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Hostels to be home away from home
Chandigarh, September 11 The hostellers at the government colleges will now have the pleasure of watching their favourite soaps et al on big screen LCDs in the common rooms. The college authorities will also provide the hostellers with the latest music systems in every hostel. Not only this, invertors will also be made available at every floor of the hostels to ensure uninterrupted power supply. Also, the days of dirty and unclean bathrooms are over. For the first time in history of hostels, the colleges have been directed to provide buckets to all the residents. Each washroom will have an attendant to make sure it’s clean and with winters fast approaching, the hostellers will be provided with additional geysers to avoid inconvenience. Interestingly, GCG-11 has already bought all the buckets just in a day for all its residents. Even the reading rooms at the hostels all are set for a revamp with more than 30 new magazines like Reader’s Digest, Cosmopolitan, Femina, Travel plus, CSR and various newspapers will now be at the students’ disposal. Promila Kaushal, principal, GCG, Sector 11, says, “It’s a very positive move and students are very happy to know this.” Beaming with excitement, Rupali, a resident of Government Home Science hostel said, “We get all these luxuries at home and if the hostel provides all the facilities, who will miss home?” Parul, a resident at Government College for Girls hostel says, “I am very excited to hear the news.” Santosh Kalra, principal GCG, Sector 11, says, “It becomes very difficult for the students to adjust in the hostels initially. Now so many facilities will make their stay more comfortable”. Director, higher education, Raji P. Shrivastava, who initiated the move, also proposes to provide bus facilities for female hostellers as well as other group recreational activities such as watching movies, sight seeing etc.
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DAV college asked to provide information
Chandigarh, September 11 It may be recalled that four teachers of the college, namely Chopra, Prof Nirmal Datt, Prof V.K. Gupta, Prof A.K. Taneja and Prof Anil Sharma had sought information from the college authorities regarding annual fee structure for various courses of the college, leave encashment and contributory provident fund (CPF) of the teaching and non-teaching employees of the colleges. Earlier, Prof Avanindra Chopra had filed a complaint under Section 18 of the RTI Act, 2005 to the Central Information Commission, New Delhi, for not appointing any PIO/APIO or first appellate authority in the college and for not making the required disclosures under Section 4 (1) B. The management and principal of DAV College had refused information claiming that “in spite of the fact that the college is getting aid, it cannot be termed as a public authority and is thus, immune to the provision of the Right to Information Act.” Earlier, the college had ignored the direction of the UGC as well as Panjab University. R.K. Anand, secretary of the union, said the management and principal of DAV College continue to violate all requests, directions and reminders of the university. Prof Anil Sarwal, president, DAV College Teachers’ Union, hoped that timely intervention by the DPI (C) would make the college authorities realise that they are bound by the statutory provisions of Panjab University and DPI (C) instructions regarding their demands. He welcomed the clarification issued by the director, higher education, requesting the colleges to grant the benefit of leave encashment on unutilised leave to the employees of the college. He expressed hope that the college authorities would now grant leave encashment at the earliest.
— TNS
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Diploma in child guidance for teachers
Chandigarh, September 11 With an aim to equip in-service teachers to counsel children and their families, an advanced diploma in child guidance and family counselling has been started this year by Government Home Science College, Sector 10. There are a total of 25 seats in the course and about 14 in-service teachers from Chandigarh and outside have enrolled themselves. The course duration is nine months. After completing the course, the students can be placed in schools and selected government organisations providing counselling services like Integrated Child Development Services, clinical psychology and psychiatry departments of government and private hospitals etc. For in-service teachers, the course can be an enhancement in their educational qualification.
— TNS
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High Court Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 11 Also, a notice of motion was issued to the SSP, Mohali, and the DSP, Dera Bassi, which was accepted by DAG K.D. Sachdeva on their behalf. The directions came in the wake of a petition under Section 482 of the CrPC, seeking transfer of the investigation into the case related to death of a woman at her in-laws’ house in Zirakpur on August 3 to some independent agency, particularly out of Mohali district. Petitioner Rajinder Singh, through his counsel Puneet Bali, averred that his sister was murdered at her in-laws’ house and consequently a case was registered against in-laws at the Zirakpur police station. The application for the anticipatory bail of the accused in the case was dismissed on August 9, however, no arrest had been made by the police so far, counsel said. It was further contended by the petitioner that investigation of the case was not being done fairly and honestly by the present investigation officer. Balwant’s kin
withdraw plea The plea filed by Avtar Singh and Karam Singh, uncles of Balwant Singh, who is one of the convicts in the assassination of Beant Singh, was withdrawn on Tuesday. The petitioners had sought directions to the administration to permit them to meet their nephew who was awaiting death sentence. After the preliminary hearing, a division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Mr Justice Mahesh Grover, directed counsel to first represent the case of the petitioners before the administration for seeking permission to meet the convict. The petitioners were, however, given the liberty to approach the court again in case they were not satisfied with the possible outcome of the representation. At this, the petition was withdrawn. It had been prayed by the petitioners that since Balwant Singh was awaiting death sentence and had not even made an appeal against the conviction and sentence, they be permitted to meet him in the Burail jail as the authorities had declined their request for the same. The jail authorities had banned meetings with the accused after the jail-break incident of January 2004. Notice to pollution control board A division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Mr Justice Mahesh Grover, on Tuesday stayed the operation of orders, dated September 5 and August 27, passed by the chairman, Haryana State Pollution Control Board, on a petition by Shalimar Estates Pvt Limited, Chandigarh. Also, a notice of motion was issued for September 24 to respondents, including the pollution control board; the secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests; the commissioner and the secretary of the Department of Environment, Haryana, and the regional officer of the pollution control board. The petitioner had prayed that the orders being quashed as these were arbitrary, illegal, void and without jurisdiction. It was also prayed that the operation of these orders be stayed till the case was pending before the high court. The dispute arose from an order passed in 2007 on a petition whereby the respondents, including the pollution control board, were directed to pass an appropriate order in view of the fact that the previous notification of the year 2004, prescribing some norms in respect of environmental clearance for the construction of a project, stood superceded a notification issued in 2006. The basic requirement under the new notification was that the building project should have more than 20,000 square metres of built-up area. The respondent board got the area measured and according to it the total built up area came to 21,017 sq metres. The petitioner contended that there were patent mistakes in the report of measurement contrary to the factual position of the site. The total built-up area of the project was 19,075 square metres which took the project out of the purview of the 2006 notification. Subsequently, orders were passed seeking to stop power and water supply to the project site which was challenged by the petitioner.
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Bar body receives Badal bounty
Chandigarh, September 11 Chief Justice Vijender Jain handed over the cheque to Bar acting president G.S. Attariwala and exhorted the Bar body to work for the welfare of the legal profession. Taking the Chief Justice’s advice in right earnest, Attariwala promised him that the Bar would leave no stone unturned to ensure the well-being of the association members in particular and legal profession in general. Justice J.S. Khehar, Justice Mehtab Singh Gill and Justice M.M. Kumar were among the prominent personalities present on the occasion.
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Woman not allowed to meet witness-son
Chandigarh, September 11 Her counsel Arvind Sandhu said: “We had filed an application against the interim order pronounced by judge J.S. Bhinder in which Meena was allowed to meet her younger son Sahil (9) but the plea to meet the older son was rejected.” Meena was accused of hatching the murder of her husband, Om Prakash, but was acquitted in the case. Om Prakash was murdered in June, 2004.Meena and Jaswant Pal, a tenant, were booked under Sections 302 and 120 (B), IPC, for the crime. After the trial, Jaswant Pal was convicted of the crime. Himanshu had turned up as a witness in the case. In his account, Himanshu had claimed that he had overheard a conversation between his mother and another person on a parallel line around 10 pm on the day of crime.The other person had said “Work is done”, Himanshu had deposed. However, Meena’s involvement in the crime could not be established.Later, Meena filed a case under the Domestic Violence Act against her mother-in-law Shanti Devi along with her claim on a portion of the house. She also pled with the court to allow her to meet her two children. Defence lawyer Terminder Singh argued her plea to meet Himanshu on the ground that he was a witness in the case and the state might appeal in the High Court.
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Man sentenced for abetting suicide
Chandigarh, September 11 The sessions judge sentenced Sudesh Kumar five-year rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him under Section 306 of the IPC. He has also been convicted under Section 498-A of the IPC. Under this Act, he was sentenced two-year rigorous imprisonment. The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 2,500 on the convict.— TNS
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‘Hayavadan’ lays bare the conflicts of subconscious
Chandigarh, September 11 Written by the towering theatre and film personality Girish Karnad and adapted in Hindustani by legendary B.V. Karanth, the play bared the inner conflicts of a subconscious mind pitted against certain sordid realities of practical life. Structured in the Indian mythological environs, the absorbing play with complexity of emotions, manipulations, acceptances, rejections and compromises, depicted many poignant situations ultimately symbolising the physical and emotional incompleteness which kept the interest of the audience alive. For instance, the protagonist, innocent Padmini, admires the intellect of her husband Devdutt but is nevertheless allured by the physique and temperament of his friend Kapil. Etymologically ‘Hayavadan’ means a human with a horse’s head. It is the story of a woman who marries a great scholar poet. The poet has a sturdy friend who is suspected by his friend for loving his wife. The two friends The woman begs the Goddess to give back life to her husband and to her husband’s friend. The boon is granted and the lady is asked by the Goddess to put the separated heads on their bodies. The woman puts the head of her husband on the dead body of her husband’s friend; and in great excitement and confusion, she places the head of her husband’s friend on the body of her husband. Thus, there is the confusion of heads, and the story is made interesting with the introduction of a boy with a horse’s head. Maintaining his directorial competence and imaginative intensity, Umesh Kant brought alive the poignancy of the situation with dialectic analysis of the internal conflicts of the mind as comprehended by the playwright. Sandeep Chatterjee (Kapil), Ranjan Sehgal (Devdutt), the versatile Anmol Bharat (Padmini) and Mukesh (Bhagwat) stole the limelight, duly supported by Chakresh. Lighting effects by Parveen Jaggi and soothing music augmented the production level.
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