informed that the commission would keep a tab on the assurances given by the states. He claimed that the shagun scheme for the SCs girls in Punjab, which had been suspended for want of money, was still continuing. Mr Parsheera informed that the last year's report of the commission would be submitted to the government by the next month. |
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Army conducts
exercise CHANDIGARH A check point, under the command of a JCO, was set up for the purpose on the Chandigarh- Zirakpur road, near the airport. The exercise was confined to medium and heavy transport vehicles. Light vehicles, including cars, were not covered. Checks were only restricted to the number of vehicles plying and did not include documentation or verification of papers. According to Col A. Teri, Commanding Officer of 61 Engineers, the purpose of the exercise is to determine how many civilian vehicles in a particular area can be made available to the Army in case additional transport is required. “There may be instances when the Army may be called in for aid to civil authority but due to operational commitments, military vehicles may not be immediately available due to deployment elsewhere,” he explained. |
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3 file papers for council’s poll SAS NAGAR Those who filed their nominations were Mr Manmohan Singh son of Mr Ishar Singh Lang, councillor of this ward who died in a road accident recently; Mr Kamaljit Singh, covering candidate of Mr Manmohan Singh; Mr Kulwant Singh. The SDM, Mr Jai Pal Singh, said there were 2,421 voters in the ward and two polling booths had been set up. |
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Finance
companies warned CHANDIGARH The Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr Parag Jain, reportedly told over 100 delegates of the finance companies to act in accordance with the law instead of snatching cars after stopping the defaulters. The instructions assume significance as the police had recently received a number of complaints from city residents alleging harassment at the hands of muscle men employed by the finance companies. In most of the complaints, the loanees had alleged that the cars were forcibly taken away from them after they were thrashed by the hired miscreants. Sources, meanwhile, added that the finance companies were advised to organise themselves in associations to deal with defaulters in a “legal manner”. Stressing upon the need to prevent the occurance of cases of default, the SSP also advised them to scrutinise the forms properly before sanctioning any loan. Talking to mediapersons soon after the meeting, the SSP said: “They were advised to send three to four notices. The delegates were further told to approach the civil courts if the defaulters failed to pay heed”. |
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Survey on slip lanes carried out CHANDIGARH During their two-hour tour of the city, the team drove through the road dividing Sector 21 and 22, Sector 34 and 35, Sector 22 and 23, besides Sector 33, 45, 46, 47 and 48, according to senior officials in the police . The IGP and other officials, say sources, would soon be submitting their report to the Chandigarh Administration after consulting the officials in the Engineering Department. Sources add that today's survey was a fall out of a recent meeting between the IGP and the municipal councillors. The councillors, claim sources, had reportedly expressed the desire of having one-way traffic in certain parts of the city. In a effort to reduce accidents involving rickshaws, the city police has decided to launch a drive of fixing reflectors on them. According to sources, the drive was being launched to ensure against the incidents of vehicles ramming into the rickshaws. |
P. S. Gill
repatriated to parent state CHANDIGARH Mr Gill, who was on deputation to the UT Administration, had already completed his two years as SDM (Central) and was working in the present post during his extension. He had sought the repatriation a few weeks ago on account of various reasons. His request has been accepted and the relieving orders will follow, it is learnt.
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‘Sciences reeling under IT blow’ CHANDIGARH These views were expressed by Prof Yash Pal, recipient of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Popularity of Sciences besides a dozen other coveted awards, in the keynote address on “Physics in the 21st century: the Indian perspective” at the XV convention of the Indian Association of Physics Teachers at Panjab University here today. Prof Yash Pal said that one finds parents dissuading their wards from joining the science streams and instead encouraging them to pick up courses in management or information technology. “ Is it not interesting that ‘yuppies’ who have little to do with basic knowledge are found around everywhere as knowledge managers’. The manner in which the information technology graph continues to rise in the country, the sector growth is not uniform. Besides IT, there is the angle of “ IT enabled services” like in the field of medicines which in a way show a wild growth rendering a different kind of service ‘ geographically”. The growth now is ‘longitudinal’ instead of ‘latitudinal’, he said. Professor Yash Pal made a special mention of learning English at the junior level “which in a way hampered the natural mental growth of a child. English is not the mother tongue for the majority of children. The time which could have been used to engage a child’s mind in answering questions pertaining to nature around is now spent cramming a language not their own, needing extra special efforts. He said another interesting factor in the world of education was a feeling that computers would replace teachers absolutely. This was not possible. Even with books containing all information, teachers were needed. There are several factors which emerge in direct contact for better understanding of the concepts, he said. Dr R.P. Bajpai, Director of the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, was the chief guest on the occasion. The stage science show by Mr Lalchandani and Dr Pratibha Jolly was well received by the audience. Using simple daily life activities, the show dealt with serious concerns of the subject. Another highlight of the day was an invited talk by Dr J.S. Rajput, Director of the NCERT. |
Couple tries
to commit suicide PANCHKULA, Nov 2 — In a suicide pact, a couple tried to end their lives by consuming poisonous substance here today. According to sources, Jagdeep and Kuldeep Kaur, students of Government Degree College consumed posion and boarded a rickshaw and reached Government Hospital, Sector 6. The duo reached the hospital in a dizzy condition. Sources in the Government Hospital revealed that Jagdeep (21), a resident of Kakar Majra village, and Kuldeep Kaur (19), a resident of Shazadpur, were referred to the PGI, Chandigarh. Condition of the couple is said to be serious. CHANDIGARH Man kills himself: According to sources in the Police Department, Ranjit Singh was suffering from depression for sometime. The exact reason behind his taking the "extreme step" was not yet known as suicide note was not found, add the sources. 1 hurt in mishap: Case registered: Chain snatched: Scooter stolen: One arrested: Theft case: Car stolen: |
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Wife, in-laws
booked in murder case SAS NAGAR Gurdeep Singh (70) had, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of a room in his house on Tuesday night. He had come to his native place Kamalpura in Hoshiarpur (Punjab) on October 30. The deceased, who was running a photostat, STD business, had reportedly an altercation with his wife before went to sleep on the particular night. |
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