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EDUCATION

Students hold protest against UGC
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 14
UGC-NET aspirants organised a candle light protest at the Gandhi Samarak Bhavan, Sector-16, here today. They raised slogans against the UGC policies for NET exam. Those who had qualified the test with junior research fellowship (JRF) but were not getting scholarship because of the delay on the part of the UGC also participated in the protest.

Talking to mediapersons, the protesters said as per the UGC norms the result of the previous test was usually declared before the last date of the submission of the forms for the next test. But for the last two tests the UGC was not declaring the result in time and the students had to pay fees for the next exam.

Deepti Rani, who had appeared in the December 2005 exam, doubted that the UGC would delay the result this time too. “If result is not declared before April 28, I will have to fill up the NET form again. If the result is declared 4-5 days before the June exams than I will not be able to study for the exam,” she said.

Kanchan Monga is PEC Registrar

Chandigarh, April 14
Dr Kanchan Monga has joined as Registrar of Punjab Engineering College (Deemed University).

She has a varied experience of handling administrative, ministerial staff at CCS Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, for more than 20 years.

She has also had an opportunity to implement the prestigious World Bank-aided Kandi Project. Along with that, she is well-versed with academic institutions, having worked in a leading agricultural university since 1979 in various capacities. TNS

DAV school gets CBSE affiliation
Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 14
Coinciding with the day Mohali becomes a district, the DAV Public School here has been upgraded to the senior secondary level.

Ms Jaya Bhardwaj, Principal of the school, said in a statement that it was a pleasant coincidence that the institution was granted affiliation to the CBSE on the day when Mohali is celebrating its district-hood.

She said that the school has achieved cent per cent result of its first batch of class X and is fully equipped to start Non-Medical, Medical and Commerce streams.

Students get prizes
Tribune News Service

Banur, April 14
The Swami Vivekanand College of Education, Ramnagar, near here, organised the prize distribution function yesterday. Mr Ashwani Garg, chairman of the Swami Vivekanand Institute of Engineering and Technology, was the chief guest on the occasion. A cultural show by the outgoing students was the highlight of the function.

Dr Raman Gupta, Principal, highlighted the achievements of the students while reading the annual report of the college.

Various cultural items, including Punjabi and Hindi songs, poems, and dance and parody were performed by the students.

200 clear PMT prelims
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 14
The much-awaited CBSE PMT preliminary results were declared today. As many as 3,000 students from the city and 18,000 from the region had taken the examination on April 2. About 200 students from the city have made it to the main examination scheduled to be held on May 14. The cut-off this time was 306 marks.

CULTURE

Cultural extravaganza at utsav
Our Correspondent

Panchkula, April 14
Saraswati Kala Sangam, a Panchkula-based cultural organisation dedicated to the promotion of classical and folk arts, organised a musical evening ‘Basant Sangeet Utsav’ to celebrate Baisakhi at the open air theatre of Satluj Public School here.

MC president Kuljit Waraich and educationist Pritam Singh Serai inaugurated the event which was followed by ‘Ganesh vandana’ and ‘Saraswati vandana’ by Colonel IJS Ahluwalia and Dr Betty Nangia respectively.

While Prof Rajni Bhalla, Prof Sulekh, Dr Betty Nangia, Manju, Achla Dingle, Pushpinder, Debashish Dhar and Prem Dutt delighted the audience with ghazals, folk songs and intrumental music, Punjabi poet Gurbax Saini recited a satirical poem ‘Mein taan banuga siasatdaan’.

Arushi and Ankita, artistes of Mukta Nrityalya presented Bharatnatyam while Tanvi presented a Kathak dance performance. Earlier, Colonel I.J.S. Ahluwalia welcomed Dr P.S. Serai and Ms Waraich.

Ms Waraich honoured the artists and announced a grant of Rs 5100 to the sangam.

Col B.M. Talwar and Achla Dingle anchored the programme.