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Kwazulu Natal Premier visits PAU
Ludhiana, December 20 Talking to the Vice-Chancellor, the Premier said his country was a gateway to South Africa and his government was determined to develop his province into a peaceful and prosperous state. “We have established programmes aimed at poverty alleviation and sustainable growth in order to deliver measurable, visible and sustainable results in terms of employment creation and eradicating poverty”, he said. He told the Vice Chancellor that he was impressed by the PAU and its contribution in ushering in a Green Revolution in the country. “We have come here to learn from you the ways in order to uplift our farmers”, he said.
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GNIMT students excel
Our Correspondent
Ludhiana, December 20 Colonel H.S. Singha, Director GNIMT, congratulated the merit position holders for their excellent achievements. He expressed his hope that the students would continue their zealous efforts and sustain excellence in their performance. Christmas celebrated: Mom’s Pride School celebrated Christmas with great pomp and show to get aware of the festival. The children came dressed up in black and red and sang Christmas carols. Chocolates and sweets were distributed to them by Santa Claus. Papers on teleshopping presented:
Mr Gautam Bansal and Mr Sandhir Sharma, faculty members from the Department of Business Management, PCTE (Punjab College of Technical Education) presented their research paper at 5th IBIMA (International Business Information Management Association) International Conference held at Cairo, Egypt recently. IBIMA is an association managed by HOFSTRA University, Hampstead, USA comprising various internationally renowned academicians and professionals in the field of management and information technology. Mr Bansal and Mr Sharma presented paper on
teleshopping.
The paper presented by both faculty members of PCTE were highly appreciated and both members were invited to chair the sessions in the next IBIMA international conference, to be held at Berlin (Germany) in December 2006. The PCTE faculty also visited American Cairo University and interacted with their faculty members and delivered lecture to the students of the Business Management Department on strategic management and management information system. As many as 72 academicians, researchers and professionals from Australia, German, France, USA. UK, Malaysia, Indonesia , Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Italy, etc participated and presented their contributions in the three-day-long conference in Egypt. The conference included tracks on the topics such as supply chain management, e-governance, business process reengineering, knowledge management, enterprise resourcing, SMEs, e-banking and financial industry, database and database management, IT outsourcing, e-business, m-commerce, software development, artificial intelligence, services and quality management, ERP, CRM, outsourcing, data mining, internet, data warehousing, e-learning and many more.
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Blend of old and new is the essence this winter
Ludhiana, December 20 As a part of their annual project work, they displayed garments of first year students of knitwear designing candidly established a close connection between the most recent fashion statements and the classical originals that are so far confined to the books. The exhibition was put under the guidance of Mr Nirbhay Kumar, course leader, Ms Seerat Gill, faculty and Mr Rajneesh, faculty knitwear design technology, who acquainted the students with the basics of knitting and garment construction.” Though fashion is predicted on a rather accelerated cycle of innovation but there have been numerous instances to form an ideal piece. The students have tried to attempt the same in today’s exhibition”, said Mr Kumar. The visitors showed keen interest in knitwear collection that included the aesthetically patterned multicoloured pullovers. However, the cynosure of all the eyes was knitted skirts decorated with multicoloured laces and beads. Besides a wide range of knitted T-shirts, mufflers, caps, knitted tank tops, also on display were 3D products showing development and manipulation of forms using ivory cards. The students had rightly depicted the knowledge of colour theory. The important and unique feature of the exhibition was that all items were wearable by common man.
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Magic of their hands enriches others
Ludhiana, December 20 The artisans, settled here for several years now have been working at places like Kundanpuri, Deep Nagar, Model Town extension, Madhopuri, Ghumar Mandi, Sunet village etc. Majority of them are Muslims, whose generations are into this kashidakari work. “We get orders from boutiques. They come up with an idea or design, we modify the designs and present them in most attractive manner. The boutique owners get anything between Rs 1,000 to Rs 3,000 for an embroidery work from their customers and we hardly get Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 for the same from the boutiques. But we do not crib as we get orders in bulk. I have got an order of making 400 suits till February end. Such orders are placed by boutique owners only”, said Javed, an artisan working at Sunet village. These artisans have created their unique patterns and some of them have given interesting names to their creations like jhoomar design, kundan-patti design, jhumka design, gotta-patti haar etc. They do thread-work, bead-work, salma-sitara work, sequin, embellishments, gota-patti work etc. Several teenage children can also be seen working on these addas with their elder brothers and fathers. A ten-year old child, Aslam on asking about his qualification, said, “Nobody in our family got education. We have been doing this kashidakari for ages, so there is no use wasting time on getting education”. Rehman, who is into this work with his two wives, said, “We know that boutique owners are the persons, who get maximum profit. To be very honest, our daily bread and butter depends on them. We can not afford to lose them. At times, when there is some export order, we try to compensate as well. The NRIs appreciate our talent, and majority of them are willing to pay the price of our hard-work without creating a fuss”.
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55 units of blood collected at DMCH camp
Ludhiana, December 20 A team of doctors and technicians under the guidance of the head of the transfusion medicine, department, Dr Amarjit Kaur, organized the camp. Swami Shankranand Ji Bhuriwale, a religious leader and social worker, working for the welfare of orphans inaugurated the camp. The blood collected at the camp would be processed and screened for all diseases like AIDS and Hepatitis before being released to patients, informed Dr Rajesh Kumar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Transfusion Medicine. This would ensure perfect safety of blood to the recipients. According to Dr Amarjit Kaur, the major concern of the department was to arrange adequate blood for thalassaemic children and for certain conditions where life of the patient was dependent only on blood transfusion. Medical camp:
Meanwhile, a free medical camp was organised by Rishi Harmilap Nursing Home with the assistance of Mr Harmeet Singh Bagga and Dr Eva Maria Valrado at Bhattian on the periphery of the city today. Mr Kuldip Singh, SP City II and Mr Rajesh Rudra, Director, Greenland Public School inaugurated the camp. Around 750 patients were examined at the camp. A team of doctor comprising Dr Rajinder Singh, eye surgeon, Dr Harjinder Singh, Dr Baljit, Dr Sunil Lakhotra, Dr Anu Shahi, Dental Surgeon and Dr Kuljit Bhalla conducted the check up of the patients and distributed free medicines to them.
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Govt to set up AIDS testing centres
Ludhiana, December 20 This was announced by Punjab Health Minister, Mr Ramesh Chander Dogra, while addressing a seminar on AIDS awareness, organised jointly by the United Cycle and Parts Manufacturers and Ludhiana Citizen Health Council here today. The minister formally launched a poster on AIDS awareness and prevention, prepared by Ludhiana Citizens Health Council and made a fervent plea with the members of industrial community to prominently display these posters in their respective units. Mr Dogra said prevention was the only way to keep the deadly and incurable disease which had claimed 23 million human lives till now. There were nearly 38 million HIV positive persons all over the world with almost 5 million falling prey to the killer disease during this year itself. Speaking on the occasion, the DIG of police, Ludhiana Range, Mr Parag Jain, remarked that loyalty in married life and safe sex were the key precautions against HIV infection which ought to be scrupulously followed. He informed that members of Ludhiana Citizens Health Council had taken upon themselves to educate the public and create awareness about the AIDS/HIV infection. Teams of two members each of the council would interact with the industrial work force in the local factories to educate them about AIDS and its preventive steps. These teams will also distribute condoms among the workers to emphasise the need for safe sex, Mr Jain added.
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