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Environment Exam Smriti Sharma Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 29 The vice-chancellor, Prof R.C. Sobti, had constituted a committee in this regard under advocate general, Punjab, H.S. Mattewal. The committee recommended that all such students should be given a special chance to obtain their degrees. Under the special chance, the students will have to deposit Rs 3,150 as fees till January 4 and with additional Rs 1,200 as late fees till January 14. The examination is scheduled to be held on February 13, 2008. In year 2000, the Supreme Court had ruled that it was mandatory to create environmental awareness among the students at college and university levels. And these educational institutions must impart environment education by some means. Interestingly, Panjab University was among the first universities of the country to have started this education at the undergraduate level. The subject of environment studies is non-credit. In the beginning, the students were to attend seven lectures and after which they would get a certificate from the principal. Later it was increased to 15 lectures, which were to be attended compulsory. It was almost six years ago that the university started conducting a written examination in environmental awareness. The paper carries a weightage of 50 marks for students of BA/BSc/Bcom and other undergraduate courses. The students are required to clear the examination once in three years i.e either in the first year or second or third only then they are granted a degree of their respective course. As regards the matter, Prof Sobti said, “The idea is to clear all pending cases as per the rules”.
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Students display science exhibits
Chandigarh, November 29 Director of SIE Dr Surender Singh Dahiya, said
SIE, in collaboration with the education department and NCERT, New Delhi, was organising this three-day exhibition from November 29 to December 1. The main theme of the exhibition is “Science and Technology and Planet Earth” which further has six sub-themes. The aim of the exhibition is to inculcate scientific attitude among the students to get acquainted with different kinds of equipments, devices and techniques devised by young students. As many as 100 exhibits by 60 different schools of Chandigarh were displayed. The evaluation of the exhibits in four categories will be done today. These four categories include senior secondary schools, model high schools and private schools, urban schools and rural schools. The prize distribution function will be held in the SIE campus at 2 pm on December 1. The selected models from this will be displayed at the national level exhibition to be held in November 2008.
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PU syndicate to meet on Dec 3
Chandigarh, November 29 Earlier, vice chancellor Prof R.C. Sobti had formed a committee to look into the matter of promotion of students from one semester to another after clearing 50 per cent papers instead of 60 per cent in BA LLB (hons). The committee had unanimously recommended the amendment in the regulation 5 (ii) for the five-year integrated course and reduce the number of papers from 60 per cent to 50 per cent from the second to third semester and so on. The syndicate meeting will consider the recommendations of the committee to examine the cases on compassionate grounds for the year 2007. The syndics will also discuss the matter pertaining to the grant of travel subsidy for attending international conferences outside India out of unassigned grants for the financial year 2007-08 besides others important issues.
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Rusticate Brinder, law faculty to V-P
Chandigarh, November 29 In the strong-worded letter, the faculty has condemned the November-27 incident involving Brinder and termed it as objectionable and intemperate. The letter further mentions that even the police had to be called to control the situation. It states that the affront attitude of the student was highly deprecating, especially when the student gloated over the fact that as per the vice chancellor, he and the syndicate had done everything in his favour and it was only the chairman and faculty who were posing a hurdle. He also threatened to self immolate himself. The faculty has also demanded that under given circumstances, it is the responsibility of the university to provide
adequate security to members of the teaching faculty, particularly the chairperson, in the discharge of their official duties.
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WLC launches campus
Chandigarh, November 29 The new campus would offer courses in business, media and graphic design. While business will cover specialisations in retail, marketing, the media course will cover areas of journalism and film-making, and the graphic design course will cover the field of advertising and graphic design.
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From Schools
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IT finishing school in city soon
Chandigarh, November 29 This Mysore-based organisation aims to overcome the inferiority complex, which professionals from small towns face when they try to get themselves settled in metros. The school would provide specialised vocational training in technical fields such as computer programming, designing, aviation and personality development etc. The cost of the course would be Rs 85,000 per annum.
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‘Acting is no child’s play’
Chandigarh, November 29 “Acting is not an easy job; you have to lose yourself in the character you play, challenge yourself afresh with every role. We don’t have many actors these days. We have performers, Shahrukh Khan being one,” says Kashyap, who gained foothold in Indian homes with his role in the Kundan Shah-classic ‘Yeh jo hai zindagi’. Those days, television was the medium for change as much as cinema was. And Kashyap, an NSD passout, played a big part in effecting that change by portraying some very memorable characters in the history of Indian television, including Tenaliram, Mulla Nasruddin and another in ‘Bharat ek khoj’. “Those times were very different. Quality was the king and nothing short of best would do. For those of us who studied under Ebrahim Alkazi at NSD, television came as a welcome break as it attracted the finest directors, including Gulzar, Amal Alana and Kundan Shah. You can’t find that sort of content now? Senseless soaps have robbed the medium of its charms,” says the actor, who has continued to romance theatre, having done many productions with Alkazi, Ranjit Singh and even with Punjab Drama Repertory Company which later winded up. ‘Gandhi’ and ‘Gidh’, a film about the devdasi tradition in Karnataka made by T.S. Ranga, are among important film assignments Kashyap did. But his most enjoyable stint was at the NSD repertory: “We introduced the first ticketed show of theatre in Delhi. Had it not been for the limitation of six-year service, I would still be there,” says the actor, who was in Chandigarh to conduct a workshop for the UT Sangeet Natak Akademi. Personally, Kashyap enjoys being with people, teaching them stagecraft which he excels in. Back in Mumbai, he works with Surnai, a theatre group. But with everything going for him (he is doing a film), Kashyap has unfulfilled desires, each seeking dignity for theatre. “I hope the government frames a culture policy to protect our dying folk forms. The NSD is shortly starting a fund for those interested in research. In our times, it had none when I wanted to document Kariyala, a tradition from Himachal, where I belong,” Kashyap winds up. |
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Singing poet enchants audience
Chandigarh, November 29 He was again at his best as he voiced the anguish of a tormented soul, depicted in poet Sukhbir Sandhu’s ghazal ‘Eh sochda hi sochda kabbe ton mud pya, teri dehleez ton bina sajda karaan ke naa’. Later talking to The Tribune, the singing poet, also a Landscape architect of international eminence, Pashaura Singh, asserted that the urge to create was born out of involvement with life in all its manifestations under contrasting circumstances. “A few years after my birth in Bhasin Dhilwan near Lahore, our family turned homeless following the partition and took refuge in Punjab in the village of Sohan Singh Bhakna, who proved to be a messiah for us. After securing degree in Agriculture, I served here designing the landscapes for City Beautiful before doing master’s in landscape architect from London and taking up UN assignments in Nigeria, Tanzania, UK, Dubai and finally settling at Central Valley in California,” he added. But all along the passion for poetic creations and the invariable adulations from the Punjabi lovers from India and Pakistan kept me rejuvenated. “While sculpting poetry I never got lost in the world of sheer fantasy rather captured the sordid realities of life with honesty and courage which are reflected in the social and intellectual content of my verses, very close to the pulse and heart beat of a Punjabi,” claims the poet. |
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