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January 10, 2003, Chandigarh, India |
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Night schools fail in mission
Though new schools have been added to the existing list of 19 night schools, most of these have failed to lure students. For instance, in Government High School, Sector 25, which had registered 85 students in 2000, the year of its inception, the number went down to 40 students in 2001, with the graph continuously taking the plunge. Similar situation prevails in GHS, Mauli Colony, GHS, Sector 45, GPS Maloya and most other schools. While a majority of the night schools came up between the year 2000 and 2002, some like Government High School, Hallomajra, Government High School, Maloya and another in Colony No 4 had been added only last year. Sources in the UT Education Department say that even the newly established night schools have entered a stage of stalemate. Though the practice of donating stationery items and refreshment by sponsoring agencies prevails, it is the education part which takes the backseat. "The phase of stagnation had entered more than a year ago when the Education Department started relaxing its stance in the night schools," said a senior official in the Education Department. "Even the sponsoring organisations seem to have adopted a relaxed attitude after the initial developing stage had been completed," added the officer. " It looks like that most of the agencies who came forward to open up night schools got carried away by the publicity bit without realising that how formidable the actual task of maintaining the schools would be," said another source. Another major concern is the quality of education imparted to the children here. "In the past three years about 100 students from night schools have joined the mainstream education, but even their basic knowledge about health, hygiene and manners was found to be lacking," complained another source. However, brushing aside views on the degrading status of night schools, Mr D.S. Mangat, DPI (Schools) said though a few of the sponsoring agencies had backed out from their responsibilities, the government had tried its best to help in their day-to-day functioning by providing teachers and other facilities. But only teaching staff or infrastructure are not enough for sustaining such children's interest for long, feel many social activists. "Just formal education is not enough to lure these street children to the classrooms," feels social activist and theatre artist Zulfikar Khan, who runs a night school for street children in Government High School, Sector 24. "If we want to attract slum children to school, we have to provide them some vocational training which matches their tastes," said Khan. His school "Ashiana Theatre Age" has introduced a cooking class and art class to make and sell paintings and greeting cards besides a theatre class which takes his students onto stage from time to time. "The basic concept of night school is not just to teach them to read and write but to prepare them to earn a respectable livelihood and become independent," he added.
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2-day workshop at Army Institute of Law Chandigarh, January 9 Mr Justice R.L. Anand of the Punjab and Haryana High Court will inaugurate the workshop, while Prof J.L. Kaul of the Faculty of Law of Delhi University, will deliver the keynote address. According to Dr G.S. Sandhu, Director-Principal of the institute, the main focus of the workshop would be on the impact of globalisation and liberalisation, advancement of science and technology and their applications on every aspect of life. The main objective of the workshop, he said, would be in identifying relevant curriculum and effective teaching methodology in legal education to inculcate professional skills. Ms Jasmeet K. Egan, coordinator of the workshop, said there would be four working sessions. The deliberations will mainly would
be on professional legal training vis-a-vis liberal legal education; training students to use scientific and technological methods in the application of law; development of problem analysis, communication and articulation skills; and role of teacher as facilitator in learning of law. The experts include Mr Justice J.S. Khehar, Mr Justice K.S. Grewal, Mr Justice A.K. Goel, Mr Justice Jasbir Singh, Maj-Gen Narendra Kumar, Prof Ranbir Singh, Prof Veer Singh, Prof Gurpal Singh, Prof Chander Pal, Dr Surat Singh, Prof K.P.S. Mehalwar, Prof S.P.Tewari, Prof Daljit Singh, Dr B.B. Prasoon, Dr Gurjit Singh, Mr Manish Arora and Prof
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NSS volunteers for Kerala Chandigarh, January 9 According to a press note, the festival, being held from January 12 to 16, is being organised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, in collaboration with the Kerala Government. The Assistant Programme Adviser of the NSS, Mr Gopal Ji and Jagir Singh from the regional office, will be accompanying the team. The volunteers will also be participating in the National Youth Convention being organised by the NSS at the same venue on January 14 and 15. The subject of discussion at the convention is “Youth Against Terrorism in India”. |
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Contempt notice to Defence Ministry Chandigarh, January 9 Gurmel Singh, enrolled in the Army way back in 1961as “sapper clerk”, was going to collect the mail from 21 Infantry Division Headquarters when he met with an accident while crossing a railway track on January 4, 1965. As a result of the injury, he was invalidated out of the Army in July 1996. Later on, rejecting Gurmel Singh’s claim, the authorities refused to take him back in service. A civil suit filed by him was dismissed on the ground of delay. First appeal in the matter also met the same fate. His case regarding the payment of disability pension was then listed before the Lok Adalat where the defence authorities “agreed to release the pension for 100 per cent disability with effect from February, 1988”. Soon after the order was pronounced, it’s copy was sent by his counsel-cum-Chairman of All India Ex-servicemen Welfare Association Bhim Sen Sehgal to the authorities “requesting them to release the benefit of the disability pension to the petitioner”. In the contempt notice, Mr Sehgal added that the needful was to be done by December 1 last year, but till date “arrears had not been paid to the petitioner by the respondents”. Even reply had not been received regarding the reasons behind the unusual delay in the implementation of the undertaking given before the Lok Adalat. Asking the respondents to implement the Lok Adalat orders at the earliest “to avoid further legal complications in the matter”, he further submitted that the orders “had become a decree and the authorities were bound to implement the same”. |
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DISTRICT COURTS Chandigarh, January 9 It is further alleged that the stolen car had remained parked at his Sector 16 residence before being moved to the rented house of Maninder, who works as a marketing executive with a private firm. The stolen car was found with a fake registration number. Sidhu case:
The case against Sidhu was registered under the Excise Act after the recovery of 14 bottles of liquor and under the Arms Act after recovery of 250 cartridges of .12-bore gun from his house in Sector 39. The accused was arrested by the Vigilance Department, Punjab, on March 26, 2002. Remanded:
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NEW RELEASE “Love is a wonderful feeling... until it happens to your daughter.” Watch this catchline in Gulshan Kumar’s movie, a production of Super Cassettes Industries Ltd., and Anubhav Sinha Productions Pvt Ltd, “Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai”. This one opens today at Jagat, Chandigarh, and Suraj, Panchkula. Delhi boy model-turned actor Priyanshu Chatterjee is upbeat about this film. This is his second film with T-Series after ‘Tum Bin’. This movie is an action-packed love story which has also bitter sweet comedy of a father who cannot accept that his daughter will get married and go away like other daughters do. Om Puri plays an over-protective father. Priyanshu plays an undercover cop who falls in love with a popular South actress Sakshi Shivanand during his mission. ‘Aapko..... has 10 songs penned down by Sameer, late Anand Bakshi, Rajan Raj, and Nitin Raikwar. Anubhav Sinha’s directorial debut was ‘Tum Bin’ which was a love story while ‘Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai’ is a combination of love and suspense. This one could do well at the box office, say film critics. The film gives Priyanshu Chatterjee an all new action image which might be a fresh relief. The director is optimistic about this film and the cinegoers are crazy over the soundtrack. The film has story by Shashank Dabral, dialogue by Aubhav Sinha, choreography by Remo, art by Acropolis, editing by Anupam Sinha and music by Nikhil-Vinay. Ratna Sinha is the Executive producer. It is produced by Bhushan Kumar and Anubhav Sinha. Manoj Pahwa, Arundhati, Navneet Nishan, Virender Saxena and Sajeel are in supporting roles. DP
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Chandigarh, January 9