Chandigarh, November 12
The issues related to rechecking and coding/decoding in the examination system would be taken up by the Panjab University syndicate in its meeting to be held on November 18.

A revaluation committee had been formed under the chairmanship of Tarsem Bahia, fellow, PU, which, in its last meeting, had recommended that the head examiner should call a meeting of the sub-examiners attached to them and should discuss detailed instructions regarding the markings of answer books with them before the sub-examiners start the marking. The committee had also recommended that any mistake on part of any examiner detected at any later stage would attract a penalty of Rs 10 per mistake. It had also been recommended that period for preserving answer books be reduced to eight months for the undergraduate courses so that by the time examinations were held, space was available for the next year’s answer sheets.

The syndicate will also discuss the provisional extension of affiliation for MFA (I and II) to the Government College of Arts, Sector 10, and some other colleges in Punjab.

Chandigarh, November 12
A large number of students, appearing in the April 2008 examinations as private candidates, thronged the fee counters at Panjab University today to deposit forms.

The university opened today after the Diwali holidays and the last date for depositing the forms along with the fee is November 15. Most of the students were found checking and tallying if all requisite documents were attached. While most of the students demanded that the last date should be extended, many complained that there were hardly any arrangements for water and eatables for their parents and guardians, who had come along with them from all over Punjab.

Chaos and confusion could be seen despite the fact that the university had announced that it would receive the examination forms from these candidates also through the principals of the 30 approved affiliated colleges of Punjab besides two colleges of Chandigarh.

The principals would determine the eligibility of the candidates and attest the examination forms before submitting these to the controller of examinations within the stipulated date fixed by the competent authority.

Chandigarh, November 12
Indian nurses are fully equipped to meet the growing challenges of the global nursing industry.

This was stated by Denise Burley, a faculty member from Thames Valley University (TVU), UK, who was here to assist and assess the progress of the BSc nursing programme being run by the university and INSCOL.

The five-day interaction among INSCOL trainee nurses, staff and faculty members and delegates from TVU concluded here today. The delegates from the university also discussed the latest developments and enhancement of opportunities in the international nursing arena.

The university had started the nursing programme in collaboration with INSCOL in September.

Foreign faculty members, including Burley and Swapna Williamson, provided insight into the nursing career while lauding the motivation and commitment of trainees.

Daljit Gujral, managing director, INSCOL, said the purpose of the orientation programme stood fully accomplished with students and faculty at INSCOL getting real nuggets of wisdom from their foreign counterparts. Nursing as a global career and industry was witnessing a great boom and called for honing of already existing skills apart from achieving extra ones.

More such interactive programmes for the students at INSCOL are in the pipeline, added Gujral.

Mohali, November 12
The Chandigarh group of colleges will witness a two-day music and dance extravaganza from November 15.

‘Parivartan-2k7’, the third techno-cultural Symposium, is being organised by the Phoenix club of research and development of the Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran.

Technical education minister Swarna Singh will inaugurate the event.

‘Harbhajan Mann Live’ on November 16 will be the main attraction of the event.

The symposium will include non-technical events like collage making, extempore, face painting, solo, couple and group dance and fashion show.

Stalls of chat, tambola, basketball, etc. will also be set up. Over 10,000 students from various schools and colleges of Chandigarh and Mohali are expected to take part in the extravaganza.

Chandigarh, November 12
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum-I has directed a computer training centre, Indian Institute of Hardware Technology Ltd, Sector 34, to pay a compensation of Rs 10,000 to Mahesh Singh for not finishing the course on time.

The forum also asked the institute to refund Rs 14,000 which was deposited by Mahesh Singh for the courses.

The complainant had joined the training institute for two computer courses for a cost of Rs 14,000. The duration of the course was six months. He deposited Rs 5,000 as the first instalment of the course fee on September 18, 2003.

He said after a month of the course, the classes were closed. For the next eight months, the classes were not held. It was only in July 2004 that they completed a course that was supposed to finish in a period of two months.

The petitioner was asked to buy a new package for Rs 14,000 in which he was told the paid amount would be adjusted.

The classes for the new course started on September 2004, but lasted for only two months. After two months, the instructor went on leave.

A notice was served on the institute, but it did not appear for the hearing.

The forum stated: “Having got a job, the complainant opted to drop the course and requested the opposite party (the institute) to supply him a certificate of A+ and MCSE course.”

The forum said the complainant had sufficiently proved his case by way of documents and the institute was found deficient in service.

Chandigarh, November 12
The Sandli Pairan Kala Kendra staged a satirical Hindi play ‘Ek Tha Gadha urf Aladad Khan’ on the second day of the ongoing Chandigarh Theatre Festival organised by the CSNA and Punjab Arts Council at the Randhawa auditorium here today.

The play was sculpted by Sharad Joshi and directed by Thakur Lekhraj, an alumnus of the Indian theatre.

"The spirit of comedy is said to be essentially a social phenomenon" which must have inspired Sharad Joshi to bring into focus the hypocrisy, double standards, perfidy underlying the façade of the truthful and pious life of politicians holding power, who pose as the epitomes of uprightness and honesty. The playwright had created several sequences to bring alive the sordid realities of the subjugated common man in the regime of the Nawaab. It attains an inevitable climax when a law-abiding commoner Aladad Khan is forced to die only to cover up a case of false identity of that of an ass, also named Aladad by his washerman master.

The artistes failed to capitalise on the potent theme of public interest in the beginning. Despite poor music and bad light effects, the play later gained momentum creating the required mood to captivate the

imagination of the audience. Brilliant dialogues and good acting spells by Rajneesh Kumar (Nawab), Thakur Lekhraj (Kotwal), Om Parkash (Tailor), Rohit Bohra and Ishan Sood were the principal merits of the play. The cast also included Veni Arora, Ajay Badhawar, Rajeev, Rashminder, Himanshu and Lalit Sharma. The chief guest Dr Atulvir Arora and Vijay Kapur honoured the artistes.