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Panel suggests demerger
of 8 PAU depts
Ludhiana, July 12 The committee, comprising deans and directors, was set up by vice-chancellor Manjit Singh Kang on the demand of faculty members of various departments, which were merged during former vice-chancellor K.S. Aulakh’s tenure. About 12 departments were merged during his term. The review committee has recommended demerger of the food, science and agricultural engineering departments. The departments were formed after merging the department of agricultural processing of the college of agricultural engineering with the department of food science technology of the college of agriculture and the department of food and nutrition of home science college. The merger of the departments had led to an agitation by students of the college of agricultural engineering and home science college.Dean of home science college M.K. Dhillon had sought voluntary retirement after this. The committee asked the faculty of these departments to justify their demerger. The faculty of various departments submitted their representations to the committee. The food industry centre, which was also attached with the merged department, will, however, continue to function with the college of agriculture, it is learnt. The department of vegetables and floriculture and landscaping was also demarged. The committee has recommended that the department of floriculture and landscaping should be allowed to function independently. Further, the department of agronomy, agro-meteorology and forestry were merged with the department of agronomy. The committee also discussed the demand of the faculty of the department of languages, journalism and culture where in the faculty has demanded that the masters in agricultural journalism should be revived. Earlier, the department of languages, journalism and culture was working independently and was merged with the communication centre headed by an officer of the rank of additional director, communication centre. This department now runs a diploma course in journalism and mass communication, besides teaching languages to students. The committee is understood to have recommended that the languages section should work under the dean, college of basic sciences and humanities. The committee also felt that the demand for the revival of masters degree in agricultural journalism should be reviewed in the context of the large-scale opening of the journalism courses in various universities and the scope for agricultural journalism. The recommendations of the committee will be put before the academic council for the final decision on the demerger recommendations.
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Farmers sore over irregular power supply
Ludhiana, July 12 The farmers complained that they were being harassed by the Electricity Board in the days when crops demanded regular irrigation. Other than rainy days, the regular power supply to the villages is less than eight hours. The farmers said that they were facing problems because of overlaoded grid. They have regularly been complaining to the board officials but to no avail. Except for giving assurances, nothing has been done so far, alleged the farming community. Mehar Singh, one of the elderly farmers, said they had already staged protest dharnas against the board's callous attitude at Rasoolpur grid and Roomi grid in recent days. "The officials never bothered to sort out the matter. We are in trouble as the problem still persists. We were happy as there were no power cuts initially but now they are not rectifying this small problem", he complained. Another farmer Lachman Singh of Dalla village said this was nothing but the board's poor management. Their tall claims fall flat when there is need of regular power supply. The government makes announcements for regular power supply to farmers. They start imposing industrial power cuts so that farmers get uninterrupted power supply. "But they are harassing us by not rectifying the problem. If nothing is done at the earliest, we will involve other kisan unions to come to our rescue", said Lachman Singh. The farmers said that their crop depended mainly on irrigation (power supply). "Though this is monsoon season but at times there is no rain for days. In that situation, we are dependent on electricity only. Economically, it is not viable to run tubewells on generators for hours", said Ajmer Singh, another agitated farmer.
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Problems plaguing open schools discussed
Ludhiana, July 12 Dr Satish Menon, Director, Punjab Open School, was the chief guest on the occasion. More than 40 representatives from different affiliated schools (Punjab Open School) of Ludhiana district were present on the occasion. Various aspects of the Punjab Open School stream like admission structure, examinations etc were discussed. Dr Menon gave a patient hearing to the problems of various schools representatives and assured them that these problems will be sorted out as early as possible. Rajinder Sharma, president of Association of PSEB Affiliated Schools Punjab (Regd), N.K Bangia, Munish Anand, Sonu, Sukhpal Singh, Manoj, D.P Sharma, were among thosewho attended the meeting.
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Gujranwala students get distinction
Ludhiana, July 12 Jaskanwal Kaur Sohi stood first in the institute by securing 653 marks out of a total of 800. Jaskanwal attributed her achievement to hard work, able guidance of her teachers and blessings of parents. Saravjit Singh bagged the second position with 637 marks while Lakhvir Singh came third securing 629 marks. Ranbir Kaur and Baljinder Kaur stood 4th and 5th respectively. GGNIVS director Kuldeep Singh congratulated the students and wished them luck. Manjit Singh Chabra, coordinator, GGNIVS said,"I extend my best wishes to the students who have excelled in their respective exams. The arduous efforts of the faculty and students have paid and we are proud to uphold our tradition of excellence".
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Book on career counselling released
Ludhiana, July 12 The book was released by Director of SCERT, Dr Sadhu Singh Randhawa. This function of book release coincided with the conclusion of a seminar on career counselling held at the Centre. As many as 100 teachers from different schools had participated in the seminar. Karamjit Singh is a Punjabi teacher in Government School, Kheri Jhameri. In conversation with Ludhiana Tribune, he said, "I have written about different career options that the rural students have in my book ‘Kirat de bano pujari’. I have urged them not to go for white-collared jobs and suggested many enterprises related to agriculture.”
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