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panipat The college is built on the Gram Panchayat land, of which eight-acre land is being utilised for the college area and the rest about 28-acre agriculture land is being given on yearly lease by the District Development & Panchayat Officer (DDPO) at the rate of Rs 1,91,500 as against the last year’s recovery of only Rs 60,000. It is alleged by the farmers of the area that last year, around 28 acres of land was given on lease to two persons of the ruling party on a petty sum of Rs 60,000 even though other parties at the same time offered Rs 1,50,000. How the party which offered less amount was given the lease in preference to that who offered two and a half time more as a bid, they added. In 1989-90, when the present MLA and Speaker Haryana Vidhan Sabha, Satbir Singh Kadian was elected from the Naultha Assembly constituency, the inauguration of the college was done by the Deputy Prime Minister, Ch. Devi Lal on January 9, 1991. The samiti acquired the land and the construction work started but stopped after a while. A three-member committee was formed with Khushi Ram Jaglan as vice-president, Capt. Chander Singh Kundu Sarpanch, Bijawa village and Charan Singh of Aher village, presently working as personal assistant at Panipat to the Speaker, were the members with Deputy Commissioner Panipat, Mr Vijay Kumar as president of the samiti. An amount of Rs 5,40,000 was withdrawn from the Cooperative Bank Israna and presented to the Deputy Prime Minister, Ch. Devi Lal, at the time of the inauguration of the college and the Deputy Prime Minister assured to return its double in the shape of matching grant to be utilised for the construction work of the college. However, a sum of Rs10 lakh was received during the regime of Ch. Bansi Lal when Bijender Singh Kadian was elected MLA from the Naultha constituency defeating the present MLA and Speaker of Haryana, who took pains to establish the college. Praising the ex-MLA, Bijender Singh Kadian, All India Jaglaan Khaap leader and ex-sarpanch village Naultha, Capt. Karam Singh told this correspondent that Bijender Kadian did a good job. Besides college, he started a Navodaya school in the area, but due to the lack of building space and lack of interest of the present INLD government, admissions in this school have been stopped. He criticised the present MLA of the same constituency for his lack of interest in the college. The previous MLA of Naultha constituency, Bijender Singh Kadian also told the ‘NCR Tribune’ that the present MLA did not account for the matching grant to the tune of Rs 16,80,000 received from the state government and the work on the college building is at a standstill due to the lack of funds. When this correspondent visited the Government College of Israna, the scene was quite different. Infighting among the teaching staff caused concern. That was on of the reasons that with 24 rooms, hardly 500 students are on roll. A teacher when asked about the water facilities said that a tubewell was installed previously but due to water scarcity, it did not work. In a nutshell, a lot of work is to be done as the college with two lines of 12 rooms each, is full of bees humming around the whole area, a lecturer alleged. Moreover, some of the old people of the village and ex-MLA Naultha alleged that none knows what happened to around Rs16.80 lakh matching grant which was to be received by the three-member committee and which was promised in September, 1999 by Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in a ‘Sarkar Aapke Dwar’ programme held in Israna when a sum of Rs 8,40,000 was presented to him and he assured to return double the amount. With the result, the Government College of Israna needs the attention of the higher authorities for its survival. |
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CAMPUS In a colloquium on ‘Gender Justice at the Workplace’, President and CEO of Equal Employment Opportunity Consultants, INC., the USA, Ms Cindy Mattson, expressed concern over the increase in the number of violence and harassment cases against women. Speaking at the colloquium, organised at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in association with Embassy of the United States of America, Ms Mattson highlighted two kinds of sexual harassment suffered by working women, Quid Pro Quo, gratification for some gain and hostile work environment, which impairs job performance. Highlighting the need for prevention of such harassment, she stressed that the burden of proof should lie on employer. She added that the employer must prove that disciplinary action up to the time of termination orders, media’s role in exposing the perpetrator and sensitising people, prevention becomes management’s responsibility. Addressing issues of gender discrimination, like unequal pay or benefits and refusing to hire or promote females, Ms Mattson laid emphasis on the need for formulating and implementing proper policies and laws to safeguard women’s rights. She pointed out that there is a ‘Redressal Forum’ and ‘Equal employment Opportunity Commission’ in the USA, where victims can complain. Ms Mattson noted that in India while policies more often than not are not implemented, many cases go unreported because of the stigma attached. Ms Mattson also suggested the setting up of complaint committees at workplace and establishing grassroot organisations in rural areas. The Vice-Chancellor, GGSIPU, Prof K. K. Aggarwal, pointed out that an organisation should have a well-publicised policy against sexual harassment, so that a victim can take advantage of the policy.
Student’s Council Day
Mata Sundari College for Women organised its Student’s Council Day. The programme included speeches by the Principal, the President of the college and cultural events including dances and skits. Mr Harbhajan Singh Matharoo, general secretary, DSGMC, was the guest of honour, chairman of the governing body, Mr Swadesh Bahadur Singh, presided over the function. The college Principal, Dr Satnam Kaur, thanked the Chairman for prevailing on the MCD officials to squash the proposal of shifting the Chor Bazaar next to the college premises. The chief guest handed over the badges to the college president, Deepti Verma, secretary, Payal Kanodia and joint secretary, Richa Kapoor.
Fresh perspectives Delphique, Management Development Institute’s (MDI) National Management Convention, is organising a two-day event titled, “Triggering Fresh Perspectives’, a forum for the best in the industry to interact with the students of MDI. The event scheduled to be held on November 21 and 22 will comprise panel discussions on different issues. Each of the panel discussion will be preceded by a thorough background research by the students of MDI. The aim is to trigger fresh perspectives and raise a few thought-provoking questions for business leaders. There will be six panel discussions spanning the functional areas of strategy, finance, human resources, information technology, supply chain management and branding. The inaugural day will have discussions on ‘From Best Practices to Next Practices’, ‘India Employees: What drives them to Success’ and ‘Building Competitive Brands in Rural India’. On the concluding day, the focus will be on, ‘Indian IT Companies: Time to Reinvent’, ‘The Indian Rupee: A Window of Appreciation’ and ‘Leagile Strategies: Supply Chain Mantra for Competitiveness’. While the theme is ‘Competitiveness’, Delphique’03 will include events like paper writing and post event compendium. As a part of Delphique 2003, an inter B-school paper writing competition is being organised pre-event. There will also be a post event compendium that will be published, which will contain apart from a synapse of the panels and the research work done, the winners of the paper writing competition under each category. Convention speakers include big names like, Aditya Narayan, Chairman, ICI India Ltd. Chandan Mitra, MD and Editor-in-chief, The Pioneer, Niru Mehta, Vice-Chairman Tata Telecom Ltd and Rajan Swarup, CEO, Escotel Mobile Communications Ltd. among others.
Military training
Sixty-four student of Amity Institute of Information Technology took part in the eight-day military training programme, nicknamed, ‘Operation Greenhorn’ at the Amity Education Valley, Manesar. The programme is a “mission” to harness the latent talent of the youth. The camp entailed a vigorous training that started with the rising of the sun and went on till late in the night. Student were trained in P.T., drills, parade, rock-climbing, weapon training, rifle firing, and were also briefed about the military history.
Courses in CBR Rehabilitation Council of India in association with Bangalore University has announced the introduction of distance education courses in community-based rehabilitation (CBR) by the end of this year. The two new programmes are PGD in community-based rehabilitation and diploma in community-based rehabilitation. The duration of these courses is one year each and they are aimed at developing well-trained middle level and grassroot level professionals for CBR. The PGD programme aims at training professionals in health, education, development and social work sectors. Graduates in any discipline are eligible for the programme. The diploma programme imparts skills to meet the rehabilitation needs of those with mental, visual, aural, locomotor or neurological disabilities.
IME convocation The Minister of State for Planning and Economic Affairs, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Mr D. P. Mishra, advised students to set high goals and achieve them as well. He was speaking at the sixth convocation function, organised by the Institute of Management Education, Ghaziabad. Vice-Chancellor of the CCS University, Meerut, presided over the function while Nishikant Thakur, Resident Editor, Dainik Jagran, was the special guest. Cash award of Rs 11,000 each was presented to Pridrashini and Divya Bajpai for standing first in the MCA examinations, conducted by the UP Technical University, Lucknow. Chitra Mudgal and Ruchi Goyal, who ranked sixth and seventh in the merit list, were also given a cash purse of Rs 5,000 each.
Special courier TNT India has announced the TNT Scholars Pak, a specialised service, which delivers students applications and other correspondence to the universities abroad. The service claims to save time and rid students of worry, as they deliver their mail through “reliable and fast” modes. It also claims that TNT has developed a database of universities and will deliver the applications directly to the universities instead of a post box number apart form just timely and assured delivery. |
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Panipat, November 19
