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Fee hike flayed Ludhiana, April 20 This would further reduce literacy level in the state. It was a matter of shame that instead of ensuring basic education, the government was considering the move to open casinos in the state. They demanded that in case both decisions were implemented, the communists would organise the masses and launch an agitation.
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Lecturers
await appointment letters Ludhiana, April 20
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HAMARA
SCHOOL FOUNDED in the year 1875, the Government Multipurpose Senior Secondary School, situated on Cinema Road, is perhaps the oldest school of the city. The school also takes pride in nurturing Prof Mohan Singh, a well-known Punjabi poet, and Mr Sat Pal Gosain, former Deputy Speaker of Punjab. Many other students WHO passed out from the school are working as successful doctors, engineers and writers in various parts of Punjab and outside. Started as a primary school in 1875, the school was upgraded as a middle school in 1883, then to high school in 1932 and finally as senior secondary school in 1986. The school was selected to be chosen for the ‘‘multipurpose’’ school scheme of the Central government in the year 1958 when various streams such as humanities, science, commerce and vocational were given to it for the first time in the district. Besides, courses such as secretarial practices, automobile engineering, computer science, knitting and mechanical engineering were given to the school in a scheme of the state government in the year 1990. The school was also selected for another scheme in mid 1980s under the Central government where the school was provided two free computers and faculty for taking free computer classes. The school was being given a grant by the Government of India for providing financial aid to the physically challenged students so as to encourage them to join the school. Two years back, the school was chosen for yet another advanced computer programme involving the state government and NIIT. Unfortunately, most of these schemes initiated by the Centre and state government have come to a halt as no aid for all such activities reaches the school now. Since then, no advanced infrastructure for the courses has been given to the school and many posts of faculty for these schemes are lying vacant, leading to their closure. Vacancies have become a major problem in the school. The posts of a principal, a science master, three lecturers in history, sanskrit and Hindi, two faculty members for teaching a vocational course in secretarial practices, a laboratory attendant and a peon have not been filled for the past one year. Recently, the school availed a grant of Rs 7 lakh under which the former principal, Mr C.M. Puri, built a new block with library, four classrooms and a cycle shed. However, the school seems to be waiting for some VIP to inaugurate the new block. The school takes pride in publishing a magazine titled ‘Udesh’ in which the students and teachers contribute for its various columns in Hindi, English and Punjabi under the guidance of their editor, Mr H.K. Mayer. Mr Mayer is also an incharge of NSS under which 110 students are being sent for immunisation programmes, awareness rallies and blood donation programmes. Recently, the students of the school held a rally against the US attack on Iraq and demanded that peace be restored in the nations. In sports, the students have excelled in basket ball and throwball for which they were declared winners at the district level. The school students have recently brought laurels in various extra-curricular activities. Jatinder Kumar, a plus two student, won the first prize at the inter-school tehsil level declamation contest. Jaspreet Singh, also a plus two student, won second prize at the district level painting competition. Manpreet Singh, again from the same class, won third prize at district-level for a painting contest organised by the State Council of Education, Research and Training. The bhangra team of the school won second prize at tehsil level in a contest organised by the Punjab School Education Board. |
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‘Posts of teacher should be filled on priority basis’
Mr Singh also said that the infrastructure of the school must be improved as teachers were finding it difficult to impart knowledge to the students for many vocational courses on old machines. He said that many of them either need repair or replacement. He said that the school had a sufficient land but there was a need to improve upon the buildings of various blocks. He said that a block right on the front side had been long declared unsafe by the PWD but it was not being demolished by the department. He said that this part of the building was a danger for the school authorities which had to be vigilant at all times to check the entry of any student inside it. Mr Singh said that all measures on improvement need to be taken up quickly by the education department or else the standards of government schools would fall down further. He said that many parents were already preferring government schools over the private ones. He said that these days only the students from economically weaker sections who did not have sufficient resources to send their kids to private schools were getting their wards admitted in government schools. Raising his voice against the tuition menace, he said that a ban against the practice must be strictly enforced all over the state. He said that many teachers from government and aided schools as well as colleges were taking to private tuitions or doing part-time job in coaching centres which needs to be checked. Instead, the school teachers should work hard and listen to the problems of students carefully so that they do not feel the need to take tuitions.
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Poems by students Value of time To know the value of one year, Ask the student who has failed in the examinations To know the value of one week Ask the Editor of a weekly To know the value of one hour Ask the lovers waiting to meet To know the value of one minute Ask the person who has missed the train To know the value of one second Ask the one who has survived an accident To know the value of milli second Ask the athlete who has come second in the Olympics To know the value of mano second Ask the Hardware Engineer Yes! Time is very precious Please, don’t waste it. Neeraj Sahi of plus two (G) What is life Life is a fun It always runs Life is like a joke Which I want to speak Life is a song And I want to sing it Life is after all life And I want to live it Ramesh Kumar Verma
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Bail for 15 in
driving licence scam Ludhiana, April 20 Initially, the Vigilance Bureau had booked the clerk, Surinder Kumar, and Jatinder Kumar, who allegedly accepted Rs 500 as illegal gratification on behalf of the clerk from Vicky, for preparing Vicky’s learner’s driving licence. An F.I.R was lodged on April 10 under Sections 7,13(2) and 9 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 120-B of the IPC at Vigilance Bureau police station, Ludhiana. Later on, during investigation, the police found that there was a nexus between agents and officials of the DTO, Ludhiana. The officials charged extra fee than
the prescribed fee and prepared licences. The police arrested most of the agents.
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DEMANDING immediate filling of the posts for teacher, Mr V.P. Singh, officiating principal, said that all government schools of the district were facing a major problem. He said that many courses such as sanskrit and secretarial practices could not be taught in the school now as there were no teachers for the purpose. This ultimately results in a loss to the students, he said.