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Students carry out “operation clean-up”
Chandigarh, April 22 Present on the occasion was Mr Ishwar Singh, Director, Department of Environment, who urged the students to further spread and strengthen the movement in order to make this world a better place to live in. He added “today’s cleanliness drive at Sukhna Lake will further strengthen the will of young ones to save our environment. Later in the day, a function was organised at Dev Samaj College of Education to mark the World Earth Day and to honour the winners of Inter-School Bicycle Games organised on the Chandigarh Bicycle Day. The programme was presided over by Mr Ishwar Singh, Director and Mr P.J.S. Dhadwal, Additional Director, Department of Environment, Mr S.K. Sandhu, IAS, Finance Secretary, Chandigarh Administration. Speaking on the occasion Mr S.K. Sandhu said young students should come forward and become city’s ambassadors by practicing eco-friendly habits in life, like taking care of clean and green surroundings around their houses and in schools, discouraging the use of polythene bags, using bicycles more to counter pollution problem and conserving water and electricity. Mr S.K. Sandhu also honoured Dr (Ms) Satinder Dhillon, Principal, Dev Samaj College of Education, teachers of KB DAV School, Ajit Karam Singh International School, Mount Carmel School, Moti Ram Arya School and Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, for their participation in eco-activities along with 100 winners of the Inter-School Bicycle Games. Meanwhile, “Earth Day” was also observed today in the office of Chief Postmaster General Punjab and UT Chandigarh. “Indian Post” has become a member of the Universal Postal Union Project Team on Environment and Sustainable Development at the recently concluded meeting of the Postal Operation Council of UPU at Berne. Also present on the occasion were Manjula Prasher, Chief Postmaster General, M.L. Kalia, Director Postal Services (Region), Sukhvinder Kaur, Director, Postal Services, (HQ), Sharon S. Gupta, Director, Finance, and other staff of the postal department.
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First convocation of Army Institute of Law held Mohali, April 22 Delivering the convocation address, Director-General, Competition Commission of India, Mr Amitabh Kumar, said lawyers were responsible for holding the thread of civil society together. Stating that expectations of integrity and professionalism from lawyers are justified and necessary given the enomity of their responsibility to society, he added that a lawyers task was to present a fair alternative to litigants. Mr Kumar said the Indian judicial system was widely regarded to be slow. He said there had been changes to the civil procedure aiming at quickening the pace of decision-making and restricting adjournments, he added. Mere provisions in laws or regulations are not enough. It will take all stake holders to implement the intention in its true spirit and lawyers are one of the most important stake holders in the process, he asserted. The Controller of Examinations, Punjabi University, Patiala, Dr Baldev Singh, awarded the degrees. The 2004 batch had 37 students while the 2005 batch had 66 students for the five-year course. Prizes were also given for academic excellence. The Airawat Running Trophy for standing first in the five-year course went to Ankur Ghai of 2004 batch and Payal Manhas of 2005 batch. Batra's Silver Sterling Trophy for standing first in law of evidence went to Gurpartap Singh, while Dhruv Trophy for standing first in the law of contract went to Poonam Verma.
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World Earth Day observed
Chandigarh, April 22 The competition was divided in two categories — junior and senior. Students wrote on various topics concerning environment. They highlighted the message of growing more trees to save the earth. The Principal of the school, Mr Vinod Kumar, asked the students to keep the environment clean and green to save the earth from greenhouse gases. The Eco club in charge, Mr Rajesh Sharma and Ms Prabha
Bhainsora, also spoke on the benefits of the environment. Results: juniors — Neha Karnwal 1, Puneet 2, and Neha Kukreti 3; seniors —Sujata 1, Vinod 2, and Manpreet Kaur 3. At Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 47, a tree plantation drive and a rally was organised. About 150 students participated in the rally and raised slogans and carried placards displaying various messages. The rally was flagged off by the
P.T.A. President, R.S. Saini. A poster-making competition was also organised, in which Mandeep bagged the first prize. As many as 100 students participated in the Earth Day celebrations at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 23. A lecture was delivered on the occasion by Programme Officer
(N.S.S), Vijay Kumar, highlighting various measures to safeguard the earth. The school Principal, Shiv Kumar Sharma, appealed to the students to make maximum use of bicycles. A herbal garden was inaugurated at Government Model High School, Sector 20, by S.K.
Setia, as part of the Earth Day celebrations. In addition to this, a painting competition, a cleanliness drive and an exhibition were also organised. At Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 19, the school’s eco-club Vasudha held a number of events to mark the Earth Day. These included essay-writing competition, slogan-writing, poster-making and on-the-spot painting-competition. Students from Classes V to XII participated in the contests. The Government Model School, Sector 46, too celebrated Earth Day, with nearly 200 students participating in a rally, which covered the residential area of the sector. A poster-making contest and a slogan-writing competition were organised by the eco-club of the school Lotus. At Sri Guru Gobind Singh Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, a paper-reading contest was held to generate awareness among the students on environmental
issues. Various competitions were organised for the teaching
staff. D.A.V. Senior Secondary School (Lahore), Sector 8, too observed Earth Day. Vibha Gupta, in charge of Dayanand Eco-Club of the school, conducted an inter-class poster-making competition on ‘Save Mother Earth’. As many as 100 students participated in the contest, in which Pramod Kumar bagged the first prize. At Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sector 31, Earth Day was celebrated as part of the ongoing scouts Rashtrapati Award testing camp in association with the school’s eco-club under the guidance of
C.J. Kalra, the leader of the camp, and Dr B. Islam, the observer from the
KVS. The participating scouts took part in a tree plantation drive. A sapling was planted by the Principal, Dr S.P. Shergill. She urged the students to undertake all efforts to maintain the ecological balance of the earth. Students of Saffron City School participated in a painting competition organised by the newly formed eco-club of the school. About 200 students participated in the event, for which the topic was deforestation and conservation of natural resources. An inter-house essay-writing competition and a paper-reading contest were organised at Government Girls Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, to mark the Earth Day. ‘Earth Day’ was celebrated in
K.V. No 2, 3 BRD AFS, with great zeal and enthusiasm. ‘Slogan writing competition’ was held and cleanliness drive was undertaken in the campus. Valuable thoughts were given by the students of primary section. Ms S. Narang laid stress on saving natural resources and other beautiful gifts.
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PCCTU poll on May 14
Chandigarh, April 22 At the close of nominations yesterday, it became clear that it would be again a direct contest between the Brar-Jagwant group and the Amrinder-Hundal group. The two groups were together in the late 1990s as part of the Bahia-Chawla- Chatha group. In 2003-04, Mr R.S. Brar and Dr Jagwant Singh drifted away from the group headed by Mr S.S. Hundal. Mr Hundal has replaced Dr V.K. Tewari as candidate for the office of general secretary. He will be pitted against Mr Jagwant Singh. The Brar-Jagwant group has put up outgoing vice-president Prof H.S. Walia for the office of president, who would be pitted against Mr Aminder Pal Singh.
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IGMC alumni meet
Chandigarh, April 22 Dr Ritu Sareen, DMRE (Himachal Pradesh), inaugurated the meeting. The IGMC website igmcalumni.org was also launched on the occasion. Prof Subhash Verma, president of the association, said the membership figures had crossed 400. Dr T.S. Mahant and Dr Manuj Wadhwa from Fortis (Mohali), were special invitees at the function.
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UGC NET awareness camp
Chandigarh, April 22 It has further suggested major measures to fill the backlog of vacancies in colleges/universities in the reserved category. There are some provisions for foreign teachers also. The committee was formed to review utility, effectiveness and continuity of the UGC NET exam and had submitted its report in last month.
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PU dispatches roll nos
Chandigarh, April 22 The candidates who do not receive their roll numbers for the examination should contact Assistant Registrar (examination) in person to get their duplicate roll numbers on production of written request and two attested passport size photographs with a fee of Rs 40 on April 24 from 10 am to 4 pm.
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Fun, frolic at PTU fest
Banur, April 22 Dances, mono-acting, skits and comedy were the highlights of the day. In the evening, “traditional pehrawa pradarshini”, a cultural contest based on Punjabi dresses, drew crowds.
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Irish education fair on April 25
Chandigarh, April 22 Launching the postgraduate professional diploma in global trade and e-business for the Indian students here, Mr Krishnan said the fair would open new vistas for the Indian students intending to study in Ireland.
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Accused in forgery case acquitted
Chandigarh, April 22 The accused, Suresh Kumar, who had been declared a proclaimed offender (PO), was acquitted by the CBI Special Judge due to lack of proper investigations and lack of evidence. Three other persons, Ranjit Oberoi, Navpreet Virk and Ranjit Singh had also been declared PO. In May 1994, the CBI had booked 17 persons, including a Regional Passport Officer (RPO) and a superintendent in the Regional Passport Office, Chandigarh, for allegedly abusing official position to issue passport on out-of-turn basis on the basis of fake documents. Those booked for cheating and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, and Passport Act, 1967, were N.Guru, Regional Passport Officer, Balbir Singh, Superintendent in Passport Office, Preet Mohinder Singh Kohli, Ranjit Oberoi, Sat Pal Khanna, Suresh Kumar, Amrik Singh, Ranjit Singh, Parkar Singh, Ajay Pal Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Gurmit, Dharam Singh, Kuldip Singh, and Gurbhajan Singh and Navpreet Virk. In its charge sheet, the investigating agency had alleged that the beneficiaries connived with some travel agents and the Regional Passport Officer to get passports on out-of-turn basis. On the basis of a tipoff, the CBI team had then raided the RPO office and checked files of 14 passport applications. The challan in the case was produced in the court of Special Judge in May 1998. Before the charges were framed, all the accused were acquitted by the CBI Special Judge in 2004. The then Special Judge, Mr R.S.Baswana, in his order had observed that there was no ground to presume that any of the accused had committed any offence for which they had been challaned. At no stage had it come to the fore during investigation that any of the co-accused ever opted to offer bribe to the public servant, the order said. Accordingly, all the accused were discharged. During the pendency of the case, four persons, including Suresh, were declared POs. Then the case was transferred to the court of CBI Special Judge, Mr Jagdeep Jain, who finally acquitted Suresh Kumar after he presented himself in the court.
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Old story for a new age
Chandigarh, April 22 So when Harinder Sandhu, a Delhi-based theatre director decides to talk about Brecht and also his immense potentiality in present times, it comes as little surprise. What comes as a surprise, however, is that she approaches a Brecht classic with a team of young Yadavandrians —known to have a penchant for challenges. Together, they have worked out a stage production on Brecht’s essentially Chinese folk tale ‘‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’’, which will see its final presentation at Tagore Theatre tomorrow. The significance of the production lies as much in the renown of Brecht as in the ability of Sandhu and her young actors to translate his ideas for a modern audience. Grounded in children’s theatre, Sandhu already has an eye for precious detail that can hold both the hearts and minds of viewers. Even for the present production, her fifth for YPS, Mohali, she manages to stage a classic by adapting it in languages of the people—Hindi and English. As for directing students, it is her favourite job. Back home in Delhi, she has done a play with about 300 nursery and pre-nursery children, another one for the Family Planning and India and yet another one for the Blind Association in Chandigarh’s Sector 26. The last of all sounds most challenging but Sandhu clarifies, ‘‘It was not difficult at all. The visually impaired children were a pleasure to work with. They gave in their 100 per cent and brought so much of emotion and life experience to the production. We staged ‘Kabir’.’’ But the latest one is interesting in another way. One, despite being set in 19th century Russia where the test of the chalk circle decides who the real mother of the child is, the story remains fascinatingly modern. The director explains, ‘‘It is about the universality of societies, the constancy of their problems, of their hopes and aspirations. In this production we talk about everything from judicial activism and the disparity between rich and poor to the conflict of interests across the line that divides tradition and modernity.’’ As for the storyline — it has everything to do with the play of justice and with the process that leads to it. The playwright sets his tale in a royal backdrop where a kingdom is readying itself to welcome the newborn heir. But as political fortunes reverse, the heir falls in vulnerable slot, only to be rescued by a palace kitchen maid who endures untold hardship to save him. From here on, the story takes an unpredictable twist, placing the maid in an extremely weak position, emotionally. The fight is between her and another woman, who stakes claim over her son. In the final judgment lies the power of the production, its entire charm and its eternal
relevance. For Harinder, ‘‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’’ is an extension of the earlier plays she did with YPS students, including ‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’, ‘‘Sound of Music’’, ‘‘Oliver’’ and others. But it is certainly one of those that attain a queer edge for unknown reasons. Unravel the mystery behind the chalk circle as Yadavandrians — from classes VI to XII — recall an old story for a new age. |
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