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Housing board honours students
Chandigarh, April 20 Presentations of these designs were made by the students to Ms Rajni Rajzan, Financial Commissioner, Haryana, and Dr Ashok Khemka, Chief Administrator, Haryana Housing Board, yesterday and the result were declared today. The students were divided into five groups and each group designed its own concept of these apartments. The end result was a variety of possibilities, each of which were minutely discussed by the team with the students. The first prize of Rs 15,000 was given to the team, including Abhishek Gupta, Abhishek Sinha, Ajay Bir Chahal, Aman Aggarwal, Siddharth Gaind, Sukhjeet Kumar and Vivek Trakroo. “The unique point of our design was that in order to achieve maximum efficiency, a single vertical circulation core was utilised to serve five units as against most plans in which a maximum of four units is served. However, a balance between the horizontal and vertical circulation was maintained and the corridor lengths reduced to a minimum by using a unique technique. Two different layout plans were worked out with exactly the same area and room dimensions. They were then juxtaposed into a single block,” explained Aman. Two teams of Anish Sharma, Chayanika Sharma, Preeti, Neeraj Sharma and Ankam Debrama and Dhruva, Honey, Sakshi, Shilpi, Sushmita and Vijeta jointly won the second prize of Rs 12,000. Isha Anand, Kirat Singh and Nitin Bansal were third and won Rs 10,000. “One of the major problems that was addressed in the design was that disparity of sun between different units has been reduced to a minimum. All apartments were exposed to sunlight for most of the time in a day in one part or the other. The orientation of the blocks had been done in such a way to deal with the extreme climatic conditions of the region,” said Ajay Bir. Complete privacy of each apartment had been achieved due to the layout of the blocks. However, this did not mean that the interaction spaces between the units had been compromised upon, the winning team added. “The concept of dark wells due to the verticality of the blocks had been avoided and large open green spaces had been created which provided the required breathing spaces,” pointed out Aman. Teams, including Dipti, Dyutima, Poonam, Ritisha, Shweta, Sonal, Harsupriya, Rohini Dhawan, Rohini Singh and Simran Chana won consolation prizes. “The structures had to fit in within the parameters given to the students. The bylaws had to be met and the number of buildings, the number of apartments, the site coverage, the floor area ratio all was fixed and pre-set,” said Prof Sohan Lal, the faculty in-charge of the project.
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US company conducts campus interviews
Chandigarh, April 20 Mr Tarun Sadana, Deputy General Manager, Ms Sonal Patel, Manager, HR and Mr Preetpal Singh, Sales Manager, informed that FCS was a leading provider of IT services like e-learning, digital control services, IT consultancy and product engineering services. The company has collaboration with several Fortune 500 companies. The initial round of interviews comprised a technical/psychoanalytical test followed by personal interview. A number of students of CEC from all branches of engineering have been offered appointment letters. Tynor Orthotics Ltd. Mohali, a company manufacturing and designing Orthotic aids, conducted interviews and selected all students of Mechanical Engineering specialising in CAD and CAM.
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Camp for Scouts, Guides begins
Chandigarh, April 20 Air Cmde RK Srivastav, AOC, 3 BRD, Chandigarh was the chief guest on the occasion. The examiners from the national headquarters of the Bharat Scouts and Guides Movement, New Delhi, will be conducting all tests during the camp. The Guides who qualify the final examination will be selected for the Rastrapati Puraskar and receive the award from President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in New Delhi. The school Principal Ms S.K. Bhatia inaugurated the testing camp and urged the Guides to fulfill the pledge, the law and the promise undertaken by the Bharat Scouts and Guides Movement. The inauguration function included a fine presentation by smartly dressed scouts during the scarf ceremony and flag hoisting ceremony. The leader of the camp Mr J.D. Kalra (State Organising Commisioner) from NHQ, Delhi, apprised the gathering about the various activities conducted during the camp. The host school presented a colourful cultural programme in honour of the guests during the inaugural function and also announced the hosting of campfire accompanied by light cultural programmes each evening.
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School celebrates “Red Day”
Chandigarh, April 20 The tiny tots came dressed in vibrant red clothes. The school lawn too, was beautifully decorated with various objects in red, including red apples, strawberries, balls, balloons and kites. The young ones also carried red goodies in their tiffins. Present on the occasion was Simar Grewal, director (junior wing), who said the objective behind such activities was to make teaching a pleasant learning experience and it was important to supplement classroom teaching with appropriate class activity to strengthen their concepts. As many as 75 children participated in the event and were given red sweets and toys.
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Seminar on SET organised
Chandigarh, April 20 Various experts on the National Eligibility Test (NET), State Level Eligibility Test (SET) participated in the seminar. Ms Manu Minhas welcomed the guests. Prof D.C. Kataria, said the mushrooming of B.Ed colleges in North India had increased the demand for the UGC NET qualified M.Ed teachers in the area specifically Punjab where the number of colleges had increased to 118.
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Paper out of syllabus, say students
Chandigarh, April 20 Stating that the paper was lopsided, the students said according to the syllabus they were to attempt four of the eight questions but as per the paper they were to attempt five questions. The examination took place today.
— TNS
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Teacher suspended
Chandigarh, April 20 This was announced here today by the Commissioner and Director-General, School Education, Mr K.K.
Khandelwal.
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Reliance told to pay compensation
Chandigarh, April 20 The order was passed by the adalat, comprising Mr R.P. Bajaj and Mr J.S. Kohli, chairman and member, respectively. Ms Sanjay Bhandari, a resident of Sector 15-A, in her complaint stated that she had subscribed the Dheeru Bhai Ambani Pioneer Offer scheme. The main features of the scheme were that one pulse was of 15 seconds and short call up to 15 seconds was of 10 paise. But at the time of billing, she said, the pulse was charged at the rate of one minute. The complainant also contested the charging of Rs 100 per month on account of finance amount. Despite having issued advance cheques, the connection was disconnected in January 2004. Complaints made to the company did not yield any result. The respondent in its reply stated that the tariff offered to Ms Bhandari was on the basis of guidelines issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) of India in December 2002. However, in April 2004, the TRAI asked the operators to withdraw and replace it with fresh tariff in line with inter-connectivity user (ICU) charges regime. The ICU charges were leviable for payment to the operators in whose network the call terminates. In light of these circumstances, the company had no choice but to revise the pulse rate. After hearing arguments of both the parties, the adalat observed that the charging of higher pulse rate had benefited the company.
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