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| Thursday, December 28, 2000, Chandigarh, India |
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PU girls corner
most awards CHANDIGARH, Dec 27 — Panjab University girls far outdid the boys in
academic awards, claiming nearly three quarters of prizes and medals in
separate categories at the 50th annual convocation here today.
Out of the total 261 degrees conferred on the occasion, 183 went to
the girl students. In the medal gallery, girls figured in 79 out of the
total 95 medals and prizes awarded on the occasion.
A total of 356 prizes were given on the occasion. Few among those
honoured on the occasion were Mr Karamjit Singh Brar and Mrs Jasbir Kaur
Brar. That they are husband and wife, is a coincidence.
Arti Paul was presented with a gold medal. Pooja Sehgal, daughter of
a university teacher, travelled from Abu Dhabi to get her gold medal in
M.Com. She is a teacher there. Chitleen Sethi nee Kochar, a Tribune
staff reporter, was among the crowned scholars on the occasion. |
Coach foresees bright future for
shooting CHANDIGARH, Dec 27 — Mr Tejinder Singh Dhillon, India’s first qualified shooting coach, thinks this sport has a great future in India as more and more youngsters are being attracted to it. He is confident that
Indian shooters will soon achieve world standards. Mr Dhillon who is now in Chandigarh in connection with the Northern India Shooting Championships, referred to Punjab’s significant contribution to this sport. In Badal village, he said, a special training centre for school and college girls was being run as a result of the initiative taken by the Chief Minister of Punjab, Mr Parkash Singh Badal. Some of the girls who had taken to shooting only a few months ago were now participating in the Northern India Shooting Championships. Referring to the expensive nature of this sport, he said the beginners could start with air weapons which would not involve a heavy expenditure. Moreover, the Government of India had now permitted the import of equipment under the open general licence. Duty-free import of equipment was also allowed to 25 top shooters of the country. Mr Dhillon narrated how two decades ago he had to train hard at the Sector 25 range and lamented that since then not much improvement had taken place at that range. In a few months’ time, he said, they were able to air-condition the 10-metre range at Phillaur, and also cover it with a false ceiling. Mr Dhillon used to play football and basketball but he took to shooting when he joined the Central Reserve Police Force. In 1994 he was sent on deputation to Punjab Police. He was attached to several Indian shooting teams for training them and was also the coach of the national shooting team for the World Shooting Championships and the Commonwealth Games in 1998. |
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Manan, Anil enter
semis CHANDIGARH, Dec 27 — Manan Nagpal of Panchkula and Anil Sharma sailed in the last four of the open snooker event of the Saurav Khattar Memorial Haryana State Billiards and Snooker Championship being played here at the Billiards hall, YMCA, Sector 11 Anil, of Haryana, comfortably ousted Amit Swamy. Anil began with a flourish and captured the first frame 53-25, but then lost the second frame 32-69. The next two frames were closely fought but Anil’s experience and control paid off in the closing part of each frame and he managed to outplay Amit 62-51,44-36. Manan beat Aman Bhasin 62-59, 30-64, 61-27, 47-44. In the junior billiards semifinal matches, Vikas Mohan from Ambala demolished Abhinav Bajaj 188-73 and Manan Nagpal trounced Deepankar Latka 258-136. In another open billiards match Raju Sian outplayed Ashish Noel 319-196 hitting many breaks of 20 points and above. YPS, St John’s win Shootingball squad Cricket match |
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READERS WRITE This has reference to the report “CET paper pattern to be changed” (December 16). The proposed change seems to have been necessitated by some administrative problems rather than the aims for which the entrance test for admission to professional courses was introduced. One of the reasons that necessitated this system was to differentiate between genuine merit and a fake one. The entrance test was intended to be a way to ensure that the really deserving students did not suffer on account of non-uniformity of syllabi of various school boards, rampant copying and varying evaluation standards. Switching to ‘objective-type’ questions only may save the university’s time and of course money but it will perpetuate the habit of casual and selective reading at the cost of thorough reading. The biggest casualty in the process is the sanctity of classroom teaching which has already been taken over by teaching shops. It will be a major step in restoring the students’ faith in the classroom if short-answer type questions are not done away with. However, if there has to be an entrance test based only on ‘objective-type’ questions, let the overall merit for admission be determined by the candidate’s performance both in the entrance test and the annual board examination. This will give due credit and weight to the performance of the student at the 10+2 level. This will give another opportunity to a deserving candidate to prove himself or herself if for some reason he or she could not show the expected result in the regular board or university examination and at the same time, those who show good performance in the annual examination are given credit for that. Dr I.M. Joshi School fees The people of Chandigarh have from time to time expressed resentment at the heavy admission fee, increase in the monthly tuition fee every year, a substantial hike in the bus fare almost every month, a high teacher-student ratio etc. in the city’s private schools. Another area of resentment by parents is the quarterly collection of tuition fee by the schools. This means collecting two months’ fee in advance on the pretext that the banks have expressed their inability to collect the fees every month. This is mainly done to get higher returns from the fee account in the form of interest. When some parents resisted this system, they were told to withdraw their wards from the school. This policy of the schools is an unnecessary burden on the parents. It is very difficult for a common man to pay the tuition fee of two school-going children (Rs 2000- Rs 3000 ) in one instalment and it disturbs his family budget. At the same time if the banks can make payments to their own employees as well as to the employees of other organisations that have salary accounts with them, every month, then why should they refuse to accept monthly fees. Even if the banks refuse to do so, it is the duty of the schools to make arrangements for fee collection. The present practice is highly undesirable and should be discontinued. It seems that it is the strategy of the schools to get the money in advance and earn interest on it. Do these schools pay two or three months’ advance salaries to their staff? Certain schools do not even pay the teachers for winter and summer holidays although the students are charged the fee for the vacation period. The people have to tolerate this autocratic attitude of the schools because this practice is common to all private schools. The Education Department of Chandigarh has also failed to make a uniform policy for government and private schools. It is time the authorities concerned made an appropriate policy regarding these schools and arrest their unlawful and undesirable practices. A P BHARDWAJ Loan recovery The settlement scheme introduced by the Cooperative Department of Punjab for the recovery of old loans, is praiseworthy. It benefits the cooperative banks as well as the poor farmers who could not repay their loans in time. The farsighted decision has benefited both the poor farmers and the banks. Dhan Raj Sharma |
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