Chandigarh, June 3
Anupam Dev Goel has done the city proud by securing the 2nd rank in the seventh All-India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination (AIEEE) and stood first in the tricity. The examination was conducted by CBSE on April 27.

Originally hailing from Sangrur, Anupam took his coaching at Chandigarh. He also commands top position in the Punjab state ranking.

Anupam had secured 26 th rank in the IIT exam, the result of which was declared recently. He scored 92.4 per cent marks in his Class XII examination. Aiming to join the IIT at Delhi, Anupam says he had always been hopeful of gaining a berth in the top 10. “Self study is the key to success. But study only when you feel like. Otherwise, it would become burden”, said Anupam Dev Goel.

Anupam Dev is at present undergoing a preparatory camp at Mumbai for International Chemistry Olympiad that has been scheduled to be held at Hungary in July.

Abhinav Garg, is placed at 4th rank in the AIEEE but is positioned at second place in the city. Belonging to Rampura Phul in Bathinda district, Abhinav stood first in the tricity and remained third in the all India ranking in the IIT exam. “Focus and consistent studies all through the year and putting your best foot forward is the only key to success”, said Abhinav.

He remained topper throughout his academic career. Recipient of the prestigious National Talent Search Scholarship in 2006 by the Chandigarh Administration, he has also cleared the National Standard Examination in Chemistry (NSEC), a step towards the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO). Abhinav wants to pursue his career in Computer Science with IIT, Delhi or Bombay.

Chandigarh, June 3
An inquiry into use of PTA funds by government schools for the session 2005-06 and 2006-07 has placed nine schools in a spot. The administration has discontinued with the practice of collecting PTA funds.

“The violations ( by GMSSS-18, 19, 22, 16, 33, 32, Mani Majra Complex, GMHS-34 and Government Middle School, Maloya) can’t be ignored. Action will be taken against the guilty heads,” said the DPI (S) S.K. Setia.

The inquiry, conducted by M.M. Hurria, a retired IAS officer, reveal startling facts on misuse of PTA funds. The money supposed to be used on the welfare of students, was being spent to meet the whims of the heads of schools.

The school heads would charge Rs 100 to Rs 250 per child per year against the officially sanctioned amount of Rs 2 per child per year. No sanction was obtained from the administration for increasing this charge. “ The only possible explanation could be that the increase had been done on the recommendations of the Parent- Teacher Association. But the latter is a recommending body. The sanctioning authority lies with the administration alone,”said Hurria.

The amount, which runs into lakhs, was being spent on furnishing offices, repair of buildings and purchase of furniture. All this was being done by forging bills showing payments to little-known firms. The embezzlement went unnoticed all these years because the PTA funds were not audited by any government agency before.

Defying the UT education code for PTA, heads of schools in GMSSS-22, 16, 32, 34 and Government Middle School Maloya were found to have designated themselves as chairpersons of PTAs. At GMSSS-22 and Government Middle School, Maloya, no stock register was maintained for articles purchased out of PTA funds.

At Government Primary School, Maloya, money for repair of an office sofa came from students’ contribution and the PTA account. Three rooms in the school were renovated, not for students but officials of the MC for conducting the civic elections.

At GMSSS-18, a sum of Rs 90,000 was spent on renovation of library and an open-air theatre, Rs 7,900 for painting a stonewall, Rs 1,450 for polishing library almirahs and Rs 10,000 for repair of furniture.

At GMSSS-19, a sum of Rs 91,439 went towards purchase of benches, grills and lamination boards; at GMSSS-33, Rs 63000 was used on flooring, Rs 49,000 on blackboards, Rs 27,500 on grills and gaspipes and Rs 24,000 on lab curtains.

At GMSSS-19, an amount of Rs 1,28,000 was spent on computers, Rs 39,936 on computer tables and chairs and Rs 82,056 on renovation of a computer lab. At GMSSS, Mani Majra, Rs 2,20,000 was spent on a basketball court and Rs 1,76,000 on a cycle shed; at GMSSS-32, Rs 80,000 was spent on a car park, Rs 80,000 on a cycle shed, Rs 11,770 for painting walls and Rs 83,000 on bhangra dresses.

Taking a serious note of the misappropriation of the parent-teacher association (PTA) funds in various city schools, adviser to the UT Administrator Pardeep Mehra has directed the UT education department to instruct the schools to stop collecting PTA fund from students.

The adviser has further instructed the department to raise the funds either through subscription or donation. These orders will come into effect from the next session, as the funds for this year have already been collected.

Now, each member of the association will pay only Rs 2 as subscription fee for the year and the entire amount will be deposited in the designated bank in the name of the association president.

The education department officials disclosed that the collection of PTA fund had been stopped as this practice could bring the administration into a dispute.

Chandigarh, June 3
City residents are finally sparing a thought for the environment and their pockets. With Chandigarh bursting at seams in the backdrop of highest vehicular density in the country and another petrol price hike staring in the face, the battery operated vehicles (BOVs) or e-bikes seem to have caught the fancy of the two-wheeler drivers in the city.

If data of those making a beeline for getting subsidy for the e-bikes from the UT department of science and technology is any indication, there has been tremendous response to the scheme, it is learnt.

In fact, the department has exhausted its subsidy corpus of Rs 3 lakh for 60 BOVs for the financial year 2008-09 in the first two months. While the department had also exhausted its subsidy amount last year. The response had been overwhelming this year apparently in view of the environment preservation and repeated increases in petrol prices, a senior official of the department told Chandigarh Tribune here today.

Now, buoyed by the success of the scheme, the department will write to the administration to increase the subsidy corpus as more and more people were applying for the subsidy under the scheme.

Chandigarh, June 3
The PG accommodations have gone in for a complete transformation in recent years.From dingy small rooms they have got transformed to plush big rooms with swanky interiors. If you are ready to shell out money, you can enjoy all comforts of your home right here living as a paying guest.

An air-conditioned room with comfortable beds, internet connection, cuisines of one’s own choice and laundry service at the doorstep can be experienced in a range of Rs 6,000 to 8,000.

No wonder youth from rich elite families are choosing the city for their education, internships, jobs and they are availing themselves of all these comforts.

A number of paying guest (PG) accommodations offering rooms within Rs 1,500 to 8,000 have mushroomed lately, and the ensuing academic session is expected to boost this business.

Gone are the days when one would search for such accommodations in advance; now a decent accommodation with the choice of facilities comes easy. Websites are the best bet for accommodation. Another growing trend is of booking agents, who assure PG accommodation with a commission of Rs 1,000 to 1,500 and flipping through the classified pages is another conventional option. Sectors 18, 20, 21 and 27 along with Sectors 33, 35 and 36 have the highest paying guests concentration.

Within a range of Rs 1,500-3,500, one can get a cooler, a small TV with average food. Not many accommodations provide laundry service. The rooms are generally on a sharing basis from two to five girls per room. The bathroom has to be shared by at least three to six girls. And PGs in this range rarely have parking facilities. Moreover, they are not located in the ‘posh’ areas.

On the other hand, in the higher range one can comfortably live in a posh sector. The rooms are fully furnished, with marble floors and exotic bathroom fittings. Personal almirahs, comfortable beds with expensive mattresses. Other facilities include A/C, parking space, internet, washing machines or laundry service, attached bathrooms with every room and food of choice.

Prerna, a paying guest in Sector 35 says, "It's like a home away from home, only with parents not around."

City's PG Association president, R.S Gujral, says, "Everyone can now find an accommodation with respect to their coinciding needs and budgets. But with all the accommodations, certain basic norms are necessary to follow."

"It is necessary to ensure that PG accommodations that charge higher are not befooling people. And on the other hand, the PGs in a much reasonable range are not compromising with hygiene, and security of the paying guests," he adds. 

Chandigarh, June 3
While addressing a gathering on international arbitration at Mauritius, the Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice (CJ) Vijender Jain called for separate laws for domestic and international matters in order to make India the global hub for arbitration. In a copy of the speech released here today, the CJ has asserted: “An intrinsic mistake in the 1996 law is that there is a common law for both domestic and international matters. There should be different laws for both, as in Singapore.”

“Bills encouraging domestic and international arbitration should be brought up. The parties to arbitration should also ensure against delay in the process of arbitration. Delay by the parties on various accounts, such as scope of jurisdiction, should be avoided. Language in the contract should not be erred. It should also be very clear what kinds of matters are open for arbitration,” he added.

Asserting that the appointment of arbitrators was important, the CJ has added that the parties should be careful and should be satisfied on his impartiality.

Seeking a separate tribunal for arbitration, he added that its main function should be monitoring the process for ensuring quality arbitration.

“Moreover, both parties should be allowed to plead. If a party fails to plead, the tribunal should go on with the arbitration process. For this, the arbitral tribunal has to be given more authority. Efforts should also be made to reduce costs,” the CJ asserted, adding that fees of the arbitrators and counsels of both the parties constitute as much as 82 per cent of the cost.

Chandigarh, June 3
The Indian Railways toll-free number 139 has not yet caught the fancy of the public using railway services.

The railway authority set up this project a year ago to make various train enquiry services available to their callers.

But lack of awareness among the people about this facility has neither benefited the railway authorities nor the passengers.

An official of the Railways revealed to The Tribune that this project was introduced with the aim that it would enhance passenger amenities and also shorten the queues at the ticket windows.

But due to unawareness about this number, the pressure on the local enquiry service still persists and the length of the queues continues to rise. He said this service had computer-based interactive voice response system (IVRS) equipped with a sufficient number of lines to cater to the users.

With the introduction of this system the passengers will no longer hear the recorded message.

When the Tribune correspondent tried to use this service during the day the number was responding but in the evening hours it was on the waiting mode for more than 15 minutes.

A resident in Sector 22 said this service was an advance version of the voice interaction but it hardly served his purpose of seeking information.

As and when he tried to contact the customer care executive, the response was “You are in queue please wait for sometime”.

While talking about the facility of this toll-free number he said by dialling this number three types of inquiries, which included basic services, value-added services and premium services would be available.

In basic services, the caller gets information like the PNR and waiting list status, arrival and departure of trains, availability of seats and train fares.

Whereas, the value-added services include information about facilities like booking tickets or onward journey booking, reservation in hotels, hiring taxis or tourist buses, car rental and tourist places.

While the premium services included provision of SMS alerts, fax facility and call-back facility.

This is one of the several public private partnership (PPP) schemes of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd aimed at providing quality services to the passengers.

Official further revealed that due to the holiday season, people were planning their holidays.

The Railways has made all arrangements in case there is an increase in the number of passengers they will either add new bogies to the present trains or start new trains keeping in view the rush of passengers.

This is the peak time when the department will generate maximum revenue through the service. But this is only possible if the people start utilising this service seriously.

While talking to The Tribune, station superintendent R.K.Datta said this facility was introduced to facilitate tourists all over the country.

He said this facility was accessible on all telephone lines. One of the reasons that people were not using this service was due to lack of awareness.

Chandigarh, June 3
The Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) today extended the deadline for applying for the transfer of ownership of the dwelling units under GPA at normal rates by three months. The deadline was to expire tomorrow.

An official spokesman said this had been done on public demand. Under normal course the applicants would have had to shell out 5 per cent extra as the transfer fee after the expiry of the deadline.

Under the simplified GPA policy, even those who had purchased the dwelling units before the allotment or handing over of the physical possession letter to the original allottees, through GPA or agreement to sell, were allowed to apply to the CHB for the transfer within three months by paying a transfer fee at the rate of 15 per cent of the revised consideration money.

Under the simplified procedures, people applying for transfer of ownership under the GPA, are no longer required to get the will probated from the court for mutation of the right, title or interest in the dwelling unit on the death of an allottee or transferee on the basis of will except in cases where there is a dispute over the will or otherwise with regard to the right, title or interest in the dwelling unit.

Now, an affidavit by the applicant(s), intended transferee(s) will also not be required along with application form for transfer of allotment of a dwelling unit under any of the CHB policies viz. GPA or mutual transfer policies, transfer in favour of blood relations (including spouse) and mutation on the death of an allottee or transferee.

Chandigarh, June 3
Delay in approving the design of a multiplex at the site where KC theatre once stood and finalisation of the building bylaws marked the high-level meeting of senior officials of the Chandigarh Administration here today. The meeting was chaired by UT administrator Gen S.F.Rodrigues (retd.).

During a three-hour meeting, the administrator set a week’s deadline for officials concerned to finalise the building bylaws. On the issue of farming a uniform policy for the multiplexes and warehouses, he directed the officers to be more responsive and shun red tapism and bureaucratic hurdles.

While reviewing the status of a few ongoing projects and schemes in the pipeline, General Rodrigues said, “Most important thing is to implement developmental schemes and maintain the basic character of the city.”

He expressed concern over the delay in finalising building rules, which forms the foundation of a planned city like Chandigarh. He said these should be finalised and notified without any further delay. While fixing the schedule for finalising the policy guidelines for cinema houses with the provision of need-based validation of rules, he said corrective steps should be taken after identifying shortcomings.

While discussing the issue of multiplexes, the administrator observed that it was a new concept and all latest innovative techniques and requirements must be incorporated. For constructing new warehouses in place of the existing ones, a well-structured plan with state-of-the-art layout needs to be chalked out with the help of professional agencies and holding meeting with the warehouse owners. He suggested that these warehouses must be in small, medium and large-scale categories with best models available.

He asked the estate officer to identify the vacant lands and plots available in the city. He also expressed concern over the filth and dirt in different sectors due to unregulated dumping of debris in the lanes, while undertaking new constructions. The corporation officers were asked to approve the new construction only after the owner removes debris from the site on a day-today basis.

Chandigarh, June 3
Silent wrinkled faces, longing eyes, a mellowed look and a quivering voice is what greets you when one steps in this old age home located in Sector 15 here.

Within these confines, away from home, while a few have accepted this crude reality as a way of life,others still long to be with their families. Their experiences of being here might differ, but the fact is that if given a choice, each one of them would want to spend their last years with their families.

The crude reality of the changing scenario of Indian families has come up with the onslaught of joint family culture. Every now and then, one hears of children abandoning their parents, owing to their busy lifestyle. With this changing scenario, has evolved the concept of old age homes.

“It’s a home away from home but without family,” says 85 year- old Shanti Bansal, who resides in home for old and destitute, city’s oldest old age home. With elder son settled in New Zealand and younger in Delhi, Shanti is spending the last days of her life in this old age home.

There was a time when children used to think thousand times before leaving their parents in old age homes, but now family spats; adjustment problems are big enough reasons for the children for taking such steps. “For me it’s like a son married is son lost. Soon after his marriage, my son and daughter-in-law decided to send me here,” says Mahinder Kaur, another 80 year-old who resides here.

Besides family spats, the changing lifestyle and priorities of a few young couples have been the reasons to send their parents to these homes. Whether it is settling abroad, the working schedules of couples or personal priorities make up the reason for a large number of couples to get apart from their parents.

Although there are a few cases where parents themselves decide to stay aloof. The reason being that they don’t want to be a burden on their children. “I don’t want to be a burden on my daughters since all of them are married now. I along with my wife are here from the past six years and we feel like at home,” says Ved Prakash, who resides in Sri Sathya Sai old age home in Sector-30. Adding further he said, “Just like dusk and dawn, it’s a reality of life and the sooner you accept it, the better.”

“We are on our own here. At least we are not compromising with our self-respect. Its better to stay independently than live as a house keeper in ones own house and look after the grandchildren in the absence of our children,” says 91 year- old Jeet Rani.

Irrespective of hardships faced in this age, these people have learned to live happily. At these old age homes, they celebrate whatever comes their way whether it’s Holi, Diwali or Christmas, like a close-knit family. Every drop of tear and every smiling face finds a companion in this home away from home.

Chandigarh, June 3
Panjab University is going the corporate way in doing its bit for society. After taking up social causes like reserving a seat each for cancer patient and single girl child, the university is now all set to construct an old age home on the campus.

As of now, it has been decided that the old age home would be for the alumni of the university as well as their spouses and parents. An announcement in this regard was made on May 18 during the annual general meeting of the department of alumni relations.

The proposed old age home would come up in the picturesque area of the south campus in Sector 25 next to the alumni house currently under construction.

“This idea was mooted by vice-chancellor R.C.Sobti. Initially, we will construct about five to six rooms that will cater to the need of at least 10 to 12 persons”, said Prof Bhupinder Singh Bhoop, dean, alumni relations, PU. Later on, its capacity could be increased depending on the need of the people, he added.

The idea is to provide a home to those alumni senior citizens who are not being taken care of by their wards due to some unavoidable reasons. They can stay in the campus and avail facilities like that of library, swimming pool, students’ centre etc, he added.

A small amount would be charged for staying in the senior citizens home and we would tie up with social organisations for help us in setting up this home.

Though the proposal is at a pre-module stage, we are expecting generous donations from PU’s alumni to make the project a reality, Bhoop Singh added. Presently, the university has at least three lakh alumni registered.

Panchkula, June 3
Despite tall claims by HUDA authorities of removal of encroachments, footpaths, markets corridors, outskirts of the town and now even roads are dotted by unauthorised vendors.

While anti-encroachment drive by HUDA during the past few months remained limited to the slums on the outskirts of town, unauthorised vendors found the opportunity to set up their business on the city roads.

Enthused by the inaction against encroachers on the roads, around a dozen chic weavers and cooler pad sellers have even set up their vends on the road near the roundabout of Sectors 7, 8, 17 and 18.

The encroachment remained unnoticed for months even as the road is the main route connecting Panchkula with Chandigarh. HUDA officials did not even notice the slip road while repairing the road at the site. While the road near the roundabout is the best in the town, the slip road is in a dilapidated condition.

The park on the roadside has also been encroached upon by chic weavers to store their articles.

Footpaths near Raily village and Shakti Bhawan chowk area are also occupied by vendors.

Vendors running their business on the turnings of the roads are common site in town. The rehris are a bottleneck on the road from the Housing Board chowk to the roundabout of Sector 8, 9, 16 and 17. And the “dangerously parked” vehicles of their customers only add to the traffic woes.

Residents and associations have complained to the authorities several times but the rehris keep coming back following every drive launched against them. “The authorities have been informed of the problem several times but they failed in providing any permanent solution,” said Shailesh of Sector 17. Even junk dealers who were removed during an anti-encroachment drive in January had come back, he added.

President of the Citizens’ Welfare Association S.K. Nayar said, “All anti-encroachment drives have proved futile as the rehriwalas come back again after a few days because the drive is not sustained.” Similarly, corridors in the markets of the town, especially in Sector 7, 8 and 15, have no place for the shoppers to move.

Cops seek  residents’ help
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 3
With lack of coordination among members of the residents’ welfare associations, police is finding hard to curb the increasing crime rate in the city.

According to officials of the Chandigarh police, the move to make people aware of such happenings with the help of the members of the residents’ welfare associations has failed to bore fruit. People are least bothered about the guidelines on how to check the crime rate in the city, the officers alleged.

Beside this, the officials even hold people responsible for not employing security guards in their localities, though they were on numerous occasions advised to do so.

IGP, Chandigarh police, S.K. Jain, told TNS that non-cooperation of resident welfare associations are making things difficult for his team, but I have ordered all SHOs and other senior officials to meet the resident welfare associations.

Chandigarh, June 3
Ashraf Sahil, director, DoorDarshan, Chandigarh, died in his native town city Srinagar last evening. He was to retire on June 30.

Sahil was awarded by the J&K Govement and literary and cultural organisations several times for his services to broadcast journalism.

He played a key role in launching DD Kashmir to counter Pak propaganda when militancy in the state was at its peak.

He joined Chandigarh DD as senior director in February 2006. One of the programmes concieved by him- Aaj Kal- was adjudged the best programme of the year 2007 at the Doordarshn Annual Awards Function held in Mumbai in February this year.

Under the supervision of Asharf, DD Chandigarh held several cultural, musical and literary functions in collaboration with the Chandigarh Press Club and Haryana Urdu Akademi.

Ashraf also worked as press adviser to Farooq Abdullah for some time.

ThE roundabout facing Dainik Bhaskar, Sector 25, is jampacked during peak hours in the morning, afternoon as well as evening and is witness to frequent accidents and mishappenings beside traffic snarls.

I request the municipal corporation to install traffic lights along with inverters at the intersection to control traffic. Traffic police alone cannot help bring the situation under control.

Chandigarh, June 3
While students seeking admission to B.Tech courses at Panjab University are being denied more than two to three prospectuses each by the staff of the SBI’s campus branch, no such restrictions seem to exist for those who are ready to go out of the way to “please” the counter attendants, even if the forms are to be resold in the open market at a higher price.

Acting on a tip-off from The Tribune, Panjab University’s registrar Prof S.S. Bari and his staff immediately swung into action and caught Satish Verma with more than 30 prospectuses of B.Tech and architecture courses, which he bought from the sale counter of the bank today. Apart from this, around seven prospectuses of B.Ed and handbooks of information were also found in his bag.

On being questioned by the security staff of PU, Satish admitted that he bought the prospectuses to sell them at higher prices in Bathinda.

According to bank and university officials, this is a violation of the practice as well as terms and conditions of the contract between the university and the bank that was done four years back. According to the university guidelines, not more than two to three prospectuses are given to a person at a time.

SBI PU branch additional general manager Sudhir Ahuja said, “We are bound to give the prospectus to whoever comes to us although we repeatedly instruct our employees not to give more than two-three prospectuses per person.”

Ironically, while students, who wanted to buy four or five prospectuses, were refused, Satish had bought all 30 prospectuses together from the counter.

Satish, who belongs to Bathinda, refused that he paid anything extra apart from the cost of the prospectuses. However, it was alleged that the some staff members were taking extra money for every prospectus that was sold in bulk.

Moreover, unlike other forms, which are sold from branches, no receipts are issued on the cash counter.

The registrar said, “We have warned the officials of the bank not to let it happen again and follow the instructions strictly. A written complaint will be submitted to the bank manager tomorrow though I have already talked to him today. Written guidelines will be issued in this regard to curb this unlawful activity.” We will also look into the feasibility of issuing receipts on the cash counter, added Bari.

“In future, we will have to be strict and will deploy more security. As regards the allegations, a departmental enquiry will be marked to look into the possibilities”, added Sudhir Ahuja.

Tejpal Cheema, campus president, PUSU said, “Whenever we students go and ask for more than three prospectuses, officials refuse. This is a blatant violation and the university should take strict measures to overcome this problem”.

Chandigarh, June 3
Now managing work schedule and time will not be a problem anymore, as Panjab University is set to impart lessons to the students, secretarial staff, administrators and even teachers in different disciplines such as time management, conflict management, anger management and even managing relationships through a Human Capital Resource Development Centre.

The university plans to run the above said courses under the proposed centre. The centre will provide training in different areas to its students, faculty and employees and will cater to the training needs of other institutions in the region. Such courses come handy, especially for students at the onset of their careers, to cope with stress and challenges of higher education. Also, it will impart soft and life skills training, empowering them to face the real world once they step out of the university. There is a scope for providing them with our value system, environmental and civil responsibilities, which hardly find a mention in the conventional syllabi,” said a PU teacher.

The centre will make an effort to refine skills and provide a cutting edge to different sections of employee/students/trainees both in the university and other institutes. The courses will be offered for different levels of employees and students in different management disciplines, including basic computer skills.

For ministerial and secretarial staff, the courses will cover skill development, public dealing and office procedure. For academic administrators, including college principals and heads of institutions, courses include managing institutions, academic leadership, creativity, working in a team, managing finances and managing human resources.

“Everybody needs specialised training whatever field they may be working in, be it hospitality, administrative or technical sections. Generally one picks up skills while on the job, but having formal training in dealing with the technicalities of a job definitely improves efficiency,” says student Manu Gupta.

With such a training base, resources in terms of time and money will be significant. Due to untrained staff and wrong attitudes, the university has to face and spend a lot of time and resources in avoidable circumstances,” says management student Priya.

Chandigarh, June 3
Failure to refund the fee has cost FIITJEE Limited dear as it had refused to do so till petitioner A.K.Walia filed a complaint in the consumer court.

District consumer disputes redressel forum today directed manager of FIITJEE Limited in Sector 35 to pay Rs 20,000 as compensation to a resident of Ambala city for deficiency in service.

The forum headed by L.R. Roojam stated: “Once the petitioner has given a representation stating that since his son could not clear Class XI exam thus the institute should have refunded the fees within six months.”

Walia after enquiring into a weekend programme for Class XI students got his son, Saurabh Walia, enrolled there for the course. The course was of one-year duration and one-time registration fees of Rs 63,416 were deposited with the institute. The petitioner stated that his son, Saurabh, could not pass Class XI examination thus he was declared ineligible for attending the weekend programme. To highlight this Walia wrote a letter to the institute seeking refund of the fee. The institute asked the petitioner to furnish the copy of his son’s Class XI marks sheet for examining the result. He added though the authorities concerned were convinced yet they refused to refund the fee.

The institute, however, alleged that the petitioner misguided the forum as it had already refunded the fee to him before a complaint was lodged with the consumer forum.