Students sharpen skills at summer workshop
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
Sacred Heart Convent School, Sarabha Nagar, is alive and bustling with activity as students have enroled themselves in a workshops organised by Kala Sadhana beginning May 24. The chief desire of all is to germinate love of art and cultural activities among the students. The basic reason of Kala Sadhana’s existence is to focus the consciousness of people towards their latent aesthetic and cultural talents.

Eminent artists of national fame have come to conduct these workshops. For calligraphy , Anis Siddiqui, Ashwani Kumar for fine arts, Shyama Prasad for pottery, Harinder Chadda for crafts, Navin Talwar for photograph, Kamaleet for play and colours and Gursharan Singh for bhangra.

All classrooms were busy with the activity classes. Shyama Prasad from Delhi who is a President Award Winner for the best craft person, mesmerised the students with his skill on potter’s wheel.

Calligraphy too attracted lot of students were asked to draw lines in different direction on the first day.

Students showed enthusiasm in learning the techniques of fine arts from Ashwani Kumar, who is Managing Director of the Delhi College of Art .

Deeply engrossed students, learning the techniques of photography from Mr Naveen Talwar, were all ears to his instructor on all aspects of photography. Mr Naveen Talwar is also president of SPIC MACAY, Ludhiana.

According to the coordinator of the workshop, Ms Sangita Khushwaha, these are meant for promotion of art and craft where the students will have the privilege of learning directly from the eminent artists. At the end of these workshops, an exhibition of the works of students will also be organised.

Training programme for women entrepreneurs
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 26
The Small Industries Service Institute, (SISI) Ludhiana, has started a month-long entrepreneurship development programme on hosiery and readymade garment industry for women entrepreneurs. Thirtyfive woman entrepreneurs paticipated in the programme.

According to Mr SS Bedi, Assistant Director of the institute, during the programme candidates will be provided information on entrepreneurial management techniques, scope of the readymade garment industry, colour combination and dress designing. production planning and management, working capital requirements and its management.

In addition to this, the representatives of various departments will deliver their talks on the facilities available for new entrepreneurs. Factory visits and market surveys will also be conducted during the programme.

Mrs S.P. Sidhu, Professor and Head Department of Textile and Clothing, College of Home Science, PAU, Ludhiana, today inaugurated the programme. She observed that women entrepreneurs could set up their readymade garments manufacturing units, as there was a good scope of this type of industry. In her inaugural address, she stressed that women should come forward to earn and supplement their family income. She also informed that the self-employment was the best opportunity for women.

Mr Kanwaljit Singh, Deputy Director (Mech ) of the institute, informed about the activities and role of this institute for the development of small scale sector in Punjab and Chandigarh. In his welcome address, he stressed the need for organising such programmes in the present changing industrial scenario. The programme would continue till June 24.

TVS Scooty quiz results declared
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
As part of its road safety awareness programme, TVS Scooty organised a series of intra-school quiz competition, the results of which were declared here yesterday. The contest was held in 11 schools of the city where students of Classes IX to XII were told to attempt a written paper comprising 50 multiple choice questions. The students thus selected would participate in the inter-school quiz to be held at district level. The best two teams of each of the four classes would be selected for a state-level quiz competition.

The results of the school level contest are: From DAV Public School; Gurkamal Preet and Manish Kumar of Class IX, Ankit Vats and Saurav Bajaj of Class X, Rajat and Sucheta Puri of Class XI, and Tushar and Jasmeet Kaur of Class XII. From Government Girls Senior Secondary School; Madubala and Shivani from Class IX, Neelam Rani and Monika Rani from Class X, Kafia and Kusum from Class XII.

From CFC Public School; Jai Bharat and Neha from Class IX, Karan Sood and Sonia from Class X, Shivangi Bhatia and Sunny Kaushal from Class XI and Preet Ajit Singh and Rashpreet Singh from Class XII. From Shri S.R. Memorial Senior Secondary School; Amit Gupta and Neetu Bala from Class IX, Sweety Verma and Masim Ali from Class X, Girjesh Kumar and Durga Gupta from Class XII.

From SAN Jain Model Senior Secondary School; Prateek Jain and Aunish Jain from Class IX, Ishani Kalra and Ankeet Sharma from Class X, and Rashmi Sharma and Sneha Jain from Class XII. From Jiwan Model Senior Secondary School, Sakhsi Bharti and Akhilesh Agarwal from Class IX, Gagan Sharma and Aarti Sehgal from Class X.

From Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Public Senior Secondary School; Anita Rani and Simranjeet Singh of Class IX, Rohit Sharma and Renu Bala of Class X, Shweta Mittal and Pooja Arora of Class XI and Sunita Rani and Jaspreet Kaur of Class XII. From Ramgarhia Girls’ Senior Secondary School; Inderjeet Kaur and Navjot Kaur of Class IX, Satwinder Kaur and Divya Dhaliwal of Class X, Manpreet Kaur and Sonia of Class XI, and Sukhjeet Kaur and Parminder Kaur of Class XII.

From Sargodha Khalsa Senior Secondary School; Rajinder Kaur and Gurdeep Kaur from Class IX, Sonia Batra and Harpreet Kaur from Class X, Arshim Kaur and Sarabjeet kaur from Class XI, and Navneet Kaur and Gurbir Kaur of Class XII. From Ramgarhia Co-Educational High School; Sargundeep Singh and Neha Malhotra of Class IX, Satnam Singh and Jaswinder Kaur of Class X, Ritu Rani and Karamjit Kaur from Class XII.

From Jiwan Model Senior Secondary School; Pooja and Deepika of Class IX, Babita Chaudhary and Rahul Kantia of Class X, Manpreet Kaur and Inderjeet Singh of Class XI and Baljit Kaur and Anup Rajput of Class XII.

School honours toppers
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
Students of Sacred Heart Convent School, Urban Estate, who had attained top positions in Class X examination conducted by the Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE) were honoured at a function held here today.

Sahil Bansal topped with 89.2 per cent while Shubangi Gupta and Vineet Kaur bagged II and III position respectively. Davneet Singh and Sahil Bansal scored 95 per cent each in Punjabi and 92 per cent each in computer science while Shubangi Gupta scored 94 per cent in science, 90 per cent in social studies and 88 per cent in Hindi. Sahil Bansal topped in maths with 95 per cent and Vineet Kaur in English with 86 per cent.

This was the first batch of 33 students in the only ICSE affiliated school of the city. The students had seven distinctions and 26 first divisions in Class Tenth examination conducted this year. The Director, Dr Hormise N. Raj and Principal, Sister Rita, distributed prizes to all toppers.

Students seek re-examination
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
Students who appeared in the MA/MSc second year examinations in differential geometry on April 20 were in a dilemma as they did not know whether the university would conduct a re-examination or award grace marks.

The affected students and their parents said the university was granting 15 grace marks, which would lower the percentage of students.

The students said the paper was beyond the course level of MSc students.

There was only one book prescribed in the syllabus issued by Punjab University and most questions were not from that book.

Most retired mathematics experts of colleges and universities had declared the paper to be beyond the MSc level. The students and their parents demanded that a re-examination be conducted at the earliest.

Errors in question paper
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
The All-India Engineering Entrance Examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education on May 21 at Kundan Vidya Mandir here caused a lot of anguish to the students. In question 41, the students were told to find the number of squares in the figure given when the figure had only triangles. In question 42, the students had to find the number of triangles when the figure had only squares.

The paper-setter had erred and interchanged the instructions of questions 41 and 42. This caused the students a loss of six marks each.
Discrepancies in a question paper of the All-India Engineering Entrance Examination conducted on May 21. — A Tribune photograph

Forum directs airways to refund ticket amount
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited, New Delhi, to refund the amount of Rs 46,526 charged for purchasing a ticket. The return air ticket was issued by the airways, but the consumer was not allowed to board the plane.

The orders were pronounced by the forum while deciding the complaint filed by Ms Sunita Dhanda of Sarabha Nagar. The forum directed the company to comply with the orders within one month from the receipt of the copy of the order. The forum allowed the airways to deduct the amount, if any, as per rules and regulations.

The complainant had submitted that she had approached Ajanta Airlines Service near the local bus stand for the purchase of a return air ticket from New Delhi to London. Her passport and visa for the United Kingdom from May 6, 2001, to December 6, 2001, was retained for the purpose of purchasing the air ticket.

On December 3, Ajanta Airlines Service provided her the air ticket and charged Rs 46,526 as the cost of the ticket. As per the ticket issued, the departure time of the plane from New Delhi to London was 2 pm on December 6. She reported at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, before the scheduled time and a boarding pass was issued by the airport authorities after checking the luggage.

Officials of Virgin Atlantic Airways did not allow her to board the plane on the ground that her visa was to expire on December 6 at 12 midnight. The fact regarding the expiry of visa was in the knowledge of the opposite parties at the time of issuing the ticket because the ticket was issued after the perusal of passport and visa, added the complainant.

The complainant had alleged that the act amounted to deficiency in services, which caused mental torture and harassment to her. She had demanded the refund of the amount charged for the ticket and Rs 2 lakh as compensation.

Upon issuance of notice by the forum, Virgin Atlantic Airways had not contested the case and it was proceeded ex-parte. Denying deficiency in services, Ajanta Airlines Service had admitted the facts regarding the issuance of ticket. After perusing the material placed on record, the forum found that there was no fault of Ajanta Airlines Service as it had purchased and delivered the ticket to the consumer. The forum observed that there was deficiency in services on the part of Virgin Atlantic Airways, which had issued the ticket.