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Student campaign picks up steam
Chandigarh, September 2 Meanwhile, students could be seen campaigning in various colleges. GGDSD College, Sector 32, SGGS, Sector 26, DAV College, Sector 10, wore a festive look as students campaigned for their candidates. However, campaigning in the various girl colleges was yet to pick up. Student organisations took full advantage of it being a weekend, offering freebies in the form of movie tickets and uphill rides. NSUI to field woman for president’s post
The National Students Union of India will be campaigning independently in the student elections this year. They have also decided to field a girl for the post of president. This would be for the first time that a woman candidate would stand up for presidency in the student council elections. Talking to Chandigarh Tribune, Harpreet Singh, Harrry, NSUI Campus president, said they would announce their panel later tomorrow. “Around 77 per cent of the student population in the university consists of girls and they have a right to be represented fully in the council.” Talking to Chandigarh Tribune, Mr Dalvir Singh Goldy, president of the SOPU-INSO panel, said they had started campaigning and had covered all hostels and the library. “We are campaigning in all hostels and have more or less covered all of them.”
Meanwhile, the alliance of Panjab University Student Union (PUSU) and the Student Organisation of India (SOI) inaugurated their election campaign tent in front of hostel No. 1. It was inaugurated by Rohit Sharma (former president of PUSU) and Joginder Pal (senior member of PUSU). Malwinder Singh Kang (former president of the PUCSC) and Senate member was also present. The alliance also declared Rupinderjit Singh Maan, a student of Department of Economics their presidential candidate, Parvinder Singh (Pallu), a student of Department of UIET, for the post of general secretary, and Virender Negi from the Department of Geology, for the post of joint secretary. Of them, Pallu is from the SOI. The name of the candidate for the post of vice-president was not declared. According to Rupinderjit Singh, they had yet to finalise the name of the girl they would support for this post. “We have always supported girl candidates for this post and we will be announcing the name shortly.”
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Seminar on economic freedom index held
Chandigarh, September 2 “The Centre has also devolved powers to the states for the eradication of poverty and complete elimination of illiteracy and improvement of flood situations by establishing Disaster Management Boards. Punjab is one of the states which have been able to attract investments from all over the world and create many more jobs in the states for the younger generations. “It has also been able to reduce the poverty and develop better business environment in the states,” said Mr Surinder Singla, Punjab Finance Minister, during his inaugural address at a seminar on “Economic freedom index: it’s relevance for economic development,” organised by the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, Delhi, in association with the Freidrich Naumann Stiftung, Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises, New Delhi, and Chandigarh Management Association (CMA) today. He explained that the trend of contract farming is already picking up in the state with private companies leasing farmlands from small and marginal farmers. The farmers who make little gains from cultivating wheat or paddy crops and after bribing middlemen of procurement agencies are finding the offer a profit-making deal. Welcoming the delegates, Dr Rene Klaff, Director, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, said the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies in association with Freidrich Naumann Stiftung has instituted a regular ranking of the states in India. The Economic Freedom Index, which ranks different states on several parameters, answers some of the questions as to what states need to do to attract investments, create new enterprises and reduce poverty. Dr P.D. Kaushik, Associate Director, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, narrating the overview of economic freedom of states said the objective of holding the seminar in Chandigarh was to share the outcome of the study, which they had carried out over the past two years. The objective was to present a positive agenda before the stakeholders from the government, media, SMEs and academicians on prioritising the developing agenda. Others who spoke during the seminar were Dr Satish Kapoor, president, CMA, and Chairman, UBS, Prof Simrit Kaur, Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi, Dr P.K. Vasudeva, former president, CMA, and Dr Manoj Sharma, joint secretary, CMA.
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KV Headmistress gets national award
Chandigarh, September 2 Mrs Ummatt is among the selected few to be awarded the National Award-2005 under a scheme of the Department of School Education and Literacy, Union Ministry of Human Resource Development. The award will be conferred on her by the President, Dr Abdul Kalam Azad, on September 5 at Vigyan
Bhavan, New Delhi. Mrs Ummatt will also get a cash award of Rs 25,000. She had been awarded the KVS incentive award in 2004. Talking to TNS, Mrs Ummatt said she had never aspired to win the award and it had come as a surprise. “I am very happy to have won the award and am very elated,” she
said. Mrs Ummatt, who teaches all subjects from Class I-V, is described by her colleagues as a soft-spoken and all-round teacher. “I am just grateful for their support,” she
said. Mrs Ummatt was earlier teaching at KV, Jakhoo, Shimla, and KV,
HMT, Pinjore, before joining KV, AFS, High Grounds, as the Headmistress of the primary wing. Talking to TNS, the Principal of the school, Mrs
S.K. Bhatia, said it was a great achievement for the school that one of its teachers had been selected for the award. “I have forwarded two names in my career for this award and am very thrilled that both teachers have got it,” she said.
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Seminar on job prospects in Australia
Chandigarh, September 2 About 200 students attended the seminar and received free
counselling. It was organised with the collaboration of Della International College, Melbourne. Della college CEO Amanjot Singh said a hospitality school offering crash courses in baking and pastry would be started. He said matriculates with seven years of relevant experience would be eligible to apply for permanent residency in Australia after doing this course. Mr Amanjot Singh said there was great demand for bakers and pastry chefs in Australia. Mr Kamal K.
Bhumbla, CEO, B.N. Overseas Educational Services, said Australia also needed carpenters, joiners and masons. He said Christine Pinniger from the International Student Office, Box Hill Institute of
TAFE, would hold a counselling session at the local office of B.N. Overseas on September 7.
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6 engg students do institute proud
Dera Bassi, September 2 The projects were prepared by the students during their six-month industrial training. This year, during evaluation the following six projects have been found useful in the industry for implementation. The design and installation of ground lighting facilities for a 7,500-foot long runway at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, prepared by Surabhi
Handa, and a DC drive using firing angle of Rishab Agnihotri were among the projects selected. Similarly, an automatic cross-talk machine of Kamalpreet and Amarjit Singh, radiant heat warmer-based embedded incubator temperature controller and wireless remote data logger of
Garima, a metal detector-cum-counter prepared by Manpreet Kaur and a project of Hemani Sidana regarding live TV on the Internet were selected.
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Orientation programme
Banur, September 2 The chief guest at the programme, Ms Pritpal Kaur Sidhu, District Education Officer (DEO), Patiala, urged the students to do their training with sincerity to be effective teachers. Dr Madhu Chitkara, Director of the Chitkara Educational Trust and Principal of the college, claimed that the trust was committed to providing quality education to the students.
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PUTA flays Ujjain incident
Chandigarh, September 2
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BEd entrance result
Chandigarh, September 2
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Consumer Court Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 2 Mr Madan Gopal, a resident of Sector 36, had filed a complaint with the adalat alleging that he had been paying the bills regularly but he received a bill dated May 5, 2006, wherein apart from current consumption, a sum of Rs 89,450 were added as sundry charges. The department contended that on the basis of checking on May 31, 2001, the meter was found tampered and unauthorised load was detected whereupon a sum of Rs 96,735 was levied against the applicant. Against this amount, only a sum of Rs 8,233 was actually charged and the rest was not charged on the basis of the letter of Executive Engineer saying that penalty on account of unauthorised load was not maintainable because the Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS) was in force at that time. Further, the due amount of 2001 was now included in the bill as due. The PLA referred to Section 56(2) of the Indian Electricity Act, 2003. The adalat noted that more than two years had elapsed since the meter was checked, but after the payment of Rs 8,233 no other amount was ever mentioned as due in the bills issued to the complainant. It therefore held that the demand of Rs 89,450 as illegal and quashed the same. Costs of Rs 1,100 were also put on the department for harassing the complainant. Warrants issued The Permanent Lok Adalat For Public Utility Services, Chandigarh, has issued warrants against the parking contractor of Sector 17 seeking his presence on September 6, 2006, after he refused to receive summons issued on a public-interest complaint alleging deficiency in service and violations of paid parking norms. The complaint, filed by Mr Pankaj Chandgothia, an advocate, states that most of the paid parking lots in Sector 17 have been cornered by a “collection of contractors” who call themselves the “STAR GROUP”. They have somehow obtained a monopolistic position and are therefore flouting the rules with impunity. Even, the Municipal Corporation was failing to check the malpractices being adopted by the parking contractors. In Sector 17, among others, one parking lot is in front of MOH building, another is on the bridge road and still another is near the CMC. But, the ticket issued for each parking is similar and sometimes for the same parking lot, varied tickets are issued. The parking slip issued by the “STAR GROUP” in Sector 17 does not mention the parking lot and not even the sector number. While the vehicle is being taken out of the parking lot, there is seldom any staff to collect the slip back or to verify as to who is taking out the car. This system defeats the very purpose of safety and increases the chances of theft. Mr Chandgothia has further alleged that even the boards displayed by the MC at various parking lots, are not as per law. None of these contain any particulars of the contractor nor their licence number and period. The Permanent Lok Adalat (PLA) for Public Utility Services, has directed the UT Public Health Department to release water connections to nine applicants, who were refused connections since their houses fall outside the lal dora. In their complaint, Mr Suresh Pal, Mr Kedar Singh, Mr Baram Dass, Mr Tirath Kaur, Mr Ashok Verma, Mr Amar Singh, Mr Chander Shekhar, Mr B.S. Rawat and Mr Hifajat Husain, all residents of Khudda Jassu village, Chandigarh, stated that they were not being given water connections. Three of their neighbours in the same village, Mr Onkar Mishra, Mr Mohan Kumar Jain and Mr Pawan Kumar, had been given water connections, they claimed. The adalat referred to the reply given by the administration to a query in the Lok Sabha, regarding regulating construction in the periphery area outside the Lal Dora of Chandigarh villages. As regards water connections, these had been released on a temporary basis to the already constructed houses outside the lal dora, on the condition that the residents would not have any right for permanent connection nor would this entitle them to claim regularisation of their constructions, which were in violation of the Periphery Control Act. The department contended that allowing water connections to the applicants would open the flood-gates to further applications. The court held that “The acceptance of the applications would not open any floodgates because this stood already opened when the power that be, allowed the continuance of unauthorised constructions in the periphery area, and released them electricity connections and water connections to some of them.”
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