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Thursday,
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AMRITSAR REFRESHER COURSE: A former Vice-Chancellor, Prof Prithipal Singh Kapur, inaugurated a three-week refresher course in history at Academic Staff College (ASC) of Guru Nanak Dev University here on Tuesday.
JAGRAON ONE BOOKED: The local police booked Jagdip Singh of Chakar village today under Section 29/54 and 59 of the Arms Act for carrying .12 bore rifle near grain market. The rifle belonged to his father and the accused could not present any licence. The accused was produced before the judicial magistrate and was remanded in judicial custody. LUDHIANA DOG RACE: A dog race organised by the Youth Sports Club, Kotala, is scheduled to be held on Saturday at Kotala village, Samrala. The president of the club, Mr Harpreet Ghuman, said in a press note issued here on
Wednesday that the first seven position holders would get cash prizes of Rs 11,000, 7,000, 5,000, 2,000, 1,500, 1,000 and 500, respectively. OFFICE-BEARERS: The following have been elected office-bearers of the local chapter of the Northern India Regional Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India: Mr M.G. Jindal — chairman; Mr V.K. Bhatia — vice chairman; Mr Rajesh Loomba — secretary and Mr Rajnish Thakur — treasurer.
PATIALA HEALTHY
BABY SHOW: Tushar Sharma, Mehak, Jaskaran Singh, Arushi Kochar, Anish Sachdeva and Prabhnoor Kaur were declared healthy babies in their respective age categories in a healthy baby show held at the Career Academy, Bhadson Road here. In the one to four year age group, Arshdeep Singh and Naman Kapoor were declared the winners while in the 2 to 3 year age group, Prachi and Arvind Soni were declared the winners. In the 3 to 4 year age group, Aprampar Kaur and Sidaq were given the prizes. The Judges were Dr Kusum Mahajan, Dr Sanjeev, Mr and Ms Duggal, Dr Seema Kansal and Ms Wadhwa. PHAGWARA
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AMBALA POETRY RECITATION CONTEST: Punjabi Sahit Sabha SD College, Ambala Cantonment, will organise the 27th Manjit Memorial Inter-college Poetry Recitation Contest on Saturday. Prof in charge Rattan Singh Dhillon said students from different colleges of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh would participate in the contest. Dr Deepak Manmohan Singh would preside over the function. Dr Desh
Bandhu, Principal of the college, said last year 60 participants had participated in the contest. KNOWLEDGE FESTIVAL: A knowledge festival for children will begin on Thursday near BD Senior Secondary School. A press note said M/s Navneet Publication (India) Ltd was organising the festival in which a wide range of books for children would be displayed. MEETING: The Jan Kalyan Awam Vikas Parishad held a meeting under the presidentship of Mr Mohan Lal. The organising secretary, Mr Paramjit Singh, said a memorandum had been sent to the Prime Minister seeking benefit for the residents of Ambala Cantonment under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. DEMONSTRATION: The Haryana Roadways Workers Union organised a demonstration at the workshop of the Ambala Roadways on Wednesday in protest against the retrenchment policy of the government. The general secretary of the union, Mr Sarbat Singh
Punia, said the State Transport Minister had announced on several occasions that employees would not be retrenched, while contrary to it 320 conductors and 600 workshop employees in various depots had been declared surplus by the department. He said retrenchment notices had already been served on 84 employees. He urged that retrenchment notices issued to employees should also be withdrawn. Besides the president of the Local depot, Mr Sham Lal Dutta, union leaders, Mr Gurnam Singh, Mr Sultan Singh, Mr Ved Prakash and Mr Naresh Kumar also addressed the meeting. EMPLOYEES FOUND ABSENT: Six employees of the Sadar Municipal Council were found absent from duty when the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mr Mahender Kumar, conducted a raid on Wednesday morning. The ADC also conducted raid at two other offices of the Public Health Department where all employees were found present. Meanwhile the Deputy Commissioner, Ambala, Mr
D.D. Gautam, has asked the heads of various departments to ensure that all employees of their offices came at right time. TWO REMANDED: The Executive Officer and the Cashier of Ambala City Municipal Council were remanded in judicial custody till February 26 by the district court here on Wednesday. The State Vigilance Bureau had arrested the two officers after the recovery of Rs 10 lakh from the residence of the cashier about a month ago. Earlier also, they were sent in judicial custody till Wednesday.
BHIWANI FOOD PROCESSING: The District Industries Centre and the Small Industries Services Institute would hold a month-long training programme in food processing and electronics appliances at the local ITI campus from February 19. DEMONSTRATION: The Pahad Khan Mazdoor Union staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner here on Tuesday. They demanded solution to their problems. Leaders of different political parties and workers of CITU and the Janwadi Mahila Morcha took part in the demonstration.
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BILASPUR AWARDED: Mr Pankaj Kumar Sharma, president of the Nehru Yuva Club, Niharkhan Basala, near here, has been declared the “best youth social worker” in the district for the year. He has been given a commendation certificate, a memento and a prize of Rs 500 by the Health and Family Welfare Minister, Mr Jagat Prakash Nadda, on behalf of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan at the youth conference. SEMINAR ORGANISED: The ABVP organised a seminar on “Saffronisation of Education — a false propaganda” at Kisan Bhavan here on Wednesday. While the Assistant Commissioner, Dr Devender Gupta, presided over the function, Dr Kuldeep Chand Agnihotri, Principal, Baba Balak Nath College, Chakmoh, was the chief guest. Dr Agnihotri supported the changes made in the historical reference of the NCERT textbooks. CHAMBA KANGRA
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Sahanahar spells prosperity for farmers Sahanahar, one of the most ambitious irrigation projects of the state situated in the western part of Himachal Pradesh bordering Punjab, when completed would bring prosperity to 93 villages of Fathepur and Indora area of Kangra district. The Sahanahar Project, whose estimated construction cost of Rs 143.32 crore would be shared by the Punjab and Himachal governments with the former spending Rs 88.49 crore. Though the project was conceived about two decades ago, yet no headway was made in its implementation due to Punjab Government’s indifference. Only in 1998 did Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal take interest in this project and initiate a dialogue with his Punjab counterpart, Mr Parkash Singh Badal. The Punjab Government agreed to spare 363 cusecs of water from Mukerian hydel channel. Both governments also agreed to construct a proper irrigation system for 15,287 hectares of land in Himachal Pradesh. Earlier with the construction of Mukerian hydel project, the entire water of the river Beas was diverted, depriving a large area of Himachal Pradesh of irrigation. The project is to be constructed in two phases — one on the right bank and other in the left bank of the Beas. The length of the main canal on the right bank will be 48.85 km, while the length of the canal on the left bank will be 33 km. The construction of over 4 km on the right bank has already been completed (see photo) and water introduced into it. The utilisation of ground water is another feature of this project. In order to ensure the proper use of ground water, the drilling of 44 tubewells in the command area is under way. Out of the 44, seven have already been commissioned. The canal water is also being utilised for lift irrigation schemes in the area. The Sathana, Jakhbar-Bhanoli lift irrigation schemes are ready for commissioning. A senior officer of the Irrigation and Public Health Department told mediapersons that in the past three years a potential for irrigating 400 hectares of agricultural land had been created and target of 55 hectares of land had been fixed for 2001-2002. There was a total outlay of Rs 143.32 crore for this project, of which Rs 37.16 crore has been utilised till the previous financial year. In the current financial year Rs 14.65 crore is likely to be spent on this project by both governments. Environment protection is another concept of this project, which has also been taken care of. A proposal for massive energy plantation has also been mooted and Rs 17 lakh earmarked for the purpose. With the operation of this project, the cropping pattern is likely to witness a change. The entire command area, which was not irrigated and was dependent on seasonal rain, is expected to emerge as fertile bowl in the coming days. The farmers of the area have already started growing vegetables, sugarcane and other cash crops. School’s record performance Kurukshetra’s Geeta Niketan Awaslya Vidyalaya has bagged 37 out of 74 positions in the Haryana State Talent Search Examination conducted by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) recently. Stating this Mr Rishi Goel, principal of the vidyalaya, said the vidyalaya had a decade-long history of securing top positions in the examination, both at the state and national levels. Among those who got through this year are: Vaishali Kaushal, Sandeep Kumar, Ramneesh, Gagan, Virender Poswal, Sachin Jindal, Ish Kumar, Sandhya Kanwar, Sahil Gautam, Vineet Sehgal, Harsh Sharma, Siddharth Sharma, Vineet Sharma, Piyush Kant, Sumit Kumar, Nitin Mohla, Piyush Manocha, Somansh Garg, Mankul Goyal, Rishabh Singh, Amit Munjal, Vaibhav Aggarwal, Sahil Goyal, Salil Garg, Aman Gupta, Sachin Jindal, Ashish Kumar, Raman Chhabra, Rita Gupta, Richa Dutta, Aarushi, Shilpa Gupta, Sudisha Bhola, Seema Sharma, Vaishali Reheje, Sunidhi Jain and Madhu Bhardwaj. No ‘impurity’ in
this labour of love “Impurity Scattering In Metallic Alloy” is the name of the book that bears the stamp of an international publisher in the USA—Pulwer Academic/Plennum Publishers, New York. It is priced at $ 135. The author is Joginder Singh Galsin, a Professor of Physics at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. It is the first elementary book of its type to have been printed as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students in all international universities of repute. It is about electronic properties of metallic alloys. Students studying chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering are likely to benefit from it. The book got published only after the Punjab and Haryana High Court gave permission. The trouble arose when Prof Joginder Singh mentioned about the book to his Panjab University teacher, who insisted on his name being written as a co-author. The letter not acceptable to the author. That gentleman wrote a letter to the publishers, stalling the publication, while Prof Joginder Singh first filed a suit in a court in Ludhiana and later in the High Court. It was the Punjab Advocate-General, Mr H S Mattewal, who represented the author, Joginder Singh, and won the case in his favour, making it possible to get the book published. As a mark of gratitude, the book is dedicated to Mr Mattewal. Joginder Singh had started writing the book in 1985 completing it in 1991. He filed a case in the Ludhiana court in 1995 and later in the High Court that decided the case in 1999. The book was published in January. He apportions much of the credit for his success to his wife, Surinder Kaur, Lecturer in English at Master Tara Singh College for Women, Ludhiana, and his teacher, who ironically had almost aborted publication of the book. Joginder Singh’s book dealing with physics of solids and liquids, is one which was accepted even before actual manuscript was sent to New York. The author is a life-member of the Indian Physics Association, besides being a member of several academic bodies. His 70-odd research papers have appeared in national and international journals of repute. He modestly admitted, ‘’My labour’s love has been rewarded. Thanks to Mr Mattewal and Surinder’’. Contributed by Ravinder Sood, Dr Vij and PPS Gill. |
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