60 village girls get tips on textile design
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, July 17
Sixty girl students from Jugiana, Sahnewal and Dhandari Kalan villages visited Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) to attend an awareness programme on training courses in textiles.

Principal R.K. Singh explained the participants about training facilities available in the institute.

He also told students about job opportunities in the industry.

“Women workers have proved to be more efficient in the garment sector. In South India, the percentage of women workers is quite high, whereas the same is negligible in this region,” he said while emphasising the need for employing more women workers in the garment industry.

He said the ATDC aimed at having more girl students in various courses so as to cater to the increasing demand for skilled workers.

Senior faculty of the institute P.K. Yadav talked about various advanced computerised machines available at the centre.

The institute also arranged a visit of Eveline International for these students to make them conversant with the working environment in garment manufacturing units.

The purpose of the visit was to give confidence to the girls to avail of the job opportunity in garment sector after completing the training.

GM of the company Ashok Aul addressed the gathering and motivate them to get undergo training in the field.

Thirty-five students filled out forms for training at the centre.

Selected lecturers await appointments
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, July 17
The Public Cause has demanded early appointment of the lecturers selected by the Punjab Public Service Commission a few years ago. The social organisation said more than 750 posts of lecturer out of 2291 posts were lying vacant in government colleges in Punjab. There had been no recruitment of lecturers for the past eight years, it regretted, while adding that, the plight of instructional work in these colleges could be guessed from this ugly state of affairs.

It said the PPSC invited applications for 266 and 274 posts in 1999 and 2001. As many as 392 lecturers were selected in February-March, 2002. But later, the government scrapped the selections in May, 2003, due to job-on-cash scam and irregularities committed in selection in the wake of a Punjab Vigilance Bureau report.

So far as the selection of the lecturers was concerned, The Public Cause does not think that money had played any role. The vigilance Bureau had not made even a single disclosure about bribe payment in the selection of the lecturers.

Most of the lecturers belonged to middle class families and they could not pay bribes in lakhs. Moreover, the posts of lecturers are not lucrative scores of selected lecturers were gold medalists and had earned M.Phil and Ph.D degrees, besides having cleared the National Eligibility Test.

Medical camp for students
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, July 17
A team of doctors from the local Civil Hospital today examined students of St Bawra Public High School in New Lajpat Nagar at a medical camp organised on the school premises.

According to Mr Satish Soi, director of the school, the students were examined for dental and eye diseases by Dr Jyotsna Mahajan and Dr Manu Vij. Those suffering from dental and eye ailments were advised about follow up treatment.

The supporting staff of the Health Department and members of school health clinic apprised the students with the importance of dental and personal hygiene and its role in the prevention of diseases.