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Seminar on HR management
Chandigarh, February 3 In his inaugural address, Mr Rajesh Sharma, General Manager, Human Relations and Personnel, Amrit Banaspati Company Limited, Rajpura, referred to the core HR activities, flexibility at workplace, outsourcing, new employment schemes and retention policies as major challenges in human resources management. He highlighted contemporary challenges faced by global managers. He identified the major challenges as staffing, recruitment, organisational development, compensation and outsourcing. He viewed value-based management as the only solution to optimise corporate value. Mr Manmohan Garg, CEO of the Swami Vivekanand Group of Institutes, made a comparison of HR functions in the past, present and future.
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Essay competition
Chandigarh, February 3 The Chairman of Hindustan Scouts and Guides, Chandigarh, Mr Ravinder Talwar, was the chief guest.
— TNS
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Students enjoy ‘langar’
on Founder’s Day
Chandigarh, February 3 Bhai Ravinder Singh, Hazoori Ragi, Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, also performed kirtan. Students and staff prepared langar. This is an annual activity organised by the Gurmat Vichar Sabha of the college. The management of the college, the principal, Dr Harinderjit Kaur, and the teaching and non-teaching staff also participated in the function.
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Artisans carving livelihood out of wood
Chandigarh, February 3 In Chandigarh for holding an exhibition of handicrafts
at Sector 37 Ambedkar Bhavan, the society’s representative, Sameen
Akhtar, says even unemployed youngsters belonging to this part of the
region can come forward for the purpose. “We will help them get the
export number from the financial institutions,” he asserts. Claiming
that exporting items required nothing more than access to technology, he
says the youngsters can simply click a programme of prosperity by
sitting before the computer. “All they have to do is to send queries
through e-mail and forward us the orders for exporting them across the
seas,” he says. “Right from decoration pieces embellished with
brass, jewellery cut out of wood and walking sticks, they can export
wooden toys, bamboo baskets and even furniture.” Going into the
background of the society and its members, he says it has been set up
for bridging the gap between the artisans, the suppliers and the
exporters. As middlemen are not involved in the process, the product
cost is reasonable. He adds that even before the borders of religion,
caste and creed were converted into political and geographical
boundaries with Partition, the artisans settled down at Nagina from
Multan for earning through their talent. As long as the British stayed
in the country, their business flourished because of “solid demand”
for wooden artifacts required to decorate their homes. But after their
departure from the country, it was a long struggle for the artisans till
the government intervened to organise their work. Currently, the
artisans are associated with 270 self-help groups of the society. Each
group comprises 13 members. “Daily each member saves anywhere between
Rs 5 and 10 in the bank. Along with the bank loan, the members place
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‘21st Century Rebel’ champions
Chandigarh, February 3 The annual competition that is running into its third consecutive year is known to be India’s largest inter-college rock music competition. Students from various city colleges tested their musical mettle and participated in a series of contests. As many as 13 bands, including ‘Shell Shocked’, ‘Silence’, ‘Faithless’, Zero’ etc battled it out during the day to qualify for the evening session. Out of them, ‘21st Rebel Street’, ‘Bhumi’, ‘Faithless’, ‘Seraphim’, ‘Wasted Soul’ and ‘Angels in Hell’ were finally selected for the evening congregation. Before the event one could witness anxious faces of the participants, the last minute fixtures of the electronic instruments back stage. Unlike many other concerts that go by unnoticed, this show opened to a jam-packed audience comprising all youngsters. As far as the competition was concerned, most of the bands preferred their own compositions to the compositions sung by other well known groups, said Navi, a drummer with the 21st Rebel Street. Each group was given a time slot of 20 minutes and the group was expected to perform about four musical pieces within this time limit. It was the ‘Wasted Soul’ group that performed first and their second rendition titled ‘The Truth’ was an instant hit. Later on ‘Angels in Hell’ went on to sing ‘Does Remind Me’ by Audio slave. Last year’s winner ‘Seraphim’ sang ‘Beyond the Dream’ and enthralled the listeners. The winning band from the city, ‘21st Century Rebel’ and the runner up ‘ Bhumi’ will compete with other bands in the north-zone finals to be held in Delhi. The chosen bands will be competing for zonal Finals. The top two bands from each zone will compete in the Grand National Finals to be held in Pune on February 11, 2007. |
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