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August 18, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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PU to begin audit of
108 affiliated colleges Chandigarh August 17 This step would be a part of the university’s efforts to ascertain the strength and weakness of its affiliated colleges and feed it back to the UGC. This kind of audit, which is more like an exercise of self review rather than an external inspection, has already been undertaken by the university. The UGC had started a scheme of academic and administrative audit for universities and colleges of the country that entailed the university and its affiliated colleges to conduct yearly administrative and academic audit by specially constituted committees. The UGC in its circular to various universities in the country stated that such an exercise aimed at ‘‘monitoring the implementation of academic norms prescribed by the university bodies, state/central government, UGC, etc and prevention of violation of academic norms and seeing that the administrative effectiveness becomes conducive for academic development.” The procedure suggested by the UGC to the universities and its affiliated colleges included constitution of a committee consisting of eight to 10 members of teaching staff and educational administrators appointed by the Vice Chancellor each year at the end of the academic session. The university will be sending a circular to all its affiliated colleges regarding the constitution of these committees. At least three to four of the committee members will be nominated by the VC. The colleges will be given a panel of university faculty members from which the colleges can select the members but majority of the committee members will be from the colleges themselves. The committee will visit colleges and meet teachers and student representatives as well as the academic staff to check time-tables, academic and administrative records, etc. The committee will find out and report on whether the administrative and academic norms regarding the number of working days and working hours; time tables; utilisation of class rooms, library, computers, equipment, research manpower and facilities, services of teachers were being followed or not. The admission criteria and procedure, student attendance, curriculum and its revision, qualifications, workload and performance appraisal of teachers will also be examined by the committee. The UGC has also asked the committee to include any other matter pertaining to academic standards. The colleges will submit their report to the university, which will forward these to the UGC and the state government. PU has already submitted the report of its administrative and academic audit to the senate and has also sent it to the UGC. The university is also planning to send a pro forma similar to the one used by them to be filled by the various university departments to be included in the report. The reports from various colleges will also act as a detailed data bank of information on these colleges by the university. The facilities, courses and faculty members in the colleges will be graded on the basis of these reports. The top colleges and faculty members are likely to benefit from this audit. |
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Student bodies flay PU
decision Chandigarh, August 17 It was said that the university went back on its own words and let down students organisations who had “dared to stand up in its defence.” The university had already “lowered the credit requirement to 92 from 120, which now goes further down.” Three major student’s organisations of the university issued a threat that if the demand of giving representation to students in the university Senate was not agreed to within 48 hours, an agitation would commence on the campus. Elections were demanded for student bodies in all colleges of the university, not just in the city but even in districts. The meeting was attended by members of the Panjab University Students Union, the Haryana Students Association and the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad. Munish Anand, a former president of the Panjab University Campus Students Council, said “the university decision of allowing everybody a chance amounted to bending down on knees to mounting pressure from “certain” quarters. Malwinder Kang, president of PUSU, said that the university seems to listen only to voices aired during an agitation. Vivek Chauhan of the ABVP also announced the party programme on the same demands. Chand Singh Madaan, chairman of the HSA, said that university did agree to setting up a placement cell earlier. However, nothing had happened on that front. Students would even agree to contribute funds for a new cell. The meeting highlighted the demand for the creation of a council which should have representation from the university and all affiliated colleges. Prof Ashok Sahni, Dean University Instructions, when contacted confirmed, that the university had taken the decision of allowing promotion in case students cleared the special test to be organised in September. |
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PU accedes to demand,
stir called off Chandigarh, August 17 Reliable sources said in a meeting of the students with the Dean University Instructions it was decided that “cases of students seeking a promotion will be considered individually and they will have to submit the forms separately”. A special examination will be conducted in September later this year. The decision is important in wake of the recent university stand of not giving students with less than 92 credits any chance of promotion. The university stand was supported by all other prominent student organisations on the campus, including the Panjab University Students Union, the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the Haryana Students Association and the All India Sikh Student Federation. Students earlier during the day blocked the entry of the Vice Chancellor to his office. The group also included students from ‘outside the campus’. The university gate, facing the PGI, was closed to vehicular traffic during the day. |
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PU to publish booklet
for foreign students Chandigarh, August 17 This was stated here yesterday by Prof R.C. Sobti, the newly appointed Dean Foreign Students, while talking to Chandigarh Tribune. Expressing concern over the gradual but definite fall in the number of foreign students in city institutions over the past few years, Professor Sobti said that the university organised a meeting of officials concerned of local colleges in this regard on Monday. This was followed by a meeting with foreign students on Tuesday. The PU will organise a special meeting with maximum possible foreign visitors on September 1. Students are expected to come and point out their various procedural problems, he said. A research scholar at PU from Iraq said one major problem faced by foreign students was non-availability of residential facilities for their families on the college and university campus. Even outside, students faced reservations on this count. Presently, the total number of foreign students in the PU and affiliated colleges of the city is only around 200, Professor Sobti said. The PU faces a big cash crunch in raising finances for developmental activity for foreign students. It will be asking students to come forward and contribute towards a common fund which will be maintained by student representatives themselves, he said. |
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Counselling for B.Sc (hons) on Aug
23 Chandigarh, August 17 The category includes at least 15 seats of the Scheduled Tribes category, which have not been filled. University sources said that the seats would first be open to candidates of the Scheduled Castes category. Seats with vacancies in the reserved category also include the categories of sports, physically handicapped and riot victims. Admission guidance for vacancies in the general category are scheduled for August 24. Students, with 130 marks and above, have been asked to come on that day. In case there are still vacant seats left, students with 117 and above marks have been asked to report on August 25. Candidates seeking admission in honours school of mathematics and mathematics and Computer Science will be interviewed on August 25. Candidates seeking admission in the NRI and NRI-sponsored categories will also be interviewed on the same day. |
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DSP charged with
falsification
Chandigarh, August 17 In a letter to the UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen JFR Jacob (Retd), the wife of the deceased District Sports Officer, Mr O.P. Puri, has alleged that the police officer had tampered with the documents in order to secure admission for his two sons in the local engineering college, through the sports quota. The complainant, Ms Rani Puri, has alleged that the officer had also issued false affidavits in this regard. She said when her deceased husband had expressed his reservations on this, the police officer in question got him implicated in a false case. She said following the false implication, her husband had died. |
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Saplings planted at Kendriya
Vidyalaya Chandigarh, August 17 The chief guest, Assistant Commissioner , Chandigarh region, KVS (CR) Ms Manju Lata
Saxena, told the students about the importance of trees in human life. The Chief Conservative Officer , Mr M
Chibber, laid emphasis on clean environment and stressed the need of planting more trees to save the environment. The principal of the school, Ms S P
Shergill, and staff of the school was also present at the camp. The tree plantation camp was organised by Bharat Vikas
Parishad. Competitions, including slogan writing, display board competition on van mahotsav and clean environment, were conducted in the school premises. The results of the competitions are as follows: Slogan writing competition : 1 Neetu Bhatt first position junior group 2 Navjot Kaur first position senior group Poster making competition : 1 Himanshu Jamwal first position junior group 2 Sonia Tonk first Position senior group Display board competition: Tagore house
(Anuj, Sonali) first position Shiva Ji house ( Ajay, Nancy) Runner-up. |
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St Stephen’s teachers told to wear helmets Chandigarh, August 17 “Teachers coming to the school without helmets will not be allowed to park their vehicles in the premises”, says Principal Carver. “The decision has been taken to prevent head injuries”. St Stephen’s is not the only school to implement the decision. Teachers of Sector 15 DAV Model School will also be served notice to wear helmets on Monday. The plus one and plus two students are also being asked to wear helmets. The Director, Public Instructions (Schools), Mr D.S. Saroya says: ‘’This is a welcome development. By asking the teachers to wear helmets, the school authorities are setting an example for the students to follow. Otherwise too, the action will ensure safety of school teachers”. The authorities of certain schools, however, do not feel the need to make the use of helmets compulsory. One of the principal of a school feels that teachers are quite mature and responsible citizens. “The teachers are themselves aware of the fact and are sensible enough to use helmets for their own safety, he says. |
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City teachers submit memorandum to
Gujral Chandigarh, August 17 The teachers demanded the removal of the present District Education Officer, Mr Brahmjit Kalia, from the post . They said he was on extension and should be removed immediately from the post. He should be appointed as Assistant Director, Adult Education. Any senior Principal can be appointed as District Education Officer. To bring efficiency in the DEO office, a Principal having at least five years of experience of Deputy District Education Officer should be appointed as District Education Officer. Some of the teachers were promoted as lecturers on a temporary basis subject to the decision of the court case. The case was decided in favour of the department. These lecturers should be regularised from date of their promotion. Teachers recruited after April, 1992, should be regularised year wise. |
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Aakriti inaugurated SAS Nagar, August 17 The work of the students of fashion design, textile design and interior design have been put on display. The daisy kingdom section of the exhibition dealt with the children collections and the Indian ethnic section included tie and dye, block printed and screen printed collections from Indian tradition. In the palette section, hand painted and embroidered suits, printed
bedspreads, quilts and cushions were the highlights. The exhibition was inaugurated by Ms Savita Bhatti, wife of Mr Jaspal Bhatti, a famous comedian. |
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PG courses inaugurated Chandigarh, August 17 Addressing students, she said the bhavan management was doing a valuable service by providing quality education with the motive of spreading the knowledge based on Indian traditions. The principal of the college in his address highlighted the achievements of the college and said 300 students had been registered till date for admission in the evening classes, of which 200 had applied for the public relations and journalism course. |
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Swatin
crowned Miss Fresher Chandigarh, August 17 After their metamorphosis from school-going to college -going girls, the first year students emerged from their cocoons of freshers and walked down the ramp. The college Principal, Ms Usha Gupta, presided over the function. Bollywood reigned supreme as the girls performed on a variety of latest Hindi film numbers. This was followed by one round after another of the college girls scintillating in their dresses walking down the ramp. Seven girls were chosen in the second round and three of these were chosen in the final round. Aditi and Deepti were the first and second runners up. The function saw some interesting questions being asked to the participants. ‘‘What question will you ask a participant of Miss Universe contest?’’was one such question. But it was the final question which was the trickiest but very well answered by
Swatin. She was asked,‘‘Will you prefer to be the ugliest woman with all the wealth in the world or the most beautiful with no money.’’ She replied, “Think what you may money does not matter.” and it was roaring applause which followed the answer which got her the crown. |
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Bail refused in
liquor case Chandigarh, August 17 Pronouncing the orders, Mr Justice K.C. Gupta observed: “Such a substance which is being manufactured by the petitioner could create havoc with the lives of the people after consumption. Hence, there is no justification to release him on anticipatory bail.” Singla was booked by the Chandigarh police under the Excise Act and Sections 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code. According to the prosecution, an Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Chandigarh police had found illicit liquor after he reached a shed in the Industrial Area upon receiving information that an oil tanker had caught fire. |
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