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Go in for crops demanding less water, farmers told
Ludhiana November 10 This was stated by PAU member of Board of Management, Mr. Avtar Singh Dhindsa, who is also known as the flower man of Punjab. Mr. Dhindsa said there is a need to understand the mechanisation of international markets for which farmers should keep contact with PAU. Also, under the national horticulture mission, the farmers must gain knowledge to raise healthy nursery of fruits, vegetables and flowers. These alternatives are more profitable than traditional crops. Allied agricultural activities like dairy, poultry, bee-keeping and mushroom cultivation are some of the farm vocations that are now promising alternatives, which can be adopted for value addition through processing or marketing as
raw. In fact those engaged in floriculture can easily adopt bee-keeping. It will also help in accelerating cross fertilisation and provides honey bees greater opportunity and vast field to scout for honey. The future agriculture is knowledge
based. Therefore, education is vital for the children of farmers which alone will help them to face future challenges. In this process farm literature published by PAU and agriculture related radio and T.V. programmes and 16 Krishi Vigyan Kendras are the best source of information and knowledge.
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Concerned over falling wheat yield, Centre explores options
Ludhiana November 10 The proposals include proactive involvement of state governments and agricultural
universities. To obtain the first-hand feedback on steps required to reverse the declining wheat production, Agriculture Commissioner Mr N.B. Singh yesterday visited Punjab Agricultural University. He held discussions with Vice-Chancellor Dr K.S. Aulakh and other scientists. Mr Singh gave an outline of the contours of the proposed action plan and how government intended to intervene through the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). The scheme envisages a three-year plan to be implemented in 138 districts covering an area of 13 million hectares. In the Rs 2,482 crore scheme, share of Centre is Rs 1,241 crore and of states Rs 548 crore. Rest of the contribution will be of the beneficiaries. The slogan for enhancing wheat production and productivity is "timely sowing". The optimum time is between October 15 and mid-November. Timely sowing would mean production of an additional two quintals of wheat per hectare. Mr Singh said it was proposed to plant front-line demonstration plots every 50 hectares and provide mini-seed kits to state governments. In all 48,000 demonstration plots are proposed. Another proposal under consideration requiring the government intervention is to raise subsidy on seeds from Rs 2 per quintal to Rs 8 per quintal and provide logistics support through promotion of improved agronomic practices, including zero-tillage, mulching and sprinkler irrigation. It is proposed to give 50 per cent subsidy on the zero-till drills and also to provide adequate subsidy on micro nutrients, as soil is deficient. Mr Singh said since India had to import five million tonnes wheat this year due to fall in production, the stress was on to reverse this trend, exploit the potential and bridge its gap with actual production. To encourage research and development and evolve new technologies as well as new varieties through biotechnology, the Centre would ask the ICAR to lend financial shoulder to agricultural universities. Projected production of wheat is 69.62 million tonnes against requirement of 76.61 lakh tonnes in 2006-07. The figures for 2011-12 are 70.32 million tonnes and 81.95 million tonnes, respectively. In so far as production and requirement of food grains, the projections are as follows: 2006-07-- production, 213.14 million tonnes and requirement 214.90 million tonnes. In 2011-12, estimated production is 240.06 million tonnes and requirement, 229.48 million tonnes. On factors that have caused low wheat productivity, Mr Singh listed delayed sowing in paddy-wheat and cotton-wheat crop rotation, low seed replacement rate, low and unbalanced use of fertilizers and nutrients, climate changes: rise in temperature and erratic rain, deficiency of micro and secondary nutrients, deceleration of factor productivity, soil degradation and loss of fertility, and escalating cost of inputs.
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Canadian varsity, GADVASU discuss joint research
Ludhiana November 10 He held a detailed meeting with the Deans, Directors and Heads of the Departments, under the chairmanship of Mr D.S.Bainsthe, Vice-Chancellor of the university. During the discussion, the major fields for collaborative research were identified, including the development of basic and advanced molecular diagnostic and surgical techniques, problem of pesticide toxicity, its effects on animals and public health, epidemiological status of important animal diseases and constructions of buffalo DNA library. It was also decided to identify the specific areas in animal science and poultry science to improve the productivity of animals. The meeting was in pursuance of the memorandum of understanding which was signed between the University of Saskatchewan and Guru Angad Dev varsity in June, 2006, in which it was decided that the two Universities would undertake collaborative research projects. It was also decided that four postgraduate students and two faculty members from each of the universities would be exchanged every year on reciprocal basis for training in emerging areas. This would provide exposure to students and faculty of University of Saskatchewan in tropical animal production and diseases and students and faculty members of the Guru Angad Dev varsity would be having the opportunity of training in the latest disease diagnosis and animal production techniques.
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Workshop on broadcast journalism
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Ludhiana, November 10 In her lecture, Ms Anjali elaborated on various aspects of broadcast journalism focussing on television. She touched upon subjects like news reading, news writing, format of story writing and voice modulation. Various technical terms in the field of journalism were introduced to the learners. A workshop was also conducted for the students of BA II (Functional English). The students were detailed about the staff of broadcast namely producers, news anchors and interviewers. The students were assigned different roles for arranging the news bulletin. Ms Anjali spoke about different career options to the students and exhorted them to choose their career according to their taste and inclination. Career programme
The Department of Adult Continuing Education and Extension of S.D.P College organised a two- day orientation programme on career preparation skills on the college premises here recently. The objective of the programme was to enable the students to write CVs, to improve communication skills, to build confidence and to deal with stress and time management etc. Extension lecture
The Khalsa College of Education, Gurusar Sadhar (Ludhiana), orgainsed two extension lectures here recently by Dr S.K. Bawa (Prof and Head of University School of Education, Lovely Professional University and Principal Lovely Institute of Higher Studies, Jalandhar ) on 'Teaching Effectiveness' and 'Status of Women'. Dr Bawa acquainted the students with various important aspects of effective teaching traits of a good teacher, different approaches and determinants of effective teaching. She gave tips regarding how could a teacher make his teaching effective. She also threw light on the status of women from ancient period to till date. Commerce results
Students of M.Com (II semester) of SD Government College have excelled in Panjab University examinations. The aggregate result of the college has been 100 per cent, with all students bagging the first division. Chandni stood first in the college with 79 per cent marks while Sarika Bhalla and Dolly Sharma got second and third positions with 78.16 percent and 77.83 percent marks, respectively. Ten students secured above 75 per cent marks. MBA results
Sumeet Saluja and Gamanpreet Kaur of second semester of the Ludhiana College of Engineering and Technology (LCET), Katani Kalan, bagged the first and second positions with 86.88 and 85.25 per cent marks, respectively. Other students who got good scores were Sushil Kumar with 82.25 per cent, Ashish Verma and Mohinder Singh with 80.37 per cent marks. Refresher course
A one-day refresher course on innovative practices in teaching and learning was conducted at the BCM College of Education here yesterday. Mr Mahesh Munjal, MD, Hero Majestic, was the chief guest and Dr Deepak Manmohan Singh, Dean, faculty of languages, Panjab University, Chandigarh, presided over the function. In the keynote address, Dr Ms Satinder Dhillon stressed on revamping teacher education programmes in order to meet the challenges of future in her topic 'Quality concerns in teacher education'.
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Guru Angad Dev varsity docs win laurels
Ludhiana November 10 The congress was held at the Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, Bidar, Karnataka. The award was given to the research paper entitled 'Ultrasonographic features of normal omasum in buffaloes' by doctors J. Mohindroo, Ashwani Kumar, V.Sangwan, Rahul Udehiya and S.S. Singh. The research paper was presented by Dr J. Mohindroo at the conference. The department has excelled in the field of diagnostic imaging and has won this award for the third consecutive year. In addition, an appreciation award for the paper published in the Indian Journal of Veterinary Surgery during 2005 was given to the article entitled ‘Evaluation of combination of anti-arthritic drug and therapeutic ultrasound in acute traumatic arthritis in equines’ by doctors Navdeep Singh, K.S. Roy, K.I. Singh and S.K. Mahajan in the same congress.
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Children's Day celebrations: participation must for children, feel parents
Ludhiana, November 10 The fancy-dresses of Superman, Spiderman, Tarzan, Krish, Mother Mary, Jesus, Santa Claus, Daler Mehandi, Miss World, Statue of Liberty, Osama bin Laden, fairies, butterflies etc are in great demand by parents of tiny-tots. Ms Neetu Mahajan, mother of a five-year-old, said participation of children was necessary to boost their confidence. She said, "Winning or losing is not important but participation enhances their personality. They learn to present themselves in front of huge audience." Ms Mona Maini, a school teacher, feels that participation was must
for children. "They should be encouraged to participate in such activities. Their stage-fear disappears and a feeling of confidence and independence develops in the child. In order to
encourage them, the organisers too, should give them small gifts," she added. Meanwhile, the Sutlej Club will be celebrating Children's Day on November 12. The celebrations include declamation contests, poem recitation, rangoli competition, dance competitions and fancy dress competition. Ms Sujata, who wants her nine-year-old son to participate in
fancy dress competition, said the routine fancy dresses were easily available in the market
but the dresses of freedom fighters and national heroes were not there. "I want my son to dress like a freedom fighter,” she said. Children's Day is being celebrated by many ladies clubs to encourage their wards. Some of them have asked children to make all the arrangements on their own.
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Seminar throws light on free legal aid
Baddowal, November 10 The seminar was organised by the District Legal Services Authority under the supervision of its Chairman, Mr Harbans Lal, District and Sessions Judge, Ludhiana, to mark the Legal Services Day. Hundreds of people, including panches, sarpanches, students of various colleges, schools and NGOs, attended the seminar. Addressing the seminar, Mr Harbans Lal said free legal aid was being provided to various sections of the society but they were not much aware about it. Any women, persons belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, industrial workers, person in police or judicial custody, physically challenged, children, mentally challenged (irrespective of their income group) and the persons belonging to weaker sections, having annual income less than Rs 50,000, were entitiled to avail free legal services, added Mr Lal. The authority had constituted a panel of 15 lawyers to deal with the cases of such persons. Deserving applicants were provided the services of a lawyer free of cost. Fee to the lawyer and all incidental expenses were borne by the authority. The authority had provided free legal services to 2683 persons, he further added.
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Ileana's odissi mesmerises audience
Ludhiana, November 10 Her hand and feet movements were breathtaking and coupled with grace.The audience sat through her performance spell-bound. She went to Orissa and found Odissi guru and renowned Padma Vibhushan winner Kelucharan Mohapatra.The course of her destiny took a turn and dance was the ultimate goal in her life. She left her country, her parents and practised Chhau dance of Mayurbhanji and Odissi. Padmashri was conferred on her this year for popularising Odissi the world over. She has performed in almost all European countries and different parts of India. She said ," It was really an experience to cherish receiving the coveted award from the President of India in Rashtrapati Bhavan." An 'A'grade artiste from Cuttack Television, Ileana has been awarded the 'Leonide Massine for the Art of Dance' in Italy and national award for best choreography for her dance direction in the Bengali film 'Yugant' ,directed by Aparna Sen. In today's performance, she involved the students by asking them to interpret her dance movements. She depicted very well a story of a naughty child who refuses to go to sleep and how his mother warns him of demons and other persons to make him sleep. Her movements were poetry and evoked well deserved applause from the She has started a dance institute 'Art Vision' in Bhubaneswar and her parting shot was that she wants to find at least one truly dedicated student who will pursue dance with as much passion as she has been doing ."
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Modular TB workshop concludes
Ludhiana, November 10 According to Dr Jagdeep Whig, Vice- Principal, Professor and Head of Pulmonary Medicine at DMCH, the aim of organising such workshops was to involve medical colleges in the Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP).
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Maninder, Deepti emerge fastest runners
Ludhiana, November 10 Results: boys (u-17) 3 km walk-Manjinder Singh of Ludhiana 1, Tejbir Singh of Amritsar 2 and Balraj Singh of Amritsar 3; girls (u-17) 3 km walk- Amritpal Kaur of Amritsar 1, Rajbir Kaur of Amritsar 2 and Sandeep Kaur of Sangrur 3; boys (u-19) 100 m- Maninder Singh of Ludhiana 1, Manjeet Singh of Patiala 2 and Parveen Kumar of Jalandhar 3. Girls (u-19) 100 m-Deepti Rani of Sangrur 1, Rajvinder Karu of Patiala 2 and Rajpreet Kaur Saini of Jalandhar 3; boys (u-19) 1500 m- Gurjeet Singh of Jalandhar 1, Paramjit Singh of Fatehgarh Sahib 2 and Jaskirat Singh of Amritsar 3. Girls (u-19) 1500 m- Navjivan Kaur of Hoshiarpur 1, Manpreet Karu of Jalandhar 2 and Gagandeep Kaur of Sangrur 3; boys (u-19) triple jump- Navjot Singh of Patiala 1, Jagjeet Singh of Jalandhar 2 and Parvinder Singh of Mohali 3. Boys (u-19) pole valut- Narinder Singh of Jalandhar 1, Ranjeet Singh of Ludhiana 2 and Balwant Singh of Gurdaspur 3; girls (u-19) javelin throw- Gagandeep Kaur of Sangrur 1, Mandeep Kaur of Ludhiana 2 and Ramanjot Kaur of Fatehgarh Sahib 3; girls (u-17) triple jump- Kulwinder Kaur of Sangrur 1, Beant Kaur of Sangrur 2 and Jaspreet Kaur of Muktsar 3. Boys (u-17) triple jump- Gurpreet Singh of Sangrur 1, Agyapal Singh of Jalandhar 2 and Jagwinder Singh of Ludhiana 3; girls (u-17) javelin throw- Diljit Kaur of Ludhiana 1, Ramandeep Kaur of Sangrur 2 and Mandeep Kaur of Sangrur 3.
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Amritsar eves win TT title
Ludhiana, November 10 In the women's section, Amritsar team blanked Ropar 3-0 to win the title. Shikha beat Meena, Shelly outplayed Ravneet while Ragini defeated Mamta to help their team win the title. In the junior boys’ section, Jalandhar pipped Patiala 3-2 to emerge champions and in the girls’ section, Ropar beat Ludhiana to romp home victorious. In the sub junior boys’ section, Amritsar overcame stiff resistence from hosts, Ludhiana whom they prevailed upon 3-2. In the girls’ section, Ropar outclassed Patiala 3-1 to clinch the title. Results: sub junior girls’ singles (pre-quarter finals)- Lovpreet of Ropar b Tanvin of Amritsar, Neha of Patiala b Manisha of Ropar, Damanpreet of Ropar b Kanchan of Ropar, Anjalpreet of Ferozepur b Anjali of Ferozepur, Bharti of Jalandhar b Bhumika of Ludhiana and Kirti of Ludhiana b Himani of Ludhiana. Sub junior boys’ singles (pre-quarter finals)- Agnish of Ludhiana b Nonit of Amritsar, Vitesh of Amritsar b Chander Mohan of Patiala, Roahn of Amritsar b Ravinder of Amritsar, Ravi Dangi of Patiala b Arvind of Fatehgarh Sahib, Sahil of Patiala b Ekam of Ropar, Sachin of Amritsar b Bhavuk of Ludhiana, Santosh of Fatehgarh Sahib b Basant of Ropar and Simrajit of Jalandahr b Rajiv of Ropar.
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