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Two govt schools inspected
Chandigarh, April 28 Two teams, comprising a principal of a government school and an official from the department, conducted survey of the schools. Sunil Bedi, subject expert, vocational education, and Dilbagh Singh, principal, GMSSS-22, inspected GSSS-15. The officials found the sanitary condition at the school unsatisfactory. Out of the eight toilets in the school, six were under repair while only two were catering to over 1,000 students and 50 staff members. “The have put a large number of toilets on repair simultaneously,” said officials. The outfield of the school was also found to be unkempt. With average enrollment in each class of around 40 students at the school, the officials said around 200 to 250 more students could be adjusted in the school. Seven posts of teacher were also found vacant in the school having 46
teachers. Nine teachers on leave had submitted their leave applications. “The time table of the school was not visible as the teacher who maintains it was on leave”, said the inspecting officials. On the other hand, Chanchal Singh, head, vocational education and Saroj Mittal, principal, GMSSS-40, expressed satisfaction with the status of the GMSSS-10. The officials followed the checklist designed specifically for assessing different aspects of private schools. Among the things they looked for were security, fire-fighting measures, adequate water reservoir, strength of teachers on roll, salary, timetable, parking space, hygienic sanitary conditions, etc. DPI (S) S.K. Setia said: “The purpose of inspection was to keep a watch on government schools too, as we are doing with private schools. Since we are facing an acute shortage of space in accommodating students, with this exercise we will be able to know the excess spaces or untilised spaces in schools.”
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Pvt school staff to come under ESI purview
Chandigarh, April 28 Aimed at benefiting thousands of employees, the extension of the scheme to these employees has already been approved at a meeting of the regional board recently. It was part of the ministry of labour’s endeavour to widen the social security network so that more employees could be insured under the scheme, according to Employees State Insurance Corporation of India (ESIC) regional director G.C. Jena. The insured persons under the ESI scheme are entitled to medical reimbursement, including treatment in the super-speciality hospitals. While the employer contributes 4.75 per cent of the gross salary, the employee’s contribution is 1.75 per cent towards the scheme. There are thousands of employees in private schools and medical centres and a majority of them meagerly paid. These institutes have been fighting shy of subscribing to the scheme as they have to contribute their share of money for the insured person. With medical treatment, particularly advanced treatment, virtually getting out of the reach of the common man, the extension of the ESI benefits to employees will go a long way in addressing the medicare concerns of the beneficiaries. UT director health services Dr M.S. Bains confirmed that the proposal had been sent to the Chandigarh administration for final approval. In fact, the proposal had been patterned on the neighbouring states, including Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, which are also toying with the idea of introducing the scheme, Dr Bains added. Meanwhile, a senior official of the administration said the proposal was under active consideration and would be implemented after examining various pros and cons of the issue.
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Cancellation of CET
Chandigarh, April 28 The report tabled before the syndicate members today held both controller of examination (COE) Sodhi Ram and assistant registrar (conduct) S.K. Sharma guilty of negligence but ruled out any malafide intention on their part that led to the fiasco. Earlier, a fact-finding report submitted by Prof K.K. Bajaj into the matter had called for a full-fledged inquiry into the role Sodhi Ram in the incident. The report had also established the responsibility of S.K. Sharma along with the question paper printer for the “debacle”. Sodhi Ram is retiring on April 30 and the syndicate has decided that he be given his due retirement benefits withholding only a sum of Rs 2.20 lakh from the gratuity due to him. This amount has been withheld on account of an earlier case of paper leakage pending against Sodhi Ram for which he was arrested and jailed in the year 2000. He had also remained suspended for about seven months. If the court case going on against him is decided in his favour, the amount retained by the university would be given back to him otherwise it would be forfeited. No official appreciation letter will be given to Sodhi Ram on his retirement. A three-member committee of the syndicate has also been constituted to probe allegations of wilful absenteeism by Prof V.K. Chopra of the department of evening studies. An inquiry into these allegations had been marked many years ago but was never completed. The committee has been asked to revert back to the syndicate by May 13 with the report. It was alleged that Chopra had been absenting himself and did not take regular classes for years. Another three-member committee has been constituted to look into the allegations that some faculty members of the history department “changed” marks of some candidates to help the daughter of a colleague top the examinations. Inquiry into this matter was being conducted by Justice M.L. Singhal, who passed away recently. The syndicate gave nod for the establishment of three centres: Centre for Emerging Areas in Social Sciences, Centre for Science and Technology, Centre for Education Technology and Professional Courses. Syndicate also approved admissions to an MBA course at Panjab University, Regional Centre, Ludhiana, on the basis of merit in CAT and approved the introduction of LLB courses at Swami Sarvanand Giri, PU, Regional Centre, Bajwara, Hoshiarpur, from the academic session 2007-08. The university will also start post MA diploma courses in professional counselling and psychotherapy and psychological testing in the department of psychology, Panjab University, an advanced diploma in child guidance and family counselling, BSc (fashion design) in Government Home Science College, Sector 10, Chandigarh. The syndicate also approved 2 per cent reservation for sportspersons in the university’s dental college.
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City schools to introduce NSS
Chandigarh, April 28 Around 125 principals of local government and private schools and 32 programme officers attended the meeting which was held to explore the importance of the NSS in schools of the city. Advocating the need of giving exposure to the students about the people living in colonies and other slum areas, Setia said 75 per cent of the people in India don’t have basic amenities of life. There are 36 NSS units in 32 schools and at present total strength of NSS volunteers in Chandigarh is 3600. Students of GMSSS-10, Chandigarh, presented a welcome song. Madhu Bala, youth officer, NSS, Regional Centre, Chandigarh, narrated the history of the NSS right from the year 1969 when it was launched in 37 universities involving 40,000 students. She also spoke about the incentives and awards being given to the NSS volunteers and also narrated some success stories. Thereafter, the state liaison officer (NSS)-cum-registrar, education (C), Jagdish Arora, gave a brief report about the NSS in Chandigarh. A question-answer session was also held.
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Children left unattended
Panchkula, April 28 The occasion was the farewell function of outgoing principal Madhvi Shrivastava who, after the completion of the inquiry in the Aman Luthra case, was suspended for a few days and finally transferred to the Education Department’s DIET office in Sector 2. Around 11.30 am, the entire staff of the school gathered at the office of the new principal, Nirupama Krishnan, for a party to bid adieu to Shrivastava. Krishnan, wife of an HCS officer, was transferred from DIET to Sarthak school as principal on April 20. The students were left to mind themselves while the teachers exchanged pleasantries over tea for over half-an-hour. When contacted, Krishnan said there was nothing out of line in having a party at the school. “It is only a part of our duty and it happens the world over,” she said. However, she failed to explain why the party was held at the cost of studies when classes were on.
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Diet counselling
Chandigarh, April 28 In this diet counselling sessions, dietitians of the school health will directly interact with parents about different aspects of a healthy diet and will also try to solve the diet-related problems of children. The sessions will start from 9 am to 11.30 am in Government Senior Secondary School, Dhanas, on May 3 Government Primary School, Palsora, on May 5, GMSSS, Sector 10, on May 7, GMSSS, Sector 47, on May 10, GHS, Sector 46, on May 17 and GMHS, Sector 28, on May 19.
— TNS
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From Colleges
Chandigarh The conference was inaugurated by Prof S.C. Saxena, director, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Roorkee. Organised by the department of electrical engineering, the conference saw a series of lectures by renowned experts and panel discussion on major areas of potential challenge in the electrical sector. Experts came out with their ideas and suggestions on the solutions to this challenge in the north Indian states. RESULTS: Students of the Swami Vivekanand Institute of Engineering and Technology (SVIET) and Swami Vivekanand College of Pharmacy (SVCP), Ramnagar, Banur, has brought laurels to the institutes by bagging 14 merit positions in the Punjab Technical University (PTU) examinations, results of which were declared recently. Shikha Malik and Preeti Jain stood first and second, respectively, in the B.Pharma course in the first semester. In the third semester, K. Smiti and Disha shared fifth position among 1500 students of the 23 pharmacy colleges of the PTU. In B.Tech (IT) third semester, Smriti stood first, Deepali stood fifth and Sakshi Mittal seventh while Akriti got the ninth position. Jaspreet Saini of ECE (first semester) stood third. In CSE third semester, Rajinder Pal Singh bagged the third position and in M.E.(third semester) Yogesh Sharma got the ninth position. In the CSE fifth semester, Neeraj Sharma was placed third and Taranjeet Kaur got fifth position in the ECE department while in the IT department, Harpreet stood ninth. DESIGN CONTEST: As a part of BE first year curriculum “TA-103 introduction to design”, a roller coaster group design contest was held at Punjab Engineering College, here, today at the engineering design laboratory. The design that got first prize was made entirely of paper with two standard dimensions and elementary mechanics principles to roll down a hockey ball of 7 cm diameter without leaving the track in at the most three trials. PEC director Vijay Gupta, along with Prof Garg, Prof Nitin Kumar and Prof Sarabjit Singh, evaluated the designs of 52 groups and awarded the best group design award.
— TNS
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From Schools
Mohali BOOK WEEK: Students of Gian Jyoti School celebrated “World Book Week” from April 23 to 27. On the closing day of the celebrations, an exhibition of books was held in the library. Different encyclopedias, English novels and latest story books were displayed. Students and teachers scribbled down their views about their favourite books and book characters on paper leaves and tied them to the book tree. The students were told about the importance of books. A declamation contest was conducted in the school for the upper primary classes on “Books - Our Best Friends”. The students made different colourful book covers in drawing classes. The students in the primary classes were issued story books from the library for compulsory reading and they were encouraged to tell the story lines to their bench mates. BEACH PARTY: To brave the scorching April sun, tiny tots of DAV Public Senior Secondary School, Phase X, here, had a beach party in the school. Prior to this, principal Jaya Bhardwaj inaugurated the newly constructed baby pool on the lawns of the primary wing of the school. She exhorted students to take healthy and nutritious food. VISIT: The tiny tots from Small Wonders School had a great time with the staff of Phase 1 fire station, here. The chief fire officer explained the children about the basic tools and functions of various components of a fire brigade. Students were informed about the role of fire fighters and the importance of bravery and courage in fighting with the mighty destroyer. — TNS
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Judicial Chambers
Chandigarh, April 28 Under the scheme, lawyers will have to pay a certain amount each to get the chambers. The decision was taken at the general body meeting of the bar held at the district courts, Sector 17, here. Association president A.S. Chahal said the proposal initially came in 2004 but was not taken up till 2006, when the proposal for judicial complex was revived. Interested lawyers have been asked to deposit 25 per cent of the amount i.e. around Rs 50,000. — TNS
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Anup owes part success to devotional lyrics
Chandigarh, April 28 “Besides, the spiritual wisdom enshrined in our epics and preached by our sages have exercised a profound influence on the sentiments and dispositions of humanity. Drawing inspiration from the rich Indian philosophical thought I had delved deep to depict the luminous, iridescent and trance dazzled mystic womanhood of Meera and Radha as also the divine wisdom of Lord Rama and Krishna in my three bhajan offerings on Rama, Krishna and Nirguna. “Frankly speaking, I owe part of the success to the devotional lyricism that had a magical effect on the intrusive Indian music lovers invariably accounted for popularity of my musical productions,” he said, having completed the marathon project of rendering 700 sholkas of Bhagwad Gita in Sanskrit with explanatory notes in Hindi complied in 18 CDs. Besides scoring music for a film “Maalik Ek”, he plays the role of a disciple, Das Ganu, while Jacky Shroff plays Shirdi Baba. Jagjit Singh and Ghulam Ali had recorded a songs under his music direction for the film. He talked to Chandigarh Tribune at the Chandigarh airport while on his way to Baddi for a music concert commensurate with commissioning of two new plants of an ISO-9001 pharmaceutical company. Credited with over 4,000 concerts, 150 albums and 1,200 songs in six languages, Anup strode like a colossus on the musical scene. He triumphed with a unique record of 100 gold and platinum discs during a brief span of seven years, emulating legendary Elvis Presley’s world record of 45 gold and platinum discs in 27-year-career. “Music indeed is a genuine unifying force,” shared Anup while referring to his endeavour of holding over 100 joint musical concerts the world over, pairing with the invincible Ghulam Ali and also a few with tabla wizard Zakir Hussain. “Dedicated to the Indo-Pak friendship, our effort had been lauded. Under the planned format, I first sing for one hour, leaving the stage for Ustad Ghulam Ali. We then share the stage for crisp jugalbandis much to the delight of the audience from both nations.” In the evening, he enthralled the vast assemblage of music lovers with choicest ghazals and devotional songs at the premises of the company at Baddi. |
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Sahir Ludhianvi’s lyrics enrapture plaza
Ecstasy, romance, solitude and passion in their plenitude were perceptible in timeless musical melodies penned by peerless poet Sahir Ludhianvi and presented at the Plaza Carnival in Sector 17, Chandigarh, today.
The event veritably titled “Sahir Ludhianvi Nite” had been organied by the Centre for Carnival Arts and Chandigarh Tourism in association with the BSNL and Coca Cola with the Tribune Group of Newspapers as the media partner. Main architect of the programme Brijesh Ahuja, a versatile playback singer and composer of regional films, led the otherwise established singers with four solos and three duet songs with Jaspreet Kaur. After raga bhairavi-based song “Laga chunri mein daag”, Brijesh was at his best with love duet song “Udein jab jab zulfein teri..”, as also “Abhi naa jaao chhod kar”. Jaspreet too attempted darbari raga-based composition “Tora mann darpan” with ease, while Isha regaled with crisp melody of “Thandi hawayen” in spite of her indisposition. Veteran singer Vinay Sharma mused over blessed love in “Kabhi kabhi”, while a contrasting view found expression in Madan Tanwar’s “Jivan ke safar mein”. Satish Madhok too modulated his voice to arrest the pathos while lamenting “Jaane vo kaise log”. Young dancers Anshula, Monika Khatkar and Ham Tum dance group too presented items. The potent lyricism of Sahir Ludhianvi was ably supplemented by composer Raman Kant with his accomplished accompanists, including Nayak trio of Subhash, Surseh and Raju, besides Munish. Carnival president Manki Deep honoured the artistes. At the artistes’ corner, Prof Ravinder Sharma conducted an art workshop for children, while student artistes from the GCA did sketching and painting for the public. |
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