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UIET team’s answer to rising fuel cost
 Chandigarh, October 4
With the fuel prices skyrocketing, there has always been a need to search for alternative means of transportation, and human-powered transport is commercially the most viable option. Working on similar lines, a team of the University Institute of Engineering and Technology
(UIET) has developed an environment friendly vehicle, ‘The Machine’, which runs on human power as well as electricity and can reach a speed of 50
kmph.
Students of the University Institute of Engineering and Technology with their environment friendly vehicle.
Tribune photo: manoj mahajan
public darbar
No mechanism to keep a track of complaints
Chandigarh, October 4
In the last two-and-a-half years, the UT Administration has failed to evolve a mechanism to keep a track of complaints taken up at UT Administrator Shivraj V Patil's public
darbar.
6 months on, Mayor yet to hold darbar
Chandigarh, October 4
Even six months after the announcement was made, the Municipal Corporation Mayor is yet to hold an open darbar to resolve public grievances on the spot. On March 9, an official communication was sent by the public relation office of the corporation stating that the Mayor had decided to hold open darbars in every ward to hear to the problems of the residents.
CHANDIGARH SCHOOLS
Subsidy for uniforms mooted
Chandigarh, October 4
The UT Education Department has placed a proposal with the Chandigarh Administration to provide one-time cash subsidy to parents for buying schools uniforms for their children. The officials of the department said the proposal was aimed at avoiding delay in distributing uniforms to students in Chandigarh.
2,700 apply for posts of JBT teacher
Chandigarh, October 4
About 2,700 CTET candidates have applied for the 654 posts of JBT teachers, advertised by the UT Education Department last month. The teachers will be recruited on contractual basis and the last date to submit the fee was Thursday.
Manhandling of complainant at Patil’s public
darbar
UT police begins probe
Chandigarh, October 4
The UT police today began a probe on the complaint of Om Prakash, a Hallomajra resident who was allegedly beaten up at UT Administrator Shivraj V Patil's public darbar by the security staff.
Estate office issues vacation notices to slum dwellers
 Chandigarh, October 4
The UT estate office today issued a 15-day notice to the inhabitants of three slum colonies - Pandit Colony, Kuldep Colony and Mazoor Colony - in Sector 52 to remove their shanties or face demolition. The notices are part of the drive undertaken by the Chandigarh Administration to shift the eligible slum dwellers to the flats constructed under the rehabilitation scheme by the
CHB.
An official pastes a vacation notice at Pandit Colony in Sector 52, Chandigarh, on Thursday. Tribune photo: parvesh chauhan
UT Administrator reviews slum rehabilitation project
Chandigarh, October 4
Reviewing the ongoing work of slum rehabilitation project, UT Administrator Shivraj V Patil today observed that the proposed water supply to the slum rehabilitation scheme by providing a tube-well and boosting systems is not an assured system of the water supply.
‘Girls should be inspired by jhansi ki rani’
 Chandigarh, October 4
From giving examples of the hit songs of Bollywood films to urging girls to break glass with their screams, the ongoing campaign against the eve-teasers in the city by telling girls to raise a voice continued today with the UT SSP Naunihal Singh asking the girls at MCM-DAV College in Sector 36 to be inspired by ‘jhansi ki rani’.
UT SSP Naunihal Singh interacts with students at MCM DAV College, Sector 36, in Chandigarh on Thursday.
Tribune photo: parvesh chauhan
Eve-teasing: Girl complains against traffic policeman
Chandigarh, October 4
The UT police control room today received a call from a girl that a traffic policeman eve-teased her near the Canara Bank at Sector 17. A police team reached the spot and conducted investigations. However, the girl was not found there.
Police officials investigate the spot where a girl had complained of eve-teasing by a traffic policeman.
Tribune photo: manoj mahajan
UT Adviser reprimands officials for walking out of MC meeting
Chandigarh, October 4
Taking a serious note of the walkout by MC officials during the recently held general house meeting, the Adviser to UT Administrator today reprimanded the officers and directed them to deal all issues raised by the Councillors with sincerity and efficiency.
Telephone exchange office gutted
Chandigarh, October 4
A minor fire broke out in the BSNL exchange office at Sector 49 this morning. Fire officials said the fire broke out due to a short circuit in a cabin adjoining to the general manager’s office on the second floor. Furniture, two computers and a laptop lying in the cabin got destroyed in
the fire.
A gutted Telephone Exchange office at Sector 48 in Chandigarh after a fire broke out there on Thursday.
Tribune photo: parvesh chauhan
Two commit suicide
Chandigarh, October 4
A 30-yr-old allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his residence last night. The deceased, Suresh, 30, was suffering from depression owing to a matrimonial dispute.
Students stage protest, demand better placements
 Chandigarh, October 4
Students of University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS) staged a protest by boycotting the classes and demanded to ensure 100 per cent campus placement. The students said that after paying more than Rs 5 lakhs as fee better placement should be provided. The list of demands also included mini-student centre and parking facility in the department.
Students of the University Institute of Legal Studies protest in front of their department in Chandigarh on Thursday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Sanitation takes a beating in tricity govt schools
Mohali, October 4
Two students of Government Primary School, Mataur, were seen covering their noses while passing in front of conveniences in the school, emanating intolerable smell.
A washroom in a poor condition in Government Senior Secondary School at Phase IIIB2 in Mohali. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu
Shortage of toilets for girls
Chandigarh, October 4
Even as a majority of government schools in Chandigarh have separate toilets for girls and boys, many schools, especially in the periphery, were found with sanitation and cleanliness issues, besides shortage of toilets, especially for girl students.
Rush of students at a water facility at Government Middle School, Sector 52; and
(right) only one urinal at the boys’ toilet in Chandigarh. Tribune photos: Manoj Mahajan
Girls forced to use boys’ toilet in P’kula school
 Panchkula, October 4
Rhea Batra, an 11-year-old student, is asked to use boys’ toilet, as the girls’ toilet is choked and messy at Government Model School, Sector 6. The toilets and drinking water systems of Panchkula government schools are in a shambles.
Drinking water facilities in unhygienic conditions at Government Senior Secondary Schools in Sectors 6 and 7 in Panchkula. Tribune photos: Nitin Mittal
group clash
SAS institute suspends 8 students
Mohali, October 4
The SAS Institute of IT and Research in Phase VIII of the Industrial Area today suspended eight of its students following a clash between two groups of students on a minor issue.
Medical aspirants face shortage of fee vouchers
Chandigarh, October 4
Hundreds of aspirants for admission to MD, MS and PG diploma courses in medical institutions faced a lot of inconvenience today, as even after waiting in queues for several hours, they failed to get the examination fee voucher required to fill up a form for the national eligibility-cum-entrance test - postgraduate (NEET-PG), as two branches of Axis Bank designated for the purpose received only 200 such vouchers.
Students turn up for ‘Joy of giving week’
Chandigarh, October 4
In consonance with the 'Joy of giving week', Hum Hain, the society for gender equality and non-discrimination of Postgraduate Government College for Girls, Sector 11, set the ball rolling for generating goodwill and happiness through the act of ‘giving’.
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Chandigarh, October 4
Panchkula, October 4
