EDUCATION

DC asks schools to declare results by February 10
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 14
With a view to avoiding financial loss and harassment to parents, Mr Anurag Verma, District Magistrate, in an order issued here today, directed all schools to declare the admission results by February 10. He further directed them that in case any parents applied for refund of fees before February 15, the school authorities should refund it after deducting 10 per cent of the fee deposited, subject to a ceiling of Rs 2,000.

Mr Verma said he had received complaints that various private schools declared admission results on different dates and insisted the parents to deposit the fees immediately. He said that in order to secure admission of their children till the result of the schools of their choice was declared, certain parents deposited non-refundable fees in more than one school. Some schools even deliberately declare results earlier than other reputed schools to attract parents.

He also appealed to the parents to cooperate with the school authorities in getting the deposited amount refunded and advised that in case any school violated these directions, the parents should bring the matter into the notice of the SDM concerned.

Minister’s statement irks unemployed teachers
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, January14
Finance Minister Surinder Singla’s statement, published in a few vernacular papers, saying that unemployed teachers henceforth will be absorbed on the basis of daily wages has irked the Unemployed Elementary Teachers Union.

Mr Jaswinder Sidhu, president of union in a statement said the teachers were shocked at the statement of Finance Minister Surinder Singla. The teachers were assured by Mr Lal Singh at a meeting in Kapurthala held on October 9, 2004, that all vacancies would be filled and teachers would be employed on regular basis.

He further said they had organised a “Pol Khol” programme in which they had talked about the injustice done to the teachers.

There were 532 schools in Punjab without teachers, he said.

Mr Jaswinder Singh further said the recruitment of teachers on daily wages had been tried in Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. But the experiment had failed. He urged the government not to try employing teachers on day-to-day basis.

PAU donates Rs 10 lakh for tsunami relief
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 14
Punjab Agricultural University has donated Rs 10 lakh to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund for tsunami victims. A cheque for Rs 10 lakh was handed over to the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, today by the Vice Chancellor, Dr Kirpal Singh Aulakh.

Dr Aulakh was accompanied by Dr Hari Singh Brar, president, PAUTA,, Dr Amardeep Singh , former president, PAUTA, Mr D P Maur and Mr Amritpal, president and secretary, respectively, of the Non-Teaching PAU Employees Union, and Mr Dharam Pal Singh, president, Class IV PAU Employees Union.

The teaching and non- teaching staff of the university had decided to contribute one- day salary towards the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund.

Meanwhile, the Sahit Sabha of Punjab Agricultural University will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sadat Hassan Manto, a well- known Urdu fiction writer. Dr Joginder Singh Nirala, president of the sabha, said Mr Purdaman Singh Bedi, Chief Editor, Meer, will deliver the keyknote address. During the meeting, the selection of Ravinder Bhattal, general secretary, Punjabi Sahit Academy, Ludhiana, for all language poetical symposium to represent Punjabi,was welcomed.

Mr Gursharn Singh Narula, Mr Gurbhajan Singh Gill,Mr Bhupinder, K Sadhu Singh and many others were present.

A national- level conference on ‘Food Safety and Quality Council’ will be held in Punjab Agricultural University by the College of Veterinary Science, Public Health Departmen.

PAU emerges winner at all-India youth festival
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 14
The PAU team was awarded the overall trophy in the sixth All-India Inter-Agricultural University Youth Festival held in Maharashtra from January 4 to January 8, 2005. The team participated in music, theatre, fine arts, dance and literary events and won the overall trophy.

Thirteen universities from all over the country participated in the festival, which was inaugurated by Dr J. C. Katyal, DDG (Education), ICAR.

The runners-up trophy was bagged by the host team of Marathawada Agricultural University (MAU), Parbhani.

The concluding function was presided over by Dr V. M. Powa, Vice-Chancellor, MAU. Mr Sheshraoji Deshmukh, former MP was the guest of honour. Ms Fuzia Khan, member of legislative council and member Board of Directors, MAU, was the chief guest and gave away the prizes.

Dr Kirpal Singh aulakh, Vice-Chancellor of PAU congratulated the participants and teacher in charges for their achievement. Dr Darshan Singh, D.S.W and Dean, PGS, appreciated the efforts made by all and gave credit to the hard work put in by the students, teacher in charges, and the coordinator, Mr M S Grewal. 

NSS camp ends with message against drug abuse
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 14
A special NSS camp organised in three villages — Nangal Kalan, Nangal Khurd and Leel, by volunteers of the Colleges of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering and Home Science of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, from January 5 to 14, concluded today at Nangal Kalan village.

In his concluding remarks, the chief guest, Dr Darshan Singh, Dean PG and Director Students Welfare, PAU, while giving away the trophies and certificates to the volunteers who excelled in various community development activities, appreciated their endeavour to create awareness among the youth against the ill-effects of drugs and intoxicants and also against the diseases like AIDS, TB and cancer. He also honoured the sarpanches of three villages who expressed happiness and gratitude for the efforts made by the NSS volunteers in their villages during the camp, especially against the drug addiction.

Dr K.S. Verma, Programme Coordinator, NSS, PAU, said the volunteers took out rallies against the increasing trend of drug abuse.

Dr Ravinder Kaur gave a demonstration on food and fruit preservation to the village women. The volunteers also interacted with the farming families regarding their agriculture-based needs and problems. The volunteers also observed Road Safety Week by fitting refractors on more than 50 tractor trailers. As part of the special map, both boys and girls visited senior citizen homes at Sarabha Nagar and Threekay village and shared their feelings.

The volunteers also planted more than 1000 flower plants on the premises of gurudwara and schools of the villages. They aslo prepared basin around 15000 plants of Eucalyptus along the boundary wall of the PAU.

Ramgarhia girls visit industrial unit
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, January 14
The Department of Computer Science and Applications, Ramgarhia Girls College, Miller Ganj, took its students on an industrial tour to G.S. Radiators, GT Road here yesterday to apprise them of computer projects and the latest IT technology.

The Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Ranjodh Singh, briefed about the computerised MIS system of the industry. He also arranged a visit for the students to the production units, where the students were able to see each step involved in the manufacturing of radiator and how the quality checks were being maintained with the help of computer software.

A demonstration was also organised to show how the intranet was being used by the industry to share the information at each stage, starting from production to marketing to the decision and policy making.

The students also visited the EDP Department of the industry where the programmers were working on various projects of the industry.

A question-answer session was also conducted where the students interacted with the software developers and asked about the latest technologies being used in the industry. 

14,000 traffic violators summoned
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 14
As many as 14,000 traffic violators have been issued summons to attend a Lok Adalat to be held at New Judicial Complex here on January 22. Mr Harbans Lal, District and Sessions Judge, said more than 40 Benches would be set up to settle the cases.

He said special counters would be set up to provide information about challans. He appealed all violators to make use of the special Lok Adalat to get their challans cleared.

SPORTS

Ludhiana win basketball matches
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, January 14
Ludhiana made a fine start in basketball, registering victories in the boys as well as girl’s section, in the annual sports festival being organised by the Amarjit Singh Grewal Sports Club at Guru Hargobind Sahib Stadium in Gujjarwal village today.

On the opening day of the 33rd edition of the festival, dedicated to the memory of Amarjit Singh Grewal, former producer at Doordarshan Kendra, Jalandhar, Ludhiana Cagers (girls) had an easy outing as they drubbed Hoshiarpur 40-16 while the boys, managed to overpower Kapurthala 57-47.

In football, Jassowal blanked ITI, Gujjarwal 6-0, Kokri Kalan outplayed Hariana 2-0, Sarabha pipped Nurpur Bet 2-0 and Narangwal prevailed over Kokri Kalan 4-2.

In dog races, the following came out winners, moving into the next round. Black Water of Harjinder Singh (Beehla), Roger of Jasminder Singh (Kila Raipur), Trace of Dimpy (Gujjarwal), Ash Boy of Sarabjeet Singh (Narangwal), White Snow of Gurmeet Singh (Sadhar), Rocky of Chancahaldeep Singh (Kila Raipur), Seelam of Shivcharan Singh (Sangrur), Sheeda of Sarpanch Gurmail Singh (Neel), Vinali of Sukhdev Singh (Kila Raipur), Kallu of Vishnu Partap (Ludhiana), Baaz of Mahinder Singh, Rinku of Darshan Singh (Kila Raipur), Chitri of Binder Mohan, Jaanbaaz of Dyal Singh, Babbar of Tej Singh (Norewal) and Tyson of Pamma Bhullar (Ferozepur).

Ten heats were conducted in bullock cart race and the following twenty qualified for the next round: Gurdeesh Singh of Dhaul Majra, Hakam Singh of Sattewal, Baljeet Singh of Latala, Bhola Singh of Sarabha, Manjeet Singh of Jargarhi, Jagdish Singh of Phallewal, Karam Singh of Manki, Jaswant Singh of Gujjarwal, Bagga Singh of Mahiya, Sukhwinder Singh of Latala, Shingara Singh of Marwarpur, Manjit Singh of Jodhan, Manekh of Bhudhan, Darshan Singh of Dhoolkot, Rattan Singh of Ayali Khurd and Awtar Singh of Malakpur.

Sutluj Academy win
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, January 14
Sutluj Academy, Chander Nagar, recorded an easy 3-0 victory over Government Model Senior Secondary School, PAU, in the IInd Satluj Football Tournament for School Boys being held at Punjab Agricultural University ground here today.

Earlier in the inaugural match, Government Senior Secondary School, Thalla, Nawanshahr, overcame spirited challenge put up by AS Senior Secondary School, Khanna 6-5. The issue was resolved through a tie-breaker.

Mr Sohan Lal Lotey, District Sports Officer, Ludhiana, inaugurated the tournament. Mr Amritpal Singh Mavi, Mr Jagpal Singh, senior football coaches, Mr Kamikar Singh of PAU School and Mr Kala Pardhan, organisers, were also present.