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Students with inadequate certificates appear for Class X, XII examinations
Environmentalists flay MC for planting palm trees on dividers
Palm trees, planted by the Municipal Corporation on a divider a week ago, have fallen down on the tehsil complex road in Jalandhar. Photo: Sarabjit Singh |
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From colleges
Dr Ambedkar’s kin not in favour of reservation
Dr Anand Teltumbde (right), kin of Dr BR Ambedkar, at a function organised by the Samta Sainik Dal in Jalandhar.
Photo: Sarabjit Singh
Frequent change of guard upsets JIT, JDA staff
Verka demands Governor’s rule
Raj Kumar Verka (right), Vice-Chairman of the National Commission for SC, addresses the media in Jalandhar on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Teenaged girl murdered, uncle injured
Lt-Gen Bakshi is Vajra Corps GOC
Residents of Kalyanpur village protest againts the SHO of Lambra police station in front of the SSP (Rural) office in Jalandhar on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
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Students with inadequate certificates appear for
Jalandhar, March 13 Irregularities like unavailability of "school-leaving certificates" and lack of proof of "continuation fees" have surfaced. Other irregularities include admission of girls to Class X though the school is a boys’ school till Class X, and presence of students till the age of 28 years at the school (even though the rule 206 of the school education code states that students over 20 years of age cannot be admitted to a government school). While in the answer to the first RTI query by activist Raksha Rani (in July 2012), the school had cited a theft of records as the reason for not being able to produce the records to the activists, through subsequent RTI queries by Rani and activist Kanwaljit Singh, some other information was provided to them. In 2012-13, about 24 students from outside (other schools) were admitted to the school in Class XII. Of these, the names of eight students were struck off after the school began receiving repeated RTI queries on the matter. In Class XII (session 2012-13) six students do not have any proof of continuation fees, 10 students have been admitted without proof of continuation fee as well as school-leaving certificate, but all these students are appearing for the ongoing Class XII exams. In Class X, about 44 students have been admitted from other schools. Twelve names have been struck off after the RTI information was sought. As many as 21 students of Class X are without both the school-leaving certificate or continuation fees proof and about 11 students have not submitted continuation fee proof. In 2011-12, 34 students were admitted to Class X and 50 students to Class XII in the school from other schools and none of these students’ school-leaving certificates or continuation fee proofs were provided through the RTI info sought from the school authorities. In 2011-12 and 2012-13, as many as eight girls were admitted to the school, despite the fact that the school is only for boys up to Class X. Four of these girls are appearing in the ongoing exams. All this information is available on the basis of copies of the school admission and withdrawal register, a list of students who took admission from other schools to the school (provided in response to RTI queries to the activists, copies of all these documents are available with The Tribune). Attendance records of the school also say for the past two years (till May, 2012) no student remained absent from the school. Although, after the retirement of the then principal Harbhjan Singh on June 30, 2012, in July class in charges had to strike off names of many students due to regular absence. In Class X, names of 18 students were struck off. Hence, after the principal’s retirement, the absentee graph rose sharply. As per school records, students who have left school eight to 10 years ago have also been shown to be admitted to the school. The age of some of these students is between 25 to 28 years. Other anomalies - a student admitted to the school on May 11, 2012, but his school-leaving certificate is dated May 31, 2012. Another student also admitted to the school on the same date May 11, 2012, has a school-leaving certificate, dated May 12, 2012. The DEO, Secondary, Neelam Kumari, when contacted on the issue, said an inquiry was being conducted in the matter. School in charge Bhupinder Singh could not be contacted on the issue. Irregularities
RTI chronicle
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Environmentalists flay MC for planting palm trees on dividers
Jalandhar, March 13 JS Bilga, retired Executive Engineer, Horticulture, MC, and a noted landscape consultant, said, "These trees are definitely not going to last the dry spell. These should have been ideally planted in a greenbelt or a shady corner that, too, in clusters. The whole idea of plantation on a divider is to create pollution buffers and to block the glare of vehicles coming from the opposite side at night. Palms cannot serve any of these two purposes as they have long thin stems, which cannot even be pruned." He suggested, "The MC should have instead planted kaner, nivium, indicum or dwarf varieties of bougainvillaea or phycus, which are perfectly suited. The dwarf varieties require to be pruned just once in a year." Lakhbir Singh of NGO Pahal said, "Palms are just ornamental and not meant for plantation on dividers. The MC staff needs to consult experts before any such plantation, for there are specified instructions for each variety." Even the onlookers have commented that the pedestrians on the road who need to cross over the high dividers tend to take support of the tall stems of the trees, not realising the fact that these cannot bear such a pressure. Sanjay Sehgal, who has his shop in the area, has also pointed out that there are low-lying electricity wires and the horticulture wing of the MC should have ideally not planted any such tree, which tend to grow tall, here. Problem of space
Mayor Sunil Jyoti agreed that such plantation should not have been done on dividers. When he inquired about the matter from the horticulture staff he was told that the plants had been donated by some group and there were hardly any other spaces available in the city to plant them. Unwilling to learn
The MC seems to have not learnt from its previous mistakes. The B&R wing of the MC had recently got inter-locking tiles installed on roadsides without caring two hoots to leave space around trees for their growth and roots to breathe. The MC was also in news as nearly 100 saplings had even got dried up last summer waiting to be planted. |
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Guru Nanak Dev University College holds AIDS awareness
programme
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, March 13 He also highlighted the symptoms of HIV/AIDS, including cough, vision loss and body aches, which are sometimes fatal. During the event, poster-making and declamation contests were also organised. In poster-making competition, Gaganpreet Kaur got the first, Isha got the second and Parul got the third prize. In declamation contest, Kanika Kumar got the first, Sakshi got the second and Mehak got the third prize. Judgement was delivered by Gurpreet, Smriti and Poonam. Chief guest Dr RL Bassan congratulated principal MJ Kalra, MS Dhall, programme officer of the NSS unit, and all the participants the contests. Seminar on ‘green growth’
Department of Geography of Doaba College and The Energy & Resource Institute (TERI), Government of India and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, organised a seminar on ‘Green Growth: Preparing the youth for sustainable living’ in Doaba College. Livleen
Kahlon, research fellow, TERI, was the guest of honour, Dr Prasun Kumar
Gangopadya, TERI, Prof Adarsh Pal Vig, GNDU, Gurbachan Singh Grewal, principal TSSSM Sr Sec School and College, Ludhiana, Dr Lakhbir Singh of NGO
Pahal, Prof JS Gill of NCERT and Dr Saurabh Lakhanpal of LPU were the panelists while Tanuj Chawla was the moderator. Dr Gangopadhya spoke on green growth and development strategies. Dr Vig of GNDU spoke on environmental issues and actions. Gurbachan Singh Grewal spoke on sports and sustainable youth choices. Prof Daljit Singh spoke on youth and sustainable development and its role in promoting green growth in the country. Supriya
Ghulati, facilitator, TERI, organised poster making and article writing competitions on the themes of environment for the students of seven colleges of Jalandhar and
Phagwara. Youth festival
The Directorate of Youth Services is organising a two-day youth festival for college students of the region at DAV College from tomorrow. Assistant Director, Youth Services, Capt IS
Dhami, said over 120 students would participate in an array of cultural activities, including folk dances, music and theatrical shows. Felicitation
Students of Apeejay College of Fine Arts,
Jalandhar, were rewarded by Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Dr Ajaib Singh Brar for winning the National Youth Festival. The college was also honoured for winning at the Zonal and Inter-Zonal Level. Dr Brar admired the efforts of the students. Principal, Dr Sucharita congratulated the students and wished them good luck for their future. The students who were rewarded:
Sonika, Megha Garg, Priety, Surpriya, Palak, Jagjit Kaur, Paramvir Kaur, Ekamjit
Kaur, Gitika Sharma, Nancy Bagga, Purnima Jain, Tarrannum Sharma, Ramnit
Kaur, Sonal Chugh, Pavittar Singh, Satwinder Pal, Kamal, Toshin Raj, Asminder Singh, Anadi
Mishra, Simerpreet Singh, Ranjit Singh, Manjit Singh, Divyesh, Hitesh, Prince,
Akash, Sunil Kapoor, Amandeep Kaur and Harpreet Kaur. Toppers
Students of MSc Botany (semester I) from HMV College have bagged the top four ranks in the examinations conducted by Guru Nanak Dev University recently. Sarabjeet Kaur got 78.2 per cent marks, Hina obtained 78 per cent, Simarpreet Kaur attained 72.6 per cent and Rajwinder Kaur Parmar got 71.1 per cent marks. Principal Dr Rekha Kalia Bhardwaj and head of the department Dr Meena Sharma congratulated the students on their success. Students of BCom Professional (semester I) and BCom regular (semester I) of Apeejay College of Fine Arts brought laurels to the institution by securing top ranks in the university examination. In BCom Professional (semester I), Tanya Nagra stood first getting 289 marks out of a total of 350. Amandeep Kaur stood third with 286 marks. In BCom regular (semester I), Surbhi Mahajan got the first position getting 84 per cent marks. Aayush Gupta and Himantika Arora shared the second rank obtaining 82 per cent marks. Polytechnic fest
Students of St Soldier Polytechnic College got the first prize in the state in choreography competition, held as a part of Inter-Polytechnic Youth Festival at Amritsar, recently. Team members
Ritu, Vaishali, Kamal, Gaganpreet, Nidhi and Manpreet were honoured by vice-chairperson of the college Sangeeta Chopra. The students had presented choreography on the theme 26/11 Mumbai attacks which won first prize in Punjab. Science Olympiad
More than 150 students of classes eleventh and twelfth of KMV Collegiate Sr Sec School participated in the first level of the National Science Olympiad conducted on November 22. Bindia Aggarwal of eleventh and Sunaina of twelfth got gold medals by securing the top position. Navjot Kaur and Cheshta Sharma won the silver medals and Amritpal Kaur and Harjot Kaur got the bronze medals. Principal Dr Atima Sharma congratulated the students. Mechanical engineering
The Mechanical Engineering Department of CT Institute of Engineering, Management & Technology organised a seminar on ‘Recent trends in mechanical engineering’. The seminar was organised in association with Punjab Technical University,
Jalandhar. Nearly 150 faculty members from various professional colleges of Punjab and neighbouring states attended the seminar, said Dr Sumit
Jain, HoD, Mechanical Engineering Department. Dr Manoj Kumar, Group Director, CT Institutions, Dr RK
Garg, Professor, Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology,
Jalandhar, Dr Jagdev Singh, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Beant College of Engineering and Technology,
Gurdaspur, Dr LP Singh, Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar and Dr Simranpreet Singh,
BCET, Gurdaspur, spoke on the occasion. Self-defence
BD Arya Girls College, Jalandhar Cantonment, organised a guest lecture on ‘Self-defence’ by Sub-Inspector Lakhwant
Kaur. She suggested the students to call on women helpline 1091 for making complaints. To ensure the safety of girls, police personnel in civil dress would been posted outside the college premises, she said. Principal Dr Sarita Verma asked the students not to hesitate to share their problem so that the college can help them and ensure their safety. Bodybuilding championship
National body-building championship ‘Mr India-13th Federation Cup’ concluded at Lovely Professional University, recently. Participants from Punjab and Maharashtra got the maximum illustrious ranks during the championship. Body builder Amit Chhetri of Uttarakhand clinched the ‘Champion of Champions’ title. LPU in association with Punjab Amateur Body Builders Association had organised the championship under the aegis of Indian Fitness and Body Builders Federation
(IBBF). Short course
The Departments of Physics and Computer Science and Engineering, Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, is jointly organising a one week short-term course on ‘Recent Trends in Advanced Materials and Computing Techniques’ from March 11 to 15. The objective of this course is to provide exposure to the participants on current research and development in material and computing areas. The programme was inaugurated by Professor Dr Samir Kumar Das, Director, NIT
Jalandhar. The inaugural session was attended by various deans and heads of various departments of NIT. All the sessions of this course will be conducted in the virtual class room of NIT Jalandhar and will be web-cast to various NITs and IITs of India simultaneously. The course will be attended by around 70 participants from various institutes of India. |
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Dr Ambedkar’s kin not in favour of reservation
Jalandhar, March 13 Besides being a management professional and CEO-cum-managing director of Petronet India Limited, Mumbai, Dr Teltumbde is also a civil rights activist and a writer. "If a Dalit child gets an access to good schooling, he does not require any reservation further in his life. A child of a downtrodden family usually goes to a low-grade school, while those of elites make it to the top schools. For the same reason, there are so many reserved seats for the SC, but these do not get filled. Further a child from an underprivileged family cannot compete with other IIT aspirants just because he cannot pay up for the expensive coaching." He said, "Only 10 per cent of the Dalits have benefited from reservation so far. What about the remaining 90 per cent? I believe that reservation was required just about 50 years back and no longer required. All that is required is empowerment by means of good basic education. I am strictly against Mayawati's ideology on advocating reservation policy." He clarified that he had no political ambitions, unlike his brother-in-law Parkash Ambedkar. The professor, who did his B.Tech in mechanical engineering, PG in management and PhD in cybernetics, shares, "I come from a very humble family. But I managed to get good education which strengthened me." About his marriage in the Ambedkar family, he said, "It was by sheer chance. His granddaughter Rama was to get married to someone and it was somehow me. People tell me that Ambedkar's philosophy came to me through matrimony. But that is not a reality. I grew up reading his writings and my anti-reservation stance also originated by going through his books."
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Frequent change of guard upsets JIT, JDA staff
Jalandhar, March 13 Prior to Bhardwaj, Deputy Commissioner Shruti Singh had held both the posts. She too had remained on the post for just about two months. Both the posts had earlier been held by previous Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti, who got posted as the Director, Local Bodies. The staff of both the offices said the officials just got the knack of the intricacies of the department when they got shifted owing to which it were the people who suffered as their the action on their applications got pending. While the post of Chief Administrator, JDA, is an administrative one, that of Chairman, JIT, is political. Ever since the SAD-BJP government won for the second time, the Trust was dissolved and its Chairman Baljit Singh Neelamahal got out of power. No appointments have been made ever since for reasons better known to political bosses. Perhaps owing to her tough stand against erring builders, Additional Chief Administrator, JDA, Sarojini Gautam Sharda, too, has been now posted as Deputy Excise and Taxation Commissioner. |
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Verka demands Governor’s rule
Jalandhar, March 13 Verka said he would also put forth his demand regarding Governor's rule in the state to him. He also criticised the alleged role of the government in deploying as many as 150 policemen when the same Dalit woman was sitting in the office of CLP leader Sunil Jakhar in the Vidhan Sabha. The woman had arrived in the vehicle of Jakhar just as the Chief Minister or other MLAs bring in their close aides in the Vidhan Sabha. Claiming that jungle raj was prevailing in the state, the MLA said he had asked Punjab DGP and Principal Secretary (Home) to report the ASI Kulbir Singh incident to him by Monday. He added that the "jathedari" system prevailed in the state and the officials, too, worked as per the directions of MLAs. Verka also criticised MP Harsimrat Badal for popularising her Nanhi Chhan project on one hand, but not coming out in the recent episodes of atrocities against women. |
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Teenaged girl murdered, uncle injured
Jalandhar, March 13 The assailant Billa (27) is said to have been harassing the deceased girl, Neha, and following her for quite sometime. Both lived in the same house till
recently. Ever since Billa had been insisting the girl to have relation with her while she kept on ignoring him. Today when she was returning from market with her maternal uncle Pawan (40), both were attacked by Billa. While Neha died on spot, her uncle has suffered grievous injuries in his stomach and has been admitted to the Civil Hospital. Billa, however, fled from the spot. Ravinderpal Singh Sandhu, ACP (West), said raids were being conducted to nab Billa. A case was registered against him under Section 302 of the IPC on a complaint by Neha’s brother Bablu.’ |
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Lt-Gen Bakshi is Vajra Corps GOC
Jalandhar, March 13 An alumnus of the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakvasala, Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun and National Defence College, New Delhi, Lt-Gen Bakshi was commissioned in Bihar Regiment in June, 1975. The officer has held various coveted command, staff and instructional appointments during his career. He has attended prestigious professional appointments and courses in India. A recipient of the Sena Medal, Vishisht Seva Medal for meritorious service, Lt-Gen Bakshi has replaced Lt-Gen Sanjeev Madhok, who has moved to the Army Headquarters as the Director General, Information and Technology. He was bid farewell by corps' officials as well District Sainik Welfare Officer Lt-Col Harvinder Pal Singh. — TNS
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Women protest against SHO
Jalandhar, March 13 The women, led by one Rajni, gave a memorandum to the SSP stating that the SHO and other police personnel misbehaved with her a few days back and for that they had protested. She said despite her repeated complaints, no action was being taken against the staff. The other women, too, had similar complaints against the SHO. The SSP (Rural), Yurinder Singh, said that the SP (Headquarters) would inquire into the matter and do the needful. |
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City-based environmentalists are up in arms against the Municipal Corporation authorities for choosing palm trees for plantation on dividers.
A good number of trees on the divider on the tehsil complex road have got their branches twisted, even as it has been just a week since they have been planted.
Jalandhar, March 13
In the light of the recent incidents in Tarn Taran regarding police bashing a Dalit woman publically and death of an ASI in a farmhouse there, Vice-Chairman of the National Commission for SC Raj Kumar Verka said today that he would report the matter related to the alleged lawlessness and injustice being meted out to the weaker sections in Punjab to the President of India.
