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Special training programme for college
principals Chandigarh, June 5 A pilot project is scheduled for the Chandigarh centre from June 23 to June 28. There will be two academic sessions each day for principals of affiliated colleges in the area. Reliable sources said that a chain of workshops will be later conducted at Ludhiana, Ferozepore and Hoshiarpur which will follow the pattern of the “experimental workshop”. The training schedule underlines financial and personnel management in colleges as suited to the current times. The main objectives underlined are relating to higher education with the changing scenario; awareness about management techniques; and interface of colleges with various bodies like the DPI (Colleges), University Grants Commission and university officials, besides others. A PU committee in the absence of the Vice-Chancellor met under the chairmanship of Prof S.L. Sharma. Among those present in the meeting included Principal Usha Gupta, Principal Vijaya Lakshmi, Principal P.S. Sangha, Principal R.C. Jeewan, Principal A.C. Vaid, Prof C.M. Behl and Prof S.C. Vaidya, among others. The workshop, which is the brain-child of Prof K.N. Pathak, VC, has underlined different areas which will witness key focus. These include top quality IT education, human resources, financial needs, budgeting, student focus in colleges, work culture, role of a pro-active principal, university- college interaction, UGC schemes and an open house discussion. Highly placed sources said that a need was felt for evaluating the actual working conditions in colleges in relation to the university under changing education scenario. The workshops dream in updating the information of principals. Resource persons will come from the UGC, the ICSSR and the Indian Institute of Public Administration, besides other resource management avenues. It was also said that for a number of UGC schemes there were very few takers because of lack of information among a big section of principals. The workshop will try to pass on apt information for available facilities and ways to get them. ‘Higher education in a changing millennium’ is one of the important subjects at the workshop. It has been felt that education priorities had changed over the past few years. Management and information technology seem to be the most sought after field at the moment. However, real perspective for employment opportunities in the long run needed to be understood and ably communicated to students. |
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DISADVANTAGED CITIZENS Chandigarh, June 5 She had send her application form for the Masters Entrance Test (MET) for the MBA and MCA courses of the PTU on May 18. The packet was sent through Desk to Desk Courier and Cargo Limited of Sector 35 and she had received a proper receipt for this. According to the prospectus of the PTU, the last date for the receipt of applications was May 22. The PTU clerks, due to some absurd reason, wrote “last date 17/05 date over” on the packet and refused to accept it. Probably they confused the MET with the Common Entrance Test (CET) of the university, applications for which had to be received latest by May 17. This happened even though Saru had written “MET” in bold letters on the packet. On May 19, two days after Saru had send the packet, the Sector 35 courier company got it back from its Jalandhar office. The company’s staff in Sector 35 kept the packet and did not inform Saru Ohri about it, though her address and telephone number were on the packet and the receipt. On May 30, Saru learnt that her form had not been received at the PTU, after her father, Mr Ravinder Kumar Ohri, who had rushed to Jalandhar to get a duplicate roll number issued, had learnt it from the PTU officials. Mr Ohri retruned to Chandigarh and asked the courier company about the packet. The officials of the company gave him the packet with a handwritten note about the last date being over. When Mr Ohri demanded an explanation for sitting on the packet for 14 days, the courier company replied that the consignee had refused to accept it. Mr Ohri said, “Had the courier company informed my daughter about the position on May 19, I could have gone to Jalandhar to handover the packet to the PTU officials. My daughter has lost a year for no fault of her.” |
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SPECIAL STORY SAS Nagar, June 5 By rough estimates, printing paper worth lakhs of rupees, which is stored in the premises at the time of printing jobs, could become the cause of a major blaze. Heaps of waste paper, supposed to be disposed of after inviting tenders, was dumped in one corner near the entrance of the premises. Officials of the local Fire Department said that twice the printing press officials have been asked to install fire hydrants and fire extinguishers in the complex to avert any major tragedy. Mr Balwinder Singh Sidhu, in charge of the local fire station, said : “After conducting a survey of the premises we twice wrote to the officials, during 1997 and 2000, to install the fire hydrants”. Enquiries reveal that shortage of funds was the main reason behind the poor state of affairs at the press. Wild growth had virtually taken over the open spaces around the building. Instances of snakes and insects appearing from the wild growth have been reported. The condition of toilets was also reported to be bad and the security lights outside the building were said to be out of order. The Controller, Printing and Stationery Department, Mr S.S. Dhillon, when contacted said the local civic body and the Public Works Department had been asked to get the wild growth cleared. On the issue of lack of fire fighting equipments, he said he would inquire into the matter. |
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Encroachments removed Panchkula, June 5 Though some of the shopkeepers were seen arguing with officials of the enforcement wing headed by Mr J.P.
Dahiya, DSP, and Mr D.P. Singh, Estate Officer, HUDA, there was no untoward incident during the drive. |
When kids bridge the gap between India and
Pak Chandigarh, June 5 Addressing a press conference at the Press Club in Sector 27 here today, the head of Ajoka Theatre group, Ms Madeeha Gauhar said that though Ajoka has performed many a time in different cities of India in collaboration with their India counterparts, it was for the first time the children got an opportunity to interact with each other through a stage show. “Separation of India and Pakistan is a part of history now and what we have to accept it that Pakistan is a reality which is here to stay. Despite having separate identities we can come closer and become a part of a larger identity,” said Ms Gauhar. Ms Madeeha Gauhar, who feels though the older generations in both India and Pakistan share some nostalgic feelings of togetherness which could not be wiped out by over fifty years of separation , it is the children who need to be taught that India and Pakistan share a 5000 years of common history together. “In adults we have some rigid ideas that were evolved by the separation. But the children are free from such bitterness and so we thought of using them to bridge the gap between the people of the two countries,” said Mr. Amrit Pal Singh, Director of Besten Foundation. Talking about the Ajoka Theatre group, Ms Gauhar said that the group, since it’s inception in 1984, had been struggling for a secular, just, humane and egalitarian society in Pakistan by staging socially meaningful dramas. Madeeha, who holds her Indian counterparts in high esteem, said their first performance was Badal Sircar’s play “Jaloos” which was an instant hit all over Pakistan. The play ‘Border - Border’ written by Shahil Nadeem and directed by Rukhsana Kazmi of Ajoka Children Theatre, focuses on the similarities the people across the border share despite being politically hostile to each other. About 20 children from India and 15 from Pakistan will be working in this play. |
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FOR THE FORCES Chandigarh The Army, it seems, is attempting to synergise the ancient and the modern to meet the physical and psychological requirements of the troops in the 21st century. The Army is advocating yoga as a means of relieving stress among the troops and enhancing their performance. A workshop on yoga, which was attended by the top brass of the Western Command, was held at Chandimandir recently. Similar workshops have also been held by the Army at a number of other places in the past. As a pilot project, two platoons at the Bihar Regimental Centre, Danapur, were selected to study the effects of yoga. Recruits of the two platoons were put through identical training. One of the platoons was given additional yoga classes for an hour and a half daily. On grading of performance, it was found that the recruits who had undergone yoga training performed much better in all spheres than the others. “This underlines the efficacy of yoga and its direct relationship with improved performance,” an officer here commented. The project was undertaken in collaboration with the Bihar School of Yoga, which has been associated with the Army for quite some time and is also internationally recognised as a teaching institution. It has conducted yoga programmes for the Army also in the past, and teams from the school have visited troops in forward areas. The aim of holding yoga classes, an officer said, was to inculcate positive attributes among the soldiers, help them improve the quality of their life, and achieve better efficiency and productivity, besides harmonising actions of the mind and the body in tense situations. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been associated with the study and research in yoga which can be applied to military training. The Delhi-based Defence Institute of Physiology and Applied Sciences (DIPSA), a laboratory under the DRDO, has been studying the effect of yoga exercises on physiological, biological and psychological functions in various age groups and under various environmental conditions. DIPSA is also reported to have developed the know-how to ensure pharmaceutical preparations as potential agents to alleviate stress trauma and enhance adaptation. DRDO laboratories are known to have liaised with the Central Council of Yoga and Naturopathy, Delhi, in pursuance of their research. |
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Jacob honours
shramdanis Chandigarh, June 5 The shramdan will, however, continue and the award ceremony was to mark the end of the voluntary effort. The UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), honoured the regular shramdanis, sponsors and institutions at the regulator end of Sukhna Lake. While speaking on the occasion, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal has offered six tippers costing about Rs 45 lakh from his MP Local Area Development Fund to be used for Municipal Corporation as well as in shramdan at Sukhna Lake. Among the honoured prominent regular shramdanis were Mr Vijay Pal Singh, Mr Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Ms Chandani Sharma, Mr Joginder Singh Bhopal, Mr P.S. Thakur, Ms Kiran Thakur, Mr Harbans Lal Gupta, Mr Sunil Mehra, Mr Jaswant Singh, Mr Ram, Mr Sat Pal Yadav, Mr Jagmohan Goyal, Mr KL Sharma, Mr Dyal Singh, Mr Nirbhai Singh, Mr Sat Pal Sharma, Mr Raman Gupta, Mr Shakti Nath Maji, Mr Manoj Jain, Mr M.L. Mittal, Ms Reeta, Master Akash, Mr Parveen Rastogi, Mrs Rekha Rastogi, Mr Manoj Kumar Mishra, Mr Sunil Kumar, Mr Amit Kumar, Mr Kashmira Singh, Mr Gurdev Singh, Mr B.K. Gupta, Mr B.M. Babbar, Mr Rajpal Singh, Mr Shamsher Singh, Mr Jagjit Singh, Mr Ajit Pal Singh, Mr Jatinder Kumar Marwaha, Ms Amarjit Kaur, Mr Sham Lal Singla, Mr G.S. Virdi, Master Ajay Kumar Mishra, Baby Khushi, Mr Prem Sagar and Mr Vimal Trikha. Each awardee was presented with a T-shirt and a commendation certificate. Some schools and colleges, who had done exemplary work at Sukhna Lake in desilting were Govt Senior Secondary School, Sector 21, Industrial Training Institute, Sector 28, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26, Director, NSS, Chandigarh, Panjab University, DAV Model School, Sector 15, Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 18, Dev Samaj School, Sector 21, Government High School, Sector 7, and Government College of Education, Sector 20, Chandigarh. Departments and organisations to be honoured for their cooperation during the shramdan were Engineering Department, UT, Chandigarh, power generation giant Bhakra Beas Management Board ( BBMB), Army Engineers, Haryana Drainage Department and Punjab Drainage Department. Institutions who sponsored the shramdan were CITCO, MILKFED, Haryana Dairy Development, ICICI Bank, Quark, Talwar Dairy and Hotel & Restaurant Association of Chandigarh Shiv Bhandar Sector 26. The Hotel and Restaurant Association also served breakfast for all the awardees and shramdanis. The president of the association, Mr Manmohan Singh, said it was great experience to be involved in saving the environment. |
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‘Organise awareness camps on environment’ Panchkula, June 5 The Governor said the state forest department should organise awareness camps, especially in rural and slum areas, to make surroundings green. The Governor stressed planting of fruit, ornamental, medicinal, shrubs and shady trees besides shrubs in public places, panchayat lands, roads and river sides. The teachers, students, panches sarpanches and the public should be sensitised to the importance of tree plantation. Mr R.S. Hooda, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Haryana, said various afforestation programmes were being implemented in Haryana by the department. One crore plants of various species would be planted under afforestation programmes and schemes this year. To involve people in developing forests, a “joint forest management” scheme had been adopted throughout the state, he added. Besides the Governor, Mr SP Sharma, Secretary to the Governor, Mr RS Hooda, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Mr B.D. Monga, Chief Conservator of Forests, Haryana, D.K. Dhar, Director Community Forests Project, Mr. Sultan Singh, MD Forest Development Corporation, Haryana, Shashi Bala, Secretary, Haryana Red Cross Society and Capt Sreejith, SDC to Governor, also planted saplings on the occasion. |
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Preserve environment:
Gosain Chandigarh, June 5 She said that due to pollution and congestion, environmental conditions, were detriorating not only of metropolitan cities, but also of rural areas because of burning of cow dung, firewood, open sewerage and unhygienic conditions. Talking about the Tiger Trust, Ms Gosain said it was created in 1989 by Mr Kailash Sankhla, father of the Project Tiger in India, with the objective to promote awareness about wildlife and nature conservation through education and research. An exciting eco-tourism quiz contest was held on the occasion. |
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Lecture on
photography Chandigarh, June 5 After a short introduction by the Director, Daniel Riou, Diwan Manna delivered a lecture on art and photography and related his experiences in the field of visual art. Manna described himself as an artist and photographer who believed in total honesty and described art as sheer joy which came from within. His field of interest during childhood had always been sports and he aspired to become a hockey player.He was also involved in poetry and theatrical acting. While doing a five-year diploma in Graphics from the College of Art,Chandigarh he also involved himself in theatre activities. The lecture was carried further by Manna showing certain photographs, which have left a mark on visual art by some of the world renowned artists such as Raghu Rai, Frank Eugene, Charles Simart, Hans Bellmer,Dorothea Lang.He spoke on the new technologies being used in the field of art and photography. On being questioned on the scope of photography and art, he said that an artist should not yearn for scope and recognition but should inculcate dedication and strong conviction in his work. He also emphasised that advances made in technology had not marred the creativity but the changes brought had been for better.His advice to the upcoming artists was that they should have complete dedication and devotion towards anything they do especially art.According to him being an artist meant being connected to nature,society,your own self and above all to God. |
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Sarbari Begum clarifies Chandigarh, June 5 Meanwhile, Mr Harnek Singh Gharuan, a former minister, said that the government should take a lenient view of those arrested following a lathi charge by the police at Khanpur a few weeks ago. He said that he had all the sympathies with the police jawans and officers who were hurt in a stone-throwing incident at Khanpur, but the government should now try to sort out the issue by taking all concerned into confidence. |
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SC employees ignored:
Adiwal Chandigarh, June 5 In this connection, Mr Adiwal has written letters to the UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), Adviser to the Administrator, Ms Neeru Nanda, and heads of the various UT Administration departments. He said that Scheduled Caste employees were being discriminated against and the existing vacancies were also not being filled by appointing and promoting them. Mr Adiwal has demanded that the UT Social Welfare Department should start implementing the instructions, rules, regulations and policies concerning reservation system of the Union Government . Urging the UT Administration to take immediate action, Mr Adiwal said failing this he would pursue the matter with the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. |
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Poultry farms told to maintain
sanitation Panchkula, June 5 He ordered that the solid waste generated by the poultry farms should be dumped in pits to make compost. The farm owners have been directed to remove the litter from the poultry farms regularly and cover it to avoid fly breeding. Apart from this, he said that the dead birds should not be disposed of in the open. The waste being discharged from poultry farms should be used for plantation and there should not be any cesspool in the area. They have also been directed to use bleaching powder for cleaning the floor of the farms and spray a mixture of Nuvan and water to check breeding of flies. Mr Sohal said that the action had been taken following requests from various sarpanches and panches of the villages. Earlier, the villagers had given representations to the owners of the poultry farms and hatcheries to adopt proper house and sanitation management. |
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Shifting of post office resented SAS Nagar, June 5 The society had lamented that the Postal Department wanted to oblige its retired officer by taking his premises on rent in Sector 71. Ms Shyan said shifting of the post office would cause a lot of inconvenience to the senior citizens of the area. A deputation of the members of the society, which called upon the Chief Post Master General, Punjab Circle, was assured that the post office would not be shifted. |
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FENG SHUI TIPS FENG Shui gives a lot of importance to things kept under the staircase. It is very important to be aware of the items you put under your staircase. Think twice before you decide to place some item under the stairs. One important tip is never place something under the stairs that you never want to step upon. To start with, I recommend, never to place mandirs, holy pictures, or anything that is connected with deities. Another things, one should keep in mind is to never keep your children’s computer and study table under the large staircase of your home. This is because within a short period of placing the computer the children will suffer grades at school and the whole family will suffer from this. A storeroom under the staircase is fine, but to place important files in the storeroom is wrong because they get stepped on day after day. Stores filled with family paraphernalia is good Feng Shui. I personally feel that keeping an altar under the staircases not only being very disrespectful but also creating very bad karma. This bad karma, is turn, can cause obstacles in yours life. In the end, I will just say that spiritual practices and Feng Shui have to do with energies only.
Harshna Address your Feng Shui queries to: Postal address: C/o F.S. TIPS |
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Charges against BJP councillor denied SAS Nagar, June 5 Addressing a press conference, Mr Harjit Singh Bhullar, an executive member of the Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, and Mr Amrik Singh Mohali, a municipal councillor and vice-president of the Ropar unit of the SAD said the allegations were being made by a local Congress leader merely to defame Mr Tarlochan Singh. They said that the Congress had always been levelling allegations against BJP leaders. They demanded an inquiry into the matter and action against the guilty. |
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Crime review meeting
decision Chandigarh, June 5 This decision was taken during the monthly crime review meeting of the Economic Offences Wing and Crime Against Women Cell. The SP Operations, Mr H.G.S. Dhaliwal, presided over the meeting. He asked the IOs not to call the parties time and again for investigations without specific reasons. He asked officials to readily receive and acknowledge the evidence in form of documents furnished by the parties in support of their defence. He said that there would be no alibi for not accepting any document furnished by any of their parties. It has also been decided that sensitivity training and training in counselling be provided to staff of CAW cell so that disputes could be settled amicably. |
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Police to educate
parking contractors Chandigarh, June 5 This was stated by the UT Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr Parag Jain, here today. He said that the police would ask the contractors to keep a strong vigil on the vehicles parked in their areas. |
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Memo on
problems of colony residents Chandigarh, June 5 The memorandum demanded that electricity meters should be installed in the jhuggis which were left out. The other demands included replacement of wooden logs for supporting power cables with poles and proper delivery of power bills to the jhuggi-dwellers. Led by district President Shashi Shankar Tiwari, the deputation also demanded that the monthly bills in the area should be fixed on flat rate basis. The others who comprised the deputation were Mr Rajeev Pandey, Mr Brij Bhan Yadav, Mr P.K. Gupta, Mr Subedar Yadav and Mr Radhey
Shyam. Shopkeepers want
rehabilitation Chandigarh, June 5 In a letter to the Administrator of Chandigarh, the Adviser to the Administrator and the UT Home Secretary, the association has demanded relief and rehabilitation. |
Murder accused remains
untraced Chandigarh, June 5 Sustained efforts of the police to nab Birju Singh have so far proved futile. The police, after presenting the challan of the two other accused in the murder — Mohammad Ramzan and Mohammad Sallauddin — on May 4 have now initiated proceedings for declaring Birju a proclaimed offender. It is learnt that the court has directed the police to place advertisements for the accused on July 7 — a preliminary step for declaring him a proclaimed offender (PO). “However”, informed the investigating officer of the case, SI Shamsher Singh, “this does not mean that the police has stopped the manhunt for the main accused. Our people have been going in various directions and have been asked to give any information they get about Birju.” After the murder of the 63-year-old woman , the police had succeeded in arresting two of the accused within five days of the crime. While Mohammad Ramzan had been arrested from SAS Nagar, the police party that had gone to Bihar in search of the other two accused, was successful in arresting Sallauddin from his native village, Jahangirpur Bassian, falling under police station Gopalpur in Bhagalpur district of Bihar. Police parties had also been dispatched to Patiala and Rajpura in Punjab and Shimla in Himachal Pradesh in order to arrest Birju. The police had received information that Birju was earlier working as labourer in Patiala and a few of his friends and relatives were still there. A police party had also visited his native village, Itwaari Haat, Hussainiwad in Bhagalpur district of Bihar. However, he continued to remain elusive. It is learnt that Birju Singh, alias Birju Mandal, alias Birju , had left his village in Bihar some six to seven years ago in search of a better livelihood here in Punjab. “ However, his associates have informed that he could not do well in life and was barely able to sustain himself. This led him to plan and later execute the attack on the house in Sector 10 with the sole intention to loot, informed a police official dealing with the case. It may be noted that all three accused were labourers specialising in laying of marble floors and two of them — Birju and Sallauddin had been working in the house of the couple. The third accused, Ramzan, was staying with them in a hutment in Colony No. 5 but was working in a different house in SAS Nagar. The police investigations show that after the three had killed the woman, they went back home . Next morning, Ramzan went back to work and also made a confession to his contractor, R.P. Bedi, that they had killed Mrs Singh. While Sallauddin decided to rush back to his native village in Bihar, there is no clue of the prime accused,
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