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City-specific plan must for education: Verma Chandigarh, May 26 Justice Verma said the department must work out projections for requirements of schools and teachers to cater to the growing population of the city and draw up a plan accordingly. The Administrator asked his Adviser, Mr Virendra Singh, to start simultaneous developmental works on the public land which had been freed from encroachments. If the area cleared of encroachment is not developed quickly, it will get encroached upon again, he said. The Adviser said the administration was expeditiously taking the possession of land which had already been acquired. On the education front, the Home Secretary-cum-Education Secretary, Mr Raminder Singh Gujral, informed the Administrator that presently over one lakh students were studying in 104 government schools. He said about 60,000 students were getting education in private recognised schools whereas in
unrecognised schools, there were 38,000 students. The Education Secretary informed the Administrator that 31 sites for private schools had been allotted. The Chief Architect has been asked to look for six or seven more schools sites. Justice Verma asked the Education Secretary to utilise the vacation in schools for various creative activities for students. Mr Gujral informed the Administrator that with the recruitment of over 600 teachers, which was under way, government schools would have sufficient number of teachers to meet the ratio of 1:45. Besides Mr Virendra Singh, the Finance Secretary, Mr Karan A Singh, the Chairman ,Chandigarh Housing Board, Mr G.K. Marwah, and the Deputy Commissioner, Mr M. Ramsekhar, were also present at the meeting. |
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PUSU announces
office-bearers Chandigarh, May 26 The post of the president was given to Mr Malwinder Singh Kang. The other office-bearers included; vice-president — Mr Yogesh Goyal; general secretary — Mr Deepak Bhardwaj; and press secretary — Mr Mohit Sareen. Mr Kang said that the general house had constituted an 11-
membered executive committee to handle the proceedings of the organisation. The PUSU had been facing a controversy during the past few days because the earlier chairman Yadwinder Singh announced that he had removed Mr Kang from the party. And later Mr Kang had claimed that he had removed Mr Yadwinder Singh from the party. The press conference was also addressed by Mr Rohit Sharma, a former president of the party. Mr Sharma said that Mr Yadwinder Singh was never a student of the campus and if he had any doubts of a student following, he should come out in the open and prove it. The PUSU had no written constitution. “We go by the voice of the students. This conference was just to dispel notions about any major controversy within the organisation and tell students that the actual student body was in front of them”, Mr Sharma added. Mr Kang, when asked why he was not staying on the campus, said he was just avoiding any untoward incident which could disturb the peace on the campus. He said the police would be approached to keep an eye on the movement of the outsiders inside the campus. |
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PU plan on
placement Chandigarh, May 26 The press conference was preceded by a meeting of the placement cell members from the 13 colleges offering M.Sc (Information Technology) for whom the cell is basically intended. The meeting was attended by Prof R.K.Singla, Prof C.M. Bahl, Principal A.C. Vaid, Mr Rajinder Bhandari, Principal P.S. Sangha and Principal Harmeet Kaur. The orientation programmes will be organised at GGDSD College in the city from June 14 to June 18 and at Khalsa College for Women, Ludhiana, from June 17 to June 21. Professor Kapoor said the aim of the workshops was to organise at least 20 sessions on personality development, reasoning and select areas in computer science. The placement cell has drawn up a list of more than 250 companies mainly in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, besides other places, to look for the placement avenues for students. The placement cell will make teams of students and their guides to work on the placement aspect. The cell has prepared a brochure that will carry the bio-data of all 214 M.Sc (IT) students in the colleges and pass it on to the potential sources of job in the industry. The bio-data will be compiled in the alphabetical order. |
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DAV students shine in Class X exams Chandigarh, May 26 Eightyfour students, of the 86 who took the examination, secured more than 61.4 per cent marks (first division). As many as 21 students secured 90 per cent marks while Piyush Goswami was placed third in the city scoring 96.4 per cent marks. According to the Principal, Mrs Sarita Manuja, every fourth child in the school secured above 90 per cent marks. Talking to mediapersons, Mrs Manuja said special emphasis was laid on bright students, which included special and super-special classes to help them prepare for the examinations. In this endeavour, the school received full support and cooperation from the parents of the students. Piyush Goswami said he planned to join the IIT to become an electronics engineer. The Principal said the school would start Class XI from the current academic year. Another branch of the school would be established in Sector 39 from the next academic year. |
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Students
hold exhibitions Chandigarh, May 26 Items like frocks, night suits, T-shirts, kurtas, scarves, embroidered and painted linen, mittens, aprons, cards, pots, paintings and gift items are on display. Unlike past years, each school is holding separate exhibitions for five days till May 30. The participating schools are Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, GGSSS, Sector 20, GGSSS, Sector 23, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 21, GMSSS, Sector32, GMSSS, Sector 40, GMSSS, Sector 47 and GSSS, Mani Majra. After completing their two year course, students are required to undergo an-on-the-job training for 45 days in the school laboratories, where they are given training to produce various types of garments on a large scale. The students are involved in every step, right from purchase of raw material, designing, producing and packaging the product. The striking feature of this year’s exhibitions is that if any item is sold out, visitors can place orders for it and it would be produced by the students in the school workshop. |
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Tour packages for vacation Chandigarh, May 26 Addressing a press conference here today, Mr Malhotra said,‘‘ Unlike the practice of offering discounts for particular hotels and destinations, we are offering tailor-made tour packages to north Indian customers for 39 domestic and two international destinations. These include
Mussoorie, Nanital, Manali, Shimla, Rishikesh, Jaipur, Agra, Nepal, Goa, Mumbai, Bangalore and
Lakshdeep. They can also choose a package for tourist destinations like Udaipur, Mount Abu, Sri Lanka and Switzerland. He said the cost of package tour would depend upon the duration of the tour destinations chosen number of persons and facilities asked for. For instance, he said, a couple could stay at Manali Resorts by paying Rs 11,999 for three nights and four days. The package would also include buffet breakfast and dinner and allow 20 per cent discount on other items. A couple could also stay for two nights and three days at Taj View Hotel in Agra by paying Rs 4050. The Ekido group was also offering, he said, tour packages for Kathmandu by paying Rs 11,900 for a stay at Hotel Yak and Yeti for three nights and four days, besides airfare, breakfast, dinner and two half days of sightseeing. |
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Orientation
courses for teachers Chandigarh, May 26 According to a statement issued here today, teaching aids such as charts, flash cards and collages were prepared by social studies teachers for classes IV and V, which would make the teaching work much more effective and interesting. The orientation course for commerce teachers of Classes XI and XII helped them clear many concepts, particularly in computer applications. |
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SCHOOL WORLD
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With arable land accounting for just one per cent of its territory, Bahamas' chief agricultural products are citrus fruits and vegetables. Tourism is the major industry, accounting for 60 per cent of its GDP, International banking and investment management, rum producing, cement, fisheries and pharmaceuticals are other noticeable industries. With a gross national income of about 4.5 billion dollars, Bahamas has trade relations with the United States, Italy, Japan, France, Sweden, Singapore and the United Kingdom. It exports lobster, fish, pharmaceuticals, cement and rum, while it imports crude oil, foodstuffs and manufactured goods.
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, May 26 The petitioner had added that he had no connection with Jalandhar's suspended District and Sessions Judge R.M. Gupta. Giving details, Bhardwaj had submitted that he had never worked as his subordinate. Details of case sought: The High Court sought details of the cases involving Bharatiya Kisan Union president Ghasi Ram Nain. Taking up his petition for the grant of bail in a case registered at a police station in Ambala district, Ms Justice Kiran Anand Lall also fixed May 29 as the next date of hearing.He was earlier booked by the police under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code, besides Prevention of Damage of Public Property Act. Claiming to be innocent, Nain's counsel had earlier contended that he was being implicated in the case. |
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Flesh trade racket: 3 girls get bail Chandigarh, May 26 A crowd had gathered outside the court and the courtroom was jam-packet when the three girls and pimp-cum-driver Anil Sharma were produced before the CJM. Meanwhile, acting on the bail application moved by Anil Sharma, the UT Chief Judicial Magistrate has issued a notice to the state to file reply in the case by May 28. Three girls were arrested by the police after Anil Sharma accepted Rs 10,000 from a decoy customer near a Sector 9 discotheque, Aerrizzona, on May 24. The girls were part of a group of around 20 who were being supplied to customers in different cities in the North. The arrested girls were using a Maruti Wagon R and were possessing mobile phones. They were in regular touch with their leader, whom they addressed as “auntie”. According the police sources, the racket was being operated from Delhi by a Delhi-based woman, Kiran, under the banner of a dance troupe. |
‘Lakeeran’ set to leave a mark Chandigarh, May 26 In the city recently for formal announcement of the launch of the film production, director of the film Sangram talked at length about the concept behind “Lakeeran”, which is essentially an emotional drama, with a special reference to Indo-Pak relations. “We are heading for a wonderful production in the shape of ‘Lakeeran’. Given the fact that people received ‘Jee aayan nu’ so well, we feel under pressure to do better, so as to live up to the expectations of people. It is with the purpose of infusing our film with quality that we have tied up with the best people in the field of music and screenplay,” said Sangram. Sixty per cent of the film will be shot in England. Music for “Lakeeran” will be composed by famous music director Uttam Singh. Script and dialogues are being written by the stalwart of Punjabi cinema, Vijay Tandon. Many other seasoned professionals have been roped in like Bharat Bhushan Verma, on whose story the whole film is based. With a course in film direction from the UK to his credit, Sangram is currently busy signing up some big names for his film. He has approached Amrish Puri for a key role in the film. He said: “Whereas rest of the cast will be local (from Chandigarh), the lead pair will from Mumbai.” |
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‘Springing
pearls’ for children Chandigarh, May 26 The announcement in this regard was made at a special function at Punjab Kala Bhavan on Saturday morning. With emphasis on creative dance and theatre, the workshop will also have assorted sessions like in music, art, craft, including colour concepts, collage-making and make-up tips. The highlight of the workshop will be active interaction of the participants with actor Mangal Dhillon and Jaspal Bhatti, who is the president of the Punjab Sangeet Natak Akademi. The organisers have also roped in Prem Puneeta, a famous city-based dancer, for holding sessions in dance with children. The three-week-long workshop will conclude with a performance by participants on the concluding day. In
dance, the participants would get a chance to familiarise themselves
with various facets of general rhythmic body movements in
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Poet Manav
honoured Chandigarh, May 26 Professor Manav, born at Nabha, Patiala
district, is at present the Head of Hindi Department, Government College, SAS Nagar. His 28 original, translated and edited books have been published by the Bhartiya Jananpeeth, the National Book Trust of India, the Sahitya Akademi and other leading publishers. In 1998, he had presented a travelogue ‘Mohali se Malbourne’ with illustrations in Australia. ‘Ek Hi Jagah’, ‘Ek Geet Mausam’, ‘Anzeer’ and ‘Kathanagar’ are some of Professor Manav’s books in Hindi and Punjabi. |
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Literacy rate is stated to be 98 per cent, with the majority of the population being baptists, followed by Anglicans and Roman Catholics. The average annual growth rate of the population is 1.2 per cent.
