Ludhiana, September 30
The District Education Officer, DEO (Secondary), Mr Yashpal Mehra has been chargesheeted by the District Education Department. Ironically, he was issued the charge sheet yesterday, a day prior to his retirement today.

According to sources in his two years of service in Ludhiana as a DEO he had allegedly bungled funds under his charge. A high level team had conducted an inquiry into the various cases of mismanagement of funds under him and they had also seized some records from the Education Department. The team had arrived from Chandigarh recently and had carried on investigations for seven hours and during that time never allowed anyone to leave the office.

It is understood that during his tenure as a DEO, there was a lot of bungling of funds specially during the National Games held in the city. Mr Mehra had accepted the post of DEO two years ago and was considered a ‘‘favourite’’ of Mr Johar. However, all efforts to contact Mr Mehra for his comments on the issue failed.

Ludhiana, September 30
October 16 would be a day when the alumni of Kundan Vidya Mandir, the oldest school in the city affiliated to CBSE, would meet old friends at the Old Students' Meet.

The co-ordinators of the meet, Mr Naval Kishore Kaura, Mr Pankaj Arora and Dr Vikas Jindal said in a press meet organised here today at Sutlej Club that they had decided to work for the old students meet in tandem with the management of the school.

Mr Kaura said the basic aim of the meet was to give a chance to ex-students to recall old memories and take a nostalgic trip down memory lane as also to renew lost links. Mr Pankaj Arora said Kundanites had reached top places and made a success of their lives. They would also honour 5 ex-principals and 28 ex -teachers on the occasion.

Dr Vikas Jindal, a dentist working in CMC Hospital, said since he was a part of the management of KVM, he was able to tell them the great desire of old students for a reunion and the management agreed to it.

They said they were very excited because it was the first time such a meet was being held.

Dr Vikas Jindal said registration for the meet closes on October 7 and is open for students who passed out in 1995.

They said many ex-Kundanites were flying down to India for this meet and some great theatre artists and Bollywood actors (all ex-Kundanites) were also expected to attend the meet.

Ludhiana, September 30
Malwa Central College of Education for Women organised a two-day workshop pertaining to research in education. The focus of the workshop was ‘How to write Synopsis’ for an educational research.

Dr (Ms) Ravinder Kaur, Principal of the college, inaugurated the workshop and talked about the need to orginise more such workshops in order to promote the quality of research in the field of education. In the beginning, Ms Mohua Khosla highlighted the objectives of the workshop and added that the workshop was envisaged to equip students of M.Ed class with the fundamentals of writing synopsis or research proposal for their dissertation/project report as was a compulsory component of Masters in Education. —OC

Ludhiana, September 30
Bhartiya Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Udham Singh Nagar, hosted an innovative science exhibition on the school premises with the consent of the District Science Supervisor on September 28 and 29. The exhibition was organised at the tehsil level and approximately 45 schools participated in it. The main topic given by NCERT, New Delhi, was ‘‘Science and technology for sustainable development.’’ Under this topic various sub-themes were also prescribed e.g Food and Agriculture, Industry and Environment, Energy, Educational Technology and Mathematical Modeling and Transport and Communication.

The first day of the exhibition witnessed several competitions for the students as well as teachers like model-making, chart making, quiz competition, teaching aids, extempore speeches. The students were divided into three categories viz: elementary, secondary and senior secondary. Various working and non-working models of science were displayed by the students on the given sub-themes. The students up to Class X took keen interest in the chart making competition and they could be seen actively making charts on topics like: internal structure of human heart, blast furnace, preparation of methane gas, nuclear reactor and dry cell.

Ludhiana, September 30
The finals of Ludhiana Sanskritik Samagam’s “Antakshrai” are scheduled on October 7, 2006, and will be conducted by anchors Anu Kapoor and Durga Jasraj at Guru Nanak Auditorium, Ludhiana.

According to Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, president, Ludhiana Sanskritik Sammagam, the response to Antakshari has been so overwhelming that the LSS has to devise a system of selection through auditions and test of skill and knowledge of Indian music.

Accordingly, the first audition is going to be on October 1, 2006, at 9.30 am at Dumra Hall, Hero DMC Heart Centre.

The auditions shall be conducted in batches throughout the day. Successful candidates will go for team selection and the second audition is to be held on October 3, 2006, at the same venue.