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Dairy farmer paves way to success Ludhiana, June 19 The university had held a competition for the dairy farmers of Punjab and Mr Sarabjit Singh of Sardar Dairy Farm won prize for the best Nilli Ravi buffalo. Talking about his success, he said he had started his business with just five buffaloes almost 20 years back but now he was the proud owner of as many as 450 cattle and selling 24 quintals of milk daily in the city. Mr Sarabjit Singh said till the time he was in his Tihara village in Jagraon tehsil, he did not incur much profits as the procurement price of milk was not high. But his business took a new turn when he shifted to the city and opened his dairy farm in the Haibowal complex. The dairy farmer said even though he took some initial training from the PAU, it was with experience that he learned more. “The all-India livestock shows, which I used to attend, gave me lots of exposure on taking care of animals, maintaining hygiene in the shed and breeding them to produce high yield of milk,” he said. “My first major achievement came in February, 2000, when my animals, Neelu and Noorjahan, were declared the best in the national livestock show during a Krishi Expo-2000 held at Pargati Maidan in New Delhi. The dairy farmer said, “I am an illiterate farmer who started playing with the animals in childhood but had never even dreamt that these animals would bring him laurels and access to the bigwigs of the country. Recently, I have sold my 40 animals, including Indian breeds of cows such as Sahiwal and Rathi, to the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animals Sciences University”. Besides, he has also bagged 17 awards in the North Regional Livestock and Poultry Show organised at Palampur. In a national-level show held in Jaipur, he won five prizes. |
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Science seminars in schools Ludhiana, June 19 Giving this information, Mr Varinder Kumar Sharma, District Science Supervisor, said students from all schools, government or private, were eligible for the contest. He said seven contests would be held at tehsil levels and then the top two winners of in these contests would compete in the final district-level seminar. As per the schedule, the first tehsil-level competition will be held for the students of Raikot at Dr Dwarkanath High School, Raikot, on July 14. On July 16, Jagraon students will compete for the contest at Sanmati Vimal Jain Senior Secondary School. Contest for the students of Khanna sub-division will be held on July 18 at Acharya Atma Ram Jain Senior Secondary School, Khanna. Khalsa Girls High School, Doraha, will host the contest for the students of Payal on July 21. For the students of Samrala, contest will be held at Government Senior Secondary School for Boys on July 23. Contest for the Ludhiana East students will be held on July 25 at Ramgarhia Senior Secondary School for Boys, Millerganj, and Singh Sabha School, Model Town, will host the contest for Ludhiana West students. The district-level contest will be held at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Punjab Agricultural University, on July 30. Mr Sharma said the students would have to speak on the topic for six minutes in any of the three languages, English, Punjabi or Hindi. He said out of the total 100 marks, 40 marks would be for content, 25 for methodology of speaking, 10 for written test to be held on the topic prior to the seminar, 10 for the question-answer round held after the speech and 15 on the visuals and illustrations produced by the student during the seminar. Meanwhile, Mr Sharma also urged the students to take part in the second Diamond Jubilee Invention Award for Schoolchildren to be organised by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. He said the students below the age of 18 years could send their models, charts or unpublished papers on some innovative research or invention done by them independently but endorsed by the school heads. Mr Sharma said the prize money for the winners was very attractive as the first prize winning student could get an amount of Rs 50,000 and second prize winner could avail Rs 30,000. An amount of Rs 20,000 would be given to the third student and Rs 10,000 to the fourth one. Besides, the students would also get a chance to go to Japan for the international exhibition of the inventions to be held on August 27 to 30, he said. |
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Mayank
tops DCE entrance test Ludhiana, June 19 Mohit Gogia from DAV Public School has stood sixth and Saurabh Taneja from BCM has obtained 79th rank at the national level. The boys have already obtained good ranks in the AIEEE examination conducted by the CBSE, PTU-CET and entrance test to Panjab University. The boys had even cleared the IIT screening test and are now waiting for the results of the main examination. An elated Mayank said that his main aim was to take up electronics engineering. He said that he was now desperately waiting for its result. Mayank had stood 13th in Punjab in the AIEEE examination and 20th at the national level in the All-India Reliance (AIR) test. Standing sixth in the DEC examination, Mohit had secured the top position in Punjab in the AIEEE examination. He had got the 19th rank in the AIR test at the national level. Saurabh Taneja had got 10th position in the state and 77th at the national level in the AIEEE examination. Meanwhile, Ms Paramjit Kaur, Principal of BCM School, congratulated Mayank on his success. |
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NCC
cadets visit PAU, industries Ludhiana, June 19 Addressing the cadets in Pal Auditorium, Dr Aulakh informed that it was compulsory for every student of PAU to chose between NCC, NSS and NSO. Dr Aulakh said the NCC inculcate duty, discipline, honesty and dedication in students. He said no organisation could progress without discipline. Freedom without discipline creates chaos. He also praised Koom Kalan MLA Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal for his involvement with the youth and his efforts in making the first-ever camp in Punjab a success. He expressed his concerns over population explosion in India. He said our country was facing two major problems — population explosion and lack of quality education — which were jointly fuelling corruption. He inspired the young cadets to get united in fight against corruption. In later part of the day, the cadets, accompanied by Mr Atwal, visited top industrial houses of Ludhiana like Hero Honda, Avon, Ralson, Coca -Cola, CTR, Safrai Industries, Arora Fabrics etc. The cadets from the north-east region were impressed with the industrial development of this region. Earlier in the morning, the cadets were taken to the war memorial and a brief lecture on Punjab’s contribution to Indian defence services was given to them.
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Scholarships
for engineering students Ludhiana, June 19 An announcement in this regard was made by Mr Kanwaljeet Singh Bajwa, general secretary, at a press conference held here last evening. He said scholarship of Rs 500 per month would be given to a student from each of the four batches of B.Tech. He said needy student, who held meritorious position and attended classes regularly, would be selected. Mr Bajwa said this year one student from the final year would be selected for the scholarship, and a new batch would be added every year so that by 2006-2007, four scholarships were given to students from all four years. A gold medal would also be given each year to an all-rounder of the final year, said the general secretary. Mr Shiv Singh, president of the foundation, Mr Justice S. Kang, chief patron, Mr Arjan Singh Litt, former MLA and Mr Jagdev Singh Jassowal, both members, were present at the conference. |
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Exam
schedule changed Ludhiana, June 19 He said the schedule had been altered as the first Tuesday would fall on July 1 and the exam, which would be the first working day after a gap of 45 days’ summer vacation. He said the question papers would be distributed at Government Senior Secondary School for Girls, Bharat Nagar, on July 3 and 4. |
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Sewerage scam: 13 denied bail Ludhiana, June 19 Mr Baldev Singh, Sessions Judge said, ‘’ The offences are of serious nature involving bungling of public money worth crores. The custodial interrogation of the accused is essential to ferret out the truth.’’ Those denied pre-arrest bail
include, Sudesh Kumar Verma, Superintending Engineer, Amarjit Singh Oberoi, XEN, Avinash Kumar Verma and Jagjiwan Lal, SDOs, Surjit Singh, JE, Gurtej Singh, and Inderjit Singh, A.S.Kaushal, Tarlochan Singh Bharaj of Hoshiarpur, Tarlochan Singh of Ludhiana, Gurvinder Singh, Jagroop Singh and Vinod Kumar, all contractors. According to prosecution, the Board officials in connivance with the contractors had
caused a loss of Rs 4.5 crore approximately by way of excess payments out of Rs 14 crore paid till date, on the basis of bogus and incorrect record
entries. The Vigilance Bureau has arrested nine officials of the Board in connection with this scam. The District Attorney- Mr A.A. Pathak, opposed the bail applications. He claimed that to facilitate the bungling important records like measurement books, site register, purchase and payment records, dak receipt and despatch register were intentionally kept blank for subsequent manipulations. Even the quality control wing of the sewerage board never bothered to conduct any site inspection of the ongoing works. He stressed that the custodial interrogation of the accused was needed to unearth the truth.
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From fields to poetry HAILING from the rural Malwa, Kulwant Singh cultivated a different crop. Mirza Ghalib though an established poet by then, lamented: “For hundred generations, my ancestors held swords as soldiers’ poetry, alas, looks devoid of dignity to me.” Kulwant Singh Gill’s forefathers yoked bulls, ploughed fields and cultivated crops. As person, he watched others to think in a different manner . This feeling led him to seek of new cultivations. Gradually, he understood importance of education. As a student he was a keen listener in the classroom. A critical watcher of life of dwellings, he was fascinated by the charms of countryside, seasons and weathers, fields and crops, birds and trees. Strong physique, robust and keen intellect made Kulwant Singh’s personality an integrated one. He mixed with others but remained an individual himself. He socialised carefully and imaginatively. He heard the subtle call for progress and perfection. He cultivated the individual in him. He was a serious college student; responsible, not a bookworm. The muse had arrived. Study of literature made him responsive to the written word. The muse registered its arrival. Kulwant Singh Gill did M.A. (English), took college-teaching as profession and joined Government College, Ludhiana. The academic atmosphere of the college, especially of the literacy faculty and wider fraternity, opened new vistas. K S Gill was bitten by a strong bug of knowledge leading to mysticism. Classroom was his duty. Library was his curiosity. He did search with passion, chose his field of research with devotion. He undertook critical studies with alduous. Huxley as his focus. From Panjab University he got doctorate in 1976, his subject “The element of agnosticism in the novels of Alduous Huxley.” This son of Ludhiana was examined as scholar by Prof Jaffares, Leeds University, U.K. and Prof Geoffrey D. Aggeler, University of Utah, USA. He taught postgraduate classes for 28 years. He joined Panjab Agricultural University, became professor and later the head of the department. Dr Kulwant Singh Gill has written poetry in English. He is one of the widely published and read Indo-English poets in India and abroad. Writers’ Workshop, Calcutta, published his anthologies: Scattered Beads (1989), Beyond Spectrum (1990) and the Passionate Pilgrim (1994). It won him appreciation. Dr Gill wrote epical poem entitled “ Thus Spake Punjab “(1999)” Saint Soldier Supreme Guru Gobind Singh” (2000). These books were publications of SGPC, Amritsar. K.S. Gill translated in English biography of Sant Attar Singh and autobiography of Sant Teja Singh as a master-linguist. Dr Gill has been recognised, honoured and awarded. He has publications in the fields of criticism and interpretation numbering a dozen. He has been actively associated with literary, academic, research and cultural bodies and fora. The World Academy of Arts and Culture USA, awarded him Litt. (honoris causa). He won Poesie India Award (Orissa) in 1994 besides Michael Madhusudan Award, M.M. Academy, Calcutta (1996). Belonging to Ghalib village (Ludhiana), he is proud of his ancestry ploughmen. Needless to add, ploughmen are beholder to the man of book and pen. He has no reason to lament as Mirza Ghalib did. M. S. CHEEMA
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