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SAD also in varsity poll fray
Chandigarh, July 24 Announcing their first list of candidates, Student Organisation of India (SOI) the student wing of the SAD, have decided not to affiliate with any other student union and go their own way. The support comes from their founder Sukhbir Badal. Speaking at the announcement, national president of SOI, Gurpreet Singh and Pardeep Pal Singh, chandigarh in-charge, spoke of the SAD forming a youth development board within two months. The development board would be linked to the Chief Minister’s office as well as Sukhbir Badal to whom all concerns and issues of students would go directly. With units all over Punjab, SOI is also moving its permanent office from Patiala to Sector 28 in the city to be at hand whenever students require them. “We are not here to focus on tables and fans not working. We wish to focus on politics of higher level. We want to do something good and look into problems like unemployment,” explained presidential candidate for Panjab University, Saravdeep Singh Jipsy (LLB 3rd Year). On the anvil is a placement cell as well as direct interaction with political leaders in the state because “those youngsters who align themselves with political parties would want a secure future,” explained Saravdeep. The list also includes Manpreet Singh Sekhon (MA I English) from DAV College, Sector 10, Vinay Suri (BA 3rd Year) from SGGS Khalsa College, Sector 26, Damanpreet Singh Dhillon (B Sc 2nd Year) from Government College, Sector 11 and Gurwinder Singh (BA 3rd Year) from Government College, Sector 46. The second list for other colleges will be announced within a week.
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PUSU protests against poor facilities
Chandigarh, July 24 Abhishek Puri, president of PUSU who led the protest spoke of the poor facilities at UIET including water-logged kachcha roads leading to the campus.“There are almost 2000 students at UIET and a substantial fee is also collected from them. It is
not much to request the authorities to spend some money to provide basic amenities to the students,” said Puri. A memorandum signed by more than 100 students was submitted to the vice-chancellor Professor R.C. Sobti who when contacted said work on the road had already begun and a tender for the canteen had already been given. “We are here to take care of things and the demands that are already being met,” he explained.
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Awards: Nominations for teachers invited
Chandigarh, July 24 The awards instituted in 2002 are the only one that honour excellence in teaching, and pay tribute to the finest educationists in the region, said R.K. Saboo, trustee-chairman of Jan Seva Trust. The nomination forms and the award details have already been circulated to 260 schools in Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali, and the last date for submission of nominations is August 17, he said. The awards shall be presented at a public function in October 2007. For the Lifetime Achievement Award of Excellence comprising a citation, a trophy and Rs 50,000 in cash, the teacher can apply for it or anyone can send in the nomination to the trust. The award for school teaching (primary classes) will be for all the teachers from pre-school to Class V level. Also, for school teaching (secondary classes) are open for all teachers from Class VI to Class XII. Award for teaching economically underprivileged children will be for all those teachers who have a teaching experience of at least 5 years. They should also teach for two years of in any slum, rural school or in any school catering to the economically under-privileged and the night schools.
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Patriarchy affects women more, says Kamla Bhasin
Chandigarh, July 24 “It is men who have more control over resources, decision-making and ideology and who determine what we think,” said Kamla explaining the process. In fact, the discussion today was dominated by this one issue because Kamla insisted on getting to the root of this problem and understanding it in context of gender sensitisation was far more important than trying to find a solution in isolation. Speaking of the rights of the marginalized segments of society using the situation with Dalits as perspective, she gave the example of the story of Eklavya which was interpreted by an NGO in Bhopal to explain the class and caste imbalance. “When a class does try and exert itself, like in the case of Eklavya what happens? Dronancharya asks him to give his thumb as gurudakshina thus rendering his effort meaningless,” averred Kamla. She went on to explain how patriarchy like other social systems develops through a structure and ideology. “Religion, media and textbooks create ideologies while economics, politics and state create the structure.” However patriarchy affects women more. Their productive power, their reproductive rights, their sexuality and their resources, financial and intellectual, are dominated by what the man lays down. Elaborating further, she said what was truly disturbing was that the most important institution, that of family, was the virtual “school of patriarchy”. It is supposed to be the protector but issues like dowry, incest, emotional torture emanate from family units. “And it is religion that binds the thinking of the family because all religions are essentially patriarchal. An institution which started with nature and female worship has stopped since man ‘conquered’ both. God is referred to as he and it must be remembered that he who wields the pen, brings his belief into the text and that is what has happened with religious texts written by men as it is,” she stated. The session after lunch divided the men and women attending the seminar into groups to speak of their pressures followed by a discussion on how the issue of gender could be resolved by the balance of men and women in the social context. The ongoing seminar will deal with issues of femininity and masculinity tomorrow.
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Cadets plant saplings
Chandigarh, July 24 The school principal, Ajaib Singh along with other staff members also joined the drive. Saplings were also distributed to the cadets for planting in their homes and surroundings. The commanding officer no.1 Chandigarh Naval Unit, Commander D.V. Singh impressed upon the cadets the impending need to plant more trees and enhance the green cover to check deforestation.
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Notice to UT
Chandigarh, July 24 The petitioner, H.C. Arora, had sought directions to the respondents to recruit adequate number of women officials in their police forces to bring gender equality as envisaged under Article 16 of the Constitution. The petitioner averred that such recruitment would not only humanise the forces but lead to better investigation into crimes against and by women. Also, it would effectively check the menace of female foeticide. Arora had received information from the UT police department that the women officials numbered only 6.2 per cent of the entire police force. Importantly, it did not have any lady sub-inspector in its ranks out of the total strength of 50 sub-inspectors. The petitioner said states of Punjab and Haryana had failed to provide requisite information to him under the RTI Act. But going by media reports, it was obvious that these states too had a pathetic ratio of female officers. In border districts of Punjab, comprising Amritsar, Amritsar (rural), Gurdaspur, Batala and Tarn Taran, there were just 444 women police officials in about 11,000-strong police force. The picture is no better in Haryana also.
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Sulochana, Smita enthral audience
Chandigarh, July 24 The musical soiree organised by the Indian National Theatre brought alive the richness, grandeur and melodic content of raga 'Malahar'. The celebrated exponent and custodian of the Rampur Sadarang music tradition, Sulochana brought out the ecstasy of raga 'Kedar Malahar' in full measure. Sulochana displayed her technical virtuosity collaborating both ‘Kedar’ and ‘Malahar’ to generate melody without losing their identity. Vineeta Gupta provided admirable vocal support and tanpura accompaniment along with Sudesna, besides B.B. Goswami on the sarangi and Govind Chakravarti on the tabla. Earlier, Bhopal-based Sitar virtuoso Smita Nagdev opened up the concert with an immaculate exposition of raga 'Miyan Malahar'. Endowed with a prolific imagination, she brought her mood and passion into full play to embellish the inherent melodic element in the raga. Accompanied by Avirbhav on the tabla, Smita displayed versatility and dexterity. |
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