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State of education in Punjab poor, says panel
Ludhiana, June 23 With eminent educationists as its members, the committee comprises people like Mr G.D. Sharma, former director , National Institute of Planning and Administration (NIPA), Delhi, Mr Paramjit Singh, Registrar, Panjab University, Ms Nisha Sarad, DPI (Colleges) Punjab and other members from Punjabi University Patiala. The committee said that it was unfortunate that the state of education in Punjab was poor. The state government in its basic priority list has laid stress on development of biotechnology, agro based industry, agriculture export promotion, agriculture research, promotion of information technology and strengthening of small and medium enterprise. But the development on above issues needed quality human resources and human resource development was possible only through higher education. The state government was reducing budgetary support to higher education every year and was mobilising maximum funds from students. In the year 2000-2001, state government had planned to spend Rs 2.5 crore on education but only Rs 1.17 crore were actually spent and the amount further dipped to Rs 0.67 crore in 2001-2002. And a majority of the amount was spent on the maintenance part and not on development works. The committee in its submitted report said that the Punjab Government was not availing any Central scheme. The allocation of funds to education was much less as compared to states like Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. The resources of the state were more than the above mentioned states, but it was spending much less on
education. The experts said that government was ignoring education. It spent 9.75 per cent on higher education as compared to national average of 10.15 per cent. They warned that to save education, 22 per cent of total Budget of state should be allotted and spent on education alone. Mr Tarsem Bahia, former principal and fellow, Panjab University, said that state was taking a risk by ignoring education and lowering its budgetary support to it.
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Students present cultural show
Ludhiana, June 23 Ms Kochar, Principal, City Blossom School, said aim of the camp was to boost their personality. Mr O.P. Arora, Principal, Nauria Mal Jain School, was the chief guest. He said such camps helped the students to blossom their talents. Harshdeep, Arjun and Ankush impressed the audience with their performance. Students presented a skit titled 'Gabbar Singh', a choreography and bhangra.
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Common Entrance Test held at PAU
Ludhiana, June 23 Talking to the parents of the students, Dr Aulakh said the results of the successful candidates would be declared on June 27. Dr S.S. Chahal, Controller of Examination, PAU, said that 1,869 candidates had applied for this test but 91.5 per cent candidates appeared in the examination. Dr Chahal further said that the entrance examination for admission to the masters programmes of Home Science College would be held on June 28, whereas for the masters programmes of College of Agricultural Engineering, it would be held on July 4 and 5. He added that the entrance test for the masters programmes of Veterinary College had been fixed for July 15. Dr Chahal said the counselling for admission to masters programmes of COBSc would be held on June 30 whereas for BVSc and AH and BSc Agri (Hons), it will be on July 7-8. The counselling for admission to masters programmes in Agricultural Engineering College and College of Home Science would be held on July 18 whereas for masters programmes in College of Agriculture, the counselling would be held on July 19 and for masters programmes in Veterinary College, the counseling would be held on August 2.
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Stress laid on awareness on breast cancer
Ludhiana, June 23 The conference was attended by more than 1,000 delegates, doctors, oncologists, cancer survivals and other professionals from more than 70 countries. Mr Angus Maclsaac, Health Minister, Nova Scotia, a province of Canada, inaugurated the conference. More than 100 breast cancer survivals also attended. Some of the participants were such survivors who were operated in mid-eighties and were now leading a normal life. Dr Maheshwari, who was invited as a speaker in one of the technical sessions, said the incidence of breast cancer was increasing and 80,000 new cases of the disease and 30,000 deaths were reported in India during the past one year. He said the incidence of the disease would be much more than reported cases because there was no mechanism for national cancer registration and most of the women did not go to the hospitals because of poverty and ignorance. Instead, the patients went to traditional healers and quacks. Moreover, specialised cancer hospitals and diagnostic centres in the country were limited. “The World Health Organization norms say that there should be one cobalt therapy machine should be available for every one million of population but in India it is one per 10 million. Cost of the treatment and affordability is another major constraint for majority of the Indian patients.” Dr Maheshwari pleaded that the government ought to introduce a cost-effective insurance schemes which should be well within reach of the people. Elaborating on causative factors of cancer of breast and cervix, he observed that obesity and increased fatty diet was one of the major reasons, although hereditary was also responsible in five to seven per cent of the cases. Breast cancer was responsible for 20 per cent of the total cancer related deaths in India. Dr Maheshwari further stressed upon the need of community cancer awareness programmes in the conference. He said the government should allocate more funds for the community awareness programmes. He later attended a conference at Alexandra Palace in London organised by an Indian company on medical tourism from June 2 to 5, 2005. This was for the 10th time that Dr Maheshwari had been invited as a speaker in an international conference.
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Salil shines in Yellow XI’s win
Ludhiana, June 23 With this all three teams have won and lost two matches each. On Friday and Saturday, two matches are scheduled to be held between team from Patiala and Ludhiana in the u-13 years group. From Sunday, an inter-district tournament will played under the patronage of the Punjab Cricket Association at the same venue. Coaching Centre Yellow XI skipper, Salil Verma won the toss and elected to bat. In the stipulated 35 overs, they scored 271 runs for the loss of five wickets. Salil Verma hit 111 runs (his second century of the tournament), followed by Abhishek Talwar (77), Ketan Dhir (40) and Dipin Chitkara (4). For Coaching Centre Blue XI, Manav Sachar took two wickets for 33 runs while Abhinav Bhatia and Akhil Aggarwal chipped in with one wicket each conceding 29 and 23 runs, respectively. In reply, despite Shivam Passi’s 103 runs, Coaching Centre Blue XI could make 226 runs in 32 overs. Other batsmen who were among the runs, included Akhil Aggarwal (11), Simran (21), and Manav Sachar
(42). Ramneet Singh of Yellow XI was the most successful bowler who claimed three wickets for 40 runs while Manav
Sachar, Abhishek Talwar and Sachin grabbed two wickets each. Mr Pawan Pandey, joint secretary, tournament committee was the chief guest today.
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