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Education Dept’s move to buy furniture
Chandigarh, February 19 A technical committee set up by the department to check the furniture samples has approved the samples which were graded the lowest as per the required specifications, allege the vendors whose samples have been rejected. In a complaint to the UT Home Secretary-cum-Education Secretary, the vendors have pointed out that the samples of desk and benches which were underweight were given better grading and those which were of better quality were ignored. It is learnt that on the complaints, the Education Secretary has directed the concerned officials to inquire into the matter. The department has already opened the technical bid and the financial bid of the tender. In September last year, the District Education Officer had invited tenders for desks and benches for junior and senior classes. After withdrawing the tender in October, the department had again invited tenders in December. Later the expert committee approved five of the total 11 samples. The samples were re-checked and the concerned vendors were informed about it. Finally, when the expert committee approved four samples, the sample which weighed less was approved. The units which have lodged the complaint are Anupam Metals, Golden Steel Furniture and Allied Industries and M.S. Steel Furniture.
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Education board bans staff from going to media
Mohali, February 19 This “gag” on the officials applies to even those holding senior posts and covers every kind of information. The circular, issued by the Assistant Secretary (Establishment), says it has come to the notice of the Chairman that certain officials were giving information to the press without getting prior approval from the Chairman in this regard. The board is put in a difficult situation when reports in the media appear relating to administrative matters on which policies are being framed or decisions are yet to be taken. According to the circular issued on February 10, similar orders were issued earlier too. The circular says the Chairman has taken a serious view of information being given directly to the media. It warns strict disciplinary action against those violating the orders.
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7 PEC students win laurels at robotics contest
Chandigarh, February 19 The students designed four robots named Metallica, Sutluj, Aquadisiac and Rescue for the event titled “Survivor”. The entries were appreciated by the fraternity of budding technocrats. The team included Arshdeep Bahga, Himanshu Sachdeva, Nitin Gupta, sahil M. Bansal, amandeep Hans, Anirudh Aggarwal and Gaurav Kochhar. In the event which saw 1,000 teams from all over the world, PEC students designed a wireless remote-controlled robot which had to fall from a height of one m and align blocks on the ground and a remote-controlled boat for a racing competition in a swimming pool. Following their success in Techfest at the IIT, Mumbai, these students have been invited to hold a robotics workshop by the students’ chapter of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers. They are also preparing a robot for Techkriti — a technical festival at the IIT, Kanpur, held from February 24 to 27.
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Nostalgia runs high at MCM alumni function
Chandigarh, February 19 Ms Kaur, a Punjabi poetess, is presently working as a lecturer in S.A. Jain College in Ambala. She wanted to feel every place of the college today where she spent best days of her life. "I can never forget this college as it is my first love and wherever I go I just take the fragrance of this college with me," she said in an emotional vein. Remembering an incident she said, " Times have changed a lot as now when my student comes late in my class and I tell him to stay outside the class, he simply goes to the canteen and enjoy his time." "But I remember once when I got late for the class and my teacher told me not to come in the class, I stood outside the classroom and was very upset whole day," she said. Ms Paul was from 1974 batch. She had written five poetry books and had received an award from the Punjab Government. Ms Sunita Puri, Finance and HR Head, Semi Conducter Limited, Mohali was very happy to visit her college after a long time. "Now this college has changed a lot but I have very sweet memories of this college," she said. Ms Puri had two dreams in her life that she wanted to write a book and to do something for underprivileged children. The function was organised by the Alumni Association held today. The students of the college added colour to the function by presenting a fashion show and dance items. Their wonderful performance on songs like ' Chod do anachal zmana kaya kahega', O haseena zulfon waali' and Dam maro dam' made the function very special. Other distinguished alumni, including Ms Madhvi
Kataria, PCS, Director Social welfare, Chandigarh, Ms Pooja Puri, a medical practitioner, Ms Praveen
Sharda, Reader, Department of Correspondence Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Ms Suman
sharma, Principal GMSSS, Sector 37 and Benu Dogra, Lecturer, GCG, Sector 11 also shared their feelings.
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Students given farewell
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 19 Mr R.C. Sharma, Principal of the school, gave away the prizes of Miss R.C. to Upneet and Mr R.C to Navpreet. The Best Group Dance Award went to Surma boys, Best Group Dance (girls) to Jugni, Couple Dance to Varinder and Seema, while the Best Student Award was given to Rinku. A farewell party for outgoing students of Class XII was organised in the school premises yesterday. The students of Class XI had presented a cultural programme on the occasion. The title of Miss Shishu Niketan was bagged by Ikshu Gautam whereas the title of Mr Shishu Niketan went to Shashank Shekhar Gautam. The founder-director of the school, Mrs S. Khorana, blessed the students and wished them best of luck for the ensuing board exams. At Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 46, a farewell function was organised by the students of Class IX and Class XI for outgoing classes.The students presented a cultural programme on this occasion. Titles were given to all seniors and teachers. Miss Sunidhi Vashisht of Class X and Mr Naveen Bansal were declared Mr and Miss 46, respectively. Mr Sudeep Singh (XIIA) and Miss Richa were declared Mr and Miss 46. Principal Mr R.S. Goraya gave moral value-based speech while conveying his good wishes for the forthcoming annual examination. Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, also organised a programme to bid farewell to the senior classes. The programme began with a Saraswati vandana followed by a Punjabi dance. Students also presented an item of dances based on remix numbers. Students shared their experiences in school. While Sunny Sakaria was adjudged Mr Sanjay Public school, Rhythm was chosen Miss Sanjay Public School. Donation: Sacred Heart School, Sector 26, collected Rs 6.8 lakh for the tsunami relief programme within a fortnight. The highest contributor, Tanisha Prashar of UKG, who gave Rs 11000 was awarded an appreciation certificate along with 171 others who contributed Rs 1000 and above. The Bishop of Shimla-Chandigarh Diocese, Rev. Dr Gerald John Mathias, presided over the ceremony. The cheque for tsumani relief was handed over to the Bishop by the highest contributor on behalf of the school. The principal, Sister Sebastina, was also present. Lecture: A lecture to familiarise students with Indian traditions and culture was organised at Sharda Sarvhitkari Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 40, here today. Mr Satyapal spoke about spiritual leaders, the Vedas and Puranas and the joint family system. PANCHKULA
Annual function: The Annual Function of JPA Toddlers World School, Sector 10, Panchkula, was held at Tagore Theatre here today. The event, titled “Blossoms”, showcased the amazing talents of toddlers in the age group of 2 to 5 years, from Playway to the UKG classes. The event began with a rendition of Saraswati Vandana and then the tiny toddlers of Playway-A performed the evergreen number “Brown Girl in the ring”. This was followed by an impressive English play. The toddlers displayed their dancing skills on the number, ‘Uncle John’ and A.R. Rehman’s ‘Vande Matram’. The Chief Guest on the occasion was Mrs Promilla Chandra Mohan, eminent educationist and social worker. Ms Neena Atray, Director- Principal of the school, read out the Annual Report.
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‘Emerging Constitutionalism’ discussed
Chandigarh, February 19 It was organised by the Indian Institute of Public Administration, PU. Mr Virendra Kumar said: the development of law through interpretive changes was not a new phenomenon but it was an integral part of our tradition. On the development of modern constitutional jurisprudence in India, he said the approach of the Supreme Court was conservative in the matters of familiar relations.
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Parent-teacher meeting held
Chandigarh, February 19 Professor Sahib Singh, convener, Student Support and Progression, apprised parents about the various academic and co-curricular activities held in the college during the current session. He also made them aware about the infrastructure, new courses and other facilities in the college. A seminar on “Sales promotion and Sales Management” was also held in the college and it was organised by the Department of Vocational Studies.
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Property tax decried
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Lok adalat settles 611 cases
Chandigarh, February 19 According to Ms Neerja Kulwant Kalson, Chief Judicial Magistrate-cum-Secretary of the District Legal Services Authority, an amount of Rs 20.35 lakh was awarded as compensation in the motor accident claim cases. Similarly, a sum of Rs 1.13 lakh was recovered as fine in 962 summary (traffic challan) cases. She added that 14 benches were constituted for the adalat and the pamphlets and brochures, highlighting the aims and objectives of the authority, were distributed among the public. Prominent among those, who visited various benches included Mr R.S. Baswana, acting District and Sessions Judge, and Mr Sant Parkash, Member-Secretary of the State Legal Services Authority. The next adalat will be held on April 23, Ms Kalson added.
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Accused in Rani death case produced before CJM
Panchkula, February 19 The defense counsel pleaded that Ms Vermani was under stress and was suffering from chest pain. She was earlier produced before the court on February 16 and was admitted to the General Hospital, Panchkula, for three days while in judicial custody. Her son, Saurabh, is in judicial remand for 14 day. The defense counsel pleaded that Vermani was still unwell and the judge ordered that she be admitted to the PGI, Chandigarh, for the remaining 11 days of the judicial remand.
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Truck driver gets bail
Panchkula, February 19 He was arrested by the Kalka police on Thursday after he run over two persons. He was booked on the charge of rash and negligent driving leading to death. However, Santokh Singh managed to escape from the district courts yesterday, while he was brought there. The police sounded an alert in nearby areas, and arrested him from Sector 43 bus stand in Chandigarh within six hours. He was booked in another case under Section 224 of the IPC for trying to escape from police custody. Santokh Singh was produced before the Duty Magistrate, Mr Ajay Aggarwal, in the case related to the accident and was granted bail.
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Razzmatazz brings alive diverse Indian culture
Brimming with confidence, elegant attires and versatile and aesthetic performance the young suave students of the Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostess Training (FIAT) celebrated their annual day in style at the Tagore Theatre on Friday.
The musical extravaganza titled ‘Razzmatazz’ brought alive the diverse cultures of India with the staging of over 20 items by the students. After a traditional Saraswati Vandana, a student Nisha commenced the programme with a short Bharatnatyam performance. The Rock group dance
performed by four pairs of students, comprising of foot-tapping songs swayed the crowd which was
followed by a vibrant ‘Haryanvi dance’ by Paramjit. She displayed the brace and twang of the
folklore with verve. The dancing continued with Navkiran and Monika performing a duet taal before Navpreet captured the pangs of love in soulful
rendition of a Punjabi song. Both Rajesh Ahuja and Neha , the compering duo, kept the crowd in humour interspersing the programme with their witty comments. The artistes depicted the complete operating schedule of air travel through a play in Hindustani titled ‘The Perfect Journey’. Satinder Sahil Anup and Paramjit justified their roles. A mimicry by Rajinder lacked the punch of mythological character. The fashion show put up by the students in two rounds matched the professional level with the background music and chiaroscuro effects enhancing the performance level. Monika Sharma, Simranjit Singh were awarded with the title of Miss and Mister Frankfinn while Anupreet Kaur and Rajinder were adjudged best performers. All eyes, however, were fixed on the guest of honour, Gursewak Maan, who ultimately obliged the inquisitive fans with melodious rendition of Punjabi numbers. The acclaimed singer, is a trained pilot, himself. Earlier, chief guest Inderjit Singh Sandhu, Additional DC, complimented the student artistes. Besides Gursewak Singh, General Manager Mountview hotel, Mr RP Singla and Mr Kamal Malhotra of Jet airways, also graced the function. OC
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Wordsmith for films
PEOPLE in the literary and theatre circles of Chandigarh remember Amrik Gill of the seventies as a witty young man with a way with words and a fine presence on stage. As a young actor, he gave memorable performances in Kumar Varma’s Durmati Bhanda Phoota and Balwant Gargi’s Kesro. The route Amrik followed to Mumbai was via the National School of Drama, New Delhi. However, the niche he carved for himself was not as an actor or a director but a writer of film screenplays and dialogues.
In Chandigarh with a cinema team writing dialogues for Manmohan Singh’s Punjabi film, Yaaran naal Baharan, Amrik has penned dialogues for many Hindi films. He received as many as three cine awards, including Zee and Screen, for the dialogues of Aishwarya-Salman-Ajay Devgan starring film, “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam”. “This film brought me awards but my dialogues for Sunny Deol’s ‘Jeet’ also brought me a nomination for the filmfare award. Earlier, an offbeat film ‘Main Zinda Rahoongi’ starring Deepti Nawal for which I had done the screenplay and dialogues won the national award,” says Amrik in an interview. In fact, Amrik assisted well-known directors like Govind Nihalani, Gulzar and Sagar Sarhadi. “It was a great opportunity working with these directors but it gave me an arty label which I was able to break when I wrote dialogues for ‘Jeet’,” he says. Earlier, he had written the additional dialogues for “Tamas”, a film by Nihalani based on a novel by Bhisham Sahni. He made significant contribution to Gulzar’s famous film “Maachis”, made on the dark days of terrorism in Punjab. Amrik assisted him in direction; dialogues and the song “Chappa Chappa Charkha Chale” saw him on screen playing the tambourine. However, lady luck plays many tricks in Bollywood and Amrik received a setback when Subhash Ghai’s film “Yaadein”, for which he had penned the dialogues, did not fare well at the box office. However, even in this period he kept himself busy writing scripts and memoirs. His tribute to theatre veteran Balwant Gargi, in a long essay that was a mix of fact and fantasy, was greatly appreciated. Amrik says, “This was a great experience. I did dramatic readings of the text in Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh and Ludhiana. Then admirers of Gargi invited me all the way to London to present it on stage.” Amrik had shared a very close association with Gargi. Besides “Yaaran naal Baharan”, Amrik has done the screenplay and dialogues of an Indo-Canadian Punjabi film called “Yaarian”, which stars Om Puri, Gurdas Maan, Gulshan Grover and Gul Panang. Has he ever thought of directing a film? “Yes, I have already prepared a script based on Punjabi fiction writer Waryam Sandhu’s story ‘Bhaji Bahin’. This is the film I want to make come what may,” says Amrik who was born in Mukerian, a village near Hoshiarpur.
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