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Quality feed must for better dairy output: Experts
Ludhiana, May 29 As many as 25 veterinary surgeons, ADOs, dairy inspectors, and the secretary of milk societies participated in the course. Parminder Singh, associate professor, veterinary and animal husbandry extension and animal nutrition expert from GADVASU, stressed upon the use of quality feed in the form of concentrates and roughage to the dairy animals for optimum production outputs. He said the commercially available concentrates and feeds should be assessed for the composition mentioned on the brands and checked for any fungal and other microbial loads before they are bought and fed to the dairy stock. Prahlad Singh, associate professor, veterinary and animal husbandry extension and animal reproduction expert, highlighted various reproductive problems of the dairy animals and their management to the participating field functionaries. He gave a brief knowhow about the manipulation of estrus in the farm animals at the field level. He said the use of hormones and drugs for the manipulation of the estrus of the dairy animals should be judicious and under proper veterinary care. Further, he stressed upon the use of various ovary-synchronisation programmes for breeding of cattle and buffaloes already accepted worldwide and their application for better farm outputs. Dr Grover, associate director of KVK, Kheri, Sangrur, was the chief organiser of the training and the programme was coordinated by Dr Bharat.
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Seminar advocates recast of exam system
Ludhiana, May 29 These views were presented by various delegates who presented their papers at the seminar on "Examination Reforms" organised by the Punjab Commerce and Management Association in collaboration with GGNIMT, Ludhiana, yesterday. They felt that the increasing practice of asking questions which demanded only the recall of information rather than higher mental level operations had resulted in over-emphasis on cramming which failed to give concrete results. The seminar was inaugurated by Prof Rajinder Bhandari, fellow, Panjab University, and president of the state unit of the Bhartiya Janata party. The seminar was presided over by a senator of Panjab university, Dr Amarjeet Singh Dua, former dean, College Development Council, Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar. Prof Jaipal Singh, president, Punjab Government College Teachers Association, and Prof Jagwant Singh, former general secretary of the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Association, discussed the pitfalls of the present system of examination and advocated for the semester system of examination. Prof Suresh Tandon, principal, Gobindgarh Public College, Allaur, and senior fellow of Panjab University, said there was a lot of inter-examiner and intra-examiner variability in the marking system and as a result of that, reliability of the examination suffered. While making the theme presentation, Dr Prem Kumar, president of the PCMA, said there was a need for total rationalisation of the examination system and he stressed on the scientific approach of examination in which multiple assessment techniques should be adopted. He advocated for the grading system along with the numerical marking system. Eminent social activist, Prof Vijay Dhanda, shared her views regarding the fear psychosis of the students regarding the examination system. She said the present examination system created psychological fear and tensions among the students and thus they resorted to all kinds of malpractices to pass examinations. While making the structural presentation, Prof Ashwani Bhalla, general secretary of the Punjab Commerce and Management Association, suggested various alternatives to the present exam system. These included the introduction of semester system, mixture of internal-external evaluation, setting up of question banks and returning of marked answer books etc. On this occasion, the Punjab Commerce and Management Association honoured Prof Rajinder Bhandari for his achievements with a special award.
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Home Science College offers special courses
Ludhiana, May 29 The first batch on the cooking course has started yesterday and will be upto June 1. The short course on art creation for home decoration will commence from June 4 to June 8. The course on fabric painting and printing will start from June 4 to June 13. A special course on dress designing of frocks will commence from June 11 to June 19. The application forms for the courses will be available at the College of Home Science campus.
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Navpreet, Lovepreet excel in Class VIII exams
Our Correspondent
Samrala, May 29 As per reports, Navpreet Kaur got 87 per cent and stood first and Lovepreet Kaur got 80 per cent stood second in the school. As many as 48 students got first division. Meanwhile, adviser of the school Balbir Singh Bobby congratulated the parents of the brilliant students. Literary meeting
A literary meeting was held here by the Punjabi Lekhak Manch, Samrala, at the Government Senior Secondary School under the chairmanship of principal Swaran Singh. NRI poet Sukhminder Rampuri was the chief guest. The meeting was chaired by Prof Baldeep, Comdt Rashpal Singh and headmaster Maha Singh Hira. Rampuri recited his new poem on the occasion. Well-noted literary persons like Yadwinder Singh, Niranjan Sukham, Tarlochan Singh and Ashwani Bhardwaj put the questions to the poet to enhance the dialogue.
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PSEB told to disconnect electricity connections
Ludhiana, May 29 After perusing the records, chairman of permanent Lok Adalat C.D Gupta, its members, R S Khokhar and Nand Lal, directed the PSEB to disconnect the electricity connections within 15 days. The orders were passed by the permanent Lok Adalat while deciding the case filed by Ishar Dass Garg of Phullanwal village in Ludhiana district. It also held that the PSEB may recover the outstanding dues of Rs 12,23,658 in due course of law. It was submitted by the applicant that he had purchased a property at Sherpur Kalan village on January 23, 2007. Thereafter, he wanted to demolish the construction there but he could not do so because of two electricity connections, one in the name of Megh Raj and another of Krishana Rani. But in spite of repeated requests, the board did not disconnect the electricity connections. The counsel for PSEB had submitted that both of these connections were on the same premises. Roof and shed of both connections was common and it was a case of clubbing of load. He asserted that the applicant was liable to pay the outstanding dues of Rs 12,23,658 and the connections would be removed only after the dues were cleared. But the permanent Lok Adalat did not agree with the stand of the PSEB.
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