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PEC to be upgraded to
NIT Chandigarh, May 31 The status of the college, its powers and mode of governance is contained in the proposed Memorandum of Association (MoA) issued by the PEC on May 28 to its heads of departments for suggestions. Once the MoA is passed by the HoDs, the exact status of the college will be of a national level institute, with a “built in deemed university” status. The college is to be first registered as a society which will “take over all the assets and liabilities of PEC from the Chandigarh Administration and get it upgraded into an NIT. The society will carry on the administration and management of the institute. But this does not mean that the administration loses overall control over the college since it has a large presence among the 30 founder members of the society who will constitute its first Board of Governors. These include Ms Neeru Nanda, Advisor to the Administrator, UT, Mr Ashwani Goswami, Chief Secretary, Himachal Pradesh, Mr R.S. Gujral, Home Secretary, UT, Mr Pawan Aggarwal, Director Education, Mr Vivek Atray, Joint Secretary, Technical Education, Mr K.A.P. Sinha, Joint Secretary Finance, Pawan Bansal, MP and Lt Gen (retd) S.P. Mehta, former Director General, Survey of India. Some leading industrialists, including Mr K.K. Nauharia, Chairman, Crompton Greaves, Mr V.K. Mehta, MD, Clutch Auto Ltd., Mr R.K. Kaura, Chairman, Berger Group of Companies are also among the founding members of the society. Dr M.S. Sukhija, Director, PTU, Jalandhar, Mr R.S. Bains, advocate, Punjab and Haryana High Court, Jaspal Bhatti, satirist and artiste, Mr Amarjit Kohli, former director BIS, Dr K.K. Pujara, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, IIT, Delhi and Mr Ashok Sahni, Director University Instructions, Panjab University, will also be the founder members of the society. Rest of the members include, other than the Principal, PEC, Mr R.S. Gupta, heads of various departments of the college, Mr Gurnam Singh, Professor and Mr S.K. Suman, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, PEC and Ms Neelam R Prakash, Lecturer, E & Ec. Department, PEC. The society will have complete control over the functioning of the college. It will fix its own fee and have control over all financial matters. The society will provide for examination for admissions, hold its own examinations and grant academic awards but these functions will be “operative only after the status of deemed university is awarded to the university.” The society will have complete freedom to create teaching, administrative, technical, ministerial and other posts in the Institute and frame “with the approval of the Chandigarh Administration, rules and bylaws for service conditions of all categories of employees with a special provision for the transition of existing employees. The MoA does not state anything about the issues of the percentage of reservation of seats in the college for Chandigarh students and the likely increase in fee structure. Public opinion about these two issues is yet to be gaged. Sources in the administration however state that the modalities of the upgradation are still being worked out. The administration has also yet to receive a copy of the proposed MoA. |
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Staff of PEC stage
dharna Chandigarh, May 31 The president of the employees’ association, Mr Upkar Singh, while addressing the employees said their status would be changed for the worse after the upgradation. ‘‘First they told us that the college will be upgraded into an IIT then into a deemed university and now they are forming a society. Now we have the support of a large number of teachers also who have realised that their status too will be negatively
affected." he said. The employees also hinted at approaching the courts if any change in their status is done following the upgradation. The employees also informed that the college Principal, Prof
R.S. Gupta, had tried to stall their meeting which was scheduled for 12.30 pm today ‘‘threatening us of dire consequences if we attended the meeting.’’ |
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Senate discusses chinks in examination
system Chandigarh, May 31 Prof
K. N. Pathak, the Vice Chancellor, while talking to Chandigarh Tribune, accepted the ‘fault’ in the existing system. “I have proposed that students who have doubts regarding their results should be shown the original papers. In case they still felt they could score better, they should seek reevaluation. Teachers of the subject concerned could be attached for the duty.” The proposed move will need a formal Senate clearance. Interestingly, a similar scheme had been put forward by the University Grants Commission during the tenure of Prof
M. M. Puri. There were deliberations on the issue. However, no formal decision could be taken. A senior fellow said, “The butchering of the answer sheets by examiners is a well established fact. It is not true in case of all examiners, but a significant number checked papers in numbers far more than those recommended by the UGC. One of the factors was that a large number of teachers did not participate in any form in the examination process. The duty should be made mandatory”. In a case, marks of a student were increased from zero to 42 in reevaluation. This was by Dr B.B. Goyal, University Business School, who has been asked to explain ‘why he should not be terminated’ by the P.H.Vaishnav Committee. Related areas of examination which needed a re-thought also figured in the Senate papers. The university committee said, “It is common practice that on the answer book and the reevaluation flap the code number is written by the office before or after it is sent to the evaluator for reevaluation. It is not necessary that one and the same person should have written code number on a particular set of the answer book and the flap. These have been found in different hands”. Award lists also lose their sanctity as they are written in different hand. They are signed by the
reevaluator. It says that ‘the manner in which original evaluation or reevaluation is done lacks proper care and leaves scope for mistakes, omissions and commissions’. In the present procedure of reevaluation and recording of reevaluated marks, flaps require to be changed. “This is totally unsatisfactory. It leaves scope for mischief and fraud,” the committee said. The chairman of the Haryana Students Association, said more responsibility needed to be fixed on teachers in the evaluation system. “In fact, all cases which were referred to the third examiner following difference of more than 15 per cent marks in the earlier two evaluations need to be thoroughly probed. The fate of a candidate following one whole year depends on luck of a candidate that it falls into right hands of evaluation which was a sorry state of affairs”. He felt that a desire for change has to come from the quarters of the teachers themselves. The watching agencies have to widen their eyes to keep a check for desired results. PU this time has made a commendable progress in pace of declaration of results. The advance made this time is well over a month in most of the cases. Only certain loose ends in related fields needed to be tightened up. |
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Computer course for kids Chandigarh, May 31 |
HC summer vacations from June 4 Chandigarh, May 31 Another Bench, comprising Mr Justice R.L. Anand and Mr Justice K.S. Garewal, will sit through the fourth week of the vacations starting from June 25. Mr Justice Nirmal Singh will hear civil and criminal cases during the same period. Mr Justice Mehtab Singh Gill will hold court from June 11 to June 15. There will be no sitting for the first two weeks. During the “no work period” vacation judges nominated for that period, and in their absence senior most judge available at the station, may entertain urgent petitions, including habeas corpus and anticipatory bail applications. The vacations will continue till June 30. The courts, during the vacations, will function from 8 am to 1 pm with half- an-hour break from 10.30 am, while the office timing will be from 8. 30 am to 1. 30 pm. The copy branch will function from 8 am to 2 pm with half-an- hour break from 10.30 am. |
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Syal for transfer of cases to Lok
Adalat Chandigarh, May 31 Sources said the Punjab and Haryana High Court had forwarded the letter to the Member of the UT Legal Services Authority. It is learnt that the cases of thousand of investors were pending in the UT Lok
Adalat. Total amount invested by the investors in various schemes of the company is about Rs 6
crore. The investors from all over India had filed cases individually or in a group or through societies against the company. It may be recalled that Syal and other three officials namely Pamila
Syal, Neena Syal and Hritish Kumar Sinha were sent to judicial custody in a number of cheating cases. The cases against them were registered under Sections 406, 420 and 120 of the IPC in various police stations. The Managing Director was presently confined in the Burail Jail. A few persons in group have approached the UT Legal Services Authority to settle their investments made with the company. The letter also states that aspiration of thousand of investors were rising every day and they were looking for a ray of hope towards the speedy justice of the Lok
Adalat. |
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Remand for ‘peddler’ Panchkula, May 31 A Nigerian by nationality the accused was arrested by the Panchkula police for carrying 3 kg of smack and Rs 18.30 lakh in cash in the wee hours on May 25. The accused was illegally staying in India despite the expiry of his visa. Tazudin Adesola was on his way by bus from Delhi to Panchkula. He was nabbed at a naka near Dhakauli village on the Zirakpur-Panchkula highway along with the drug worth Rs 3 crore and the money. After getting down from a bus at Zirakpur bus stop, he hired an autorickshaw to Sector 12 of Panchkula and the vehicle was intercepted by a police party on duty. During his search, he attempted to flee the scene, but was overpowered by the police personnel. |
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Forum directs firm to pay Rs 11,000 SAS Nagar, May 31 Mr Dharam Singh, his wife Deepinder Kaur and their minor son Amandeep Singh had filed a complaint with the forum that the first complainant purchased a bottle of Sil Mix Trix Jam (mix fruit jam with glucose) from Sant Departmental Store in Phase III B 2 here against a bill dated November 7, 1999, for Rs 45. The bottle so purchased was labelled and covered with outer paper in such a way that nothing was visible from outside. On consuming a part of the jam the three complainants suffered from stomach pain, food poisoning, typhoid, fever and multiple infections because of the toxic adulteration of the jam, resulting in medical treatment which had cost them Rs 7,000. The forum sent the bottle containing the remaining
jam to the Public Analyst, Government of Punjab, Sector 11 D,
Chandigarh, duly sealed, with the direction to carry out analysis/test to find out whether the contents of the sample bottle were contaminated. The report from the analyst said the sample “contained one dead insect and was contaminated with coliform bacteria and hence was adulterated and unfit for human consumption.” The forum, with Mr J.P. Gupta as president and Mr
S.K. Bhatia as member, ordered the Managing Director of Marico Industries Ltd, which had marketed the jam, its manager, the Managing Director of Kanmoor Foods Ltd (the manufacturers of the product) and the manager, areas sales manager and dealer concerned to pay compensation of Rs 10,000 along with Rs 1,000 as costs to the complainants within 30 days from the receipt of the certified copy of the
judgement, failing which the amount of compensation awarded shall also carry an interest at the rate of 18 per cent per annum till
realisation. |
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Advocate granted
bail SAS Nagar, May 31 In a press note, he claimed that the complainant, Ravneet Singh, had cheated him and his family members to a tune of Rs 15 lakh. A case against Ravneet Singh under Sections 420, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC is pending in the court. During the pendency of another civil suit regarding the purchase of a piece of land in Desu Majra village, the agreement was forged after seven years. Mr Mann alleged that the SP (Detective) was helping Ravneet Singh in the case registered by him on October 16, 2000. Meanwhile, Mr Mann along with his family members have been granted interim bail in the case registered by the Kharar police till June 4 by the District and Sessions Judge, Ropar. |
Capturing the colours of
nature Chandigarh, May 31 The artist has captured different moods of nature using “impresto technique” that involves thick use of colour to impart a three dimensional effect. To give a sense of somberness to about 25 of his paintings. Bishan Bhardwaj has applied a generous amount of blue. “The blue colour has a soothing effect. Combined with other bright colours in “Impresto”, one can create a visual effect which is close to the nature”, said the artist. Impresto technique, he said, aims at creating an uneven surface which reflects light from all directions. Bishan Bhardwaj who is a familiar name in the graphic form of art said his landscape series was the product of a trip he took two years back to Amarnath and Badrinath temples. “After dealing with the technicality of graphics, painting those landscapes refreshed my artistic temperament”, says the artist. Needless to say that his creations possess a tranquility that comes as a refreshing change for the visitors too. His series also includes the peaceful beaches of Goa, the temple sites of Hardwar and a few paintings in etching and acquatint. Among these ‘Evolution of mankind’ is particularly interesting to look at. The artist has a long list of awards and honours. Prominent among those are Italian Government Scholarship in 1983, Sanskriti award in 1986 besides awards from the prestigious Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi, All-India Fine Arts and Craft Society, New Delhi and All-India Graphic Chandigarh. Bhardwaj is currently teaching graphics at the Government College of Art in Sector 10. |
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