EDUCATION

School celebrates silver jubilee
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, August 19
Hollyhock Nursery School, Civil Lines, one of the oldest nursery school of the city, celebrated its silver jubilee here today.

All 175 children of the school participated in a colourful cultural programme. They sang songs and danced on the latest Hindi and English numbers. The school Principal, Ms Amrita Garewal, cut the cake on the occasion.

She said the school was set up in August 1977 at times when most parents preferred to send their children directly to high schools. Parents had to be personally convinced to send their kids to the school at that time, she said. She said the school started with nine students and the strength rose to over 50 in the very first year. Now, the total strength had been limited to 175 for the pre-nursery and nursery classes, she said.

She said the school was started in two rooms and now its building had eight rooms and a huge open space. She said the total strength per section was fixed at 25 so that all kids could get proper attention. Psychologists and psychiatrists were invited from time to time to assess the overall mental development of students, she said.

She said students of the earlier batches were now settled as renowned doctors and businessmen in the city. She said a first batch student of the school was working as a teacher with the school.

When asked, whether she would like to expand the school, she replied in the negative and said she would instead endeavour to further improve the standards.

Information technology centre inaugurated
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, August 19
The newly established information technology centre of the Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College for Women, Kamapura (Ludhiana), was inaugurated today.

An eminent scholar of chemistry, Prof Ramesh Kapoor, Dean, College Development Council, Panjab University, Chandigarh, was the chief guest. Professor Kapoor switched on the network of computer labs and formely inaugurated the centre. In the function, the honorary director of the college, Principal Manjit Singh Khattra, welcomed the chief guest.

Professor Kapoor gave away prizes to those students from the local colleges who secured first and second positions in teh matric and senior secondary examinations. He said, “These days computer is related with every sphere of life and knowledge. So the students will have to learn computer to rean excellence in their field of working in this era of information explosion.

Brar group wins PAUTA poll
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 19
Dr A.S. Joshi is the new president of the Punjab Agricultural University Teachers Association (PAUTA). He and his panel have been elected unanimously for the year 2002 - 2003.

The team, owing allegiance to Dr Hari Singh Brar's group, comprises Dr A.S. Sohi (vice-president), Dr Sudesh Kumar Kapoor (secretary), Mr Harmeet Singh Kingra (joint secretary) and Dr Jasdev Singh Deol (treasurer). The councillors are Dr Sarabjit Singh Thind, Mr Jagjit Singh Sarabha, Mr Sarabjit Singh Sooch, Dr Jaswinder Kaur Sangha and Dr Rohit Kumar. The outstation councillors are: Dr Paramjit Singh, Mr Parambir Singh, Dr Bhupinder Singh, Mr Parminder Singh and Mr Hapral Singh Sandhu.

Dr Joshi said he and his team would continue to follow the policies and programmes of his predecessors, both of whom will be actively associated with the PAUTA executive as ex-officio members in their capacities as former president and secretary.

The approval of the Board of Management for appointment of an academician as the Registrar of the PAU is another landmark in the history of the university. The move of the Punjab Government to appoint an IAS officer as Registrar of the university has also been stayed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

While enumerating the mission before his team for the next year, Dr Joshi said the implementation of Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) w.e.f. 1.1.1996 will be their top priority.