EDUCATION

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BCM School students win laurels in youth festival
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, October 6
Students of BCM School, Shastri Nagar, participated in Inter-School Youth Festival Harmony -2004 held at The Indian School, Bahrain, from September 27 to October 2. As many as 1000 students from different countries had participated in the youth festival and BCM was the only team from India. As many as 27 students participated in pencil drawing, dance, poetry recitation (Hindi and English), monoacting, essay writing (English) contests in different categories. Silky Gaba of Plus I (Non-Medical) and Karan Thakural of Class VII bagged prizes in poetry recitation and monoacting contests, respectively. The troupe of group dance won a prize in cinematic dance category. Participation trophy was given to Ms Paramjit Kaur, Principal of the school by the Indian Ambassador to Bahrain.

MTS students visit Ek Prayas

As many as 50 students of Master Tara Singh College interacted with physically and mentally challanged students of Ek Prayas today. The students appreciated the efforts of these children who, with the help of special training, are trying to fight their own battles and become self sufficient. They were told in detail about various ways in which these children are provided education. Students of MTS college also tried to get involved in their activities.

Last Date

The ICFAI University has fixed October 9 as last date for enrolment to the following courses:

MS (Finance) CFA charter, MBA, MS ( Accounting) MS Insurance , Global and Certified International Investment.

NSS volunteer of PAU wins laurels
Tribune News Service

Summer school for scientists
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, October 6
A summer school organised by the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources got underway here today. Thirty scientists from 15 agricultural universities and 3 ICAR institutes were participating in the event. Dr S.S. Gill, head-cum-director of the summer school, highlighted the achievements of various departments.

He said farmers had been integrating tree, crop and animal components for sustenance over the years and with the passage of time, agricultural components had been given priority over wood elements for self-sufficiency in food grains. He stated that the pressure due to increasing population had resulted in small holdings and consequently, lesser number of trees.

Dr Gill said the introduction of high-yield crops had resulted in self-sufficiency in food grains, but its role in degrading natural resources could not be overlooked. He emphasised the need to copy nature by integrating trees, shrubs and bushes, besides high-value cash crops.

Dr Gill favoured the preservation of and improvement in the traditional system, which had been evolved by trial and error by villagers. He said agroforestry, with its element of intercropping, was in essence an ecological model similar to natural systems and had an element of sustainability. He said there was limited scope for increasing the forest area in Punjab and agroforestry was a viable option for increasing tree cover in the state.

Mr Malwinder Singh Tiwana, Dean, College of Agriculture, was the chief guest at the inaugural function while Dr K.R. Solanki, ADG (Agroforestry), was the guest of honour. Dr D.S. Sidhu summed up the proceedings of the session and proposed the vote of thanks.

PAU prof honoured
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, October 6
Dr Joginder Singh Nirala has been awarded the Punjab Rattan and the Subhadra Kumari Chauhan award by the Panipat-based Gemini Academy at a function held at Panipat recently. He was honoured for his contribution to languages and literature.

He is the only writer from Punjab who was awarded these awards at the same time. Dr Nirala, presently working as Associate Professor of Languages at the Centre for Communication, Languages and Culture, Punjab Agricultural University, is a well known short story writer and critic.

He is associated with many literary/cultural associations, beside being the president of the Young Writers’ Association, the vice-president of the Kendri Punjabi Lekhak Sabha, the Chief Editor of a PAU magazine and the Associate Editor of Muhandra, a literary quarterly.

College team to visit Pak
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, October 6
A team comprising three faculty members and 22 students of Punjab College of Technical Education, Ludhiana, will visit Pakistan to compete in “Dhoom-2004”,a cultural festival to be held at Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Islamabad, on October 10.

Dr K.N.S. Kang, Director, PCTE, said this “is probably the first time that any B-school is competing in a cultural festival abroad.”

COURTS

Two get life term for murder
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, October 6
The Sessions Judge, Mr Baldev Singh, has sentenced Malkiat Singh and Amarjit Singh of Muksudran village to rigorous life imprisonment on the charge of killing Jasbir Singh of the same village by setting him ablaze. He ruled that the prosecution had proved the charges levelled against the accused and declined to grant leniency.

According to the prosecution, the accused sprinkled kerosene on Jasbir Singh and set him ablaze at his house on June 7, 2000, and he died on June 13. The accused had been booked under Section 302, 326 and 34 of the IPC.