EDUCATION

Inquiry ordered against PAU hostel warden
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, November 10
The Vice-Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has ordered an inquiry into the allegations of misappropriation of funds by the Warden of Hostel Number 7 of the university.

The inquiry has been marked to the Dean, Postgraduate students, who has been asked to submit the report within two days. The action has been taken following the incident of gheraoing of the residence of the Vice-Chancellor last night.

Residents of Hostel number 7 had gheraoed the residence of the Vice-Chancellor on the campus last night to protest against the warden of their hostel, who they alleged was misappropriating funds and misbehaving with students.

Postgraduate students and students Punjab Ph.D gathered outside the residence of the VC at around 10 p.m. yesterday and protested for two hours. They were alleging that the new warden of their hostel was misbehaving with students and utilising funds elsewhere in the hostel. They were demanding that the warden be removed immediately.

The Vice-Chancellor was said to be out-of-station and the Dean Postgraduate Students, Dr K.S. Sekhon and Director, Students Welfare, Mr J.S. Tur reached the spot and pacified the students.

Inter-college contests
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, November 10
The Asian Club organised an inter-college cultural contest at Ramgarhia Girls College, Millerganj, here yesterday.

Over 75 students from 20 colleges participated in the contests held for film songs, ghazals, folk songs, mehndi, flower arrangement and collage making. In the ghazal contest, Hema Sharma from the SDP College for Women won the first prize followed by Aashima from the Khalsa College for Women and Mnaish from SCD Government College.

In film songs contest, Vijeyta Dhanda from the host college won the first prize followed by Samita from KCW and Harbir Kaur from the Guru Nanak Khalsa College for Women. Ms Preeti Behl, Mr Randhir Kanwal and Dr Navjot Bajwa, were on the panel of judges for the musical events.

In mehndi contest, Gurpreet Kaur from Devki Devi Jain College was declared first, followed by Venus from the Government College for Women and Jasmeet from Informpark centre.

In collage making, Gurmeet Kaur from Guru Nanak Khalsa College was chosen the best followed Shilpa from the host college and Sarika from GGN Khalsa College. In flower arrangement. Anu from Guru Nanak Dev Medical Homoeopathic College was declared the winner followed by Amita from the Punjab College of Technical Education and Kanwaldeep from the Guru Nanak Khalsa College for Women.

Christian Dental College steals the show
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, November 10
Living up to the motto ‘Fellowship through sports, science and recreation, of the All India Dental Students’ Conference recently held at Guru Nanak Khalsa College (Gujarkhan Campus), students of Christian Dental College won accolades for their prize-winning performance in all cultural, sports and scientific events.

With 24 dental colleges and 800 students participating from all over India, it was fierce competition of talent, intellect and strength. Christian Dental College bagged 12 gold medals (Badminton : singles-1, doubles-1, mixed doubles-1, Track Events: relay-1, 50m -1, 100m-1, Field Events: javelin throw-1, discus throw-1, Cultural events- fold dance (solo)- 1, histrionics-1, folk dance (group), 8 silver medals and 4 bronze medals. They also walked off with the championship trophy for best overall performance and trophy for best performance in sports with their meticulous exhibit under the agile leadership of Dr J.L. Joshi, principal, Christian Dental College.

Clean sweep by Maur group
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, November 10
In a clean sweep, the Maur group defeated the rival group with a comfortable margin in the PAU Employees Union elections whose results were declared in the afternoon here today.

All the candidates of the Maur-Amrit group led by Mr D.P. Maur defeated their rivals of the A.S. Deol group.

The winners include: D.P. Maur (president), P.S. Gill (senior vice-president), Gulzar Singh (senior vice-president), S.S. Grewal and Charanjeet Grewal (vice-presidents), Amritpal (general secretary), Gurmukh Singh (treasurer), Joginder Rana and J.C. Buddhiraja (secretary I and II).

Those elected as joint treasurer I and II, organising secretary I and II and propaganda secretary I and II are Som Nath, Iqbal Singh, Gurmal Singh Tung, Pritam Singh, Baldev Singh Walia and Roop Lal.

The scene on the campus turned into celebrations when the Maur group emerged victorious.

The Maur group is organising various parties on the campus today.

Declamation contest
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, November 10
The 27th Inter-School Declamation Contest for Jagannath Malhotra Running Trophy was held in New Central Model High School, Janta Nagar, Ludhiana .Mr Gurdarshan Singh Grewal, Retd. Sr. Advocate General, Punjab was the chief guest. Teams from Ludhiana , Amritsar, Nawanshahar, Phagwara, Nabha, Patiala participated. In all 22 teams participated, each team consisted of two students, who spoke on different topics. The Director of the school, Mr Inderjit Malhotra , the Principal Mr Charanjit Malhotra, Mr Rajinder Sharma, president of the Association of PSEB Schools, Ludhiana , Mr Ravi Nanda Sharma, Mr Ram Nath Sharma, Mr Harcharan Singh Golwaria and Mr Harnaik Singh Mankoo were present as guests of honour. 

COURTS

Forum penalises BSNL for delay
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, November 10
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to pay Rs 2,000 in compensation on account of deficiency in services to Mr Rajesh Seghal of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar.

According to complaint, Mr Rajesh Seghal had applied for the shifting of his telephone (498031) to his residence at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, in December 1999. Representative of the consumer, Mr S.D. Nagpal, said Mr Seghal had been approaching BSNL officials for shifting the telephone since December, 1999, but no action was taken. Mr Nagpal said the Commercial Section of the BSNL had issued a letter to SDOT concerned on February 22, 2001 to submit the genuineness and feasibility report for shifting the telephone, but nothing came out of that. Mr Nagpal said that was a clear deficiency in services on part of the BSNL as it took so much time to do such a minor job.

The BSNL pleaded that the telephone connection of the complainant, had already been shifted to new the address of the complainant on April 30 with the new telephone number 816239. The respondent stated that the commercial section had issued advice note on April 4, for shifting the said telephone connection which was received by the SDO on April 21, and the same was sent to JTO, Ludhiana, on April 27. The BSNL further stated that the telephone was changed on April 30, 2001. The respondent said that there was no deficiency in services as the telephone connection was provided at the new address of the complainant. 

CULTURE

Bacardi blast a raging hit
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, November 10
DJ Ivan, along with MTV VJ Nikhil Chinappa, took the party lovers of Ludhiana to an exhilarating journey of groovy music at Magnet’s Hotel Blue Lagoon here last night. Termed as Bacardi Blast, the event made most Ludhianvis sway to the tunes of irresistible music.

The party lovers came into their true colours when their favourite DJ Bhanu presented some of his favourite tunes. Familiar with the pulse of Ludhiana crowd, Bhanu played fabulous Punjabi numbers to make the party atmosphere more lively. Bhanu’s numbers included latest Hindi and Punjabi numbers

The girls dressed in their western outfits simply looked gorgeous and charming. The entry was strictly for couples. Boys had to face a tough time to reach the venue. The evening was electrifying.

DJ Ivan and VJ Nikhil enthralled the crowd and swayed the party hoppers to the pulsating beats of the blasting music. The DJ from Mumbai played music records on a turntable and his one record had four variations of the same song.

Keeping in view the mood of the public, Ivan played different versions. The crowd not only danced but jumped to his latest numbers.

Shamita, a dance lover, said that such parties had become a routine in the city .“Its good fun time. At least Ludhianvis can go somewhere and enjoy now. Otherwise life was boring. We wait for such parties to happen”.

The DJ rightly felt the mood of the participants and tried to present something new everytime. The couples, young and old, took to the dance floor with gusto and danced merrily for over four hours. The party lovers, specially the young crowd, just refused to leave the dance floor and enjoyed the night with Bacardi.

Shooting for ‘Wagdi See Ravi’ 
Gurminder Singh Grewal

Khamano, November 10
Shooting for the next episode of the serial ‘Wagdi See Ravi,’ which is being telecast on Jalandhar Doordarshan was completed at Gaggarwal village, near here. This serial is being produced and directed by Baljeet Singh.

Baljeet Singh in his talk with TNS told that this serial is borrowed from old Punjabi Culture and many old and new Punjabi songs had been introduced in the serial.

Noted artists of Doordarshan, Harjeet Bhullar, Daljeet Shahi, Dr Harish Parbhakar, Hushiar Singh Ranu, Varinder Kaur, Anita Meet, Jatinder Singh, Gurpreet Gholi, Arjana Bhalla, Daljeet and Sukhvinder Cheeda are part of this serial. The main role in this episode is of Gurmukh Singh Lali who has a great collection of about 7,000 old song records. Artist Daljeet Shahi said that main theme of this episode revolved around ‘roti’.

The producer Baljeet Singh, has already produced ‘Sandali Pairan’ and ‘Virasat’ serials which were telecast on Doordarshan earlier. Solo Punjabi singer Daljeet Kaur, has also sung two songs for this serial. The songs of old singers Jagit Kaur, Shamshad Begam and some others had also been included.