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UGC-NET not necessary
in 3 city colleges CHANDIGARH In these rules, there is no mention of the UGC recommendation that was later made mandatory by a Supreme Court ruling. These are also missing from the rules governing the Chandigarh Educational Service (Group B) that were notified in October, 1991, for Home Science College, the College of Education, the Regional Institute of English and various colleges of arts and science. The Administration chose to ignore a Panjab University circular in this regard that was issued on June 18, 1990. It had received the circular four months before it notified its set of recruitment rules on October 19, 1990 and published in the gazette on February 21, 1991. The Administration, following decisions of the CAT, revised these rules for colleges of arts and science and made the NET qualification essential for candidates in 1997. However, these rules were not revised for the other colleges. These revised set of rules were revised again in January 2000 for the colleges of arts and science, while the rules for Home Science College, the College of Education and the RIE remained untouched. The Principal of Home Science College, Ms Usha
Dhawal, says, “We prefer to recruit those who have cleared the UGC NET, but the recruitment rules are not very clear on this issue. We had selected two lecturers in 1991-92 who had not cleared the
UGC-NET, but the university refused to consider their selection as valid. The Administration, however, clarified that it had not adopted the UGC recommendations as yet.” Ms S.
Tangri, Principal of the Sector 20 Government College of Education, says, “As far as colleges of education are concerned, these are governed by the recruitment rules laid down by the National Council of Teachers’ Education. These clearly state that the
UGC-NET qualification is essential for the selection of lecturers. I joined this institute in 1996, so I cannot comment on the way recruitments were done earlier.” |
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Folk dances at annual
function CHANDIGARH Director Public Instructions Schools, D.S. Saroya was the chief guest on the occasion. He gave away prizes to students and 12 teachers. Various cultural items comprising Rajasthani dance, solo singing and bhangra were the highlights. One of the teachers Loveleen presented a quiz show with students Kaun Banega Hazarpati. Tiny tots expressed their love for nation in the song, yeh mera India. ‘Punjabi Tappe’ presented by the senior girls depicted the Punjabi culture. Misha Brar and Abhishek Benjamin were declared best students of the year 1999-2000. |
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26 cases of illegal
stay in hostels CHANDIGARH All the illegal residents were taken to Sector 11 police station and after verification, they were later released. All of them were issued stranger rolls. The idea behind the raids, according to a senior police official, was to improve the overall security environment in the hostels. The raids were supervised by Mr H.G.S. Dhaliwal, Assistant Superintendent of Police (Central). Later in the day a meeting of the heads of the education institutions located in the Central division and the ASP was held in the latter's office. A total of 15 heads participated in the meeting. The various heads of the educational institutions expressed their concern over the cases of eve-teasing, rowdyism and illegal stay in hostels. It was felt that cases of rowdyism were on the increase in the institutions located around Sector 24 and Sector 25. According to the heads of the institutions, cases of eve-teasing and rowdyism were maximum at the time of opening and closing hours of the institutions. The ASP assured them that such cases would be firmly dealt with. Mr Dhaliwal assured them that such activities would be curbed. He said the beat constables and division officers would be asked to remain around the institutions during the opening and closing hours. |
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MCM-36, GC-46
joint winners of debate CHANDIGARH “I have a computer and I don’t need a library” was the topic of debate between teams from more then ten colleges of the city. In an interesting interaction between students from these colleges, it was debated if books were indispensable and computers could replace them. Neha of MCM DAV College and Jaswinder of GC-46 won the first prize in the debate while Harleen of Dev Samaj College, Sector 45, and Sajjan Singh of Government College, Sector 11, jointly won the second prize. Ms Madhavi Kataria, DPI (Colleges), was the chief guest on the occasion and in her address reminded the students that books cannot be substituted and computers were at best complementary to libraries. Earlier, Mr D.P. Singh, Principal, GC-46, had welcomed the guests. Mr J.K. Kataria, President, CLA, also spoke on the occasion and Mr I.B. Verma, General Secretary, CLA reported on the activities of the CLA. On the 18th, in an inter-college quiz competition held at the British Library team of Kunal and Gaurav Sood of DAV College, Sector 10, won the first prize while Divya Sharma and Preeti of Dev Samaj College, Sector 45, won the second prize. Abhishek Kalla and Anant Modgil of Government College, Sector 11, won the third prize. With this inter-college debate, these library related competitions come to an end. |
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Move to have zero
hour in PU Senate CHANDIGARH The Vice-Chancellor has constituted a committee that will meet shortly to discuss the issue. It will discuss the need of a question hour and a zero hour, the procedure for the conduct of the meeting and the imposition of a time limit. The issue of the need for a question hour and a zero hour had been hotly debated at the last Senate meeting. The issue was raised by the VC, Prof K.N. Pathak. He asked the members to decide the maximum time limit for the zero hour. Prof Madan Gopal said the question hour and the zero hour had no meaning. Prof Charanjit Chawla said various fresh developments could be taken up during the zero hour and such practice existed in the state Assemblies and the Parliament. Prof Chawla referred to a report that Rs 50 lakh had been credited to the account of an official within a short time. He said similar cases that did not figure on the agenda could be discussed in the zero hour. Mr A.C. Vaid said that the items on the agenda should be discussed first, as these required immediate attention of the house, and the items could be discussed later. Mr Anmol Rattan Sidhu had a similar opinion, but Mr S.S. Hundal did not agree with him. Dr R.D. Anand said there was a fine dividing line between the question hour and the zero hour. The first was for questions that were to be answered by the House before the meeting. Justice D.V. Seghal said the zero hour should not be removed. Mr Satya Pal Jain mooted the formal proposal for having a question hour. The House authorised the VC to constitute a committee to look into this issue. Mr Sat Pal Dang, a new fellow, has said that there should be three, instead of two, Senate meetings in a year. Each meeting should be two-day long. There should be a question hour. Members should submit their questions before the meetings and 20 of these questions should be taken up. The zero hour should be after the question hour. The committee will also study the need for recording speeches of each member and expunging their undesirable remarks. |
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Canteens non-functional in district
courts CHANDIGARH, Jan 20 — In the absence of a clear-cut policy regarding the functioning of canteens in the District Courts, the Administration is losing thousands of Rupees every month. About four months after their auction, the canteens have not started functioning. Interestingly, even the earlier decision of the administration regarding removal of kiosk canteens from the Courts have also turned out to be rather unrewarding. On January 8, advocates had observed a day strike against the administrationrs action. On the same day a meeting was held between the UT Deputy commissioner, District Court Authority and Bar Association members and permission to run one kiosk canteen was granted informally. It may recalled that the Administration had removed the three Kiosk canteens from the District Courts under the direction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on January 7. When The Tribune contacted the SDM, Mr Prithi Chand, he said that “Three government canteens will be started soon in the court. The Estate Office has sent a notice to the contractors of the canteens and directed them to take the possession, otherwise their contract can be forfeited”. Mr Prithi Chand added that he was not aware of a decision regarding granting a permission to run any kiosk canteen in the court and he himself had not given permission to run any. Sources revealed that the rents of three government canteens were Rs 10,000, Rs 9,500 and Rs 9,100 per month which were on the higher side. The contractors were not keen to start the canteens as in the presence of a kiosk canteen, it was not possible for them to earn any profit. Now they would start canteens only if they were provided space alongwith the kiosk canteens. Properly, there was only one kiosk canteen in the Court. The District Bar Association had claimed that they had submitted a letter, forwarded through the District and Session Judge, Mr H.S Bhalla, to the Administration for grant of formal permission to run one kiosk canteen for the benefit of the daily commuters. It was stated in the letter that the Court was frequented by about 4,000 persons, both advocates as well as litigants for the purpose of attending Court cases in different courts located in the premises. It was requested that it had become necessary to open a canteen in the courts premises and the association would be given permission in order to avoid inconvenience to advocates and litigants. It was further stated in the letter that in the meeting which was held between the Secretary of the Bar Association and the Deputy Commissioner, it had been decided in principle by the administration to grant permission to the District Bar Association to open a canteen in the Court premises to cater the needs of advocates and litigants. When the President of the District Bar Association, Mr N.K. Nanda, was contacted, he said that the decision to start kiosk canteens was taken in the interests of litigants, advocates and employees with due permission. Plea dismissed CHANDIGARH, Jan 20 — The UT Additional District and Session Judge, Mr R.C Godara, dismissed the anticipatory bail application moved by three persons in a case of causing hurt and house trespass. The case against the three, Vikas Gupta, Tarsen Gupta and Raman Gupta was registered under Sections 452, 323 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code in the Sector 36 police station. The complainant, Mr Sharda Bansal, had alleged that the three accused had beat her, when she was working in the office, of her father. Six-month RI The UT Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Sant Parkash, sentenced, a resident of Patiala, Gurcharan Singh, to six months, rigorous imprisonment under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. It was alleged that a food inspector inspected the shop of the accused on July 8, 1992. The accused had 20 litre of cow milk in his possession for public sale. The inspector purchased 750 ml milk of worth Rs 5 as sample and sent it to a public analyst for analysis. The report revealed that the sample was deficient in milk fat. The Magistrate sentenced the accused to six months rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000. Bail granted The UT Additional District and Sessions Judge granted bail to a resident of Kurukshetra, Balwinder Singh, in a case of cheating and forgery. The case against the accused was registered under Sections 420, 467 and 468, of the Indian Penal Code. The accused had sought bail under Section 439 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The Judge observed that the co-accused in the case had already been granted bail by the court. The challan by the police had not been presented yet and the trial was likely to take long
time. The accused was granted bail on furnishing a bail bond of Rs 15, 000 and surety of like amount. |
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Minister charged with
contempt of court SAS NAGAR, Jan 20 — Ms Balwant Kaur Mangat, a daughter of Sohan Singh, who had filed a case against a Punjab Cabinet Minister, Ms Satwant Kaur Sandhu, in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, today charged her with holding the office in contempt of court. The petitioner — who had fought election from the Chamkaur Assembly constituency — had had filed a case against the minister in the High Court in 1997, stating that Ramdasia caste was not recognised as a scheduled caste in the schedule appended to the Constitution (Schedules Caste) order, 1950, and that after rejection of the papers of other contestants, apart from the returned candidate, he was the only scheduled caste candidate and returning officer was obliged to declare him elected unopposed. He had stated that Ms Sandhu had won the election from the constituency in 1997 on a false pretext of being a candidate from the Ramdasia community instead of the Ramdasia community and the decision of the High Court was made in the favour of the petitioner in November last year. Talking to mediapersons, Ms Mangat, a non-resident Indian, said she was going to file a contempt of court against the minister in the High Court. Alleging that the Chief Minister of Punjab was siding with the minister in violation of the court order, she said the minister had filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the High Court order. |
Facts of life reflected in
humour CHANDIGARH The fourth presentation during the ongoing Swarnotsav underlined the basic facts of life and revolved around a couple which finds it a little difficult to come to terms with certain truths. The story is mainly about Abhay (played by Nikhil Ratnaparkhi) who bears jealousy against Mr Sathe who has made it big in life. The director, Sandesh Kulkarmni, has dealt with the subject with great care and sensibility. The founder member and director of Samanvay, Sandesh, tries to tap the pulse of the competitive times which have a number of related fallouts. The reflection of basic instincts of envy are strong. As the director points out, "There is a cut-throat competition making survival difficult. Running in this rat race at the top gear exhausts the mind and leads to jealousy. The story is about coming over these malign feelings." Abhay runs an advertising agency, while his wife, Salma, is a lecturer in English. Though all is well with their life, Abhay faces the problem of not being able to cope up with the success of Sathe who, being into film making, has made big money. The reflection of feelings of rancour is strong, but the story ends on a positive note. The performance of Amruta Subhash in the role of Salma is also very appreciable. Her role in the script is strong as she moulds her husband out of acidic feelings against Sathe and helps him come to terms with his infirmities, which are part of him. The play, which is a dialogue, is humorous at times and at times it is disturbing. It is a dialogue between two tendencies, between two ways of life, between hanging amidst pain and pleasure. In each scene and also at the end of the play, a cycle meets its completion and a new process starts. |
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Cultural programme at human integration
meet PANCHKULA, Jan 20 — The role of English language in the conversion of humanity into a single well-knit family was highlighted by the child and youth singers and stage artistes in the first human integration meet. The programme organised at the Nirankari Bhawan in Sector 9, here today, witnessed a cultural programme by children and youth singers and stage-artistes from weaker sections. The chief guest, Mr Naranjan Singh, Principal Secretary, Tourism, Punjab, said that despite God being a secular entity, he “had been communalised and made an instrument of hatred and prejudice”. He called for analytical knowledge of God for removing narrow-mindedness. Earlier, the zonal incharge of the Chandigarh unit of the organisation, Mr K.R. Nandwani, in his inaugural address, emphasised human resource development activities at grassroots level with a focus on weaker sections. He added that under the All-India Bal Sangat programme, several thousand weaker section children have been imparted training in leadership and communication with regard to human integration. In his vote of thanks, the incharge of the local unit, Mr Kuldip Singh, said that activities including a library, a dispensary, a tailoring centre and free textbook schemes were being conducted at the bhawan. This enabled extension of facilities to 5,000 members, mostly women belonging to weaker sections. On the occasion, child and youth artistes from the city, Mohali, Mani Majra and Chandigarh presented entertaining songs, skits and speeches on human integration. |
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Spotlight on guru,
shishya tradition CHANDIGARH, Jan 20 — The unostentatious release and selective introduction of a book — Anukaraniya Guru (Teachers Worthy of Emulation)— in the city on Saturday was a remarkable event. Produced aesthetically by IBA Publications, Ambala Cantt, to highlight the role of the Guru in the constantly evolving society of the current millennium, the monumental work of 488 pages with 81 reminiscenes is useful in two primary ways. It includes authentic accounts of the inspirational and transformative abilities of great men who have moulded lives by teaching, training, awakening and committing themselves to the transmutation of ordinary human material. And it provides quintessentially thumbnail sketches of illuminated beings. The Guru is celebrated as an inalienable part of the Divine. The shishya benefits in proportion to his dedication to the path shown by the Guru. Mother, Father and Guru make the holy trinity. We have sincere tributes in the volume to their gurus from persons like Acharya Baldeva
Upadhyaya, Dr Mata Prasad, Dr Sansar Chandra, Dr Balashauri Reddy, Dr Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, Dr C. Bhaskar Rao, Dr Devendra Mohan ( the healer), Swami Satyamitrananda Giri, John Stanley, Dr Prabhakar P.
Apte, Dr Ramanath Tripathi and Chiranjit. We also have the reverent words of well-known contemporaries like Bachhendripal ( the
Everest-conquerer) and Kanwaljit ( the stage, TV and film personality). Mr S. B. Banerjee, the courageous publisher and writer, has done a great service to the biographical as well as autobiographical art of expression by giving it the richness of spirituality. Readers will find in Dr Sansar Chandra's tribute to Dr Siddheshwar Verma and Dr Mohan's sage advice passed on to us (" Give the power of attorney to God and become fearless") the benchmark of ennobling homage to the institution called the Guru. |
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