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A novel experience for Kashmir
students CHANDIGARH Drawn from various schools of Anantnag, Pulwama and Badgam districts in south Kashmir, the students, aged between 12 - 16 years, are accompanied by five teachers and escorted by two officers. The excursion started from Wuzur in Anantnag on February 4 and they had a two-day stay at Amritsar. During their stay in Chandigarh, the Kashmiri youth visited Pinjore Gardens, Rock Garden, Sukhna Lake, Rose Garden, Fun City, Chat Bir Zoo, Anandpur Sahib and the Bhakra Dam. The Chief of Staff, Western Command, Lt Gen H.R.S. Mann, today hosted tea for them and presented them with gifts. The Kashmiri students also interacted with students of the local Army School. While at Amritsar, the children visited the Golden Temple, Durgiana Mandir, Jallianwala Bagh, Guru Nanak Dev University and the Wagah border, besides having their first ever train ride. In Patiala, they are scheduled to visit the NIS Museum, Fatehgarh Sahib, Roja Sharif and the Yadavindra Public School, besides a visit to Army establishments where they will be having rides on a tank. The excursion is scheduled to return to Awantipur on February 18. For these children from militancy-affected areas, it is the first exposure to places of historical and cultural importance, besides giving them an opportunity to broaden their horizons by interacting with people from other states having a different background. |
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‘Teaching poses no
challenge in India’ CHANDIGARH These views were expressed by Dr Shelly Walia, Chairman of the Department of English, Panjab University, during the ongoing international seminar being conducted in aid with the British Council on ‘evaluation and teaching methodology’ here yesterday. Dr Walia said that “job fulfillment came by injecting our own creativity and applying it to our analytical and teaching processes. The emphasis here always is on the curriculum and not on methods of delivery. Theory of professional development should be that academics can and should try to learn in the same way as they learn about their discipline”. Prof Alan Durant, Middlesex University, is conducting this seminar being attended by paper setters and professors from various universities. “This is a an exceptional seminar, the first of its kind in PU, where an attempt has been made to move away from conventional criticism to pedagogy”. Dr Walia feels that “there can never be a consensus over quality. The most pressing problems which the language faces are issues which arise from the multiplicity of historical and social contexts out of which the English study has emerged”. Dr Pushpinder Sayal, coordinator of the workshop, went on to describe the seminar activities towards a possible improvement in favour of the beauty of the language. She also dwelled on problems of paper-setting, evaluation and curriculum designing. The distances between different aspects needed to be narrowed, Dr Sayal added. Students were also addressed on the related aspects of the subject. |
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NTT students excel CHANDIGARH All 78 students doing this two-year course recognised by the National Council of Teachers’ Education have passed the said exam conducted by the Chandigarh Administration in first division. Seventeen of these students have brought further laurels to the institute by having achieved the first ten positions in the Northern region in the examination. The Raja Ram Mohan Roy Foundation is also starting a new English medium Kindergarten, nursery and pre-nursery school named “Rainboz” on its campus in Sector 27. The teachers training programme for pre-school educators was started in collaboration with the NCERT in the premises of Lajpat Rai Bhavan on an experimental basis in 1972 from where it was later shifted to Sector 27. The NCTE granted recognition to 100 seats in the course and first results have been extremely positive and encouraging said the Director. |
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GCG Principal's denial CHANDIGARH |
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Bail denied in forgery case CHANDIGARH The case against the accused had been registered under Sections 420, 406, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC on February 19, 1999, in the Sector 26 police station. The complainant, Mr M.M. Sikka, General Manager of the Industrial Finance Corporation of India, had alleged that on the request of the accused company, AVI Packaging India Limited, the FCI had agreed to provide it financial assistance worth Rs 50 crore. The accused was working as a director in one of the companies of the AVI Packaging. It was further alleged that the accused company had opened separate accounts in Punjab National Bank, Sector 4, Panchkula. Out of the total loan, the FCI had given the first instalment of Rs 30 crore to the accused company. It was alleged that the documents supplied by the accused company for getting the loan were fake and fabricated. Moreover, the auditor certificate supplied on March 12, ,1998, was also found fake. Judicial remand The accused was declared proclaimed offender on November 29 last year. The accused was arrested by the city police yesterday. Reply against
partners CHANDIGARH Ms Bonny Sodhi and Ms Shiela Mamik, two of the partners, had filed a complaint under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, seeking the appointment of a receiver. They also wanted the court to restrain the respondents from “dealing in the joint property of all partners”. The respondent, Ms Sharda Dutt and Ms Sunaiyna Dass had stated in their reply that the complainant had earlier filed a similar civil suit in May 2000 for the rendering of accounts and dissolution of the firm. However, the plea was dismissed by the UT Civil Judge (Junior Division), Ms Gurvinder Kaur. The case was later taken up in the High Court, where it was dismissed. It was alleged in the reply that the complainant wanted to ruin the institution and its continuing partners. The respondents said the perusal of partnership deeds deserved to be dismissed. It was said in the High Court judgment that the parties should refer the matter to a consensus arbitrator. If no such arbitrator was found, the matter should go to the court. The reply said petitioners wanted that the school should be closed. The reply said the petitioners had sought the appointment of a receiver, a stranger, to manage the school, as it satisfied their egos. The reply said, this, however, was not in the interest of students or their parents. The reply also said the petitioners should not be allowed to restrain the respondents from running the school. It said the petitioners were partners without investment. |
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Anbros directed to pay
compensation CHANDIGARH The vehicle was taken for servicing to the workshop, but they failed to rectify the defects, particularly the heating up of the rear wheel drum. It got jammed on May 27, 1999. The defect caused the complainant a lot of inconvenience. As a result of which he had to take the vehicle to a private mechanic to get it repaired. Even the self-start system had not been working effectively. Repeated visits to the workshop of the company proved futile. Only then did the complainant file a complaint before the forum to direct the above-mentioned to replace the vehicle with a defect-free one and pay him Rs 70,000 for causing physical and mental harassment. The bench, comprising members, Mr R.P. Bajaj and Mr H.S. Walia, observed that the main grievance of the complainant stood redressed as the machine purchased by him had been set right to his satisfaction. His complaint now stood for compensation on account of having been put to long term harassment at an age of 70 years. The bench allowed the complainant consolidated compensation of Rs 5,000, including costs of the case. Mayor listens to grievances CHANDIGARH Mr Goyal, when contacted, said that he also planned to have khula darbars in the notified area committee (NAC) sub-office, Mani Majra, from next week where he along with officials of the corporation, would sit for the entire day so that people could walk up to them for getting their pending works pertaining to issuance of no objection certificates (NOCs) and other works of transfer and sale of property completed. The Mayor visited various areas of Mani Majra from the Housing Board chowk, including the residential areas of Marhiwala and Pipliwala towns, Gobindpura and gave a patient hearing to the people. Addressing few long-pending problems pointed out by people in all these areas, he assured them that open drain will be covered and some solution will be found to the problem of the ganda nullah passing through Mani Majra. He further asked officials to complete the ongoing work of making road gullies, berms and kerb channels pucca by April. Even the problem of street lights and maintenance of parks needed to be addressed. The Mayor also asked them to prepare estimates for pending works in the area so that the development of the same could be undertaken. The Chief Engineer, Mr Puranjit Singh, told the Mayor that they will study whether the open drain is to be closed or covered. The Mayor was accompanied by Assistant Commissioner-II, Mr Ashwani Kumar; Chief Engineer, Mr Puranjit Singh; both the Superintending Engineers (SEs) and SDOs and XENs during the visit which lasted over three hours. |
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