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DAV plans free admission to 10 pc poor students
Ludhiana, November 18 He is in the city to attend the annual functions of DAV schools. Talking to the media he said that DAV is setting up schools in Bihar. In fact 100 schools in Bihar are running very well. He said: “We have started 12 schools in Maharashtra and our biggest school is in Sholapur. In fact we are going to start schools in Gujurat too. I am glad to say that our colleges as well as schools are doing well both academically and in cultural and sports activities too.” What is the underlying factor behind the success of DAV institutions? He replied that if the principal and superintendent are good, the institution will run very well. Moreover, the managing committee has meetings with all principals thrice a year. He said that from the last two years they have been awarding those students of DAV institutions who had scored more than 90 per cent marks in the final examinations. A grand function shortly being held in Talkatora Stadium, Delhi. He said: “Last year we started awarding principals of DAV schools and colleges who have done exceedingly well. Out of 70 colleges, 5 principals were awarded and out of 600 schools, 7 principals were awarded. Mr RS Patial, Principal of DAV Public School, Ludhiana, was one of the recipients of this award. We are going to continue awarding able principals this year too at a function that will be held on April 9, 2006.” Mr Chopra said that from this session are going to give free admissions to 10 per cent of students below the poverty line. When asked how are Vedic values being transmitted to students and how will they help them to connect these to modern times, he said, “We have been holding ‘character renewal camps’ for inculcating good moral values. We expect our students to imbibe good and sound moral values to fight social evils”.
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Pvt colleges’ non-teaching staff strike work
Ludhiana, November 18 Sore over state government’s alleged step-motherly treatment towards private aided colleges, the agitating employees of Arya College demanded early merger of 50 per cent ADA into basic pay, release of ADA instalments, the benefit of pension-cum-gratuity, restoration of 95 per cent deficit grant and removal of ban on new recruitment. Mr Rajiv Bhasin, president, Arya College Non-Teaching Employees Union, Ludhiana, said on the one hand the government was claiming that the state was progressing at a greater pace, while on the other its employees were observing dharnas and strikes to lodge their protests against government’s anti-employee policies. More than 35 members attended the dharna held by the union today. A strike was observed by the non-teaching employees of Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College here. Around 50 employees protested against the non-implementation of their demands. Mr Mahinder Singh Sachdeva, president of the union, said if the government failed to fulfil their demands, they would organise a protest rally at DAV College, Jalandhar.
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Ronu’s flute recital enthrals students
Ludhiana, November 18 Talking to Ludhiana Tribune, he said: “People have spread a lot of rumours that Panna Lal Ghosh got his fingers operated so that he could stretch them to cover the holes across its length. When I started playing the large flute , even I had problems. I suffered from spondolitis but gradually I started holding it in different way and did stretching exercises to spread my fingers in a wider manner. Actually, I completed the innovation of flute started by Panna Lal Ghosh. I practised breathing exercises.” He said: “Actually, I am worried that if we do not promote our culture, we will have to find roots of our culture in some other country that has hijacked our culture. When Suborto Mukherjee , owner of Sahara Channel, presented me with Life Achievement Award , I requested him to devote some time to classical music but he said TRPs would go down.” Sudhir Pradhan, tabla maestro, who was selected to the Bihar Public Service Commission, gave up his job and followed his heart and started playing tabla. He seconded Ronu’s suggestions that the common man, artistes and the government all have to unite for the promotion of music. Ranendranath Majumdar (Ronu’s real name) began playing the flute under the guidance of his father Dr Bhanu Majumdar, the Late Pt. Laxman Prasad Jaipurwale and finally under the revered Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao. The flute is considered to be the most ancient and natural musical instrument. The idea of fashioning this instrument occurred while listening to the sweet notes generated by the blowing of wind through the holes carved on bamboo sticks by pests and insects.
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Students educated on family life
Our Correspondent
Ludhiana, November 18 Ms Prabhjot Kaur, Principal of the college, welcomed the chief guest. “Herald of Health” (a family magazine for vibrant living) was released. Dr D.J. Singh from Punjab Academy, Phillaur, Dr A.K. Kala and Dr Ravinder Kala, both psychiatrists, and Ms Amandeep, a student of the college, read out their papers and enlightened the students on family life. An exhibition of posters was also held. Ms Veerpal Kaur, a former student director, actor and writer, was honoured. The function ended with a shabad recitation by Navneet. Ms Narinder Sekhon, Vice-Principal, proposed vote of thanks. Industrial visit: Fortyfive BBA students and five members of faculty of GGNIMT visited a combing unit, APS International in Ahmedgarh.Mr Rakesh Dhand, DGM, gave a detailed information about the process of conversion of original lamb wool, which is imported from the US, Italy and Australia, to the finished product. Inter-college contest: The Doraha Institute of Management and Technology (DIMT) would organise Roshni-2005, an inter college fine arts competition, on Saturday. Dr R.S. Gupta, director of the institute, said the events for the inter-college competition would be rangoli, matka decoration, poster making, cartooning, clay modeling, collage making, mehndi and face painting.Eleven colleges will be participating in the competition. Students visit BSNL exchange: Forty students of MBA-IIIrd semester visited the Bharat Sanchar Ltd (BSNL) exchange here on Thursday. Mr Jhulka, General Manager, BSNL, and Mr Satish Gupta, Divisional Engineer, briefed them on the working of exchange. The visit was the part of their curriculum.Book fair: A two-day book fair was organised at Khalsa College for Women here on Friday. It was inaugurated by Principal Varinder Kaur Thind. Lyall Book Depot, Uni Star and Navneet Eco Friendly Stationery exhibited books on a wide range of subjects.
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Interact Club revived in school
Our Correspondent
Ludhiana, November 18 Rotary President Dr A.S. Bindra presided over the function. He was accompanied by secretary S.P. Karkara and former governor Suresh Chaudhry. Twenty five students from Classes IX to XII were enrolled in the club. The following were elected office-bearers: president — Shivam Khanna (+1); vice-president — Rubal Narang (+2); treasurer — Manraj Singh (+2). The officer-bearers and members of the club were congratulated by Dr Bindra. Presiding over a meeting held on the school campus, Dr Bindra apprised the students of the various activities of the club. He encouraged them to hold tree plantation drives, health awareness programmes and observe road safety weeks. He said the aim of the club was to cultivate moral values and bring out the latent talent among the students. It was decided to organise a salad making contest on November 29. It will be preceded by lectures on nutrition by eminent dietician. Principal H.C. Gupta thanked the members of the Rotary Club for reviving club of the school and assured them of all cooperation in future social projects undertaken by the club. Seminar: A seminar on personality development and communicative skills was organised at Baba Isher Singh (N) Senior Secondary Public School, BRS Nagar, here today.Representative from a computer education group came to address the students. Students from Classes XI and XII attended the seminar. Vandana Raheja apprised the students of the objectives and importance of communicative skills in daily life. She delivered her lecture with visual aids. School Principal Aneeta Kundra asked students to use communicative skills for personality development.
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A magical treat for students
Ludhiana, November 18 The students thanked their Director, Ms Avinash Walia, for providing them such entertainment.
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PHSC to monitor doctors’ performance
Ludhiana, November 18 This was stated by Mr T.R. Sarangal, Managing Director of the PHSC, while addressing a press conference before a district-level meeting with senior medical officers and other senior government health professionals at Bachat Bhavan here today. Dr Y.R. Markan, Additional Director of the PHSC, and the Civil Surgeon, Dr Rajinder Kaur, were also present on the occasion. Mr Sarangal said a network of 200 landline connections was being laid for providing connectivity to the healthcare institutions with the district and state headquarters so that supervisory officers could keep an eye on the day-to-day working of doctors and para-medical staff, and the menace of absenteeism could be effectively tackled. “The proposed communication network will have the incoming facility to facilitate access for the people to doctors and health professionals in addition to both-ways inter-communication between the health centres, district and state headquarters. The telephone numbers of government health institutions will be properly publicised for information of members of public,” he said. He said some 1,300-odd vacant posts of doctor in rural areas would be filled by March 2006 through zila parishads, which would be entrusted with the responsibility of paying salaries to the doctors. Necessary steps would also be taken to shift medical and surgical specialists, who had served in cities for longer durations, to rural health centres so that rural population could avail of super-speciality services in government health centres. Mr Sarangal made it clear that the doctors and other staff in government health institutions would be made accountable for delivery of the desired level of healthcare services to the people. “The PHSC will evolve a mechanism to monitor the performance and proper attendance of medical professionals. We shall ensure that responsibility is fixed for lapses and defaulters are properly dealt with,” he added.
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DMCH doctor attends fellowship in US
Ludhiana, November 18 The foundation is a wing of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). Talking to reporters here yesterday, he said the programme provided an opportunity to 12 medical educators, selected every year from various countries, to equip themselves with innovative changes in medical curriculum to enhance training of physicians and ultimately improve health care at the international level. It was his second participation in the programme, after having attended the first session in 2004. During the programme, Dr Daljit Singh presented results of the project “Curriculum revisit through students feedback”. The project, carried out during the past one year with the help of heads of different departments, faculty members and students of the DMCH, showed that student’s feedback could be used meaningfully to modify curriculum for improvement in the quality of medical education. It is noteworthy that the DMCH is one of the very few institutions throughout the world in which annual comprehensive student’s feedback system has been in practice. The DMCH Principal also presented a paper on “Vertically integrated student seminars”. Apart from discussions on the project, Dr Daljit Singh participated in sessions on “Mentoring and learning web, “Advanced MBTI”, “Networkman advanced programme evaluation by qualitative methods” and “Expanding leadership repertoire”. The final part of the fellowship will be carried out over the next year as a followup to the educational project, he stated.
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Khalsa sports meet from today
Ludhiana, November 18 According to Mr Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal, Additional Secretary, Nankana Sahib Education Trust, students from 21 colleges of Punjab, along with those from colleges of other states, will be vying for honours during this three-day sports meet. Ms Jagir Kaur, President, SGPC, will inaugurate the festival. Students will compete in athletics, volleyball, weightlifting, kabaddi, hockey, kho-kho, badminton, handball, football and table tennis.
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