IGNOU meeting held
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, September 12
The induction meeting of Indira Gandhi National Open University was held here today at the IGNOU Special Study Centre. Dr U C Pandey, Regional Director, IGNOU Regional Centre, Khanna, was the chief guest. Mr Nahar Singh Gill, Mayor, local municipal corporation, Mr Sushil Malhotra, member Sales Tax Advisory Committee, Ludhiana, and Prof Harlal Singh, former Director, Punjab School Education Board, were the guests of honour.

Dr Pandey gave detailed information about the policy and programmes of IGNOU. He said at present instructions at the graduate and post-graduate level courses were already being given throughout India.

Prof Harlal Singh said while perusing the programmes and policies introduced by IGNOU would fulfil the dreams of the framers of the Constitution of India by ensuring development of India as a whole.

Dr Gill praised the achievements of the local IGNOU Special Study Centre and said that the university was immensely useful to those persons who were not able to resume their education due to lack of resources and paucity of time.

Mrs Asha Sharma, coordinator of the local IGNOU Special Study Centre, thanked IGNOU for granting permission to start admissions for MA courses for the 2004-05 session.

Mr Malhotra spoke about education being spread by IGNOU.

Mr Rajinder Sharma, president, Association of the Punjab School Education Board Afilliated Schools, thanked all dignitaries and other speakers.

Koshish-2004 starts
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Ludhiana, September 12
Koshish -2004 fifth annual eight-day inter-class literary cum cultural festival started yesterday 11 at Punjab College of Technical Education , Baddowal. The first event was ‘Just a Minute’. (JAM) Jaskanwal of MCA -III won the first position, Chandrma of MBA -II (B) won second and Navtej of BBA -II year won the third position. 14 teams are participating in it. Mock Stock Exchange was created and teams were supposed to invest their amount in stocks.

Yesterday 14 teams took part in the event Case Presentation .Anureet , Varun Gurjot of BCA -III (A) won first prize , Monish , Amit and Amandeep Khalso of BBA_ (A) got second prize while Lufuno Moses, Namandeep and Harpreet Singh Nagi of BCA -II won third prize in the event.

As many as 20 participants participated in photography and Software Competition. The participants were allowed to shoot as many photographs as they wished but had to be related to the festival.

In Software Development, 10 teams competed .The students were required to prepare software on the spot without external assistance.

Freshers’ party organised
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, September 12
Ivanna Institute of Hotel and Fashion Technology, here held a Freshers party to welcome the new students of Hotel Management and Fashion Technology. The party was conducted by the students of IV and II semesters. Dances and songs were presented. Freshers participated in the beauty and charm contests.

The results were:

Ms Ivanna-Kompal Puri, Ms Charming-Maninder Kaur, Ms Graceful-Arshpreet Kaur, Megha Sareen.

Mr Ivanna-Puneet Bakshi, Mr Handsome-Chirag Tandon, Mr Charming-Manish Kalsy. Other items presented were: solo song, composed and sung by Vijay Gill, of Hotel management and tourism, group dances, choreography, parody. Ms Jyoti recited a poem describing the feelings of Ivanna for its new students.