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PAU Academic Council
decides on medals
Ludhiana,
September 9 Dr K. Kirpal Singh Medal for the year 2003 would be awarded to Monika Gupta while for the year 2004 it would be given to Nivedita Dhiman, both students of the College of Agriculture, for having scored the highest marks in M.Sc (Food Technology) . Dr Gurbakhsh Singh Gill Medal for the year 2003 was awarded to Tarun Deep Kaur and for the year 2004 to Mandip Kaur of the College of Agriculture, having scored the highest marks in M.Sc (Agronomy). The council also approved Sardar Kartar Singh Kahlon Medal for 2002 to Shilpa Sood and for the year 2003 to Blossom of the College of Agriculture. Dr M.S. Randhawa Medal for the year 2004 would be given to Mohammed Firose for being the best student in M.Sc (Soils) programme. The council also approved Dr B.R. Sharma Medal for 2004 to Navin Garg, of the College of Agriculture for having scored the highest OCPA in M.Sc (Vegetable crops). The council approved the proposal of Dr Darshan Singh Brar of the IRRI, Phillipines, regarding collaborative arrangements between the PAU and the IRRI for post-graduate research. Selective students of Ph.D. can pursue research at the IRRI and their co-adviser will be from IRRI and a major adviser from the PAU. Besides, the final thesis can be submitted after 10 days of the submission of the rough draft. With the permission of the Dean, PGS, the viva can be fixed within 10 days of the submission of thesis, if need be but the report from the external examiner is a must.
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PAU students leave
for Vancouver
Ludhiana, September 9 Dr M.S. Tiwana, Dean, COA , said a memorandum of understanding between the UBC, Vancouver, Canada, and the College of Agriculture, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), was finalised for the Reciprocal Students' Mobility Programme in March. Under this agreement, the third- year students of the College of Agriculture will go for a year's studies (third year courses) at the UBC, and thereafter will return to PAU in the fourth year to complete degree. Likewise, the students of UBC will come to PAU for studies. Shedding light on the selection process for the programme, Dr Tiwana said that the students had been selected on the basis of their academic standing. Also, the students had completed two years of university work at PAU prior to participating in the exchange. They will study at UBC in the third year and the credit points earned there would be included as such in the PAu transcript for the fifth and sixth semester. He made a special reference to the mode of payment of tuition fee. He explained the students participating in the exchange were exempted from paying tuition and academic fees to the UBC. However, they would be paying the fees at PAu for this third year in order to participated in the programme. Each student would only be required to spend on board, lodging and air travel. Giving other details of the accord, Dr M.S. Tiwana, Dean, College of agriculture, PAU, said participating students under this agreement would be enrolled at their host university for a period not exceeding 12e consecutive months and the credit would be transferred back to the home university with a transcript of results provided to the home institution after completion of 12 months.
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Australian envoy visits PAU
Ludhiana, September 9 Addressing officials, Ms Wensley said agricultural research would play an important role in strengthening the relationships between the two countries. Australia was already doing collaborative research projects with India. She said the research project being run in the Departments of Soils, Agronomy and Agricultural Engineering would be extended for the benefit of farmers. It was the need of the hour that efforts be made at the international level to make the farmers aware of the use of natural resources. Ms Wensley said the Punjabi people, especially the Sikh community residing in Australia, had adopted the ways of that country and being hard working played an important role in the development of the country. Mrs Wensley visited the crops museum of the Department of Plant Breeding, genetics and Biotechnology and the Museum of Social History and Culture. Dr Aulakh honoured Ms Wensley by presenting her a set of PAU publications and phulkari. Dr K S Aulakh said the PAU scientists had an important role in making the relationship strong between the two countries. At present more than 100 scientists were working in Australia.
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Teachers hold protest
Our Correspondent
Ludhiana, September 9 Contest: The music vocal department of the Guru Nanak Khalsa College for Women organised an inter-class songs competition on Wednesday. Students of XII, BA I, II and III participated. BA III students were declared first, while 10+2 and BA II students were declared second and third, respectively.Freshers’ night: A freshers’ night of the Guru Nanak Khalsa College for Women, Gujarkhan Campus, Model Town, was organised. Raman Mann was declared “Miss Fresher”, whereas Amneet and Ramanjeet were declared first and second runners-up. The judges were K. Randharwa, Arvind Walia and Sarna.NSS volunteers: To mark International Literacy Day, NSS volunteers of Guru Nanak Girls College visited the Red Cross Bhavan on Wednesday. The college Principal, Ms Charanjit Mahal, asked the NSS volunteers to help the destitute and poor children and to educate them. The volunteers interacted with students of Bal Bhavan and distributed notebooks, pencils, books etc. Importance of personal hygiene and general health awareness was also highlighted.Pearls school: Pearls Nursery School celebrated Grandparents’ Day on Thursday. The students sang a welcome song for their grandparents. They made grandparents play various games.Topper: Ramita Sharma stood first in Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College of Pharmacy in D.Pharma (first year) examination conducted by the Punjab State Board of Technical Education, Chandigarh, by securing 921marks out of 1,100. She stood third in overall ranking.
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History Society organises trip to Amritsar
Doraha, September 9 They went to Wagha Border, Sultanpur Lodhi, Goindwal Sahib, Khadoor sahib, Tarn Taran, Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh. At Khadoor Sahib, they were shown a hi-tech museum.
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Making waves as an artist
Ludhiana, September 8 In 2000 she won the first prize at the inter-college competition. In 2002 Camlin organised its first art exhibition in the northern region where her painting got selected. She won this honour again when Camlin organised another exhibition in the region. Her painting was again exhibited at the BOP art gallery. She also won first prize in inter-college festival in 2003 and got first prize in Rangoli in 2004. On the occasion of 400th year of the installation of Guru Granth Sahib she exhibited a painting of lotus flower. It was titled “Sarbat Da Bhala”. The painting has been sent to Toronto in Canada for an exhibition. Ishpreet has also created “Mool Mantra” of “Japjee Sahib”.
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