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Evening Studies Dept chairman divested of headship
Chandigarh, July 11 Further, for the benefit of the students, the last date for admission has been extended by 10 days. It was alleged that Arora, as chairman, had demanded that the Evening Studies department be run on the pattern of the regular departments and not only for those employed during the day. After the university had turned down his demand, Arora defied the university and went ahead with his own scheme by seeking the registration number of the employer. Earlier, faculty members of the Department also handed over a memorandum to all members of the Syndicate to press for Arora’s removal for indulging in anti-department, anti-student and anti-university activities. The Syndicate also gave its nod to readvertising of the post of Registrar in the light of the UGC notification adopted by the university. The new advertisement will give 5 percent relaxation to candidates from the SC/ST category as also an additional 5 per cent relaxation for the “insiders” applying for the post. The Controller of Examination, Dr Sodhi Ram, had represented to the university authorities, seeking a 5 per cent relaxation for SC/ST candidates. Without going into the findings of the report inditing official of the Sports Department for a scam, the Syndicate referred the matter to the Senate which will take up the matter. Embezzlement worth lakhs had been discovered by the authorities and a through probe ordered subsequently. While the Syndicate okayed all appointments for the Dr Harvansh Judge Dental College on the campus, it also granted affiliation to the Government College for Girls, Sector 42, and Government College, Sector 11, for running a course in bio-technology. The two colleges had been late in applying for affiliation for want of a green signal from the government which gives no objection certificate for running new courses. Their case was pleaded by Dr R.P.S. Josh in the Syndicate. Provisional affiliation was also granted to 20-odd BEd colleges subject to the approval of the National Council of Technical Education and the university.
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‘Controversial’ PSEB officer gets key post
Mohali, July 11 Mrs Sukhwinder Kaur Saroya worked as a senior legal adviser with the board but was given the charge of the Controller of Examinations even when she was allegedly held responsible by an inquiry officer for delay for more than a year in clearing a file for the registration of an FIR in a fake examination result card case. The members of the board who cleared the appointment of Mrs Saroya were allegedly not told about the probe against her. Sources said the board had issued orders for the registration of an FIR against the Principal of Shaheed Bhagat Singh School, Maari Mustaffa, Moga, Mr Chand Singh, in connection with the alleged issuance of an examination result card with fake marks entered in it. The card was issued to a student bearing roll number 526161 who appeared in the class XII examination held by the board in September, 1999. Sources further said that the file relating to the fake marks case allegedly remained in the legal cell branch of the board here for more than a year (from April 9, 2002, to July 20, 2003). No action was allegedly taken in the case by the legal cell which was then headed by Mrs Saroya. The board authorities then ordered a probe to fix responsibility into the inordinate delay in the execution of the orders in the registration of the FIR. The inquiry was conducted by an advocate, Mr S.S. Lamba. He recorded the statements of Mr Bharat Bhushan, law officer, Ms Karanjagdish Kaur, legal adviser, Mr Amarjit Singh, junior assistant, Legal cell, Mr Nanak Singh, restorer, and Mrs Saroya. The probe officer, who submitted a report dated May 12, 2004, held Mrs Saroya prima facie responsible for the delay in presenting the file relating to the fake marks case. The sources said that thereafter Mrs Saroya was given a show cause notice by the then Chairman of the board, Dr Kehar Singh, on July 16 last year. The show - cause notice stated that the file relating the fake marks case kept lying in the legal cell for more than a year without any reason. The relevant inquiry report had pointed out that no proper record of the files was allegedly maintained in the legal cell and neither any attention was paid to clearing of files. The dairy register and other files were not kept under lock and key. The diary register did not have entries of the file related to the case. Moreover, a page of July 23, 2002, was allegedly found missing from the diary register. The show - cause notice further said that the inquiry officer held senior legal adviser responsible for the inordinate delay. A 15-day time was given to Mrs Saroya to give reasons for the delay before the board could take disciplinary action on the basis of the inquiry report under the Punjab School Education Board Employees (Punishment & Appeals) Regulations, 1978 and Regulation 5. Even when no final decision on the probe was taken by the board relating to the case, Mrs Saroya was given the charge of the key post of the Controller of Examinations on August 27 last year with a grade of Rs 14, 300 = 20, 100 + 1000. Four officials had applied for the post of the Controller of Examinations but Mrs Saroya was given the charge. Others who were interested in the post were Mrs Pavitarpal Kaur, Deputy Director, Open School, Mr Khushbir Singh, Deputy Secretary (Middle) and Mr Hardeep Singh, lecturer (maths), Government Vikram College of Commerce, Patiala. A meeting of the members of the board was held here on October 7 last year. The appointment of the Controller of Examinations was put up as item no 6 on the agenda for approval by the board. Board members gave their approval to the appointment but it was not brought to their notice that Mrs Saroya was allegedly facing a probe. Surprisingly, the proceedings of board meeting held on October 7 were released on January 3 this year, nearly three months after the meeting. By this time the present chairman of the board, Prof Harbans Singh Sidhu, had allegedly exonerated Mrs Saroya of charges levelled by the inquiry officer in connection with the case related to the delay in registering of the FIR. Sources said that no FIR had so far been registered by the board against the Principal of the Moga school for issuing a result card with fake marks entered in it. Sources further said that Prof Sidhu gave a personal hearing to Mrs Saroya. He then pointed out that the case got delayed for over a year because there was no coordination between officials of the legal cell but “not due to any bad intention”. He said that it was difficult for the branch head to pursue every case and the senior legal adviser (Mrs Saroya) remained busy with court cases and the legal adviser was on long leave. As such there was no need of any action in the case. When the Chairman was contacted for comments on July 8, he said that he had just joined the board when Mrs Saroya was given the charge of the Controller and the reference in this regard had come from the government. He said that he would be able to comment only on July 11 after going through the relevant file. However, today he declined to meet this correspondent stating that he was busy.
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St. John’s team leaves for Florida
Chandigarh, July 11 As anxious parents looked on, the students boarded the bus that kicked off their journey to Florida to participate in the 12th Annual International Space Settlement Design Competition slated for July 15. The team comprising 11 students and two teachers, as advisers, was flagged off by the Principal of the school, Ms Pushpinder Cheema. “The students could hardly contain their excitement at being able to participate at an event of international standard. They came to school yesterday and we had a final round of discussions. Today was simply the flagging off ceremony. Though I am very jubilant, this tour also means a lot of responsibility since the boys are going very far off,” said Ms Cheema. Explaining about the event, a teacher said it is an industry simulation for teams of high school students set in the future. It emulates the experience of working on an aerospace industry proposal team. Participating teams are required to design cities in space for population of over 10,000 persons, known as Space Settlements or Space Colonies. “The competition will be an exercise in creativity, technical competence, management skills, environmental knowledge, and resources in space, teamwork, and presentation techniques. The boys will do well,” she added. Each year, the competition organisers develop a new design challenge. The eight teams that qualify for the Final Competition will be limited to 12 members each, with two adult advisers. Teams have members with diverse experiences and/or interests; successful designs balance structural integrity, operating efficiency, use of computers and robotics, and pleasant living conditions. The eight finalist teams from across the world are invited to Titusville, Florida.
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Students hold protest
Mohali, July 11 They raised slogans and demanded immediate release of their pending dues. They said they took admission to the institute after paying Rs 11,000 more than a year ago. At that time the company had promised that they would be provided training for a period of two months after which they would be placed. Some of them said they had worked for a few months but were not paid any salary. A few of them were given cheques for Rs 11,000 each which they alleged had bounced. The director of the company reportedly told the students that some of the cheques bounced because the company was going through a financial crisis. The amount due to the students would be paid back as the company did not want to play any fraud with them.
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Seventy delegates attend workshop
Chandigarh, July 11 Its main aim was to provide a platform to English teachers for their orientation. All the delegates had an intensive interactive session amongst themselves to develop sample papers of the subject. among the resource persons were Mrs Manuja, Principal DAV Public School, Sector 8, Chandigarh and Mrs V. Puri, Principal DAV Public School, Lawrence Road, Amritsar. Mrs Manju Mehta, Director DAV Education Board inaugurated the workshop. The delegates were enlightened about how to deal the different sections like reading, writing, grammar and literature. They were divided into groups and sub-groups and were asked to choose from one of the sections and prepare questions on that. It really helped the delegates to overcome their problem areas. Appropriate instructions and guidelines were given to prepare sample papers based on the prescribed syllabus.
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Backward blocks to have boarding schools for girls
Chandigarh, July 11 Stating this here today, a spokesman for the parishad said these residential schools with boarding facilities would be set up only in those blocks that did not have residential schools for elementary education of girls and where a minimum of 50 girls predominantly from Scheduled Castes and minority communities, would study. These blocks were Tosham in Bhiwani district, Palwal, Hodal, Hathin and Hassanpur in Faridabad district, Fatehabad in Fatehabad district, Taoru, Nuh, Nagina, Punhana, Ferozpur Jhirka in Gurgaon district, Uklana, Barwala, Hisar-I, Hisar-II, Hansi-I and Narnaud in Hisar district, Narwana and Uchana in Jind district, Kaithal, Rajound and Kalayat in Kaithal district, Nangal Chaudhary in Mahendergarh district, Bapoli in Panipat district and Nathusari Chopta in Sirsa district.
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Vivek High School wins eco club award
Chandigarh, July 11 Vivek High School has added a herbal garden which has exotic medicinal plants and herbs. Rain water harvesting is made in full use and has been extended further vermiculture section has added in more worms, with an increase of four more beds and the manure so obtained, is used in the school’s garden. The school has adopted a garden in Sector 46. Its recycling plant makes coarse paper from used plastic, cardboard, newspapers, cotton, rags, CITCO has ordered coasters made out of the schools recycled paper. With the awareness programme of preserving nature and reducing pollution in mind, Mr P.K. Singh, Principal of the school, initiated this club in 2000. Dr Parminder Dugal guides students and under her supervision students learn about preserving environment and share their ideas with others. Students had even distributed paper bags made out of old newspapers to shopkeepers in Sector 38 market. The School is plastic free and students are made aware of the fact to opt for car pools to reduce traffic and air pollution apart from other ways to avoid pollution.
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Students no more pedal their way
to college
Heroes of yesteryears romanced their heroines on cycles, pedalled their way to college and just about everywhere. Bollywood sure has been a trendsetter. It’s another matter that it relies on society for feedback to portray what it does on the silver screen.
Today’s on-screen heroes and heroines are all about jazzed-up mobikes, snazzy scooties and swanky cars. And, just like the movies, it’s almost “menial” for city youngsters to be pedalling their way to health on a bicycle. They will rather prefer sweating it out in a gymnasium while they arrive in college on cars or bikes. The cycle is missing in action. It’s almost extinct as far as youngsters are concerned. The empty cycle stands, the conversion of cycle parkings to car and two-wheeler parkings and the absence of space in city colleges to park cycles are all evidence of this trend that has gripped the city youth. Lowbrow, as many city youngsters may think it to be, cycling is propping up its head once again. It may change the way the youth think, but so far it hasn’t had a desired impact or made even the slightest dent in their thinking. Sunaina Mehta, a student of Government College for Girls, Sector 11, says,”It’s just not convenient to pedal around when life is a busy affair. You may have to cover five places within an hour. The cycle won’t take me everywhere and it’s just not hep when everybody around me can dash around on Kinetics and scooties. The cycle is just not happening for us.” Echoing her sentiments is Raghav Sood, seeking admission to DAV College, Sector 10. He maintains,”We are a rich generation. Our parents can afford to give us bikes and cars. Earlier generations had not heard of the kind of money that is being paid as salaries. They obviously could not have thought of owning cars while coming to the college. Since we can afford it, why shouldn’t we make the most of it?” While the youth continue to be in love with their dream machines, the UT Administration is busy making cycle tracks around the city. Either it is hoping that the youngsters will switch over to bicycles or is merely exhausting funds to meet a deadline. As of now, they are serving little purpose in the city which tops the charts for the highest density of vehicular traffic. These funds have virtually gone down the drain since there are hardly any users of these cycle tracks. The principals in city colleges, too, are alive to the need to keep the cycling culture alive. However, they can do little since the youngsters can’t be bound by the choice of the college authorities on the mode they want to use to commute to college. At GCG-11 where the entire cycle parking space had made way for scooters and an adjoining ground is being used as car parking, the Principal, Dr Manjit Kalra, states, “A lot of children here come from VIP families. They bring cars, two-wheelers and the rest come by bus. To introduce college students to cycles requires a complete makeover of the mind. It won’t happen overnight.” At Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26, here Ms Harinderjit Kaur, adds,”We had quite a few students coming on cycles. The cycles are virtually vanishing from the college parking lots. It’s sad since there are a lot of health benefits as well which come gratis with cycling. The younger generation fails to realise this. Once serious studies begin after the admissions are over, we will organise some kind of a programme for students towards the mission of promoting cycling.” For now, however, the young, footloose and fancy-free, are unfettered—-no worries about today, no concerns for tomorrow. They are busy serenading the sophisticated machines while the cycle cries for attention to find a mention in their scheme of things.
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Students display exquisite creations
Students of Fashion Designing and Textile Designing course of National Polytechnic, Panchkula, displayed their exquisite creations during their annual exhibition organised here today.
From western wear to traditional wear, kiddies clothes to exquisite textile designs — the students displayed their creations made after a year of learning skills at the institute. Dr Satvir Chaudhary, Civil Surgeon, inaugurated the exhibition. Highlighting current fashion trends, the students created the bling-bling effect by use of sequins and swarovski for embroidery on lehangas, sarees, suits and also the evening gowns and party wear frocks for girls. Mix’n’ match in the form of embroidery with tie and dye on fabrics was also visible in many designs. Mr Brij Pal Chaudhary, Centre Director, said that the exhibition is organised to give a boost to the students. “The best of whatever skills they acquire in their training, is on display in the annual exhibition,” he said.
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Capturing colours of nature
“Nature binds truth, happiness and virtue together by an indissoluble chain..” envisions young Neha Garg in the 11 oil paintings that she displayed at her maiden solo show at the IndusInd Art Gallery today.
Having just completed her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the local Government college of Arts she had built up a narrative sequence of her perception of ‘nature’ in all its manifestations through a blend of textual and visual imagery. The direct frame of thematic concept of all her paintings had come to her snooping mind from the poem ‘All things bright and beautiful...’ penned by Cecil F Alexander way back in 1848, as she claimed. In a bid to be faithful to the envisaged title ‘Nature in Thoughts’ she had apparently specified her limitations to display her versatility depicting only the glory of nature. To begin with Neha painted her concept of natural environment as perceived by her adolescent mind through ‘subconscious nature’ in oil. She, however, matures to delve deep into the intricate abstract philosophical forms of nature with incredible dexterity in ‘Senses’ ‘Diversity’, ‘Eternia’ or ‘Distraction’. The ‘Panorama of nature’ forced many art lovers to relish many different perspectives like the harmony and tranquility projected in the same painting. She augments the beauty of ‘Purple headed mountains’ with an attractive female persona prominently adorning the attractive painting. The choice and application of colours in certain paintings marginalised their indelible appeal. Earlier Mr Aditya Parkash, Chairman of the Lalit Kala Academy, inaugurated the exhibition which will be on view till July 20.
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“Awaaz Punjab Di” final at Jalandhar
Over 2000 aspiring singers had participated in a mega talent hunt contest from the Chandigarh region on June 6 and 7 last to vie for the coveted title of ‘Awaaz Punjab
Di’ held at the Tagore Theatre under the aegis of Mh 1 TV Channel.
Only 104 artists, including 13 males and 13 females had been selected from audition centers at Chandigarh , Jalandhar and Amritsar while 48 had been retained for participation in the semifinal contest from August 25 to September 3 at a venue to be declared later. The final will be held at Jalandhar where one male and female artist will be crowned ‘Awaaz Punjab
Di’ and contracts worth Rs 1 crore will be awarded to the winners. The panel of judges includes playback singer Jaspinder Narula, Hans Raj Hans and Sachin Ahuja. Meanwhile, the Mh-1 channel will telecast the proceedings of the mega show which captured the enthusiasm and talent display of the young artists, comments of the jury members and allied details of recordings at the Tagore Theatre and other cities between 8.00 PM to 9.00PM on July12, 13 and 15 between 3.00 PM to 4.00 PM on July 14 and 16, disclosed Prashant of the Mh -1 channel.
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