Contests mark PAU fest
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 17
Anjuman-2002, a cultural festival, was organised by the Department of Business Management at Pal Auditorium on the PAU campus yesterday. More than 20 colleges of North India participated in the festival. Anjuman provides a welcome break to students from studies and they get a chance to participate in creative events like scooter and car painting, masquerade and ad mad show.

The Vice-Chancellor, PAU, Mr K.S. Aulakh, inaugurated the function by lighting the lamp. “Churi Parandi” was a keenly contested event in which 10 colleges participated. “Dumb Charade” and flower arrangement competition were going on the lawns. A flower arrangement was titled as World Peace. War Widow was another beautiful composition. Students were painting scooters and cars of their choice in another part of the grounds.

Jhankar, a dance competition, had the maximum number of colleges participating. Fourteen colleges participated in it. The other interesting events based on general knowledge included Brain Tax and “Bhujo to Jaane”. Rangolis with mirrors and lit earthen pots caught everybody’s eye. Jaswinder Bhalla, popularly known as Chacha Raunki Ram, regaled the audience with his rustic humour.

But the programmes ran one hour behind schedule and management of events was poor. A participant from Patiala remarked that last year’s programme was better organised.

However, the department was rated in B+ category along with the UBS of PU, Chandigarh, by Business India making it the best B school of the region. A news letter of Business Management was released today. The colleges from Patiala, Ambala City, Mohali, Moga, Jalandhar and Sangrur participated in the festival.

148 cases settled at Lok Adalat
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 17
As many as 148 insurance claim cases were settled at the Lok Adalat held here yesterday in the 19 district courts here. The lok adalat awarded a compensation of Rs 25,92,942 to the complainants.

In all, 258 cases were placed for settlement. Six Additional and Sessions Judges heard 43 cases, while only 10 cases were settled. In the 13 lower courts, 215 cases were presented and 138 settled.

In the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge B.S. Mehanidratta, 12 cases were presented. In three cases, Rs 11,10,000 compensation was awarded. In the remaining cases, the parties did not appear. In the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge G.R. Banyal, 15 cases were placed of which five cases were disposed of and a compensation of Rs 4,42,000 awarded. In the court of Additional District and Sessions Judges H.S. Madan and B.K. Mehta, one and two cases were placed respectively, but neither was settled.

SPORTS

Squash stadium  for Ludhiana
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, March 17
After almost two decades, Ludhianavis will now have the privilege of playing squash. A squash court, situated in the present Guru Nanak Sports Complex, was demolished in order to facilitate the synthetic track in the stadium. After Jalandhar and Amritsar, Ludhiana will be the third centre to have squash courts complex.

A new Squash Indoor Stadium, built by the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation near the MC Swimming Pool, Rakh Bagh, was formally declared open for the public today. Choudhary Jagjit Singh, Minister for Local Bodies, inaugurated the stadium.

Giving details of the project, Mr R L Kalsia, Commissioner Municipal Corporation, said that the stadium had been built at a cost of Rs 42 lakh and was completed in six months. Two wooden floored squash courts have been created and the galleries for the spectators, adjacent to these courts have also been made. The squash stadium would be attached to the proposed Sports Club for which the membership and other modelities would be finalised later, Mr Kalsia said.