EDUCATION

From Schools
Horlicks Wiz Kids on awareness drive
Tribune Reporters

Ludhiana, October 21
Finalist of the Horlicks Wiz Kid create awareness among the masses.Kanika Kamboj and Namit Jain students of class four and nine respectively of B.C.M Arya Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, who will represent the city at the ‘Horlicks Wiz Team’ National finals going to be held in November at Bangalore, visited various schools to work for a social project ‘Child labour’ and ‘Ban the Bulb’ respectively.

Both the students are completing the assignment as a part of the preparation before the finals.

They presented their views in lucid and convincing manner and tried to awaken the audience about the illegal crime of child labour and the role of bulb in increasing the greenhouse gases in the environment.

Educational tour: A religious as well as an educational trip to Naina Devi and Anandpur sahib was organised by the New Senior Secondary School, Civil Line. More than 100 students were taught about the importance of these pilgrims.

Declamation contest :The 3rd Inter school declamation contest was organised in Sri Aurobindo College of Commerce and Management here yesterday with the objective of promoting interaction with commerce stream school students and providing them a platform to exhibit their public speaking skills. 16 teams from all over Punjab took part in the contest including , Jalandhar and Amritsar.

Various economic, political and social issues were selected as topics for declamation.

Results of the declamation contest were as follows: Kundan

Vidya Mandir school has won the running team trophy. Gaurav Jhamb, BCM Arya Model Senior Sec. school, Shastri Nagar was declared first, Sheeba Soin, KVM school was declared second, Konica Sharma of R.S. Model Sr. Sec. school was adjudged third. Consolation prizes were given to Himanshu Bhalla of D.A.V Public School, Amrisar and Shivani of BVM Sr. Sec.School, Udham Singh Nagar.

Khanna

Youth fest: The students of the AS college, Khanna, won as many as 22 prizes at the zonal youth festival that was held at SCD government college, Ludhiana.

The participants from the college secured seven first, six second and nine third positions to make their institution proud. The students took part in 19 competitions including classical singings, semi-classical, group songs and folk dances, light vocal, classical dance, , bhangra, and some other events.

Mandi Ahemadgarh

President’s award: Management committees of DAV high school and GHG Khalsa senior secondary school, Bahadurgarh, felicitated four girl students who had been selected for President’s Award for their performance during guide testing camp organised at Gaddpuri.

Sargam, Pallvi Singla, Harjot Kaur and Harpreet Kaur were among 161 students from Punjab who had participated in the camp.Indu Baltej Kaur in charge Scouts and Guides wing was also felicitated.

Election meeting: Joginder Singh Aulakh, president, Gazetted Educational School Services Association, has informed that election to various offices of the organisation would take place at Nauhria Mal Jain Government Senior Secondary School at 11 am on Monday. Heads of various state run and private aided schools were requested to attend the election meeting.

Vocational training better than fake degrees: Experts
Our Correspondent

Mandi Ahmedgarh, October 21
Terming language skill, computer science and client handling as effectual tools in the private sector, employment and administrative officials urged people to encourage their wards to get professional and vocational training instead of “buying” degrees from fake universities.

The call came on the conclusion of the month-long mass counselling programme undertaken by the district administration, education department and the employment department.

Various teams led by experts interacted with more than 4,000 students and unemployed youth at about three dozen educational institutes of Sangrur district.

The additional deputy commissioner, Sangrur, Indu, called upon the residents of the area to change the mindset of their wards and get them professional and vocational training instead of getting fake degrees.

“Observations have revealed that mere degrees without practical knowledge have served no purpose other than gracing name plates. An uneducated skilled person can earn higher than graduates and postgraduates of fake universities,” she said.

Ravinder Pal Singh, employment officer, said there was greater demand for skilled and semi-skilled workers in multinational companies setting up units in the state.

CULTURE

PAU preserves Punjab’s rich culture
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, October 21
The museum of rural life at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has always been a centre of attraction for the faculty, students and delegates visiting the university but also for local residents and NRI’s in particular. The museum mirrors the rural cultural and social life of Punjab. Situated in the 18th century building on the premises of College of Home Science, this brick museum with its arches and canopies stands out because of its architectural design.

In order to preserve the heritage of Punjab for posterity, the then VC, Dr M.S.Randhawa conceived the museum of rural life and supervised its construction.

There is a collection of rural household and farm articles, which are vanishing these days. The pictures of village artisans at work adorn the walls of rooms. Eminent painter Kehar Singh does the paintings. The verandah of the museum has a collection of various rural motifs, painted by other artist Dev.

The main attraction is the plaster of Paris dummies posing to perform different household activities from grinding grains to churning milk to knitting etc. The old, string or nivar cots are all there to recall the past and relive the memories of the decades gone-by. The traditional musical instruments like dhad, sarangi, algoze, and tabla are well displayed in the museum.

The authorities are doing every possible effort to maintain greenery all around the building. The open courtyard, an important part of rural home, is maintained in museum as realism of rural life. Dr Ramesh Kumar of Floriculture and Landscaping department of PAU said they were planning to plant variety of flowers around the museum. The authorities are also planning to install light and sound music inside the museum.

Sardara Singh, a farmer said that the museum remained the attraction among farmers during annual Kisan Melas organised at university. 

Play full of suspicion, comic moments
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, October 21
“Kahani Mein Twist Hai,” a Hindi comedy, organised by the Ludhiana Sanskritik Samagam (LSS) at Guru Nanak Dev Bhawan here yesterday evening left audience spellbound.

The play, that began with husband and wife-Aum and Saloni-played by “Des Mein Nikla Hoga Chand” fame Sangeeta Ghosh and Kiran Karmarkar, Om of “Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki”, being awarded the best couple.

The couple who are happily married and have an eight-year-old son studying in a boarding are informed about they being selected as the best couple by Tom uncle, played by renowned actor Sudhir Dalvi. Saloni, who is a poetess and Aum, who owns an advertising agency, began arguing as to whom the credit should go for the award.

It is here that the argument gets serious and they decide to take a divorce.

The play was full of comic moments and Saloni and Aum’s suspicions on each others left audience spellbound. Lawyers, Pranav and Bijal, provoke the couple and add fuel to fire and later start living with them.

The play has been written by Ambar Hadap and directed by Baba Sawant.