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July 15, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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Rush for non-medical, medical, commerce streams SAS Nagar, July 14 Teachers say the Punjab Government’s announcement last year for reserving 85 per cent seats in medical and non-medical colleges for students passing out from institutions within the state proved to be beneficial for the college as it has attracted more students. Similarly, Panjab University’s recent announcement reserving 85 per cent seats for streams other than medical and non-medical in Chandigarh colleges for UT students has led to more and better students seeking admission to the local college. However, members of the commerce faculty feel that Panjab University’s announcement was a bit late and a number of students with a higher merit were approaching the college at present when the admissions to B Com (part-I) had almost finished. The number of girls taking admission to the college has been very low over the years but the authorities at present feel that since last year there has been an upward trend. Most of the students taking admission to the institution are from the rural areas. The main rush in the commerce stream has been for B Com (part-I). Out of the 90 seats in this class, 58 are for students of the general category and 32 for the reserved. Even though all 58 seats have been filled, the department had received 67 fresh applications till today. The authorities say that on July 20, the last date for admissions, the college will
deserve those seats that remain vacant and fill these with students from the general category on the basis of merit. Admissions to B com (parts II and III) are also going on. However, there is not much rush for the plus one and plus two classes in the commerce stream. Faculty members feel that some parents prefer that their children should take admission to schools. Thirty students have taken admission to the plus one class and 58 to the plus two. In the medical and non-medical streams, the merit graph has started going up since last year. A student with 87 per cent marks has taken admission to the plus one class this year. The college has 150 seats each for the plus one and the plus two levels. As many as 110 students (40 medical and 70 non-medical) have been admitted to the plus two class so far. At the plus one level 60 (50 non-medical and 10 medical) students have been admitted so far. Faculty members say that the last date for admissions had to be extended from July 16 to July 22 as the examination results of a number of matriculation students of the Punjab School Education Board were late. The college is also witnessing rush
for the BA (part I) class, with most of the students coming from the rural areas. As many as 300 students have taken admission so far but surprisingly less than 10 per cent of them are girls. |
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50 teachers attend workshop Chandigarh, July 14 Techniques to ensure that students were able to learn various strategies of comprehension were explained to the teachers. The workshop was conducted by the Director of the Regional Institute of Education, Ms Brinder Aulakh. Ms Brinder said, “The teacher should encourage the students to comprehend through questions which helps in developing critical and creative thinking.” She discussed skills involved in reading which range from recognising the script of a language to understanding explicitly stated information, conceptual meaning, communicative value of sentences and utterances. Further she explained about understanding relation within the sentence and between the parts of the text through lexical and grammatical cohesion devices. She said “Students must be given exposure to ideas and reading strategies. They should be involved in various activities to stimulate their interest in reading.” “Parents should discuss with children what they are reading. They should encourage the child to retell a story they have read,” said Ms Brinder. She further added that Inculcating good reading habits involve developing efficient reading strategies and promoting independent reading and a
passion for books. One of the first learning experiences is reading success which gives a child a feeling of competence. This gives confidence to the student about his ability to learn and think. |
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Subtle sarcasm Chandigarh, July 14 The play, it may be mentioned, was the product of the workshop titled Theatre for joy conducted by G.S. Chani and Harleen Kohli in May. Going by the tremendous response to the first presentation of the play, it was today staged for the second time. Apart from the fact that the play is well-written in that it caters to the social problem of rebuking which children face from all quarters today, the more significant fact about the effort is that the entire script has been evolved by these children themselves. All improvisations are also by them. No wonder then that they performed each sequence with an amazing talent, which left everyone in the crowd touched. As for the play, it was all about sarcasm put across in subtle yet powerful manner. And coming from untutored children, the theatre activity was more than just convincing. Each participant appeared to be absolutely confident of his or her dialogue, which was meant to denounce the the use of rod to “reform children”. The confidence flows from the fact that the play was conceived, designed and directed by kids themselves. The play featured Asha Sarin, Anuradha Bhasin, Ashok Sarin, Richa, Tanushri, Abhimanyu, Sagat Singh, Saahil Khanna, Salonee Khanna, Ratika, Dhriti, Mehak, Aprajita, Satyajit Singh, Ripudaman, Karanvir, Aprajita Singh, Harleen Kohli and Chani himself. The script was laced with humourous dialogues, written by the students themselves. |
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797 students get admission Chandigarh, July 14 Ninety-nine students were admitted in science, 152 in commerce, 347 in humanities stream and 199 in vocational courses. The general category seats in commerce stream got filled in all the government schools today. Seats in general category for science stream are available only in
GGSSS, Sector 20-B. The general category seats in humanities got filled in
GMSSS, Sector 16, and GMSSS, Sector 35, with 52 and 53 per cent cut-off marks. In all 4,137 students have been admitted in different government schools till date. About 900 students with 45 per cent marks and above will appear for admissions in government schools tomorrow. |
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CAMPUS ROUND-UP Chandigarh, July 14 Last week also saw some controversies as far entrance test to Masters in Electronics and Instrumentation course was concerned. Many candidates who were to appear in the test were not allowed to do so as they had failed to get detail marksheets of the qualifying test. These students, most of them of Panjab Technical University, later decided to approach the courts for justice. Another problem which cropped up due to extension of the date of receipt of applications was that of the admission to the LL.B course. Students who had been interviewed on July 6 could not deposit their fee on July 9 since the final merit list was to be displayed by July 16 after including the names of the eligible students who had applied during the extended period. The last week also saw a great rush at the university’s administration block where students from all parts of the region came to get their detail marksheets. Two employees of the examination branch fainted reportedly due to overwork. In a significant decision the university authorities had decided that all those candidates whose writing was found to be illegible might be awarded a zero in the examination.
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Final LL.B merit list on July 16 Chandigarh, July 14 According to sources in the university, the list will be displayed at the department and will include the names of eligible candidates who applied during the extension period granted for submitting applications. The list will contain a note stating that the admissions would be subject to the decision of the petitions filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court. It may be recalled that the high court while issuing notice of motion for July 30 on a petition filed against the department had earlier directed that the fresh merit list, if displayed, would be “subject to further orders of the court”. The high court, on a similar petition alleging the declaration of entrance examinations results by the university before the announced date, had directed that another candidate, Ashima Prashar, “shall be provisionally interviewed”. The judges had added that the result shall, however, not be declared. In her petition, Ms Prashar had alleged that the respondents, not adhering to the conditions, allowed the petitioner and other candidates to believe that the result would be declared on July 5, but the same was declared on June 30. Her counsel had added that the petitioner submitted her application, as the successful candidates had been asked to do so, with a request that the same should be considered for counselling to be held on July 7 but it was turned down. Meanwhile, the Haryana Students Association, in a joint press conference with the ABVP, today condemned the alleged mismanagement and irregularities in the admission process of the Department of Laws. The HSA has demanded the resignation of the Chairman of the Department of Laws, Prof. V.K Bansal, who is also the University’s Dean, Student Welfare. “The department has made a joke of the admission process and has failed to conduct admissions smoothly,” stated Mr Chand Singh Madan of the HSA. The HSA and the ABVP also claimed that there were a large number of irregularities in the merit list which has been displayed in the department for admission to the LL.B course. There is a university Senate member who is behind these irregularities and is trying to promote and adjust candidates of a student organisation of the university.” alleged Mr Chand Singh Madan. The HSA and the ABVP also highlighted the problems being faced by the newly admitted students in university hostels. The new rules laid down recently for hostel admission were framed without consulting the student organisations of the university. They claimed that in spite of hostel residents sharing rooms, the university was charging the full room rent from both residents. |
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Kenyan national
convicted Panchkula, July 14 The court further ordered that he would be required to undergo rigorous imprisonment for another year if he failed to pay the fine. Mr Manoj Yadava, SP, said that the accused, Saya Forensis, was arrested on September 14, 1999, on the basis of a tip-off. As many as 23 small polythene packets containing 48 gms of heroin were seized from the accused. Later, a case under Section 21 and 22 of the NDPS Act was registered against him. |
Workshop for aspiring actors Chandigarh, July 14 To an objective observer the issue, that Abhimanyu, with all his professional obligations back home in Mumbai, has been in the city for over a week, sounded a bit strange initially. But as the conversation about the purpose behind his visit progressed at the Chandigarh Press Club in Sector 27 this morning, no reasons were left to doubt the intentions of this seasoned actor. Abhimanyu Raj Singh is here to show a future to those who can live acting. In the long run Abhimanyu plans to establish a full-fledged academy in or around Chandigarh for imparting training and education in various disciplines of the sciences and arts involved in the film and television industry. As of now, Abhimanyu is looking for talent which can be fitted into his month-long workshop schedule for which he is conducting interviews at Tagore Theatre tomorrow and day after. Talking about the workshop, Abhimanyu said, “Anyone is welcome to approach us. We are here to sieve acting talent which is now in great demand on account of the rising number of channels. Interviews will be conducted for two days in succession from 9 am onwards.” The workshop, which will have an ideal strength of about 30, will be conducted by Actors Workshop, Bombay, whose director Abhimanyu himself is. With his sound acting experience stretching over a good 15 years and his great technical knowhow, courtesy the Film and Television Institute, Pune and Actors’ Studio, Bombay, Abhimanyu believes that he can make the right kind of judgments. “I will be personally conducting all the interviews. We have no bars with regard to qualification. There are no other yardsticks. I will go by instinct and experience to make the correct choices.” While the venue and the cost of the workshop has not yet been decided upon, one thing that has been chalked out is the training method to be imparted. Abhimanyu, who has acted in films like “Gopi Kishen”, “Radha ka Sangam”, “Baazi”, “The workshop will concentrate on imparting training under the method acting system first developed by Constantion Stanislavsky and later refined by training masters like the late Lee Strassberg of Actors Studio, New York.” This workshop is actually a pilot project for a bigger dream — that of establishing a film academy in Chandigarh in the near future. The idea behind the whole project is to revive the old tradition which saw a lot of Punjabi and Haryanavi talent feeding the Hindi film industry. “The trend is on a steady decline. Most of the people who land up as strugglers in Mumbai are raw. They are not prepared to fight their own battles. In the field of acting, the only weapon an actor has is his own body. Here in the forthcoming workshop we will teach the aspirants how to control the body to a certain extent. Till today, Punjabis have largely dominated the film industry. I am here to help empower the aspirants to fight their own battles in Mumbai,” said Abhimanyu. He was, however, honest enough to admit, “We are not promising any roles. Also, there is no guaranteed future. We will provide them with the necessary weapons so that they are not caught unawares in Mumbai, which really is not a haven for aspiring actors. There can be amazingly low phases. I have known of people taking heavily to drugs under frustration. We wish to prevent this depression to some extent. That is why we are offering a need-based training in acting which will help boost confidence levels of aspirants.” So even while there will be no backup available to those who wish to take this course with Abimanyu, there will be the element of satisfaction and hope. The workshop might be repeated depending upon the response it would generate this time. |
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A step ahead of modelling Chandigarh The increasing number of fashion shows and beauty contests in the city has opened up vistas for fashion choreographers, says Priyanka Singh, a model-turned-fashion choreographer. And the choreographers do no face any insecurity as they grow old. A choreographer is like old wine that becomes more valuable with every passing year, says Priyanka. This is a profession dominated by women. As a choreographer has much to do in a show, from shaping their walk on the ramp to fitting the clothes , the models find it easier to work with a woman. Though former models have an advantage in this field, others need not loose heart as a number of experienced choreographers are holding workshops and training courses for the new aspirants, says Priyanka. “If one has the knack to harmonise a situation with appropriate colour, music and light effects, one can always go up in this profession.” Priyanka is already a name to be reckoned with in this profession and she has a number of shows such as Mega Model, Mr Monte Carlo, Lady of the Year and a few kid shows to her credit. She started doing sequences right from her modelling days and now has her own group of models whom she grooms and presents in different shows. Talking about the scope for budding choreographers, Priyanka says Chandigarh has not yet reached the stage where you can compete with national level shows. “As this profession is often mistaken by many as a simple matter of walking up and down the ramp, many event management companies have ventured into this profession without knowing much about it, which is giving it a bad name.” Apart from this, there are not too many big sponsors in this region and to organise a big event, big sponsors always hire people from Delhi or Mumbai to choreograph their
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Hooded hero Chandigarh, July 14 The interesting part of the shooting was that the real cobra, when wrapped up around the neck of Lord Shiva, was calm. It also stood with its hood erected and behaved like other “actors” of the unit. His acts involved chasing his beloved into the forests, holding her in his embrace and spending the night on her bed. |
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