EDUCATION

Overwhelming response to college contests
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, October 21
“Lakshya 2003”, an inter-college cultural competition kicked off with a colourful start at DAV College in Sector 10 here today. Competitions in fine arts, quiz and music categories saw overwhelming response from students of city-based colleges as well as colleges from Punjab and other states.

As many as 13 teams were selected for the final round of quiz contest. The team from DAV College, Chandigarh, which had three participants — Arastu Chopra, Rohan Karanbir and Shiv Anant Tayal, was declared the winners, followed by the team representing the Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University Chandigarh, on the second position.

In the musical section, DAV College, Chandigarh, won the group song contest followed by MCMDAV College, Chandigarh. In the shabad and bhajan category, the first prize went to the GCG, Sector 42, Chandigarh, followed by MCMDAV College, Chandigarh, and DAV College, Sector 10, winning the second prize.

Following are the results of various category of fine arts contests on merit — Clay Modelling: Meena, GCG, Sector 42, Suruchi, GCG, Sector 11, Kanwaldeep, GN Khalsa College, Ludhiana. Landscape: Satwinder, GGS College, Sector 26, Anamika, GCG, Sector 42, Rajbeer, GGS College, Sector 26; Poster-making — Aashima, GCM, Sector 11, Jasmeen, MCM DAV College, Sector 36, Gautam, DAV College, Sector 10.

Rangoli: Liza Bansal, GGS College, Sector 26, Narender Kaur, GCG Sector 42, Esha, DAV College, Sector 10; Cartoon making — Surchandra Singh, DAV College, Sector 10, Sumera Kamboj, MCM DAV College, Sector 36, Anshul Dhull, MCM DAV College, Sector 36; Collage making: Chetan from Government College of Arts, Sector 10, Payal, GCG, Sector 42, Pavneet, Government Home Science College, Sector 10; Still Life drawing — Satwinder Singh, Government College of Arts, Sector 10, Rakesh Kumar Government College of Arts, Sector 10, Ashpreet, GCG, Sector 42; Portrait making — Randeep from Government College of Arts, Sector 10, Jasvinder, Government College, Derabassi, Bhuvneshwar from Government College of Arts, Sector 10; and drawing from life — Parminder Singh, Government College of Arts, Sector 10, Preeta Singh, GCG, Sector 11 and Kamaldeep, GCG, Sector 42.

Conserve groundwater, Gujral urges students
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 21
The Adviser to the UT Administrator, Mr R.S. Gujral, today emphasised the need to conserve and protect the precious groundwater resource and said the administration was making all efforts to provide sufficient water to the residents of the city.

He was speaking at Water Mela organised by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) in association with the Environmental Society of the Government College for Girls, Sector 11, on the college premises here.

Mr Gujral also gave away prizes to the students of different colleges who participated in declamation, collage-making, drawing and painting, poster-making, rangoli, slogan-writing and quiz contests. These competitions were based on rainwater harvesting, artificial recharge to groundwater, water conservation and its protection. The events were inaugurated by the Director Public Instructions (Colleges), Mr Dilip Kumar. Mr Paramjit Singh, Registrar of Panjab University, Chandigarh, was also present on the occasion.

The results: Quiz: first —DAV College, Sector 10; second — MCM College, Sector 36; and third — S.D. College, Sector 32. Declamation contest: first — Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36; second — D.A.V. College, Sector 10; and third — Government College, Sector 46. Drawing & painting: first — Government College, Sector 46; second — GCG, Sector 11; third — S.D. College, Sector 32. Poster making : first — Government College, Sector 46; second — MCM College, Sector 36; and third — GCG Sector 42. Collage making: first — Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36; second — SD College, Sector 32; and third — GCG, Sector 42.

Appeal to shun crackers
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 21
Students of Anchal International School, Sector 35, here today appealed to the residents of the sector to shun crackers this Divali and, instead, donate the money meant to be spent on crackers for charity.

They painted posters which carried messages against the use of crackers as well as on noise pollution and its hazards. These posters were distributed among people.

The students will visit the School for the Deaf and Dumb to celebrate Divali tomorrow. A small cultural programme will also be presented by them to entertain the students.

Poster-making contest

Chandigarh, October 21
The Environment Club of the Government Polytechnic for Women, Sector 10, organised an anti-cracker campaign by holding a poster-making contest on “Say no to fire works”.

Nearly 200 students participated in various contests that followed the poster-making session. Students participated in rangoli, best out of waste, salad making, and flower arrangement contests. — TNS

Full court reference to mourn Tandon’s death
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 21
For mourning the death of former Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge, Justice J.M. Tandon, a full court reference was today held in the court of the Chief Justice, Mr B.K. Roy.

Justice Tandon, regarded as a jurist who believed in the independence of judiciary, died at New Delhi. Born in a reputed family on May 24, 1923, he did his graduation from Panjab University at Lahore in 1944. He passed LLB from the same university in 1947 and topped in the first batch of the Provincial Judicial Service after partition. He served as a judicial officer before being elevated as a High Court judge in 1977.

The reference was attended by the Chief Justice, the sitting and retired judges, besides Haryana’s Advocate-General Surya Kant Sharma. Bar Association president Anmol Rattan Sidhu and Chairman of the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council Mukesh Berry were also present.

3 acquitted of murder charge

Chandigarh, October 21
Three persons, including the main accused, Budh Sain, involved in a murder that took place at Shanti Nagar in Mani Majra in 1999 were today acquitted by a local court as the prosecution failed to prove the allegation levelled against them.

A case of murder had been registered against the three at police station, Mani Majra, on August 18, 1991.

As per the prosecution, the three accused — Budh Sain, Sohan Lal and Ram Murti — had murdered Chanderpal Sain by strangulating him. Later, the body of the victim was dumped in a forest allegedly by the three. OC

CULTURE

Hues of nature in her paintings
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, October 21
The geometrical patterns inspired by Le Corbusier’s dream city and the nature at Shanti Niketan have been combined together by Namita Roy, an upcoming artist from the city, to bring out a series of cityscapes both on glass and canvas, bearing the eccentricity of Corbusier and serenity of Tagore.

Namita has come up with her first solo exhibition of 24 glass paintings and 14 water colour paintings, which have captured various shades of the city in bright vibrant colours. Her bold lines, influenced by Madhubani school of painting coupled with her knack of overlapping of colours, gives an interesting appeal to her subject.

Green colour dominates Namita’s creations. Her technique of using unconventional subjects like automobile pigments in combination with water colour and crayons, gives an uneven effect, which complements her abstract theme. However one common feature that one gets to see in all her creations is the presence of the Moon. “I am obsessed with the Moon and its effect on human mind” says Namita.

Namita, who graduated in Fine Arts in Graphics from the Government College of Art, Chandigarh, and later did her Masters in the same subject from Shanti Niketan, is still very much under the influence of the subject she had studied for six years. “Studying graphics for such a long time has given me the expertise to view a painting with a more systematic angle,” says Namita.