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Talk on Evaluation
As gold prices soar, imitation jewellery sees boom
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Seminar on female foeticide held
City set to get haven for budding artists
Debate threatened by debatable future: College prof
Vijaya Bank set to come to Punjab
Youth Festivals Interceptor to check over speeding of vehicles Stray dog trouble refuses to die down City shawl industry going cool
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VCs all for transparent system
Neeraj Bagga Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 13 The VCs emphasised on the need and justification of having a transparent education system and also raised issues for the betterment of higher education system. Following are their observations on the topic: Prof James Thomas, Vice-Chancellor, Dr D.Y. Patel University, Navi Mumbai: The key frontiers of higher education in medical colleges today include the globalisation, international faculty and periodic updates. Quality assurance is an integral part of healthcare to be adopted by private as well as other medical schools in India. Prof S.S. Gill, Vice-Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot: Examination is the best method to get a fair idea about the students. The students are actually asked to perform surgeries and follow proper clinical methods. In the technical perspective, our higher education system is far behind from the western higher education system. We should put stress on practical work rather than theortical work. Prof Binayak Rath, Vice-Chancellor, Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar: Moral values in education should be conserved. The politics had been involved in the management of the examination and evaluation system. Lack of transparency in the evaluation system was the main problem. We have to have reforms in the evaluation system to meet the challenges in the globalised world. Effective partnership between the best institutions and stakeholders make the system better and efficient. Prof H.P. Khincha, Vice-Chancellor, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum: Continuous watch on the evaluation system could make the working of the universities efficient and better. The input and output aspects of the evaluation of higher education are vital. Accountability of the institutions is the main motive. Brig S.S. Pabla, Vice-Chancellor, Manipal University, Sikkim: The stress is on the flexibility in evaluation system. The mid-session inter-varsity migration can be tried. Prof S.L. Malik, Vice-Chancellor, Deendayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur: The comparison between IITs and traditional universities is not relevant. VCs’ agenda is much higher than they can really implement. These problems rise when the society compares the traditional universities with IITs, IIMs. Best students always choose IITs, IIMs as these institutes provide them the best facilities and choose them to be the part of their faculty. Need to look at the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the evaluation. Job security was also the concerned area in the evaluating process. Prof Dilip K. Bandhopadhyay, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi: It is the teacher who makes or breaks appraisal development system framework. There should be transparency in the working of universities, administration, good and effective planning and development system.
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As gold prices soar, imitation jewellery sees boom
Amritsar, November 13 Artificial jewellery, manufactured locally, catches the fancy of people visiting Churreyan Wala Bazar, situated close to Darshani Deori in the periphery of the Golden Temple. Situated next to Guru Bazaar, traditional market of gold and silver ornaments, the bazaar has shops offering an array of imitation ornaments. Imitation jewellery is manufactured at a large scale here. The annual turnover of jewellery items is estimated to be several crores of rupees. The artificial ornaments are sold not only in various domestic markets of the country but also in the world. “With rising prices of gold jewellery and decreasing profits, more and more jewellers have switched over to manufacturing and dealing artificial jewellery,” said Arun Seth, one of the leading manufacturers and dealers in imitation jewellery. Ramesh Kumar Parmar, Manager of Jalandhar-based Madhuri jewellers, which is conducting exhibition-cum-sale at Hotel M.K. till November 15, said hike in demand of gold-plated jewellery made him hold a second edition of the exhibition-cum-sale here. He said it was the 22nd exhibition of his company in the north India. He claimed that the company had registered spurt in its sales since the rate of gold has touched sky-high. He said the exhibition displayed gold, oxidised, antique and stone pieces, ornaments studded with Kundan, Polki, American diamonds and multi-coloured cut stones. Gold-foiled jewellery in famous designs from Rajasthan, Rajkot and Mumbai offer mangalsutra, bangles, kangans with intricate Meenakari work, bracelets, pendants, necklaces and many more. |
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Seminar on female foeticide held
Rayya, November 13 While speaking at a seminar on female foeticide and spurt of evils against women at the Shaheed Darshan Singh Pheruman Memorial College for Women, Rayya, Bains cautioned the female gender to stay away from the evil of foeticide which would bring them depression, frustration cervix cancer and fatal disease of breast cancer. Dr Bains answered the inquisitive questions for more clarity. Dr Bains said Punjab had been making efforts to raise the sex ratio but still sex ratio between boys and girls was widening day by day. “If this evil grows further, the time was not far away when the people will have to search hard for a girl to marry their boy,” he said. He invited the youth to come forward to eradicate social evils from society. Professor Nanaranjan Singh Dhesi in his introductory speech cautioned students to stay away from premarital and extramarital relations. Dr Raghbir Kaur, Principal, thanked Dr Bains and urged the students to excel academically and stay away from malicious allurements of life. |
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City set to get haven for budding artists
Amritsar, November 13 Named after world-renowned painter SG Thakur Singh, the art gallery, which has emerged as one of the major repositories of budding artists in the country, would also establish a museum where the artwork of famous artists as well as budding artists would be exhibited. Confirming this, Avtar Singh, president of the management and Indian Academy of Fine Arts, said the degrees and diplomas would be recognised by a university. The art gallery was established in 1928 by Master Gurdit Singh, an eminent artist of that time and some other artists. In 1932, SG Thakur Singh joined the academy and took over the charge as president. He and some other artists and art lovers of that time like Master Gurdit Singh, Dharma Singh Engineer, Dr Gopal Dass Sarpal, Dhruv Dev Arora, Durga Das Bhatia and Sunder Das Oberoi worked hard to establish it as one of the greatest art galleries in India. Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, had laid the foundation stone of the academy. Brijesh Jolly, superintendent, said they were looking for a suitable site to set up the college and museum. |
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Debate threatened by debatable future: College prof
Amritsar, November 13 DAV College professor Paramjit Singh Randhawa, whose trained college team won the first position in the debate in the youth festival of Guru Nanak Dev University, said it was very unfortunate that changes in social habits, brought by development in the entertainment industry, had killed the glorious art which developed confidence among students and brought out their real learning. The winning team of DAV College comprised Rouble Tuli and Gunjan Kaushik. They have qualified to represent Guru Nanak Dev University in the inter-varsity North Zone Youth Festival to be held at Kurukshetra University from November 16. Rouble and Gunjan had aired their views on the given topic, “Is Punjab heading on a satisfactory line?” However, in the national-level contest, the theme would be given just two hours before the start of the contest. They could deliver the debate in any of the three languages, Punjabi, Hindi and English. Another student of the college, Ashima, got the third position in elocution. Following these performances, the college secured runners-up position in the literary trophy in the youth festival. |
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Vijaya Bank set to come to Punjab
Amritsar, November 13 Stating this, Executive Director S.C. Kalia said Amritsar had a great potential and the bank with a network of 1,133 branches and 376 ATMs had decided to spread its operational area in the Punjab region. “The region’s credit-deposit ratio stands at 115 per cent and our strategic significance in the area of agriculture could well be gauged from our outstanding amount of Rs 213 crore,” he said. Another leap to be taken shortly by the bank would be to enter the insurance sector. “We would start from the life insurance sector from next month,” said
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DAV Public School bags overall trophy
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 13 The state of Punjab won the crown in the Mahatma Hans Raj Aryan youth festival nationals, 2009, followed by Haryana. Nevertheless, students of DAV Public School outclassed others and bagged three silver medals and one bronze medal while participating in 11 categories of the competition. The DAV teams won golds in quiz, English debate, quawwali and ghazal competitions. They bagged silver medals in Hindi debate, bhajan and greeting card making and the bronze medal in the patriotic song category. Quawwali artiste Rishabh Chaturvedi, a student of Class VI, was given special recognition and offers to sing for a music album and perform at shows in Delhi. The school’s Sufi quawwali team was also invited to perform. Bhajan by Hargun Kaur and a ghazal rendition by Jyotisha Kapoor, both singers of the national level, won them special prizes of distinction at the state level. Ajaydeep and Vikrant won in English debate and Harpreet and Ria in Hindi debate. Nishta Gupta won the silver in the greeting card making category. Principal Neera Sharma said it was for the first time that DAV Public School, as a single education institution, brought laurels for the state by winning eight categories and clinching top positions. Eleven items of the school had entered the competition after their initial win at the competition held in Batala. DAV Managing Committee secretary Mohan Lal inaugurated the festival, while Justice Rajinder Nath Mittal gave away prizes to the winners. APJ college
lifts trophy
The APJ College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, grabbed the overall championship trophy forr the final youth festival of Guru Nanak Dev University here on Wednesday. The BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar, and DAV College, Jalandhar, remained second and third, respectively. The festival concluded at Dasmesh Auditorium. Vice-Chancelleor Ajaib Singh Brar presided over the prize-distribution function and gave away trophies and certificates to the winners. The results: Music trophy - APJ College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar (1); BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar (2), and DAV College, Jalandhar (3); literacy trophy - BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar, won the first position along with DAV College, Jalandhar, While Guru Nanak Dev University Campus, Amritsar, and DAV College, Amritsar, stood second. Fine Arts trophy - APJ College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar (1), and BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar (2); theatre trophy - APJ College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar (1), and DAV College, Jalandhar, and BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar (2); folk trophy - APJ College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar (1) and BBK DAV
College for Women, Amritsar, and Khalsa College, Amritsar (2). |
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Interceptor to check over speeding of vehicles Amritsar, November 13 District Transport Officer (DTO) Jasbir Singh said the interceptor had laser machine which once focused on an approaching vehicle from a distance provided authentic account of its speed, thereby nailing the traffic violators. He said on the first day of its arrival on November 11 it was stationed on Amritsar-Jalandhar GT Road where 17 vehicles were challaned for over speeding. He informed that the speed limit was 50 km per hour on that stretch. However, the vehicles, which were challaned, were found going at 70 to 80 km per hour while some of them were even being driven at 90 km per hour. He said some of the schools and hospitals were located in the area. The traffic rules are being violated with impunity despite the fact that the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has installed display boards proclaiming speed limits to be followed on the road. He said since the vehicle was with the local office for limited days, it was being deployed at different areas of the town. He informed that the interceptor would be pressed in service in nights also to detect over speeding vehicles. It is expected that in this way tipsy drivers putting lives of scores of innocent people at danger would also be held. Meanwhile, the utilisation of interceptor on highway required prudence and foresightedness on the part of officials as stopping a vehicle from a stream of vehicles on highways could prove fatal. The DTO said the stream of vehicles take the shape of cavalcade and was very risky to spot an over speeding vehicle. He said thorough safety measures were taken in order to smoothly conduct the inspection. |
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Stray dog trouble refuses to die down Amritsar, November 13 New Amritsar, as they call it, has the most well-planned area, and is also suffering from blatant encroachment by these wild canines. Past dusk, people in almost every street have to confront the dog brigades. Even stadiums have not been spared. Bylanes are dreaded territories as pedestrians, cyclists and two-wheeler owners become easy and preferred targets. Other favourite spots include eateries, bakeries and butchers’ shops. More disconcerting is the fact that a number of accidents, involving two-wheelers in bylanes, are caused by dogs chasing riders. Also, when chased by dogs, schoolchildren dart across roads in a bid to escape but end up getting hit by speeding vehicles. MC officials said sterilisation was the only way out as killing an animal had been banned. Courtesy the NGOs and the People for Animal (PFA), who make a hue and cry over the killing of one animal but remain silent over people losing lives because of rabies. The Amritsar administration had come up with a sterilisation plan to control the growing population of stray dogs, but it has, so far, yielded no results. Moreover, sterilisation is hardly a solution as dog bites would still not be curbed. “At least, as an immediate measure, the MC should kill those dogs which have been infected with chronic diseases. Some percentage of the problem would then be solved,” said Arshdeep Singh Virdi, a local resident. If officials are to be believed, there are around 25,000 dogs in the city and 15 to 20 cases of dog bite are reported daily in government medical institutions, not counting the cases referred to private clinics. “Catching dogs with the help of unskilled staff in a rickety van is a vain attempt. Everyone knows the dogs smell the van and scurry for cover and reappear once the dog-catchers are gone. They are a nuisance during nights when they forage for food and fight for territorial rights,” said Kirat Singh, a resident of New
Amritsar. Official take
Deputy Commissioner K.S. Pannu: Yes, this is a peculiar problem the residents face. We had initiated a special sterilisation project for dogs but it hardly yielded results because catching the canines is a tedious task. We are in touch with the Delhi Animal Welfare Board to put in half the amount for a dog control project costing Rs 1.5 crore. |
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City shawl industry going cool Amritsar, November 13 The entire country exports shawls and stoles worth Rs 800 crore annually. The rest of the market is captured by Ludhiana and Srinagar. Keeping in view the amount of export, the Wool Tex Pro Export Promotion Council, with head office in Mumbai, opened its office here. The general secretary, Shawl Club of India (SCI), association of woolmark shawl licencees in India, P.L Seth, whose Appolo shawl was the first to install shuttle-less loom, said there were about 300 shuttle-less looms working in nearly 50 units in the city. He claimed that the shawl industry was providing employment to about 50,000 women of Amritsar and Gurdaspur districts. These women, adept in manual embroidery, embellish shawls and stoles while remaining at their houses. He said some of the villages were very popular for producing fine embroidery and the art needed to be preserved. Otherwise, it could lose out to time, he opined. He suggested that the government must set up embroidery training centres in the villages which were known for manual embroidery. Shawls manufactured and embroidered there were procured in bulk. The SCI in association with the Textile Manufacturing Association would initiate a three-month course for preparing skilled weavers in textile industry at the Punjab Institute of Textile Technology, under the Department of Technical Education and Industrial Training. Modern machinery
Introduction of shuttle-less loom with electronic Jacquard of Italian make, which costs nearly Rs 50 lakh, has revolutionised the pace of work. Its speed is staggering 300 RPM (rotations per minute). However, the relevance of power loom, which costs nearly Rs 50,000, is not yet lost for its cheap cost. It produces all kinds of fabrics, including shawls, blankets, blazers, tweed, suiting, shirting. Its speed is 90 RPM. In comparison to power loom, shuttle-less looms manufactures fabric of superior quality without defects. Severing of a thread brings to halt the entire machine and it resumes work only after detecting the snapped thread. However, in power loom the defect cannot be detected and the piece of cloth is prepared accordingly. Earlier, handloom, which needed to be operated manually, was in vogue. There is now hardly any unit of handloom in the city. Earlier, Jandiala, Rajasansi, Ajnala, Khemkaran and Patti used to have a number of handloom units, which ceased to exist. The arrival of the state-of-the-art machinery has increased the pace of manufacturing of cloth. The delivery period has been reduced to 30 days from previous 90 days. Demand of workers
The secretary, Punjab State Committee of the All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Amarjit Siugh Assal, said the power loom industry did not implement industry and labour laws at all. He informed that over 10,000 workers were directly employed by nearly 1,000 power loom units. He said archaic practice of giving wages on piece basis, absence of basic facilities and maltreatment to workers had created a situation that the industry was not attracting youngsters. Hence, the industry was not drawing skilled artisans while current employees in the power loom industry were reluctant to send their wards to join it. Moreover, he said, the proprietors of the small-scale industries (SSI) did not even increase the pay of their employees after passage of some years and preferred to employ new men at the cost of old workers in order to pay less. He said the AITUC for the SSI units demanded subsidised power from the state government. |
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