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EDUCATION

PU Notes
PU extends date
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 28
Last date for receipt of application forms for admission to various courses offered by Panjab University has been extended from June 29 to July 3 up to 5pm.

Interviews

Interviews for admission to the first year of master of library and information science a two-year integrated course, is July 3. The interviews will be held from 10 am onwards at the department of library and information science, Arts Block No. IV.

Displayed

The list of shortlisted candidates for admission to MBA course at Panjab University Regional Centre, Ludhiana, has been displayed on the University Business School (UBS) notice board as well as on the UBS website www.ubschandigarh.org. Group discussion and personal interviews will be conducted at the UBS on July 5 and 6.

Date extended

The last date for receipt of application forms for admission to BA LLB (honours) five-year integrated course and LLB at Swami Sarvanand Giri, Panjab University Regional Centre, Bajwara, Hoshiarpur, has been extended up to July 3. The applications will be received only by hand at the Panjab University CET cell and admit cards will be issued on the spot. The entrance test will be held on July 8 at 12.30 pm.

DMCs

Private candidates of Panjab University can collect their detailed marks cards personally from the university enquiry office after the result is out. The candidates must bring their original roll number cards with them.

3 PGI docs in PU board
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 28
Three faculty members from the PGI, including Prof Ashok K. Gupta (ENT), Dr Baljinder Singh (nuclear medicine) and Dr Yashpaul Sharma (cardiology), have been nominated as board members to the Board of Studies of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research of Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, for a period of two years till March 31, 2009. Prof R.C. Sobti, vice-chancellor of Panjab University, nominated the doctors to the said body.

This body frames guidelines for the introduction of new postgraduate medical courses and also suggests amendments in the existing courses being run by the university.

COURTS

Wannabe President moves SC
Rajay Deep

Sukhdev Rai Kaushal

Chandigarh, June 28
Local businessman Sukhdev Rai Kaushal - who recently hogged the limelight for filing nomination papers for the post of President of India - has now approached the Supreme Court challenging the criteria being used to fill the post.

Talking to Chandigarh Tribune, the businessman said the system of electing the first citizen of the country should be revamped as it gave leverage to political parties to politicise the selection.

Claiming to take his fight to a logical conclusion, he said: “I have filed a writ petition in the apex court for the enforcement of fundamental rights and to challenge some of the Articles of the Constitution. I have filed an application for ex parte stay on rejection of the nomination papers as the papers are likely to be rejected in the absence of not fulfilling signatures of 50 proposers and 50 seconders”, he said.

The candidate who runs a hardware shop in Sector 18, has umpteen ideas to revamp the Indian political system.

This is not his first attempt at reaching the Raisina Hills. He had earlier filed his papers when K.R. Narayanan won the presidential election. Although he withdrew that time in favour of Narayanan. He was also a covering candidate for former union law minister J.N. Kaushal in Lok Sabha elections. But this time he is determined to run for the post.

“Now I have challenged the provisions of Articles 54, 80, 171 of the Constitution and as well as Sections 5-B of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Election Act, 1952 as ultra vires to preamble, Article 14 and Article 58 of the Constitution,” said Kaushal.

Explaining the reason to take legal recourse, he said: “Initially, there was no bar for any citizen attaining age of 35 to contest the post. Later, Section 5-B of the President and Vice-Presidential Election Act, 1952 was amended requiring 50 members as proposers and further 50 members as seconders. The electoral college and electors u/a 54 and u/s 5-B of the Constitution and of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Election Act, 1952 respectively, have made the office of the President ‘non democratic’,” he has mentioned in his petition.

Procuring the signatures of 100 electors is very hard for an ordinary citizen, he said. “This requires a large number of elected members of Parliament/state assemblies at the time of filing nomination papers, giving rise to corrupt practices, thus killing the fairness of poll process.

Members of the Rajya Sabha and the state councils of states are also not directly elected by citizens. They are elected by the elected members of Parliament under Article 80 of the Constitution and elected members of state assemblies under article 171 of the Constitution.