EDUCATION

Government to start programmes for youth
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, March 22
The annual prize distribution function of the SCD Government College was held today in the Sahir auditorium of the college. Sharan Jeet Singh Dhillon, MP and president of the Youth Akali Dal was the chief guest.

The programme started with the shabad ‘Deh Shiva Var Mohe Ehe’.

Principal of the college, Dr Malkiat Singh, presented the annual report of the college before the chief guest. While presenting the report, Dr Malkiat Singh said college had achieved excellent results during the previous session and in all undergraduate and postgraduate classes, result percentage was 95-100 per cent.

Many of the students like Mandeep Kaur (M.SC-II Mathematics) stood first in the university and Yadvinder Singh stood third in the university and similarly Bharti Sareen of MA-II (Hindi) stood first in the university . The department of English achieved glorious results by securing seven spots out of the first 10 positions of the university.

He said a student of the college, Robin Sharma, was declared a runner-up in the ‘Awaz Punjab Di’ organized by MH-1 Channel.

The principal said the college had been in regular interaction with the industry to provide practical training to the students and Vardhman training division had selected its 38 SC/ST and OBC students for Capability Enhancement training.

Dr Singh said college had a rich faculty and many of its teachers were involved in the research activities and presented papers in various national and international seminars and conferences. Many published papers in the journals.

While giving the presidential remarks, Sharan Jeet Singh Dhillon said today youth of this country had special role to play and they should keep themselves away from the drugs and contribute for the welfare and development of the state.

He said the government of Punjab would initiate many programmes for the development of the youth. He said, "With the help of strong base of Punjabi Youth, we will develop "New Punjab" with balanced development in all the sectors".

Dhillon said there was a dire need to re-orient the energy of the youth towards development. He urged the young students to obey their teachers and parents and develop good moral and positive values in their personality.

He said main problem of today's education system was that whatever was taught, was not practically implemented. He urged the teachers to develop strong abilities among the students to make them self reliant and good citizens.

Team of house examination department under the dynamic leadership of Dr R.K. Miglani, Dr Ujjalbir Singh, Prof. Harbans Singh, Prof. Surinder Singh Bomb and Prof. Ms Kajla presented the students for awarding the various prizes before the chief-guest. 60 students of the college were awarded merit certificates in the field of academics.

115 students were honored with cultural merit certificates for their excellent performance in various cultural events of the Panjab University, Chandigarh. 250 students were honoured for their extra ordinary performance in the house examination.

Special attraction of the programme was the release of the college magazine 'Satluj-2007' which was prepared under the dynamic leadership of Rajinder Singh, Chief Editor of the magazine. The 100 page colourful magazine was released by Dhillon, who presented the first copy of the magazine to the principal after release. The magazine has 8 sections comprising English, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Economics, Commerce Science and Sandhyadeep section.

Mandi Ahmedgarh, March 22
Terming the closure of the journalism department at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, during the Congress regime about three years ago as gagging of professional journalism, the All India Media Teachers Association has urged the Chief Minister to impress upon the vice-chancellor of the university to restore teaching in the department. The step would prevent further degradation of vernacular journalism in this part of Malwa, claimed the association authorities.

While talking to Ludhiana Tribune, Dr Harjinder Singh Walia, newly elected president of the association, alleged that the university authorities, including the Vice-Chancellor acting at the instance of certain Congress leaders, had closed the department without assigning any plausible reason about three years ago.

Terming the step as unjustified, Dr Walia claimed that graduates and postgraduates from the department had reached honourable posts as field journalists, editing staff and in media education. “The closure of the department not only created scarcity of quality teachers in the state, but also forced newspaper publishers to engage non-professional reporters in this part of Malwa. Obviously the tendency encouraged yellow journalism also,” argued Dr Walia.

Mandi Gobindgarh, March 22
RIMT institute celebrated “Glitz-2007” annual day on the complex ground yesterday. Chief guest Navjot Singh Sidhu, Member of the Parliament lighted the lamp. The program began with recitation of the shabad by the students. There after bhangra, semi-classical dances, skits, regional dance, fresher’s contest, and western dance were performed by the students. The “star-night” program had to be canceled due to heavy rain and hailstorm.

Hukam Chand Bansal, chairman, Om Parkash Bansal Social Welfare and Educational Trust, emphasised on the all round development of the students. Navjot Singh Sidhu appreciated the achievements of the institute and gave away the prizes. Karan Dheer was adjudged the best student of the year.

Ludhiana, March 22
For an hour-and-a-half, the parents and guests in Nehru Sidhant Kender were transported to another world wherein there was only laughter, joy, music and dance. The occasion was the fourth annual day celebration of Swiss International Public School .

Two lovely girls started the function by invoking God’s blessings by dancing on the mother of all mantras - the Gayatri Mantra. The programme rolled on quickly with children performed aerobics, dances on music of different decades.

The children sparlkled and shimmered in their exotic costumes. An ex-student of the SIPS Dance Accademy presented a dance on two songs of music director A.R. Rehman. Her lithe movements and the way she swirled and twirled was very bewitching.

The chief guest was popular Punjabi singer Balbir Boparai. He entertained the audience by singing a song from his repertoire of music.The compering was done very well by Dr Neelam Sodhi and Poonam Bindra.

Ludhiana, March 22
True to its aims and objectives, the Senior Citizens' Conclave continues its social welfare and charitable activities.

Recently, the conclave distributed scholarships of Rs 3,000 each to 22 girl students belonging to under privileged families of nine women colleges of Ludhiana, amounting to Rs 66,000 during the month of March.

The general body of the conclave unanimously elected the following office-bearers and Executive Members for the next term of two years starting from March 2007.

They include S.P. Karkara, president, Prem Aggarwal-vice-president, Lieut-Col D.B. Sharma, general secretary, Y.P. Bangia, finance secretary, Col R.K. Jain, organizing secretary.

The members of the executive committee include Daljit Singh Brar, Dr H.M. Khosla, Dr Kewal Dheer, Joginder Singh, R.P. Oswal, Dr Lajpat Rai, Daljinder Singh, Sarabjit Singh and Major I.S. Sandhu.