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‘Missing’ Answersheets
Dept to conduct re-exam, punish guilty invigilator
Chandigarh, March 24
Failing to find the “missing” Class XI answersheets of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 18, the education department has decided to conduct a re-examination and punish the guilty invigilator.
Eyewitness Account
It’s the interns who handle night emergency shift
 Chandigarh, March 24
At first glance the duty roster of the emergency ward at the Government Multi Speciality Hospital
(GMSH), Sector 16 has an impressive line-up of doctors on duty even at night. Besides the emergency medical officer
(EMO) there are five other doctors - a physician, an orthopaedic surgeon, a
gynaecologist, a paediatrician and a general surgeon.
Empower deprived students for higher education: Pranab
 Chandigarh, March 24
Emphasising on the need to empower thousands of unprivileged college students who are deprived of higher education and cannot make it to the university, the Union Minister of Finance, Pranab
Mukherjee, today delivered his convocation address at the 59th annual convocation of the Panjab University.
Eminent scientist Yash Pal being honoured by Pranab Mukherjee in
Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photos: Manoj Mahajan
Mercury soars further, touches 37.1 °C
Chandigarh, March 24
The month of March this year is turning out to be the hottest and driest one compared to the past six years, with lack of rain worsening the situation.
Polio drops administered
Chandigarh, March 24
As many as 1,26,796 children in the age group of 0-5 years were immunised during the three-day pulse polio campaign organised in various slums, colonies, villages and sectors of the city.
Should Chandigarh revert to the Chief Commissioner system?
The need for the restoration of the post of the Chief Commissioner cannot be overemphasised. The office of the Punjab Governor, who also holds the post of the UT Administrator, has huge accessibility problem given the constitutional post he holds and his pre-occupations. A senior bureaucrat as the Chief Commissioner would be more approachable to the common man than the Governor. You see the five-year tenure of the former Governor-cum-Administrator, SF Rodrigues, where he rode roughshod over the established democratic norms and traditions. The spectre of the return of the authoritarian regime looms large over the city if we get another administrator like Rodrigues.
Scripting success against odds
Chandigarh, March 24
To work at a cement store and a chemist shop was the only option left for him in order to study, as poor economic conditions forced him to drop school in Class IX.Today, delighted to receive his doctorate degree in management at the annual convocation of the PU, Dr Anshu Kataria, now an entrepreneur, failed to find words to express his joy.
Missing NRI’s body found hanging from tree
Panchkula, March 24
The body of an NRI, Devinder Singh Rawat, 30, who was reported missing since March 22, was today found hanging from a tree in the forested area in between Berwara and Madna villages on Morni road. A postmortem was conducted at the General Hospital, Sector 6 after the CFSL team took samples of fingerprints at the scene.
MC mulls installation of water meters in colonies
Chandigarh, March 24
To streamline water tariff across the city, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) is all set to install water meters in all the rehabilitation colonies and villages.
Unaccounted income of Rs 50 cr disclosed
Chandigarh, March 24
The search and seizure operations conducted by the Ludhiana income tax department on the premises of a real estate player, Peral Group, on Monday has led to the disclosure of unaccounted income of Rs 50 crore yesterday.
PGI docs again seek pay panel benefits
Chandigarh, March 24
Agitated over the delay in implementation of the sixth pay commission’s recommendations, PGI doctors reiterated their demands at a general body meeting of the Faculty Association of
PGI, Chandigarh held on Tuesday. These include pay band 4 for assistant professors, promotion of assistant professor to professor by ten years and removal of nonpracticing allowance of faculty members.
Bickering within MC stalls development work
Mohali, March 24
The internal bickering within the municipal corporation has stalled development work in the town.The power tussle between the ruling and opposition groups has put the residents’ interests on the back burner.
Valley of springs to have rare trees
Chandigarh, March 24
The city will soon get a garden to preserve the green heritage. The visitors would be able to have a feel of the spring as soon as they enter the garden to be set up in Sector 53 by the horticulture department.
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Quench Quest: Neelgais in search of water in Seonk village near Mohali on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu
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Generator sets removed
Mohali, March 24
Diesel generator sets put up in front of houses for the Indian
Tributes paid to martyrs
Panchkula, March 24
Senior officers of the district administration paid floral tributes to Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev on their Martyrdom Day at the War Memorial, Sector 12, here yesterday.
Six police stations for Mohali
Mohali, March 24
Punjab’s Home Department has sanctioned six new police stations for Mohali district.
Eye check-up camp
Panchkula, March 24
A seminar on glaucoma (kala motia) was organised by Grewal Eye Institute (GEI) here today.A free eye check-up camp was also held.Dr Guneet Mann stressed the necessity of regular eye check-up.
Admission to govt schools not easy for poor
Lack of birth certificate, residential proof major problems
Chandigarh, March 24
Contrary to its much-professed commitment towards getting more and more students from economically weaker sections enrolled in schools, the UT Education Department has, in a way, “prevented” hundreds of such students from applying for admission to kindergarten classes of government schools.A majority of parents, who are slum-dwellers and migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, were shooed away from various schools and denied registration for not having the child’s birth certificate or residential proof.
XEN repatriated
Chandigarh, March 24
Chandigarh Municipal Corporation road division 1 executive engineer (XEN) Zorawar Singh has been repatriated to his parent state of Punjab after the concurrence of UT Administrator Shivraj Patil.
Leakage leaves parks waterlogged
Chandigarh, March 24
Parks and the green belts, particularly in the southern sectors, are replete with sights of leaking tertiary water pipelines.The Tribune team came across a number of leaking pipes in Sectors 44, 45, 47, 48 and 50. A visit to various parks and greenbelts revealed that most of the tertiary pipelines that were laid recently were not properly plugged, leading to waterlogging in most of the parks of the city. Residents allege that it is useless to have such greenbelts around the residential areas, which have become a breeding ground for the mosquitoes.
Hotel lacks fire safety norms
Chandigarh, March 24
A city-based hotel has been slapped a notice for not complying with the provisions of the Fire Safety Act.Madan Lal Sharma, station fire officer, the nominated authority appointed under the Delhi Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Act, 1986, inspected the hotel located at motor market in Mani Majra on March 4 and found deficiencies in fare safety measures. The building is owned by Chetan Sharma and is occupied by Deepak Sharma, who is running a hotel.
Aerodynamic shapes of planes discussed
Mohali, March 24
A seminar on aero modelling was organised by the SAE INDIA Collegiate Club of mechanical engineering department of Sri Sukhmani Institute of Engineering and Technology here yesterday.
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Mohali, March 24
Mohali, March 24
