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June 4, 2002,
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‘Probe land allotment to schools’ Chandigarh, June 3 Addressing a press conference here, the Janata Party president, Mr Ajay Jagga, said, ‘’The allotment of land to educational institutions (schools) on leasehold basis under scheme of 1996 has defined its purpose, terms, but these terms and conditions were changed or ignored in an arbitrary manner to defeat the purpose of rehabilitating the schools operating in violation of building bylaws.’’ An inquiry was needed into the making of amendments in the scheme, including the process of inviting applications, so as to find out whether everything was proper or was changed to suit the Congress leaders, Mr Jagga said. He urged the Chandigarh Administration to stall the land allotment and asked the Union Home Ministry to look into the matter. He said the if changes were necessary, the Administration should initiate the process afresh in a transparent manner. He said the 1996 policy stipulated that the educational institutions should have at least one-year experience in running a recognised school on the date of notice inviting applications. But the condition was changed in December 2001 and the requirement of one-year experience was replaced with ‘requisite competence and experience in running educational institutions shall be as per the criteria and policy set by the Chandigarh Administration from time to time,’ Mr Jagga said. The change virtually meant that there was no criteria and the act was arbitrary, he said. “This clause also said that applications would be screened by a screening committee comprising the Secretary Education, the Finance Secretary, the Chief Administrator, the Estate Officer, the Director Public Instructions (Colleges) and (Schools). The new policy remained silent on who were eligible and how one could apply, he said. Early this year, applications were invited under the ‘’Allotment of land to educational institutions (schools) on leasehold basis in Chandigarh Scheme — 1996’’ without mentioning the changes made in 2001 including the removal of clause requiring experience in running educational institutions, Mr Jagga said. The changes were contradictory to the scheme of 1996. The educational institution had been defined in the policy as ‘’pre-primary, primary, high, secondary school run by a duly constituted registered society as trust of non-proprietary character,” Mr Jagga said. “It makes clear that the removal of experience clause was not permissible in the definition of the policy,” he said. The land is reportedly being allotted to a recently-formed society whose secretary is Mr Bansal and vice-president is Ms Soni”, he alleged. However, Mr Pawan Bansal said, ‘’I had applied for one of the 22 sites without knowing the changes in the policy and their mention in the application form.’’ He said a lobby fearing school’s presence in a non-commercial effort with free education to weaker section of society and my political opponents were making allegations to stall the process. The new initiative could provide something better than what had already been there in the education sector in the city, he said. |
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Explanation
sought from five school heads Chandigarh, June 3 The pass percentage of GSSS-15 has come down from 97.87 to 41.28 per cent. In case of Sector 20-D school it has come down from 70.58 to 36.45 per cent while in case of Sector 27 school the all is from 66.35 to 47.46 per cent. In case of Sector 45 school, the pass percentage has fallen from 85.36 to 48.05 per cent and for 38 (W) school fall is from 100 per cent to 80.25 per cent. The idea behind asking for explanations is to ascertain the cause of falling standard of education in these schools though there has been no withdrawal of facilities to these school. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, June 3 Delivering the verdict on a petition filed by Mr Parveen Kumar of Narnaul, a Division Bench of the High Court, comprising Mr Justice Swatanter Kumar and Mr Justice Mehtab Singh Gill, elaborated: “If the pay scale was wrongly written, a corrigendum should have been issued in the newspaper and an amendment should have been made in the column of the pay scale. Now, the petitioner has joined in the scale of pay as given in an advertisement, his pay cannot be reduced at this late stage”. The Bench added that otherwise also they saw “no reason why without giving an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner, an order detrimental to his interest was passed”. In their detailed order, the Judges also directed the state of Haryana and other respondents “to give the pay scale to the petitioners as mentioned in the advertisement and not to change his designation”. The Judges also allowed his petition. In his petition, Parveen Kumar had earlier sought directions for quashing the orders issued by the state of Haryana and other respondents on August 1, 2000, vide which his salary was “wrongly fixed in the pay scale of Rs 3050 - Rs 4590”. He had also sought directions to the respondents for fixing his salary in the revised scale of Rs 4,000 to Rs 6,000 with effect from January 1, 1996.
Passport Taking up a petition filed by ex-member of Parliament Atinderpal Singh of Jassowal village seeking the issuance of a passport, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday ordered the impleading of Additional Director-General of Police (Intelligence) as party in the case. In his petition against the Union of India and the Regional Passport Officer, the ex-MP had earlier claimed that the passport was not issued to him even though he had forwarded an application on July 10 last year. His counsel had added that the petitioner had been invited to attend a two-day conference being organised by the World Sikh Organisation at Toronto from June 8 and as such passport for a short duration should be granted. In a reply on behalf of the respondents, it was, however, stated that an interim report, dated May 3, 2001, was sent by the ADGP requesting that passport facility may not be granted to the petitioner until a final report was received. The final report, they had added, had still not been received. |
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HC
transfers 64 Judges Chandigarh, June 3 As per a notification, a copy of which was received today, the
officials transferred included Civil Judges, Additional Civil Judges,
and Chief Judicial Magistrates. |
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Shiamak’s trainers get their act together Chandigarh, June 3 Representing Shiamak and his style in the city are his fitness and dance experts, Nazim Hussain, Lester Fernandes, Smita and Mridung. Led by Nazim, the troupe members are conducting close to five sessions every day. The sessions have been slotted for different age groups — four to six; seven to 11 and 12 onwards. As the hectic dance sessions rolled on at Hotel Park View this morning, we took some time off to speak to Nazim Hussain and his friends, about their music, their musings and of course Shiamak ... Harmonising his talk with his gestures, Nazim began stating the facts of his life, “I have been with Shiamak’s troupe for many years. In fact, I have been instructing for more than 13 years. I began learning while I was still in school.” Lester, Smita and Mridung are juniors to Nazim. They are, however, part of 40 trainers with SDIPA. Trained in jazz, hip hop, rock and roll, afro jazz and salsa, all these trainers will focus on fitness sessions and will later help the participants graduate to dance. As Nazim explained, “To achieve flexibility we will include isolation exercises, muscle tone up and stretch work outs. Creative movements and dance will follow. Our idea is to finally have each participant on the stage. We will work towards harmonising the movement of participants as a group.” Himself having performed in Shiamak’s troupe which featured in Dil to pagal hai and Taal, Nazim informed that where earlier SDIPA covered only Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai during summers, now it is moving towards Goa, Pune, Kanpur, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. In Chandigarh about 260 people have enrolled for the sessions being organised by the Durga Das Foundation. “We are impressed with the response here. We may even open up a branch of SDIPA here, if this kind of an urge continues to surface,” said Nazim, who also talked about how the trainers will work towards a cohesive show to be staged on June 17. “We will give the participants an idea and they will have to create their own costume. Colour pattern of the chosen costume will be sent for Shiamak’s approval. We will have the lighting and sets from Mumbai. As for the song, each group will get the song according to its pick up and stamina. The idea is to have everyone shed inhibition and blend well on the space of performance.” Interestingly, Smita, Lester and Mridung have all performed in Taal. While Smita and Mridung are working as a group to train the morning batches, Nazim and Lester are taking the evening classes. |
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Infusing
life in lifeless structures Chandigarh, June 3 “Passing by”, an exhibition of about 25 black and white photographs by Anup Mathew Thomas, a Bangalore-based amateur photographer, which was inaugurated at Alliance Francaise, Sector 36, here today, reveals certain nounces of Europe which you do not usually find in the travel catalogues. So when this artist captures Eiffel Towers from different angles, you do not just see it as a landmark of Paris, but he takes you much beyond, showing you its majestic pattern in depth. Similarly, his two photographs on concentration camps in Germany makes you shudder taking you back to the Hitler’s regime. There are others, Vatican City, isolated scenes from France like Sunday market in Rennes, St Malo or the life of Paris, all in black and white but presenting the image which is eloquent and colourful in it’s own right. What makes Anup’s pictures interesting is that none of the pictures were shot with some pre- meditated ideas. He presents the scenes with an eye of a tourist which has seen them for the first time, which is quite refreshing. Though photography is just a hobby for this final year furniture designing student of the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, his grasp of the technicalities of the medium is commendable. This particular series was the result of a European tour he undertook in 1999 which took his to countries like England, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. He first exhibited this series in Alliance Francaise in Bangalore. The exhibition which was inaugurated by renowned artist and sculpturist, Shiv Singh, today was made interesting for the students of Alliance Francaise here by organising a competition in which they were asked to reveal the identity of the places shown in the photographs. The authority of the Alliance Francaise also announced a cash prize of Rs1,000 for the winner of the contest and Rs 500 for the second runner-up. |
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