EDUCATION

ITI students protest against Principal’s suspension 
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
To protest against the suspension of Ghumar Mandi ITI Principal Tejinder Singh, various federations of ITIs held a demonstration at ITI here today.

The students said that government had suspended the Principal without any fault of his. The students alleged that the harsh step was taken against him as he dared to stop the bureaucrats and higher-ups to grab the prime land where ITI was situated.

“The Principal stopped the self-styled owners to vacate the land. He dared to voice against influential people who wanted to grab the land worth several crores of rupees. Recently, many attempts were made to vacate the land on the pretext of repairing the building by some politicians. But Mr Tejinder Singh strongly condemned it and said that repairing work could be done simultaneously, which ultimately resulted in his suspension”, alleged union leader Mr Navjot Dhoot.

Mr Rakesh Pandey, Minister of Industrial Training, was away to Chandigarh to inquire about the reasons for Principal’s suspension. He said that a show-cause notice had been served to the Principal and he had been suspended. “He must have been found guilty somewhere, so we suspended him”, said Mr Pandey. But the minister failed to give some concrete reasons as to why such harsh step was taken against Principal Tejinder Singh.

From Schools
Pool party at Khanna school
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
With summers at its peak, students of Green Grove Public School enjoyed swimming and pool party here yesterday. The Kindergarten kids had a time of their life inside the pool, screaming, jumping and splashing water. The pool was made attractive with balloons, colourful balls and tubes.

The rest of the school enjoyed swimming during the activity periods. Under the guidance of the coach, Mr Kishore Kumar, the children dived into the pool and tried their stint in swimming , learning gradually the leg movements and hand movements with the help of tube and support pipe.

Annual function: Annual prize distribution function of Dr Ranjit International School, Jassian Road, was held here yesterday. Prizes were distributed among those students who had achieved top positions in academics sports, music, dance, and co- curricular activities.

Mr G.L Pahwa, president, United Cycle Parts Manufacturing Association, Dr S.P Aggarwal, Heart Specialist and Ms Amarjit Kaur, Counselor were the chief guests.

Students presented a shabad, skit, gidha, folk songs and ghazals. Shaina got the 1st prize in speech.

Math-e-magic week: The primary section of Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, B.R.S Nagar, was on a roller-coaster ride with ‘Numbers’. To arouse their curiosity and accelerate their logical thinking the primary section went drooling over the figures 1,2,3,4...... and so on so forth. The Mathe - e- magic week organised at the school.

Teachers captured during the creativity and reasoning potential of the little ones. Bulletin board of each classroom was turned into miniature mathematic labs. The students participated with enthusiasm.

Yoga camp at KVM: Yoga sadhna shivir for KVM , Civil Lines faculty will start from commenced from May 26. This was conducted by Mr Krishan Lal Gupta, district president, and yoga experts, Mr Narinder Kumar and Mr Varinder Singh from Bhartiya Yoga Sansthan. The week-long shivir aims at creating health consciousness through yoga.

Summer camp: Kundan Vidar Mandir, Civil Lines is organising summer camp on the school premises till may 30. Students will learn about art and craft , pot making and yoga during the camp.

Visit to Hardy’s World: Students of classes III & IV of Baba Isher Singh (N) Senior Secondary Public School went to Hardy’s world to enjoy various rides. The school will also organise summer creative camp from June 1 to June 15. Students can choose from variety of courses like art and craft, clay modelling, flower making , pot paniting, folk songs, embroidery, fabric painting etc.

A sports club has also been introduced which will be functional throughout the year.

‘Transplant update’ at DMCH on May 28
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
Leading urologists and nephrologists, besides other prominent doctors and surgeons from Delhi, Chandigarh and several places in Punjab would get together at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) here on May 28 to attend the ‘transplant update’. The one day ‘update’ would aim at discussing the rise in kidney problems due to the change in lifestyle and stressful life as well as the high cost of kidney transplant which had a heavy bearing on the patients.

Giving this information here today, the organising secretary of the programme and noted transplant surgeon Dr B.S. Aulakh, said that eminent transplant surgeon from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi Dr A.S. Soin, would deliver a lecture on cadaver organ donation and liver transplant.

Dr V.N. Jha, leading nephrologist and professor of nephrology at PGI, Chandigarh, would address issues related to optimisation of transplants by containing the cost of treatment.

SPORTS

Dutt “ignited” spirit of sportsmanship

Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 26
Various sports organisations of this area condoled the death of Mr Sunil Dutt, Sports Minister in the union government. Mr Surjit Singh Grewal SP(D), Sangrur and president of the Grewal Sports Association Kila Raipur, the organizers of the Rural Olympics expressed deep shock over the death of the Union Minister and veteran Bollywood actor, describing him as a “truly secular man.”

“Mr Dutt played a promising role in the improvement of sports in the nation during his tenure as a minister,” said Mr Grewal.

Recollecting the moments of his interaction with Mr Dutt during his visit to the rural sports as chief guest early this year, Mr Grewal said Sunil Dutt had ignited the spirit of sportsmanship among the youth of this area during his brief stay here.

Mr Rachhpal Singh, DSP Malerkotla, said that Dutt was amazingly frank and was totally committed to the cause of sports. He was short on patience when it came to helping athletes and he wanted to overcome bureaucratic impediments in the way of helping deserving sportspersons.

Mr Ramesh Singla, president the Punjab Rural Sports Council, International Kabbadi coach Mr Toni Kalakh, Mr Balwinder Phidda, Mr Jagdish Bhola, Arjuna Awardee, Mr Major Singh president, Punjab Wrestling Federation and Mr Harjinder Singh an international athlete, joined others sports lovers in condoling the death of Mr Dutt. OC

Sunil Dutt’s death mourned
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
The sports fraternity here has expressed shock over the tragic news of Union Minister for Sports Sunil Dutt’s death. Players, representatives of different sports associations, sports promoters and sports organisers have termed it the national loss. They called Mr Dutt a very seasoned leader, a dedicated person and above all an able administrator.

Different sports associations held condolence meetings to express their sympathies over the death of actor-turned politician, Sunil Dutt.

Mr Rajdeep Singh Gill and Mr Teja Singh Dhaliwal, president and general secretary, respectively, of the Punjab Basketball Association expressed grief and sorrow over the untimely death of veteran Sunil Dutt. Others who joined in condoling his death include, Mr Ramesh Singla, Mr Prithipal Singh Batala, Jagroop Singh Jarkhar and Mr Kanwaljit Singh of Punjab Rural Sports Promotion Council; Mr Chaman Lal Malhotra and Mr Vinod Chitkara of Ludhiana District Cricket Association; Mr Balraj Sharma, general secretary, Punjab Swimming Association, Mr Raj Kumar, general secretary, Ludhiana District Volleyball Association; Mr Shivtar Singh Bajwa, President, District Football Association; Mr D.S. Walia, general secretary, District Amateur Athletics Association, Ludhiana, Mr Narinder Pal Singh, President, Mata Sahib Kaur Gold Cup Hockey Tournament Club, Jarkhar and Mr Amrik Singh Minhas, president of the Ludhiana Sportsmen Welfare Association.

Badminton panel denies allegations of funds’ misuse
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, May 26
The Ludhiana District Badminton Association (LDBA) has denied the allegations that donations collected by the association to provide financial assistance to the widow of a former national badminton champion Harish Chander.

In a press note issued here today, Mr R S Behl, honorary secretary, LDBA, said the donations were collected to organise the Harish Chander Memorial Punjab State Junior Badminton Championship and not for giving financial aid to the widow of the late player. On the eve of this tournament, addressing a press conference, Mr Tanav Chopra, vice-president of the LDBA, had announced a help of Rs 500 per month for two years for wards of the late Harish Chander. As promised , the LDBA gave Rs 12,000 to Harish’s wife on April 8 this year, Mr Behl informed.

Mr Behl further said the LDBA also organised a District Badminton Championship this year from the money collected by the association, besides sending players outstations for participating in various state-level badminton tournaments.

IG honours 7 cops
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 26
Mr S.M. Sharma, I.G. Zonal Patiala, has called upon the police officers to develop excellent level of communication up to the lower level and establish better association and understanding with the prominent people to further improve the functioning of police in maintaining law and order and checking the crime.

Mr Sharma was addressing a meeting of senior officers from Ludhiana , Khanna and Jagroan Police Districts on his first visit, after taking the charge of present assignment, here yesterday. Mr Sharma praised the Ludhiana Police for killing three culprits including a proclaim offender Paramjit Singh Pamma and nabbing seven other gang members in planned operation in Hardwar district in coordination with the police of other states. He presented commendation certificates to the seven Police Officials, who were part of the operation. SI Harbans Singh, SI Jagjit Singh, ASI Rajinder Singh, SI Ashok Kumar, Head Constable Jaswinder Singh, Constable Harbhajan Singh, Constable Pritpal Singh, Constable Kuldeep Singh, and Constable Daljit Singh.

Mr Sharma stressed upon the need to establish coordination between the local police and Highway Mobile Teams of Punjab Police with a view to making maximum use of the services in tackling the crime on and along National Highway and providing immediate medical help to the victims of the accidents.

Mr Narinder Pal Singh, SSP, Ludhiana, assured on behalf of the officers to strictly implement directions give by Mr Sharma to improve the functioning of the police.

Mr Rajiv Ahir, SSP, Jagoran and Mr Naunihal Singh, SSP, Khanna, were also present at the meeting.

Drive to remove encroachments

Ludhiana, May 26
Deputy Commissioner Anurag Verma has directed the officers of the PWD and Mandi Board to launch one month long drive to clear the encroachments made by the people along both sides of link roads in the district and to install the pillars indicating the actual width of the road.

He said it was the right time for levelling the birms on the roads as the agriculture fields were vacant till the paddy was sown. The directions were given at a joint meeting of officers of the departments concerned and SDMs held here last evening under the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner. TNS