From Colleges
KIMT welcomes freshers
Tribune News Service

Senior students of MCA, MBA, M. Sc., BBA and BCA organized a cultural programme to welcome the freshers.

NSS volunteers plant saplings

NSS volunteers of Guru Nanak Girls College interacted with children of Anganwadi School at Gill village here yesterday. Principal Charanjit Mahal encouraged the volunteers to involve themselves in country’s development, help destitutes and children from the weaker sections of society.

The volunteers interacted with the children and distributed biscuits, sweets, notebooks, pencils and erasers. Anganwadi workers were given tips about nutritious food and balanced diet. They were also informed about proper child care. They along with members of the "mahila mandal" planted saplings in the village. Jaskirat Kaur, programme officer, delivered a lecture on the menace of HIV/AIDS and its prevention.

Seminar on career awareness

Quest Infosys, regional centre of Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, under distance education programme organised a seminar on “Career Awareness in Information Technology” at the Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology, here on Saturday.

Wing Commander S.S.Arora, placement officer, Quest Infosys gave the welcome speech. Vikramjit Singh,a speaker, enlightened the students about career ladder in IT Industry. He informed students about the expectations of industry from the freshers. He further informed the students how to develop the right logical and analytical skills to enable them in getting their dream jobs. Balvinder Taneja also informed students about various skills and international certification in IT.

The seminar was organised by the placement cell of Infosys, headed by (rtd) Wing Commander S.S.Arora.

Literacy day

International Literacy day was celebrated at the Khalsa College for Women here on Saturday with the motto- Literacy for all - a broad based issue that touches almost every aspect of man’s life. The function began with the introduction of the establishment of this day. A slogan writing competition was also organised in which 70 students from various streams, including arts, science, commerce, computer applications etc took part .

SDP College celebrates International Literacy Day under the guidance of NSS programme officers, Ranjana Sood, Nivodita Arora and Neha Arora. The principal Dr Geeta Bhandari was the guest of honour. Short plays, speeches, debates and poems were presented to emphasise the relevance of literacy in the modern era.

Intra-class quiz contest

An intra-class quiz contest was organised by the planning forum of Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College in the seminar hall on Saturday. About 50 participants of different streams participated in the competition. Inderpal of B.Com first year was declared the winner.

Dr T.S. Anand, principal of the college, complimented the winners and encouraged other participants.

Extension lecture

The psychology department of the Khalsa College for Women held an extension Lecture on topic, “Avenues in Psychology.” The resource person was N P Singh, senior scientist and joint director, defence institute of psychological research, under the aegis of defence research and development organisation, ministry of defense, New Delhi.

The principal, Dr Varinder Kaur Thind, welcomed the guest. Dr Singh said future would be for basic sciences and psychology had a major role to play. He highlighted the scope of psychology in private sector with the example of Delhi University where a number of students have been taken in by the private sector as human resource managers.

PAU Notes
VC visits practical crop production area
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, September 9
Dr M.S. Kang, vice-chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) visited the practical crop production area and interacted with the third-year students of B.Sc agriculture (honours). He showed keen interest in the crops being grown by the students under the ‘Earn-While-You-Learn’ programme. The programme was started on the recommendation of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (1974-75) to have on-the-job training to raise different crops. Dr R.K. Mahey, head of the department of agronomy, agromet & forestry, explained the objectives of the scheme. Dr Kang was impressed with the crops raised and the profits earned under the programme.

Parthenium awareness day

Parthenium, (gajar booti) the congress grass, is the most noxious weed and has invaded all the states of the country. This weed is very harmful. This is a very fast spreading weed and covers the vacant places very soon. It’s growth cannot be controlled or eradicated until some serious campaign involving the local public is initiated. Keeping this in view, a national level ‘Parthenium Awareness Week’ is being organised from September 6 to September 12, under the guidance of the National Research Centre for Weed Science (NRCWS), Jabalpur (MP).

In this connection, department of agronomy, PAU organised two Parthenium Awareness Days at Khanpur village and Jarkhar here recently. Dr Tarlok Singh and Dr. R.K.Bhatia represented the department. The posters on Parthenium Awareness Week were pasted at various places in the villages for wide publicity.

Conflict between principal and managing committee
Our Correspondent

Samrala, September 9
Nankana Sahib Public School, Samrala, the oldest and the only institution of the town affiliated with CBSE, Delhi, has become an arena of direct conflict between the school principal Kuldeep Kaur and a few of her supporters on the one hand and the local managing committee on the other hand. The school has lost its reputation it enjoyed in the past.

Kuldeep Kaur, at a well attended press conference at Neelon restaurant today 10 km from here, said it all happened with a joke published in the school magazine (Hope in 2006). The joke is said to have hurt the religious feelings of the section of people.

Taking corrective measures, she immediately stopped the circulation of the magazine and sent written apology to the heads of the religious bodies. But the people with narrow religious and political vested interests made an issue out of it. The local management committee of the school lodged an FIR against Kuldeep Kaur, two other teachers, and the young girl students also, under Section 295-A of the IPC. The Principal and two teachers were suspended with immediate effect and the case is still pending with the court.