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Swami Vivekananda award for region’s CAT topper
Chandigarh, January 13 Manmohan Garg, CEO, SVGOI, presented Vineet with a cheque of Rs 5,100 and a set of books on Swami Vivekananda and personality development. “I am highly impressed with the one liner of Swami Vivekananda: You should not be slave of nature, nature should be your slave. The students should be left free to explore their talent and parents, too, should not impose their wishes on them,” said Vineet. Four other young achievers in different streams were also honoured. “Think big and the world is yours. It is the self-determination which pays dividends. I feel, there is talent in each and everybody. The need of the hour is to trace and groom that talent,” said BTech student Taranjeet Kaur.
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From Schools & Colleges
Chandigarh, January 13 NSS CAMP: A 10-day NSS camp concluded at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 33, here, today. A polio awareness rally was taken out in the adjoining areas. Principal Surinder Singh delivered a lecture on the importance of discipline and responsibility. Movies like ‘Lajja’, ‘Kuddi’ and ‘Gandhi’, portraying social evils, were shown to the students through multimedia system. Eminent personalities like Sachin Sharma spoke on HIV AIDS awareness, Parmod from Yuvsatta spoke on Gandhian philosophy and Surinder Sharma, an ex-faculty of the school, threw light on the significance of NSS and its origin. NSS in charge Nirmal Singh and Amita guided the volunteers, who made best out of waste and participated in discussions on topics like drug addiction, pollution, female foeticide, national integration and corruption etc. The camp concluded with the key address by DEO Kushinder Sharma and director of vocational education Saroj Mittal.
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State education board’s chairman to present paper
Mohali, January 13 He further said since education plays vital role in building an enlightened and prosperous nation, therefore, the challenges created by globalisation of educational processes force us to give second thought to the modalities selection and delivery of educational contents as well as the emerging new trends in the modern education, especially at the level of secondary education, he added. The annual three-day conference of the Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE) will be held in Pune from 12 to 15 January. Chairmans and representatives from 34 different state school boards, educationists and academicians from all over the country, Nepal, Bhutan and the UK are participating in the annual conference during which focus would be on strengthening the boards of school education and vocationalisation of education. It was unanimously felt that the policy makers had to get rid of politicisation, over bureaucratisation and decommercialisation of the education system. The Maharastra State Board of Secondary and Higher Education is organising this meeting. Dr. Dalbir Singh Singh Chairman and Dr. Satish Kumar Menon, director (Academic) will represent the Punjab School Education Board in this meeting
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From Colleges
Mohali, January 13 42 students selected
It was a dream come true for the 42 students who were selected by Honeywell, one of the top Global IT companies, during the mega joint campus recruitment drive at Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran. Students who would be passing their B-Tech and MCA degrees in 2008 with 70 per cent aggregate were eligible to participate in the drive. The selected candidates will undergo six months Industrial Training during which the company will be paying a stipend of Rs 10,250. Lohri celebrated
Sri Sukhmani Institute of Engineering and Technology (Dera Bassi), Mohali, celebrated Lohri with enthusiasm and aplomb. The Sukhmani family welcomed the chairman Prof. Avtar Singh and director Kanwaljit Kaur were the chief guests at the bash. The Lohri bash was organised by Prof. Gurpreet Kaur, registrar, SSIET (Dean Cultural Affairs). Keeping the tradition alive a bonfire was lit with great zeal by Prof. Avtar Singh. It was followed by a dance party. Sweets were also enjoyed by students and members of faculty and staff. Various titles were also given at the ‘Lohri bash’. Director Kanwaljit Kaur and chairman Prof. Avtar Singh gave away gifts to all title holders: Mr. Popkorn: Prof. Pradeep Sharma; Revri: Dr. Kshmta; Mr Bhugga: Dr. Ghai; Ms. Mungfali: Prof. Ranju; Ms. Gachak: Prof. Gurleen; Mr. Bonfire: Prof. Sarabjot. The students of different streams of GGSCMT, Kharar, has done the college proud by attaining meritorious positions in the university (PTU). Harleen Kaur of CSE has secured 1st position with 86.89 per cent, Simerpreet Kaur 2nd with 86.67 per cent, Gaurav Bakshi 3rd with 85.78 per cent, Sandeep Kaur 5th with 84.11 per cent, Neha Dogra and Nalini Thakur 6th with 83.78 per cent, Kavita Chaudhry 7th with 83.44 per cent and Sugandha 8th with 83 per cent marks. All these students are from 7th semester of Computer Science Engineering. Neha of Electrical and communication engineering 3rd semester has secured 4th position in PTU. Shreysi Gautam of MBA has secured 7th position in PTU. College chairman Surinder Singh Sachdeva has congratulated the students and their parents for these achievements. Celebration
Swami Vivekanand Group of Institutes (SVGOIs) celebrated Lohri festival with enthusiasm. The celebration marked the traditional gaiety and spirit and created reverberating atmosphere. Regu Bhaskar, Faculty (MBA) welcomed the chief guest as well as management team members, other invitees, faculty members, students and administrative staff. The chief guest, Abhimanyu Thapar, general manager, Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Corporation (CITCO), delivered his inaugural speech. He said, “the Lohri festival is linked to spiritual and religious beliefs - giving alms to the poor and needy and effecting change in food pattern switching over to groundnut, gur, sesame and other items. Surbhi proposed the vote of thanks.
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Bankers expose declining virtues in society
Chandigarh, January 13 The playwright structured the drama in the celestial ambience of the royal court of mythological Gods. The crisp comedy aimed to highlight the greed, perfidy, corruption and hypocrite attitude of the social, political and administrative gods on the earth. As many as 9 persons from different stratum of life on the earth are made to stake their claim for the bounties of heaven to be granted to only one pious and meritorious soul on a particular day. A wealthy man, an eunuch, blind person, poetess, carpenter, soldier, deserted woman and film actress lay and substantiate their claim to the privilege before the court. During the proceedings, double standards of everyone are exposed and only the soldier, dedicated to patriotism, is granted the honour. Despite certain actors failing to utilise their potential, the production remained a meaningful attempt to assess the comparative decline of virtues in society. Dr Renu Bajaj excelled as also Paramjit Suri while Khem Chand Sharma Rajender Sharma, Ashok Dogra, Rajesh Raseela, Rajiv Pathania, Renu Sharma, Rajni Walia formed the main cast. TOLIC chairman C.R. Khajuria, vice-chairman V.K. Trakroo and senior officers from other banks graced the programme. |
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Poets touch upon socio-cultural themes
Chandigarh, January 13 While Dr Rajinder Kannojia, an assistant professor at the PGI, was articulate in terming the present life as ‘mechanical’ as people are awfully engrossed in worldly pursuits, Dr Vibha Ray was more particular over the declining respect for the elders in society. Dr Dharam Swaroop depicted the pangs of forced partition and Dr Parsoon Parsad lamented that the national language Hindi was not flourishing as compared to regional languages. The audience relished the ornate poetry of Prem Vij, Dr Shashi Prabha, Dr Subhash Rastogi, Sushil Hasrat Narelavi and others. Dr Jagmaohan Chopra presided over the function.
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