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Tradition keeps alive Khiloniyan Wala, Mishri Bazaars
Mental institute contract staff get raise in salary
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Quota for wards of Kamagata Maru martyrs
‘Indonesia aims to increase bilateral trade with India’
Marcus comes up with ‘Chuhe Ne Kot Paya’
Young World
Health Dept seeks expert hands in satellite hospitals
Lecture on agriculture production held
ETT students back unemployed teachers
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Tradition keeps alive Khiloniyan Wala, Mishri Bazaars
Amritsar, November 4 Located in the narrow maze of roads inside the walled city, the Khiloniyan Wala Bazaar is revived couple of days prior to Divali and Janmashtmi. A visit to the market on any other day of the year shows that the same shops are offering confectionery, cosmetic products, stationery, ready-made garments and other merchandise to the customers. This dichotomy is created due to human compulsion of matching pace with the changing time to sustain their living. Come Divali, the old market is once again a place full of hustle and bustle and a visit to it showed that the people jostled to buy beautiful and chiselled idols of Ganesha and Lakshmi, besides choicest of earthen lamps. The market gets congested before and on the day of festival as the vendors install stalls on either side of the road to attract customers. Sant Ram, a vendor, remarked that only limited number of families made the idols of gods and goddesses and earthen lamps these days since the demand was waning. Feeling the pulse of the changing trend, majority of the houses involved in the trade had shifted to other vocations to earn a living. However, almost all of them did resort to selling these terra cotta items during these two auspicious occasions, he quipped. Another vendor, Roshan Lal, said bound with the tradition, people, whether rich or poor, had to buy idols of Lord Ganesha, goddess of wealth Lakshmi, and “Divali” (a specific earthen lamp with module to light in all directions) to perform Puja. He said for the tradition and to earn some money they also switched over to the age-old business for some days in a year. Similar is the story of Mishri Bazaar. Preparations of its shops of “khand khidone” (edible sugar toys) was famous not only in the city, but also in the neighbouring towns. However, in contemporary period only handful shops prepared them as their demand had diminished drastically. Rajinder Singh of Sunder Singh Jeet Singh firm said once preparing edible sugar toys used to be a roaring business but now couple of shops made them to sell in the city and villages. He said the age-old market now prepare mishri and meethe channe for gurdwaras while phuliya, makhane, pickles, jam and murabbe were sold not only in the state, but also in neighbouring states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. A housewife, Neha Bhatia, said her family had purchased only two pieces of edible sugar toys keeping in view their significance as part of the tradition for completing the Divali Pujan. |
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Mental institute contract staff get raise in salary
Amritsar, November 4 The hospital was facing a severe crunch of the staff, including clinical psychologists, and psychiatrists, besides trained staff nurses, owing to low salary packages. Confirming this, hospital Director Dr B.L. Goel said, “This would definitely improve the functioning of the hospital. Although all the vacancies of regular staff were filled, the absence of contract employees, especially clinical psychologists and psychiatrists, was hampering functioning of the hospital.” According to information, the hospital was short of four clinical psychologists and psychiatrists each while out of 20 staff nurse posts 18 were vacant. “Due to lesser remunerations, no expert psychologist and psychiatrist was interested in joining the institute. Now we hope that people would like to join our hospital,” said Dr Goel. Talking to The Tribune, Dr Goel said within a week of the notification, they would advertise the posts and it would take another five to six months for the filling the vacant posts. Dr Chawla was chief guest of the cultural programme held to mark the celebrations of Divali. Speaking on the occasion, she appealed to the families of the patients who had recovered from the ailments to take them to their homes as it would further help in the improvement of their health. Meanwhile, students of the nursing college presented a cultural programme. The patients who were recovered during the treatment also presented group and religious songs. The Health Minister distributed sweets and honoured the participants. She also announced to distribute cloths among the patients of the hospital. |
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Quota for wards of Kamagata Maru martyrs
Amritsar, November 4 This category would be an addition to the already prevailing freedom fighters benefit scheme applicable to martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh and Kuka Lehar. This and other significant decisions were taken at a Syndicate meeting held today. In another pronouncement, the Syndicate decided to charge verification of academic records certificate in Indian currency instead of foreign currency. Vice-Chancellor Prof A.S. Brar chaired the meeting while Registrar Inderjit Singh presented the agenda. Inderjeet Singh said that this category, which was left out for so long, had been included on the directions of the Punjab Government. The Syndicate also decided to charge academic qualification verification fee of Rs 2,500 from foreign resident students in Indian currency. earlier, this fee used to be charged as $50 or 15 pounds to ease the transaction and avoid unnecessary currency exchange process. In another decision, the Syndicate gave its approval to the medium of examinations of BEd and MEd. Now the students can get question paper and answer the questions in either of three languages, English, Punjabi or Hindi from this session. Again, to increase the efficiency and economy aspect from the next academic session (April, 2011) the sugar and alcohol technology course would be merged with the Food Science and Technology Department. “Actually, it would help utilising the non-teaching staff, the laboratories or buildings collectively for both the courses as most parts of the practical studies remain the same in both the courses,” he said. The Syndicate gave its nod to the introduction of credit-based evaluation system in the courses of MCA, M.Tech. and B.Tech. (computer science and engineering), MCA (software systems) and MCA (five year and six months integrated course) at its meeting held today. Meanwhile, the Syndicate accorded its approval for the change of name of B.Tech. (electronics communication systems) to B.Tech. (electronics communication systems engineering). Similarly, the change of name of the Panch City College for Women, Amritsar, was approved to Saraswati College of Management and Technology. This college is being run under the distance education and would be co-educational from now onwards. |
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‘Indonesia aims to increase bilateral trade with India’
Addressing the meeting, Gen Ghalib said Indonesia, like India, is a mosaic of different ethnic and religious groups and the country offers a huge potential in terms of bilateral trade with India. He said the visit of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who would be the chief guest during the forthcoming Republic Day, to India early next year would usher in a new chapter in the bilateral ties. He said a business delegation would also accompany the Indonesian President and it would participate in a business summit in India on January 25. Indonesia could export crude palm oil, coal, copper, chemical products, edible fruits and nuts and spices to India while it could import farm machines, refined oil, textile, and cotton from India. He said Indonesia, with a population of 230 million and economic growth of 6.7 per cent, provided a good and optimistic environment for expanding business. Welcoming the Indonesian Ambassador, Gunbir Singh, president, CII Punjab State Council, said Amritsar offers immense business potential in the fields of textile, home furnishing, woollens, blankets, shawls, food processing, health care, and tourism. The Amritsar traders would like to explore trade opportunities with Indonesia through mutual interaction in future as well. |
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Marcus comes up with ‘Chuhe Ne Kot Paya’
Amritsar, November 4 Contemporary Punjabi litterateurs scarcely contribute towards children’s literature. Gumtala said the urge to serve the mother tongue, took him to pen poetry for children. He said the absence of abundant children literature in Punjabi could be one of the reasons behind the declining popularity of Punjabi among school children. He found that schoolchildren do not find interesting literature in Punjabi commensurate with their age group. He felt this created a hiatus, which was difficult to fill at a later stage in their lives. Written in a hilarious tone, the collection of poems introduced to children’s petite ambitions and dreams. These poems certainly opened layers after layers of children psychology and helped in understanding them. The poet seems to have made festivals and celebration days as a centre of attraction as they hold special meaning for children who look forward to celebrate them. According to Marcus, these were deliberate attempts to educate children regarding the traditional festivals, fairs and events holding importance in history, culture, geography, environment of the state and major trades like farming pursued by its domicile. He said it was highly necessary as schoolchildren were gradually drifting away from these events under the influence of Western culture. His poems were not only meant for schoolchildren but also unequivocally evinced concern regarding children coming from economically weaker sections loitering in the markets and struggling to earn a living. His keen desire to see them educated and walking along the mainstream society was perceptible at many places. Besides, some of his poems lambaste social evils like addiction, female foeticide and dowry, while many instill patriotism among young hearts. His earlier book Billi Ne Laiyan Ainkan, was well received. Therefore, Prof Atma Singh Gill of DAV College appreciated Marcus for eloquently describing the thoughts and feelings of children in rhyme. He observed that it was difficult to fit into the psychology of children, understand it and then express it in words. Shiromani Punjabi poet, Parminderjit, who edits a purely Punjabi poetry magazine, admitted that among the contemporary Punjabi writers, only a few were focused towards children literature. |
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Young World
Amritsar, November 4 Organised by the Rotary Club Amritsar South-East, the celebration was marked by a dance and song performance. Special arrangements for crackers was made for the inmates. Sharman Kaur, daughter of Rotary Club member Shamsher Singh, celebrated her birthday by cutting cake among the inmates and sharing the joyous moment of her life with them. National scholarship
Kaveri Sharma of the BBK DAV College for Women and studying in BA III has won the national scholarship to young artistes for the year 2009-2010. The scholarship is sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Government of India, for the upcoming young artistes in different
cultural fields. Kaveri competed in the category of Hindustani instrumental music and the talent she exhibited was in sitar. She has been awarded a scholarship of Rs 5,000 per month for a period of two years. She is among the seven recipients of the scholarship in this category at the national level. Another student Shefali Sharma of first year designing course has won the title of “Miss Talented” in Vivel Miss PTC Punjabi 2010. Handball trophy
The BBK DAV College team lifted the Guru Nanak Dev University inter-college handball championship trophy, defeating KMV Jalandhar, HMV Jalandhar and Khalsa College for Women, Amritsar, in league matches securing 6 points. Divali celebrations
On the occasion of Divali, different activities were performed in Modern High School, Mata Kaulan Marg, Amritsar. Students made wonderful greeting cards, candles and decorative earthen lamps. They showed their talent in rangoli competition. The festival of lights was celebrated at Government Senior Secondary School, Golbagh. Students of the DAV College of Education grabbed all the three top slots in the rangoli and greeting card designing competitions held on the premises of Golbagh government school. The students also performed songs, poems, skits and bhangra and giddha. Principal Mandeep Kaur said such occasions provided opportunities to catch the fancy of the students towards our rich culture and traditions, besides becoming a platform for the students to showcase their talent. |
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Health Dept seeks expert hands in satellite hospitals
Amritsar, November 4 In the recent move, the department has communicated with the Director, Health and Family Welfare, with copy to the Mission Director at Chandigarh to provide one gynaecologist, paediatrician, female Medical Officer each at five existing satellite hospitals emerged after conversion of urban slum
dispensaries, besides allotting at least five staff nurses, a laboratory
and OT assistant. Also, this is for the first time that the department has sought the post of paediatrician in every satellite hospital for proper health care of newborns, who may develop problems after birth. Earlier, there were no post of paediatrician in these hospitals and it was the responsibility of the Medical Officer to ensure proper care to the newborns. It is evident to mention here that five of 12 dispensaries situated in urban slums were converted into satellite hospitals in 2008. These are Bhai Mohakam Singh Memorial Satellite Hospital, Sakattari Bagh, Bhai Darshan Singh Memorial Satellite Hospital, Ranjit Avenue, Bhai Daya Singh Memorial Hospital, Mustafabad, Bhai Sahib Singh Memorial Satellite
Hospital, Fatahpur, and Bhai Himmat Singh Memorial Satellite Hospital, Ghanupur Kale. These hospitals, which were interlinked with Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Civil Hospital, were upgraded with infrastructure such as operation theatre to conduct deliveries so that pregnant women do not have to go to far away places for the same. “Now we want to extend the facilities by introducing caesarian section operations in these hospitals which require expert gynaecologists and paediatricians,” said Dr Chandanjit Singh Kondal, Civil Surgeon. Ironically, even after more than two years, these hospitals are without adequate staff. When surveyed, it was discovered that out of five hospitals, the two were without any gynaecologist and there were shortage of male and female Medical Officers. At present there are three staff nurses in each hospital provided under the National Rural Health Mission as per the PHC norms, but if this proposal gets materialised, there would be at least five staff nurses in each hospital for round-the-clock operation. As per the data, Bhai Mohkam Singh Memorial Satellite Hospital and Bhai Dharam Singh Memorial Satellite Hospital conduct 20 to 25 deliveries per month. The number of delivery cases are
pegged at 300-400 in the Civil Hospital per month. “Upgradation of these hospitals would not only reduce the load on the Civil Hospital, but also help the department to provide the facility of deliveries 24X7 to pregnant women in their respective areas,” said Dr Kondal. |
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Lecture on agriculture production held
Amritsar, November 4 The lecture was organised in the profound memory of a Sardar Bishan Singh Samundri, first Vice-Chancellor of the university. Prof S.S. Johl, a renowned agriculturist and Padam Bhushan awardee, delivered lecture on “Sustainable agriculture production and food security concerns in India”. Vice-Chancellor Prof A.S. Brar presided over the function. Prof. S.S. Johl in his lecture emphasised on the food security and access to food production. He advocated two approaches, ie self-sufficiency and self -reliance. He said the food production can be increased and sustained through expansion of area and increasing the intensity of cropping. Dr Surinder Singh, Dean, Academic Affairs, presented vote of thanks. Prof Sukhdev Singh, Dean, Life Sciences, Prof G.S. Virk, Prof Avinash Nagpal, Prof Renu Bhardwaj, Dr A.S. Soodan, Dr Adarsh Pal Vig, Dr Satwinderjit Kaur, M.S. Bhatti, Rajinder Kaur, Dr Jatinder Kaur, Bhupinder Pal Singh, Dr Rajbir Singh, teachers of life sciences and other faculties, research fellows and students attended the lecture. |
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ETT students back unemployed teachers
Amritsar, November 4 During a gathering at Dite Verka here the president of the students’ union Gurmej Singh Bulharwal said the findings of the scrutinising teams of the government regarding the sale of ETT degrees in Jammu should be made public and the government should initiative to implement their promises made regarding regularisation of ETT teachers and fill vacant posts at the earliest. The students supported the demands of the ETT unemployed teachers that the state government should advertise 3,425 posts of ETT teacher and fill them on the basis of the 70:30 (Punjab state ETT candidates: other states’ ETT teachers). |
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