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Coaching via Edusat begins for science streams
Panchkula, October 17 This was disclosed by Haryana Education Minister, Mr Phool Chand Mullana, after inaugurating the special programme for the science students of Government Senior Secondary Schools of the state with the help of Chitkara Educational Institute through Edusat in Sector 2. He said that through this programme the students would be provided free coaching after school hours. He hoped that they would definitely get success in the All-India Engineering Entrance Examination and in the Entrance Examination of the Indian Institute of Technology. He said that the students would be provided coaching from 2 pm to 6 pm from Monday to Friday and there would be an interactive session on Saturday and during this session the queries of the students should be responded on the spot. He added that the students would be prepared for the competitive exams by providing them solved papers of objective type questions. Mr Mullana directed the principals of the schools to provide security to the students, especially the girls who would take the coaching. He said that the present state Government had also decided to provide the free computer education in government Schools.
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Art contests mark PU zonal fest
Chandigarh, October 17 The morning session started with ceremonial lighting of a lamp. The Principal, Dr. A.N.Garg, welcomed the chief guest, Mr M.M.Sharma, Regional Director, ICCR, Chandigarh. In his presidential remarks, Mr Sharma urged students to develop a cosmopolitan outlook, asking them to get attuned to pluralistic inter-change of art, language, culture and history. The chief guest at the venue for embroidery and designing of mehndi was Nirmal Sandhu, Assistant Editor of The Tribune. Girl students displayed their artistic best at today’s events of embroidery, dasuti, phulkari and bagh with knitting, crochet work, pakhi designing and mehndi designing. Results Event: Poster making 1 Simran Kaur — Govt. College for Arts, Sector 10 I; 2 Monika Sainy — DAV College, II; 3 Sharuti Chopra — GGDSD, Sector 32 III; Event: Cartooning George Emmanual — Govt. College for Arts, I; Jasraj — DAVC, II; Manmohan — Govt. College for Arts III. Event: Still Life Satwinder Singh — Govt. College for Arts, I; Navjeet — Govt. College for Arts, II; Anand — DAV college III. Event: Rangoli Manish Toor — DAV College, I; Amneet — Govt. College for Arts, II; Kamal Walia — PU Campus III Event: Clay Modelling Manpreet Singh — DAV College, I; Rainy Dawar — GGDSD, II; Niti Sen SGGS College, Sec-26 III. Event: Embroidery (Phulkari Bagh Dasuti) Reema Kataria — DAV College I; Gangandeep Kaur — Govt. College-11 II; Sumita — GGDSD III Event: Embroidery (Crochet work Pakhi Design Knitting) Nitika — GGDSD I; Puspa — DAV College II; Vinitjit — SGGS College, III Event: Mehndi Design on Hands Nindu Saharma — DAV College I; Shifa Mahajan — GGDSD II; Ratna Thapar — Govt. College 46 III. In group song Government College-11 came first, DAV-10 second and GGDSD-32 third. In the geet-ghazal category Naval Mehta of GC-11 stole the limelight leaving behind Sharmistha of GGDSD at the second place while Kanupriya of DAV-10 and Gopal Krishan Government Homoeopathy College-26 were bracketed third. In the classical vocal Aditya Sharma of DAV-10 proved too good for Nisha Banga of Government College of Arts-10 and Sukhwant Singh of SGGS-26 who came second and third. In the folk song competition Manpreet of DAV-10 won the first prize, Amit Bhatia of Government College-46 second while Som Nath of PU campus and Vikrant of GGDSD-32 were bracketed third. In percussion category (tal vadya) Avirbhav Verma of GGDSD-32 gave an electrifying performance on tabla to come first, followed by Manglesh of GC-11 and Tejinder Singh of GC-46 at the second and third spots. Patha Singh of PU campus and Saurav Sharma of DAV-10 bagged the first and second positions in non-percussion category. In folk orchestra DAV-10 and GC-11 got first and second positions, respectively, while GGDSD-32 and DAV-10 teams came first and second in Indian orchestra. The individual folk instrumental prizes were won by Namdev of DAV-10 and Ravinder Pal of GC-46.
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PTU drive against social evils
begins today
Banur, October 17 “The campaign will formally be launched on October 18 at the Swami Vivekanand Institute of Engineering and Technology
(SVIET), Ramnagar, at a seminar to be chaired by Dr S.K.Salwan, PTU Vice-Chancellor. Experts from the PGI, Chandigarh, have been invited to deliver lectures,” Dr M.S. Grewal, Registrar, said here today. The campaign would move to other corners of the state through colleges of the PTU. Elaborating on its objectives, the Registrar said besides academics, the university was equally concerned about the social problems. “The problem has assumed alarming proportions in most of the northern states and is not only a blot on civilised society, but also a crime and this practice has been observed more in the educated and urban segments of the society as compared to illiterate segments. “If female foeticide and drug menace were not checked on a priority basis, there will be a social imbalance that would lead to many other
problems.Hence, there is a need to make the masses aware of the ill-effects of these social evils,” Mr Manmohan Garg, CEO of
SVIET, said.
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Kids educated about medicinal plants
Chandigarh, October 17 The programme was part of a seminar on herbal plantation conducted by the State Bank of Patiala, Sector 10-D branch, on the school premises, here. The seminar was inaugurated by Mr V N Ojha, who was the chief guest on the occasion. He explained the importance of medicinal plants globally in human life and laid stress on their cultivation so that beside benefiting farmers, a pollution free environment may be provided to the coming generation. Mr V.N. Pathak, Chief Manager, SBoP, explained various schemes of the bank and apprised about the financial assistance provided by the government for carrying out activities in herbal plantation.
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Contract teachers hold 'SOS' rally
Chandigarh, October 17 Exhibiting logo "Save Our Soul" for their protection, the teachers tied their mouth with white ribbons with "SOS" written on it and depicting that they are raising their cause in peaceful way. Also accompanying them were their small children who held hoardings for this cause mentioning, "My parents are teachers and not labourers then why on contract". The contractual teachers displayed their earnestly obtained degrees urging the Administration for making policy for the regular absorption against vacant vacancies in a phased manner and demanded immediate stoppage of victimisation of termination and rejoining or relieved teachers resulting in starvation of many families.
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Students hold anti-cracker rally
Chandigarh, October 17 The rally was flagged off by the school Principal, Mrs Saroj Gupta. Carrying placards and spreading awareness about the ill-effects of crackers, particularly on environment, the rallyists marched through the main markets of Sectors 19, and 18 before culminating rally at Sector 17 Plaza. Suwanjana Eco Club
The Suwanjana Eco Club of the Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 46, observed the ‘Anti-crackers Day’ today. As many as 256 students of the school participated in this rally. The day was observed in collaboration with the Environment Department of Chandigarh Administration. Anilika stood first while Zarina, Vaishaili and Pooja Aswal came second, third and fourth, respectively, in the painting and slogan- writing competition organised on the occasion. Azeet and Rinku bagged the first and second postions, respectively, in the banner-making competition while Ankur Vadhera emerged winner in the quiz competition. Meanwhile, the Eco Club and the Science Club of Mount Carmel School, Sector 47-B, here also organised the anti-crackers rally, safeguarding the environment and prevention of dengue. The rally passed through the markets of Sector 47, Sector 46 and reached Ram Darbar colony where there was an interaction session with people.
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Sixty BCom (I) seats created
Chandigarh, October 17 The additional seats have been created in Government College, Sector 11, Government College for Girls, Sector 11, Government College for Girls, Sector 42 and Government College, Sector 46. There will be 15 seats each in those colleges.
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‘Surplus’ UT
staff given chance
Chandigarh, October 17 The employees had gone to the tribunal in the first week of this month, alleging that the Administration while wrongly interpreting a previous judgement of the tribunal (dt February 24, 2006), had issued a public notice on September 27, 2006, declaring the senior employees as surplus. They were given a chance to revise their option and opt for this absorption in the civic body or be ready to be retrenched. The name of the junior-most employees, who should have been declared surplus, had not been included in the public notice. Today, counsel for the Administration stated before the tribunal that the orders of the court would be strictly followed. A few days back, the Administration had transferred those employees who had opted for being transferred to the MC. The next date of hearing has been fixed for November 28.
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PGI gears up for Divali accidents
Chandigarh, October 17 A press statement issued by the PGI said the best possible arrangements had been made for providing immediate medical assistance to the patients reporting to the PGI. Two teams of doctors would be on job round-the-clock. While one would be stationed in the ‘Male Eye Ward’ on the 5th floor of A-Block of the institute to attend the patients. The PGI authorities have asked public to bring emergency cases to the ‘Male Eye Ward’, 5th floor, A-Block, Nehru Hospital, PGI. |
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destitute kids examined Dera Bassi, October 17 A team of doctors comprising Dr Ram Kumar, Dera Bassi SMO, Dr Mohan Singh and Dr Jaswinder Kaur, conducted the camp, which was inaugurated by Dr Jagbir Singh,a leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP). A noted social worker, Ms Preetpal, donated Rs 5,100 to the school. Prominent among those present were Mr Vinod Kohli, president of the Punjab unit of the union, and president of the youth wing of the Congress, Mr Ranjit Singh Reddy. Highlighting the activities of the school, the manager, Ms Preeti, said though the school was providing education to the destitute children for the past 14 years, no government agency had come forward to help it. The president of the Dera Bassi unit of the union, Ms Anita Mittal, welcomed the guests.
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