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Shortage of teachers hits Khamano schools
Khamano, October 25 The primary school of Khamano Kalan is a centre school and where the BPEO office is also located and it has 170 students but there is no permanent teacher there. A teacher on deputation and two PTA teachers are trying to man the students. A school of Todarpur village has 19 students but no teacher. The school of Ladpuri village have 29 students and is without any teacher. A village of the Khamano area, Luharmajra, is also without any teacher although there are nearly 135 students. A school of nearby village, Badesh Khurd, has 40 students, but no teacher. According to government norms, there should be a teacher for 40 students. But a school of Bhambri village near here has 112 students, but only one teacher. A school of Raipur Raian village has 100 students but only one teacher. The school of Shamshpur Singhan village has 88 students but single teacher. The school of Jatana Ucha village has 85 students but there is only one teacher. A big village of the area, Amrala, has 126 students but there are only two teachers. At Sanghol village school (girls) there are 186 students but only three teachers. At Fatehgarh Nivan village school there are 137 students but there are only three teachers. A school of Barwali Kalan village has 74 students but single teacher. Another big village, Hawara Kalan, has 177 students but have only two teachers. At Hargana village school, there are 82 students but only a single teacher. In this way, there are 248 sanctioned posts of teachers in Khamano block, but 112 posts are lying vacant. Five posts of centre head teachers are also vacant out of 12 in the area. Out of 81 only 14 schools have part time sweepers. Education Department and the government should take immediate steps in the larger interests of poor people.
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45 students participate in declamation contest
Ludhiana, October 25 The results of the competition are as follows: English Declamation— Harman Preet Singh 1, Guru Nanak Public School stood first and Lokesh Anand of Kundan Vidya Mandir second. Jaspreet Singh of Gujarnwala Guru Nanak Public School was placed third and consolation prize went to Lovpreet Singh of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Police Public School, Phillur and Vaibhav of Manav Public School, Amritsar. Punjabi Declamation: Jaskiran Kaur of Mahraja Ranjit Singh Police Public School, Phillur (first); Chaman Preet of Guru Nanak International Public School (second); Harsimran Kaur of DAV Public School and Amrita BCM School, Shastri Nagar (third) Manpreet Kaur, and Gurpreet Kaur, bagged the consolation prizes. The overall trophy was won by Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, BRS Nagar, Ludhiana. Ms Manjit
Sodhia, former Principal Government College for Women, was the chief guest.
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Exhibition at Khalsa college
Ludhiana, October 25 Ms Maninder Sandhu, the chief guest, inaugurated the exhibition. Various stalls were thronged by students who wanted to have a look at the display of hand-crafted goods and articles. The stalls displayed candles in myriad shapes and colours, beautiful paper bags to curb the plastic menace, chocolates, innovative photo frames, coloured stones for decorations, wax craft in glass containers, paintings, glass paintings, stone paintings, 'naib and thread' paintings, mix media along with the traditional crotchet work, bed-sheets, pots, flour pots and wicker baskets. The major participants were the fine-arts and home science students. The chief guest congratulated the Principal, staff and students for organising such an exhibition. Dr Ms Varinder Kaur Thind said that such exhibitions provided an effective way to give an expression to the creative energy of the young students. The exhibition was marked by the spirit of festivity, enthusiasm and cultural fervour.
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Engineering student honoured
Our Correspondent
Ludhiana, October 25 SAE International’s Indian division popularly known as SAE-India has many student chapters in various engineering colleges spread throughout the country and its present strength was nearly 7000. The strength of the SAE-GNDEC students’ chapter is 213. The Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Principal, Dr S.B. Singh, presented this award to Gurpreet’s parents at simple function in college auditorium, organised by the SAE-GNDEC Students’ Chapter which was followed by a lecture on ‘Career options for Engineers’ given by the faculty of the IMS. Gurpreet Singh Virdi is at present studying for his master’s degree at GeorgiaTech, USA. Lecture on
commerce management
As many as 250 persons comprising students, teachers and professionals from different colleges — SCD Government College, KLSD College, Arya College, DIMT Doraha, ICFAI National College participated in the PCMA Lecture on “Contemporary environment for commerce and management” organised by the Punjab Commerce and Management Association (PCMA) held at Arya College here today. The lecture was organised jointly by Arya College and the PCMA. Dr S.M. Sharma, Principal of the Arya College welcomed delegates and introduced speakers to audience. Dr Sharma introduced Dr S.P. Singh, former Dean, University Business School, and Dr B.S. Bhatia, former Registrar, Punjabi University, Patiala, to the audience. There after Prof Ashwani Bhalla invited Dr Prem Kumar, President of the PCMA, to outline the activities of the association. Dr S.P. Singh, while speaking on the occasion, said the world was changing very fast and it would be possible for the human beings to conquer death by 2020. In this changing scenario, he outlined various challenges before the commerce and management students to prepare themselves to change their attitude. Dr B.S. Bhatia said that the education system, particularly commerce and management education had to be transformed to meet the challenges ahead. Dr Vijay Asdhir extended vote of thanks on behalf of the PCMA to all delegates. Prof Ashwani Bhalla told the members that the PCMA had so far enrolled 800 members and it had become the first organisation in Punjab in the field of commerce and management to release its telephone directory with full details of its members. He further added that association would also organise two days national seminar on ‘retail management’ on November 26-27 at Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology, Model Town, here.
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A.S. College alumni
annual function on October 29
Khanna, October 25
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Need for TB hospital in city stressed
Ludhiana, October 25 Speaking at a TB awareness and check up camp organised for industrial workers at a local knitwear factory in Sherpur locality here, Dr Satish Nauhria, president of the society, urged the state government as well as the NGOs and industrialists to come forward for this noble task. He said the government could make a beginning by allotting land at subsidised rates for the TB hospital. A team of six doctors, led by Dr Nauhria, examined more than 400 workers at the camp who were also told about causative factors of the disease and measures required to prevent it. Under its ongoing drive for the eradication of the disease, the society has till now conducted sputum test of more than 700 suspected cases out of which as many as 200 patients were put on treatment. 94 TB patients had completed the therapy and were completely cured, Dr Nauhria said. The society president informed that as per the recommendations of the World Health Organisation, the society had adopted the DOT programme under which free anti-tubercular drugs were being administered to the patients thrice a week (on alternate days) by the trained health professionals. ‘‘It is our endeavour to make sure that the anti-TB medication is given to the patients under direct observation of the treating doctors. Patients in the vicinity, are being called to respective hospitals for administration of drugs while for those living away from the hospitals, are receiving the medicines at their doorstep from trained health workers. The entire treatment is being provided free of cost," maintained DR Nauhria.
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US surgeon to visit CMCH
Ludhiana, October 25 An alumnus of CMCH, Dr Ananthakrishnan received his initial training with Dr Ronald Garst and Dr
L.H. Lobo here after which he immigrated to USA and completed his training in orthopaedics. He is now settled there and has been in practice for over 35 years. With his vast experience in the field of orthopaedics, and having performed over 5000 joint replacement surgeries till now, he is much sought after both by the students and the patients at the
CMCH, the institution which he has been regularly visiting for more than a decade now. Dr Ananthakrishnan has also been instrumental in the present development of orthopaedic department and faculty at
CMCH. According to Dr John Abraham, Medical Superintendent of CMCH, during his fortnight long stay here, the visiting orthopaedician would be available for consultation and surgery to those who wished to benefit from his expertise. Registration of patients would be open at the orthopaedic OPD of the hospital on all week days and those seeking consultation have been advised to seek prior appointment.
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Badminton body faction clarifies
Ludhiana, October 25 In a press note here today, Mr R.S. Behal, honorary general secretary, said the allegations against Mr Gianinder Singh for using the DSO’s office at Guru Nanak Sports Complex for the association purposes were baseless and misleading. “The allegations are mischievous and just to tarnish the image of the DSO in the eyes of the sportsmen and sports department which need strong condemnation,” Mr Behal said.
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