US scientist in India to promote soyabean
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 10
Dr Tilak Dhiman, Assistant Professor, Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, College of Agriculture, Utah State University, Logan, USA, visited Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) on a trip sponsored by Winrock International and USAID in collaboration with the American Soyabean Association (ASA), a non-profit organisation for promoting the use of soyabean among human beings and animals in India. He delivered a lecture in the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, which was attended by scientists from the Department of Veterinary, Biochemistry, Animal Nutrition and Animal Breeding and Genetics. Dr Dhiman while answering to the queries of the participants, emphasised on the need for feeding processed soyabean to high yielding animals for protein and fat. He further suggested that the use of soyabean increases milk yield, fat content and was beneficial for health of human beings. The use of soyabean also improves the health and reproductive capacity of animals. Dr Ramesh Thapar, consultant (poultry and livestock) of the USA, informed the participants that soyabean feed festival would be organised in Ludhiana from December 14 to16. 

PAU criteria for varsity colours
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 10
With a view to ensure transparency for the award of merit certificates, university, colours and roll of honour to outstanding sportsmen/artists, the PAU has specified the criteria for the selection of the students for these honours. According to a circular issued by Mr J S Toor, Director Students Welfare, PAU, for the award of merit certificate, the students should have represented the PAU team twice in an inter-varsity tournament or he should have won second or third position in the international/national/all-India inter-varsity tournament.

For the award of university colour the student should be a member of the PAU team which won up to fourth position in all-India inter-varsity zonal, inter-varsity tournament (team games) or the student should be a member of the team which won upto third position in senior state tournament (team games/individual events) or the student has reached into the finals of all-India inter-varsity tournament (individual events) or the student was a member of the combined universities (senior) or state (senior) team in any game or event. The student should have represented PAU team in zonal or all-India inter-varsity tournaments for three years in case of undergraduate and for one year in case of postgraduate students.

The student should be holder of college colour. Any student who was placed on conduct probation/expelled from the hostel or college or university/rusticated or punished for using unfair means in the examination shall not be awarded university colour on the basis of his/her achievements for the period for which he was awarded this punishment.

For the award of roll of honour, any student who represents the country in an international competition officially organised by an international federation/association and the participant is officially sponsored by PAU or who wins a position in the national competition (i.e. first, second or third position) by representing combined universities state in any event/game or who wins a position in all-India inter-varsity tournament (i.e. first, second or third position) in any event/game but the participation of the students representing the university in these tournaments is for two years, will be eligible. University colour holder may only be recommended for the award of roll of honour. Any student placed on conduct probation expelled from the hostel/college/university/rusticated and punished for using unfair means in the examination will not be awarded these honours.

Art and textile exhibition held
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 10
An exhibition, displaying the handiwork of skills learnt by students of a one-year diploma in Polytechnic College during the first semester, is on display in Malwa Central College, Civil Lines.

Five courses, beauty culture, interior designing, fashion designing, dress designing and textile designing, are being taught in the polytechnic, a part of Malwa Central College.

As many as 80 students are participating in the exhibition. Students of dress designing had displayed their skill in embroidery on sarees and salwar suits. Besides there, a number of dresses, for children and adults were also on the display. Nivi, Sakshi, Bhavna, Rajni, Raj and Harpreet excitedly said, “We are very happy that in first semester alone, we have learnt so much. By the end of the course, we will be proficient enough to start our own boutique or get a good job. Vocational courses are better than doing a simple BA.”

Students of interior designing has painted pots with enamel colours. Some had also made soft toys. Prabhjot, Sonia, Deepinder, Baljit and Shivani, students of this course, were equally excited about future job prospects. They gave credit to their teacher Ms Pamela Bhalla and the Director of the polytechnic Mr K.K. Bhatia.

Students of textile designing had made beautiful designs on household linen, like table mats, napkins, bedcovers and towels. Some had also painted shawls and sarees and kitchen accessories, like apron. Paintings on glass and tie-and-dye work were also on display.

The students are now looking forward to the next semester when they would learn more skill like batik, screen painting, furniture designing and interior designing.

Rahul, Ripudaman Maths wizard-2002
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 10
Regional Corporate Office of CASTLE had organised fifth Punjab state level Mathematics Test on November 10 at Guru Nanak Public School, Sarabha Nagar, to identify the Math’s wizard, genius, ace and experts 2002. At least 900 students of about 27 local schools took part in the competition.

Rahul Kumar Garg and Ripudaman Singh of DAV Public School have been declared wizard 2002 and genius 2002 respectively, whereas Sidharth Khanna of Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School, Sarabha Nagar, has been declared ace 2002.

The other 12 students who fared well in the tests are: Kechit Goyal, Uday Takyar, Medhavin Goyal, Daksh Jain, Amandeep Jindal, Namrita Sarkaria, Ranjot Singh, Kanika and Saurabh Mangoo from DAV Public School, Gurson Singh and Kundan Singh from Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, BRS, Nagar; Sameer Jain from KVM Senior Secondary School; Harpreet Singh from Guru Nanak International Public School, Model Town; and Reetinder Singh from Guru Nanak Public School, Sarabha Nagar.

Besides this, trophies will be awarded to the three toppers from the schools affiliated to the Punjab School Education Board. Harpreet Singh of Atam Public Senior Secondary School has been declared winner, Himanshu Vashisht of Sarawati Modern School has been declared the first runner up and Shikha Sethi of SAN Jain Model Senior Secondary School the second runner up in this category.

In the IX standard category Kechit Goyal and Amandeep Jindal of DAV Public Schools have been declared the winner and the first runner up respectively. Akshay Jain of Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School, Sarabha Nagar has been declared the second runner up.

The special award for the best performance has gone to DAV Public School, BRS Nagar, Ludhiana.

Freshers welcomed at DMCH Nursing College
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 10
To welcome the new batch of nursing students, a freshers’ function was organised by the Nursing College of Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, here today at the Dumra Auditorium.

Dr S.C.Ahuja, Principal, DMCH, welcomed Mr Brij Mohan Munjal, president, DMCH Managing Committee, who was the chief guest on the occasion. Dr Ahuja introduced Mr Munjal to the audience, who had made enormous contribution in the growth of DMCH and HDHI.

In his address to the students, Mr Munjal congratulated the freshers for making this choice for a noble profession like nursing and wished them best of luck. He also distributed prizes to the winners of various contests organised recently at the DMCH to mark the national integration week and IAP neonatal week.

During the function, Dr Dev Priya Marik, who has been appointed as a new senior consultant, cardiac surgery and Dr Sarju Ralhan, new cardiac consultant at HDHI were also introduced to the audience.

Ms Jasbir Kaur, Principal, Nursing College of DMCH, also welcomed the freshers and exhorted the students to take a vow to carry on the responsibilities of nursing profession with dedication. She also said that Baba Farid University of Health Sciences was the only University, which had the faculty of Nursing and being a pioneer in nursing education, more responsibility lied with the DMCH Nursing College.

Thereafter, the students entertained the audience in a colourful cultural function. Besides various dance items on Punjabi numbers and |Hindi film songs, a choreography was also organised on today’s youth turning towards the destructive path of militancy.

More than 25 nursing students participated in Ms Fresher Contest. Ms Amandeep Saggu was declared Ms Fresher, Ms Vipanpreet was declared first runner-up while Ms Gagan was chosen second runner-up.

Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, Mr Balraj Kumar, Mr Satish Sanwalika, Mr Narinder Singh, Dr Sandeep Puri, Dr Rajoo Chhina and Ms Archna Sood were also present.

Teachers‘ training programme in KVM tomorrow
Our Corespondent

Ludhiana, December 10
KVM, a forerunner in reducing the burden of Nursery children by doing away with school bags by introducing work sheets and other innovative methods, in its next venture towards the same, is incorporating the latest guidelines issued by NCERT National Curriculum for School Education in January 2002, for primary classes.

KVM will now be introducing Environmental Studies from the session of 2003-2004 to its primary classes. The science and natural science subjects will have a balanced fusion by the way of Environmental Studies so these two subjects have been integrated into one and the entire approach is being changed from content-based learning to process-based and outcome-oriented learning.

The first of school’s efforts towards this new methodology is a teachers’ training programme on December 12, being organised for facilitating comprehension and sustaining students’ interest in this single subject discipline.

Searching roots through poetry
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 10
“The sadness expressed in his poems describes the suffering of a generation that migrated to foreign shores in late sixties and seventies. This longing and nostalgia is evident in Jagtar’s Dhah anthology of poems ‘Search for the Lost Home’. His is a major voice in modern and contemporary poetry,” says translator of his poems Prof Bhupinder Parihar.

Jagtar belongs to Phagwara, but migrated to UK in 1968. He was in the city for his book release. He says, “I was not committed seriously to Punjabi poetry when I left. But once I went to UK , I could not break away from my roots and started searching for my lost home. A stage comes when everyone wants to identify with their roots as rootless people face a deep identity crisis because they can’t seem to be fit in the design of neither their native country nor country of their adoption.”

It is then Dhah started writing serious poetry stung by racial discrimination. His poetry spoke volumes which was empirical and contains a lot of imagery. His poetry also spoke about his sensibilities. Since he was not very proficient in English, he requested Mr Bhupinder Parihar, a Professor of English in local SCD College.

Professor Parihar says, “Over the past three decades, he has grown as a poet of encounter with the self and society, both Indian and English. He is one of those few Marxist poets who have synthesised ideology with poetic form and aesthetics. He has constantly experimented with form and content, and today he has his own distinct idiom.”

Jagtar’s recent poems are liberated expressions of an integrated poetic sensibility. The poems have diversity, an amazing cosmic projection of self, an atmospheric richness, self effacement, a nagging ambiguity. He has reached a point of his poetic career where he can, in the din of contemporary confusions, hear the still sad music of humanity. His translator says that it appears from his recent poems that for him the truth of migrant existence is existence itself. His humanity is not inspired by any ideology. It is the conviction he has imbibed through lived experiences as an expatriate in England that lends authenticity to his worldview, and poises him in between two cultures — East and West. This is indeed the point of arrival — redemption from an imaginary homeland.