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Delay in results leaves students in the lurch
Mandi Ahmedgarh, August 1 A communication addressed to the Governor Punjab, the Vice-Chancellor and the Chief Minister revealed that a number of students of PU, who had appeared in B.Sc final examination conducted in April this year, were yet to receive their result. As such, they could not get admission to the higher classes. Rajbir Singh, Vikas Goel, Vishal Arora and Amritpal Singh, all students of GHG Khalsa College Gurusar Sudhar, had appeared in the examination in April and the university had declared results on June 6. “We were shocked to see that our results had been shown as “late” for no fault of ours,” said the students. The university authorities had told them that the award list for math paper had not been received by them; hence their results could not be declared. The affected students, along with their parents, shuttled among various offices at Chandigarh and Sudhar but to no avail. “Now when various universities have completed the process for admission to the postgraduate courses and higher classes, we are left on the mercy of the authorities for our future,” explained the students. They apprehended that the university authorities had misplaced their answersheets and were trying to put off the matter till they get some solution to the problem. “As we have obtained good marks in rest of the papers, we will accept any decision based on our performance in these subjects, but our results must be declared soon. Our candidature for admission to the higher classes should also be considered,” demanded the victims.
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PCMA seminar concludes
Ludhiana, August 1 While welcoming the delegates, the chairman of the Desh Bhagat Group of Institutes, Dr Zora Singh, said PCMA was organising various academic activities throughout the state. He said there was a need to create quality and educational institutions should come forward to promote research and academic activities. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Prem Kumar, president,
PCMA, said mergers and acquisitions had become the need of the hour and rational size of the organisations could be ensured only through re-organisation. He said ‘perform or perish’ had become the mool mantras. The first technical session was chaired by Dr R. K. Mittal, chairman, Department of Commerce, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. The keynote address was delivered by Dr
H.P. Mathur from Banaras Hindu University. He highlighted the key issues relating to mergers and acquisitions. He also touched upon the governance issues. A valedictory address was given by Dr S. P. Singh, Senior Professor, University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh. At least 35 research papers were presented in two technical sessions. While narrating about the activities of the
PCMA, Prof Ashwani Bhalla, Joint secretary, said PCMA would organise a faculty development programme on changing dimensions of pedagogy in accounting on August 27 and 28 at CT Institute of Management and Technology, Jalandhar.
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NSS volunteers cautioned against drug abuse
Ludhiana, August 1 Addressing volunteers, Dr K.S. Verma, Programme Coordinator, PAU, highlighted the role of the National Service Scheme in overall personality development of the youth through community development programmes. Mr Sandeep Singh, Programme Officer, delivered a lecture, introducing the NSS volunteers with historical background, motto, objectives, camps and various developmental and community service-related activities to be carried out and various incentives available to the volunteers in the scheme. The main theme of the camp was “the menace of drug abuse and its prevention”. The speakers explained the situation of drug addiction, especially among the rural youth through statistics on the incidence in relation to the age groups, sex as well as social strata. Later on, the volunteers were shown a CD on drug-abuse supplied by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to all educational institutions in the country. Four NSS volunteers donated blood.
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Seminar on capital market reforms
Mandi Gobindgarh, August 1 Mr Sidhu said the opening up of the economy required faster settlements, faster delivery of securities and funds, more transparency in dealings, checking unfair trade practices and bringing the market to international
statndards. He said the establishment of SEBI was a landmark event in the reform process. Its main emphasis was on observing high standard of integrity and fair dealing by setting standards of disclosures, defining of risk factors, search and seizures powers and imposition of monetary policies. The other important reform was screen-based trading introduced by the NSE in 1996, which eliminated the hassles of physical settlements. The depository system had helped in ushering
investor friendly environment. By March 2005, there were 74 lakh accounts, the number of demat securities is 1200 million and the value of demat shares is Rs 12,634 billion. He said India was one of the few countries having a T+2 system of payments and was expected to be the second country after Taiwan to switch over to T+1 system. In derivative trading, the latest addition had been the commodity future and the day was not far when India would have trading in intangible assets like rain and electricity.
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Contests on Udham Singh’s martyrdom day
Ludhiana, August 1 The keynote research paper on the secular ideology of Udham Singh, who named himself as Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, was read by Dr Gurdev Singh Chandi of Punjabi University, Patiala. He highlighted the revolutionary life of this great freedom fighter of the nation. Dr Gurmukh Singh Gill, KS Panchi, Satpal Gill and Ms Ramandeep Kaur Brar presented their songs and poems on the sacrifice of the martyr. On this occasion, a large number of students of different schools participated in declamation and poetry-reading contests. Results of poetry recitation: Awards of excellence: Gurpreet Kaur, Rajbir Kaur (Darshan Academy) and Bhav Nepal (BVM School) Best awards: Harnoor, Harseerat Thind (DAV School). First prizes: Ilahi Noor, DAV School, Ramandeep, GRD Academy, Manmeet and Sonia, Darshan Academy. Second prizes: Kamal Deep Kaur, Darshan Academy. Results of declamation contest: Award of excellence: Gurpreet, Darshan Academy, Guheer Kaur, GRD Best award: Rajbir Kaur, Darshan Academy First prizes: Pooja, Darshan Academy, Money Nepal, BVM.
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Shipra Gupta excels in M.Sc IT
Tribune Reporters
Ludhiana, August 1 The Principal, Dr Harbans Kaur Khatra, and the managing committee of the college have congratulated the students. Declamation contest:
An inter- house Punjabi/ Hindi declamation contest for classes IX and X was held yesterday at Guru Nanak Public School in which 16 students participated. The results are as follows: Parampreet Singh stood first in Punjabi; Harmanpreet Singh stood second in Punjabi; Puneet Kaur stood third in Punjabi; Navpriya Kaur was declared the best Speaker among Hindi speakers. Prof Mohan Singh House stood first; Bhai Vir Singh House stood second; and Maharaja Ranjit Singh House stood third.
Excursion:
An educational tour was organised by Guru Gobind Singh Public School, Daad, Pakhowal Road, Ludhiana, for its staff and students. The students visited Pushpa Gujral Science City at
Kapurthala.
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Be on guard against monsoon maladies
Ludhiana, August 1 According to Dr
G.P.I. Singh, Professor and Head of Community Medicine at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here, mosquito bite-related diseases like malaria, dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever are quite common in Punjab while Japanese B-encephalitis and filariasis are known to afflict people mostly in the eastern parts of the country. However, with large-scale movement of migrant population to Punjab , local transmission is only a matter of time since the varieties concerned of mosquitoes are available in this state. All mosquito-borne diseases, says Dr
G.P.I. Singh, start with fever, chill, bodyache and headache. Some patients may have nausea and vomiting. Normally, malaria fever goes down to normal after profuse sweating to occur again on the third day. But the pattern has largely changed now and the fever may be prolonged or continuous. Dengue fever is accompanied by severe
bodyache, and if the affliction is of serious degree, it can have associated symptoms like bleeding with stool, from nose, mouth, gums or skin. More severe cases result in shock and death. “Other mosquito bite-related diseases present themselves similarly but proceed on to unconsciousness or fits (as in encephalitis) or elephantiasis or hydrocele (swelling of legs, scrotum) in
filariasis, if left untreated. Pregnant women are specially vulnerable to development of complications of malaria and dengue.” Making a strong case for prompt and adequate treatment of these problems, Dr
G.P.I. Singh said during the prevalent weather conditions, and up to December, all cases of fever should be suspected to be malaria or dengue or other mosquito related diseases. Diagnosis by blood test must be confirmed immediately and appropriate treatment instituted by qualified doctors. Cases of dengue and those of complicated malaria and encephalitis were best treated in a hospital because blood transfusion might be required in case of dengue hemorrhagic fever. Suggesting some preventive measures against mosquito-borne diseases, he advised wearing full-sleeve shirts and trousers, especially by children when playing outdoors, use of wire mesh doors and windows, use of mosquito repellent creams on exposed parts of the body, mats, coils, use of mosquito nets if sleeping outdoors, use of hand spray guns to reduce mosquito density in rooms, acceptance of residual sprays or ULV fogging by health and civic body teams and elimination of small water collections in domestic areas at least once a week, which would deny breeding places to mosquitoes. Dr
G.P.I. Singh maintained that comprehensive preventive steps also needed to be taken at the community level by the municipal administration and the Health Department. “All ditches and rain water cesspools should be levelled and filled up to prevent stagnation of water, blockages in drains should be cleared, mass scale anti-larva measures should be taken and residual spray, once in two months, along with ULV fogging once or twice in a fortnight should be arranged in malaria and dengue-prone localities.” At the same time, he emphasised the need for strengthening urban health units by providing adequate anti-malaria drugs, laboratory service for speedy diagnosis and carrying out active surveillance. All hospitals should also be geared up for handling malaria and dengue cases. Dr
G.P.I. Singh said intelligent observance of personal protective measures and application of community measures, based on sound principles and understanding of the mosquito life cycle should effectively reduce the incidence of these diseases and consequent human suffering. “It is much more
cost effective to prevent these diseases than to manage outbreaks.”
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