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B.Ed test confusion due to “error” in prospectus
Chandigarh, June 23 Highly-placed sources in the university pointed out that there was no reservation for backward classes (BC) and the university prospectus for the test “by mistake” printed that a 5 per cent concession in the qualifying examination marks would be given to BC candidates. They added that the advertisement issued on June 20 had rectified this mistake since over 2000 applications from candidates claiming to be from backward classes had applied for the test. Sources added that more than 50 per cent of these applications were of those candidates who had scored less than 50 per cent in the qualifying examination and would not be sent roll numbers and had been rendered ineligible. The PU Vice-Chancellor, Prof K.N. Pathak, said the change in the eligibility criteria had been done following the recommendations of a committee constituted to suggest how best to overcome the problem. He added that the test coordinator, Dr Satinder Dhillon, had written to the university pointing out the various inconsistencies in the eligibility criteria following which the committee was constituted. Many candidates due to appear in the test to be conducted on July 8 were rendered ineligible when the university announced last minute changes in the eligibility conditions for these candidates.
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Counselling schedule for admission to BA LLB, B.Pharm, BSc Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 23
NOTE: No separate interview /counselling letters will be issued. Candidates can visit the PU website, www.puchd.ac.in for important announcements made from time to time such as the second counselling schedule. Candidates desirous of seeking admission to five-year BA LLB (Hons.) integrated course should submit the attested copy of their Class XII certificates by June 30 to the JAC Office (UCIM/CIL building, Panjab University, Chandigarh). For any enquiry regarding BA LLB (Hons), students have been directed to contact the Director, UILS, PU, Chandigarh (Ph 0172-2784397). Candidates seeking admission under the sports category should appear for trial on July 4 in the Department of Sports, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
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Landran students picked by corporate giants
Mohali, June 23 Students were selected on the basis of written examinations, technical interviews and group discussion sessions by top professionals. In a span of only four months, 39 multinational companies, including big players in various fields like LandT InfoTech, Microsoft Corporation, Max New York Life, Sterling, Denso and Ambuja Cement have approached the college for placements offering pay packages of up to Rs 2.5 lakh per annum each to the students. “Denso works for excellence and is always on the lookout for professionals who can meet the requirements of the present work scenario. We believe in perfection and look for professionals who can acclimatize with the global work conditions,” said a representative of Denso who visited the college.
Savya Sachi Sharma, a CEC student who has found placement with Denso, said, “This is a moment of great pride for me and my college.” Another student Saurab Seth who has been selected by Sahai Group of Industries, said the technical training given to the students helped in winning placement. Mr Satnam Singh Sandhu, Chairman and Mr Rashpal Singh Dhaliwal, General Secretary, stated that CEC had achieved excellent academic results and that had helped in earning jobs for students.
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Students pick up brooms to maintain cleanliness
Chandigarh, June 23 After half a dozen memorandums proved ineffective, the students picked up brooms today to clean up the centre. “We have been asking the authorities to take some action against the contractor running the eating joints here. They are primarily responsible for the condition at the centre. This place is a landmark of the city and look at its condition,” pointed out Mr Rupinderjit Singh Maan, PUSU president. The Students’ Centre is certainly in a sorry state. Plates and glasses litter the place. Used hand cleaning paper, plastic cups and glasses are strewn all around and to make things worse. The eating shops have stashed away all their cooking equipment in almost every corner possible. Crockery is washed in the grassy patch which is fast losing its greenery. “The shopkeepers are also polluting the entire atmosphere using tandoors in the open. Earlier, they were allowed to use tandoors only on the roof and now each shop has three tandoors. It is impossible to sit here,” said Rajay Deep. These students also admitted that the students who use the centre are also responsible for littering the place. “But the university should at least get the grass trimmed and maintain the place. Garbage is left untouched by the university cleaners allowing it to pile up and cause filth,” said Mr
Maan.
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Course for English teachers from July 25
Chandigarh, June 23 Candidates with an MA (English) or B.Ed (with teaching of English), below 55 years of age for in-service teachers and below 45 years of age for aspiring teachers will be eligible. Application forms will be available for Rs 5 till July at the office. The applications may also be downloaded from the institute’s website www.rieni.org. Government School teachers from Chandigarh will be provided a stipend of Rs 190 per month and Rs 300 per month for teachers from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and J and K. Hostel facilities are also available for male government schools teachers.
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Abhey’s call to students
Chandigarh, June 23 Mr Chautala called upon the students to awaken, organise and discipline themselves as they were the future of the country. He said the motive of the organisation should be constructive. Various resolutions were passed in the executive meeting. INSO activists will organise help bureaus in all the institutions/universities of Haryana and Chandigarh to guide the students.
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Frankfinn institute students selected
Chandigarh, June 23 This was stated at a press conference organised by the institute at its Sector 34 office here today.Among the airlines which recruited the students were Singapore Airlines,Qatar Airways, Air-India, Jet Airways, Indigo Airlines, Air Sahara and Jagson Airlines. The state-of-the-art institute provides 30-hour training inside its own leased Airbus A-300 to the students, Kamal Saini, centre head, added.
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New PU office timings
Chandigarh, June 23 All Saturdays and Sundays would be holidays. The changwe would be effective would be from June 26. The chairpersons of the teaching departments can, however, make some minor adjustments in the above-mentioned timings with the prior approval of the Dean of University Instructions.
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Classical music under strain: Shanti Sharma
Chandigarh, June 23 Talking to The Tribune, Shanthi Sharma , the foremost proponent of the Indore gharana style of gayaki propounded by the legendary Ustad Amir Khan Saheb, shared her views on the internal and external stresses affecting the classical art realms, especially safeguarding our rich cultural heritage and the contemporary music scene. ‘‘Earlier classical music was meant for an esoteric group of music aficionados since the real appreciation for the complex art required a cultivated knowledge and training which the audience generally lacked and this resulted in restricting its growth . But today with the worldwide patronage from music lovers it had taken the whole world in the vortex of its sublime melody and grandeur,’’ she claims. She cautioned against complacence in the field of music that was leading to decay. She said that music should be enriched without sacrificing its spiritual and aesthetic purity. Born at Tanjore in south India, Shanthi (nee Viadyanathan) learnt the rudiments of Carnatic music since the age of 10 but her heart revolted for the Hindustani vocalism when she was swayed to the unique gayaki style of Ustad Amir Khan Saheb. A post graduate in chemistry from BITS Pilani she found her calling in music and she continued to imbibe the finer nuances of Indore gharana under the tutelage of Pandit Amar Nath. With strenuous riyaz and devotion to pure classicism she had scaled new heights, performing at the most prestigious music festivals doling out her lab tested music. Specialising in tarana and khyal she has done several TV productions for the Shri Ram Bharati Kala Kendra. Gifted with the vocal range of Carnatic style and the emotional feel peculiar to Hindustani tradition the maverick musical genius has mastered those typical musical patterns which were the bastion of male singers only. Shanthi Sharma will present her classical music recital at the Tagore Theatre at 7 p.m. tomorrow. |
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2 more HIV/AIDS
centres for city
Chandigarh, June 23 This decision was taken at the seventh governing body meeting of the State AIDS Control Society (SACS), UT under the chairmanship of Home-cum-Health Secretary, Mr Krishna Mohan at UT Secretariat. The body also decided to make available a mobile van for providing counselling and testing facilities for population at their doorstep. . SACS has further said it will install 20 more triple column condom vending machines at key locations of UT, besides providing grant-in-aid to district Blood Bank at Blood Resource Centre, Sector 37, Chandigarh in addition to existing three at PGI, GMCH-32 and GH-16. Mr Krishna Mohan, Secretary Health meanwhile recommended holding of debates and competitions to create AIDS awareness. Project Director, SACS Dr Sonia Trikha, presented the annual report of State AIDS Control Society. She informed that Chandigarh was leading in the area of HIV/AIDS awareness, and disclosed that high risk population areas were being covered by 14 Targeted Intervention projects involving NGOs. Dr Trikha added that Chandigarh with 78 per cent voluntary blood donation was among the top six in 35 states/UTs where voluntary blood donation is more than 60 per cent. It was highlighted that sentinel surveillance, an annual activity, to know the disease trends in the community showed that while prevalence of HIV/AIDS had fallen in Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) and antenatal clinic attendees in 2005, it had risen among injecting drug users. Right now 904 AIDS patients are enrolled for anti retroviral therapy (ART) at PGIMER provided by National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO). The city is catering to all northern states of the country and only 6 per cent of the people tested positive in the voluntary counselling and Testing Centre of Chandigarh belonged to Chandigarh— 94 per cent people are from other states. |
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Football stadium cries for attention
Chandigarh, June 23 The football stadium, built in the heart of City Beautiful, Sector 17, with a motive to train local football players, is in a state of great neglect and is totally unfit to hold any national level championship. In a recent announcement, the girls u-17 national football meet has been scheduled to be held here the next month. But a lot needs to be done; the field here is in a mess, uneven and quite injury prone too. There are no adequate facilities for even the basic requirements like sitting arrangement, gymnasium or changing room which becomes quite mandatory when it is girls’ tournament and not the least there is no space which could be used as office. Out of four rooms in the Sector 17 stadium, one room has been converted into gymnasium, another has been transformed into toilet and the remaining two are being used as store. The gym which is there for name sake only, has no equipment which works properly. All the apparatus have caught corrosion because of not been lubricated for long. Due to its shabby condition, it is kept closed most of the times. The situation has become terrible because of honey bees. The players are afraid of entering it because of fear of being bitten by these bees. During rainy days, the water gets accumulated all over the place and it is hard to enter the gym. The boundary wall of the stadium is just five-foot-high and there is no proper fencing over the wall to prevent the ball from going outside the ground. In the absence of proper fencing the passersby are at a greater risk. “I admit that the stadium needs immediate attention and the place definitely does not conform to the norms of holding a national championship. The plans are in the pipeline to upgrade all the stadiums in the city and Sector 17 football ground is on our priority list. Soon we are bringing all the shortcomings to the notice of Chief Engineer V.K. Bhardwaj to rectify them,” said Inderjit S. Sandhu, Director, Chandigarh Sports Department. |
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Himachal CC win
Chandigarh, June 23 Batting first, HCC scored 109 runs in 17 overs. Arun (22), Prince and Ashish (12 runs each) were the main scorers for HCC while Tushar Garg , Ricky and Ritik claimed two wickets each for the CA-37 team. In reply, Cricket Academy-37 boys could not face the bowling attack of Prince and Balvinder and the team was bundled out for 69 runs. Brief scores: HCC: 109 all out in 17 overs Arun 22, Prince 12, Ashish 12; Tushar Garg 2/12, Ritik 2/15, Kulbhushan 2/25 CA-37: 69 all out in 14 overs. Rohit 17, Ritik 10, Prince 5/10, Balvinder 3/15. Chandigarh face Karnal today Chandigarh will face Karnal at DAV, Sector 8, grounds tomorrow for the Haryana State Inter-District league-cum-knockout (Under 19) Cricket Championship which is being conducted by the Haryana Cricket Association. Three matches have been scheduled at different venues and all matches will start at 7.30 a.m. tomorrow. The match between Kaithal and Ambala will be held at St John’s School, Sector 26, and another match will be played between Panchkula and Panipat at JR Institute of Cricket Technology, Panchkula. |
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Motorists on 15-day notice
Chandigarh, June 23 The traffic police would launch a special drive against the violators after the stipulated time. A senior Traffic police officer said the genuine number plates were of two types — single line, horizontal type and two-line type, where state code and registration authority code form the first line and the rest form the second line. Besides, all private vehicles should have white background and black letters and numeric while the taxi vehicles should have yellow background and black letters and numeric. The sources in the traffic police said the size thickness and the space between the letters and numeric should be as per the guidelines set for various vehicles. |
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4,033 challaned in 10 days
Chandigarh, June 23 A spokesman of the Chandigarh traffic police said the policemen booked 1,073 violators for driving without safety helmets, 533 for jumping red lights, 460 for driving with high beam on, 400 for over-speeding, 389 for driving without fastening seat belts, 230 for not having number plates as per the specified pattern, 178 for wrong parking, 130 for using mobile phone while driving, 86 for taking U-turn, 29 for having black film on window panes and 525 for other miscellaneous offences. |
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Sec 17 to have more space for shoppers
Chandigarh, June 23 "It will not be possible to shift out the offices like those located in 17 Bay building and the 30 Bays", said Deputy Commissioner
R.K.Rao, who is the coordinator of the Development and Revitalisation Committee. In some areas of Sector 17, the parking lots are insufficient to meet the rush of vehicles which bring visitors to government offices and banks. Aimed at decongesting the sector, the Administration has also decided to convert the area under paid parking into no-parking zones. In lieu of the areas which will be declared no-parking areas, temporary or make-shift parking spaces will be created. To begin with, the Administration and the Municipal Corporation has proposed that the parking lot in front of Empire Stores, Sector 17 E, should be converted into no-parking zone. The plinth level of the metalled area will be raised and covered with chequered tiles to merge it with the existing pedestrian area. This will provide more walking space for the shoppers. Jagdish Kalra, general secretary of the Sector 17 Traders Association, said the move was not in interest of traders. The Administration should allow the existing parking in addition to the new multi-level parking being constructed. To sort out the issue, meeting are regularly being held between UT officials and the traders. "The final aim is to declare all major commercial hubs as vehicle-free zones", said the senior official. |
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