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School boy assaulted by classmates
Chandigarh, November 16 Giving details, sources in the Sector 22 police post said Gaganjit Singh, a student of the Sector 22-based Shishu Niketan School had alleged in his complaint that he was attacked by four-five of his classmates. He alleged that on Monday there was a sports meet in their school and being Head Boy he was supervising the affairs, during which he stopped a fellow student from creating indiscipline. The other student took offence on this and
threatened him with dire consequences. Further in his complaint Gaganjit alleged that today this boy stopped him and began arguing with him. Seeing the commotion their teachers intervened and took them to the school Principal, who asked both the students to bring their parents to school. After this Gaganjit boarded the school bus and the other students too left the school. When the school bus reached a petrol station, some boys who were armed with hockey and baseball sticks came in two cars. They tried to pull out Gaganjit and also hit him on thigh with a stick. Seeing this people gathered at the spot and the driver and the conductor of the bus came to his rescue. Policemen present at a nearby beat box rushed to the spot. On seeing the approaching policemen, the boys ran away leaving their cars behind, said in-charge of the Sector 22 police post, Dilsher Singh Chandel.
Gaganjit was rushed to General Hospital, Sector 16, and was discharged later after administering first-aid. A case of rioting and assault has been registered in this regard.
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Few good technical education teachers, rues IIT chief
Chandigarh, November 16 The conference will deliberate on three themes: technical education structure, management of technical education system and knowledge management for TVE & T system. In his inaugural address, Dr Vrat emphasised on the development of the integrated technical education system from ITI to IIT. While highlighting the acute shortage of outstanding faculty members, he pointed out that quality and excellence were lacking in technical education system. He advocated for the preparation of a national data base for the requirement of engineering graduates in future. He dilated on the integration of humanistic values and flexibility in technical education. He further added that although experienced faculty members and young faculty members were available, the intermediate cadre was missing and, therefore, the whole spectrum was distorted. He added potential of Edusat must be exploited for the proliferation of technical education. Need-based and demand based technical-education shall be imparted rather than supply based education. Dr O.P. Bajpai, Director of NITTTR, chaired the inaugural session. In the afternoon session, the invited speakers made their presentations. Mr Dharam Vir, Principal Secretary, Haryana, spoke on the management of technical education. A talk on challenges in technical education was delivered by Dr Vijay Gupta, PEC. E-Governance and knowledge management for effective management was the topic of discussion by Vivek Atray, Joint Secretary, IT and Director Technical Education, UT. Dr. SC Saxena, Director, Thapar Institute of Technology, Patiala, spoke on the management of technical education while management of technical education — a case study of Punjab technical university, Jalandhar, was the paper by Dr M.S. Grewal, Registrar, PTU, Jalandhar.
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TIE Fiesta 2005 concludes
Chandigarh, November 16 The 26 schools who participated in the event today were shortlisted out of 55 schools who had participated in the semifinals. The chief guest on the occasion was Mr. OP Arora, Additional General Manager, The Tribune Trust. Mr Goraya, Dstrict Education Officer, UT, was a special guest for the event. The TIE team which worked for the event included Mrs Anita Sharma, Mrs Shanta
Naiyyar, Mrs Anupama Chopra, Mrs Lily Banerjee and Ms Reenu Katoch. The head of the team was Mr BM Kalia while Mr SN Bhatia was the in charge. Results: Solo song-junior category: Manav Mangal High School, Sector 21,
1 AKSIPS, Sector 41, 2 GMSSS, Sector 35, 3 Solo song-senior category: SD Model Senior Secondary School, Rajpura, 1 Shivalik Public School, Ropar, 2 Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Kharar, 3 Group dance-junior category St. Xavier’s High School, Mohali, 1 DAV Model School, Sector 15, 2 Navjot Public School, Mohali, 3 Group dance-senior category: Ryan International School, Sector 49, 1 SD Model Senior Secondary School, Rajpura, and Moti Ram Arya Senior Secondary School, Sector 27, 2 Manav Mangal High School, Sector 21, 3
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Music recital by Japanese artistes
Panchkula, November 16 The event was organized by the International Institute of Perfect Arts (IIPA) in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan and Japan Foundation. After Saraswati Vandana by Gurkul students, the solo instrumental performance on ‘arpa,’ an innovated version of Japanese traditional music instrument ‘koto’ by Ms Elena Tomioka aroused curiousity amongst students. She played with her nails on the 37-stringed five-feet long musical instrument. Displaying nimble fingerwork, she employed the right hand on the tenor and middle octave while the left hand fingers provided the bass and drone effect. She performed the ‘Rhythm of Madrid, a Christian song and a folk number ‘Thona din na..’ . The students had reserved the adulation for Nobuko Furihata and Kumiko Mori who regaled the students and staff with the Panel theatre illustration of stories by generating paper cuttings of characters with electrifying speed while singing and dancing on the stage. The small presentations included Japanese, Namsate, Bolo Bacho, colours, Japanese story, Japanese curry and Bus. Earlier, Gurukul students welcomed them in traditional Indian style and later presented scintillating Gidha while director Sanjay Thareja and Principal Kavita Soni honoured the visiting artistes and the IIPA Director. Later in the evening, noted ghazal singer Arjun Jaipuri and sufiana singer Mamta Joshi joined the Japanese ensemble who repeated their performance before a large audience at Kalagram. Mamta Joshi commenced the programme with Sultan Bahu’s sufina qalaam ‘Alaf Allah’ before doling out Fida Batalvi's song ‘Dil Chandra’ and ‘Pali rakhna’ from the slumbering love legend of Heer Ranjha. Arjun Jaipuri, however, augmented the performance with Bashir Badar's "Pathar ke jigar waalo gham mein vo ravaani hai, khud rah ban lega behta hua paani hai" and Zigar Moradabdi’s classic "Sababb ban kar teri neendon ko sajaate honge…" After a few ghazals , it was Ajit Kaur who provided the grand finale with a Punjabi song. Raman Kant, Avirbhav Verma, Goldie Laxman Neta accompanied the artistes.
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“Treat education like religion”
Chandigarh, November 16 “Education needs to be treated like a religion” said Dr. Joshi in his inaugural address. Speaking on Education and, “Learning Styles,” Dr Joshi said that the greatest responsibility lay on the school teachers as they were required to make children understand different subjects in a language and style that was comprehensible and could promote intelligent thinking. Dr Jitendra Mohan, Department of Psychology, PU, in his keynote address on “Thinking and Learning Disabilities,” said parents must look for any learning disabilities amongst their children for early detection and diagnosis and seek professional help. Learning disabilities are not contagious but can be genetic and can be detected through intervention of either a clinical psychologist,
neurpsychologist, psychometrist, occupational therapist or speech and language therapist. Dr B.S. Sohi, founder and Director,
UIET, Panjab University, spoke on the need to review the online academic courses which must adapt new techniques to promote learning. He said the university was in the process of integrating libraries to make knowledge available online to the academicians as well as students. Later Dr Rajeev Sharma, senior lecturer, Modi College, Patiala, spoke on use of action research as a means to support faculty’s professional growth and development. Prof Swayam Bedi, from the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research addressed the issue of incorporating creative learning techniques in the current educational system.
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Staff of aided schools hold dharna
Chandigarh, November 16 The agitators were demanding implementing of a High Court decision which directed the state government to release pensionery benefits to the employees who had retired after June 2003 from aided schools. Other demands were merger of 50 per cent DA in pay and pension of teachers and pensioners of aided schools, removal of ban on recruitment of aided post lying vacant in aided schools.
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Atray stresses on need of soft IT skills
Chandigarh, November 16 Ashish Nagrath, CEO, Global Voice, said with the opening up of the economy the business environment had undergone a dramatic change. Sanjay Sachdeva, HR Head, IDS Infotech Ltd, and Paavni Agarwal also spoke.
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Inter-school contests
held at DAV school
Chandigarh, November 16 Results were as follows: Anuchechi, DAV Sr. Sc, Public School, Surajpur — first; Abhishek Sharma, DAV Sr. Sc, School, Sector 8 — second; Rajat Thakur, DAV Model School, Sector 15 and Surbhi, Major RN Kapoor, DAV Public School, Ambala Cantt — third.
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VCD released
Mohali, November 16 Addressing mediapersons, Billa Sher said through some of the songs he wanted to warn the youngsters that if they wanted to go abroad they should adopt the right method instead of approaching travel agents who allegedly duped them. |
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