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Lunch scheme for PU teachers soon
Chandigarh, December 19 For a quality meal proposed at Golden Jubilee hall, one will require to shell out Rs 25. There will be no provision for waiters but the teachers will have to go in for self-service. For a second helping, one will need to pay a minimum of Rs 5-10 more. There are a number of teaching employees who do not stay on the campus and have to go back to their homes for lunch and they sometimes don’t comeback to take their classes in the afternoon shift. By starting the lunch facility on campus they will have to stay back and return to their departments for the afternoon session. The vice-chancellor has constituted a committee to launch the scheme in January, 2008. Prof A. S. Ahluwalia of the department of botany, who has been made the chairman of this committee, said, “Earlier we had received representations from the teachers for the arrangements for lunch. Many times, they have classes at odd hours or due to practicals they are not able to go to their places for food. Keeping this in mind, the vice-chancellor proposed this facility”. Though the venue can be changed as mostly seminars and conferences are held at Golden Jubilee hall. The dining hall in the faculty hall can also be utilised”, he added. Others in the committee are Prof Naval Kishore, dean Students’ Welfare, dietician Ekta Bajaj, Dr M K Teja of the department of sociology, Prof V K Mahajan and Dr Devi Sirohi. Prof Ahluwalia said soon the committee would float tenders to give the proposal a final shape. “Having food at Students Centre is not very convenient due to students’ rush during lunch hour. This facility will be a boon for us”, said one of the teachers expressing his happiness over the move. The vice-chancellor said as part of the diamond jubilee celebrations, “We had offered Rs 1,000 to every teacher. They had expressed that the money should be used for some facility for them and that fund will now be used for lunch scheme. If everything goes well, we might extend it for non-teaching staff and others as well, he added.
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Students bring laurels to school
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 19 As many as eight schools from the region participated in this contest. There was a written qualifying test and then six teams were short listed for the final quiz consisting of 11 rounds. CHRISTMAS: The festival of joy and gaiety was celebrated merrily at St. Joseph’s Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, here. Various competitions on the theme of Christmas festival were organised on the school premises. Students displaying their immense talent made Santa Claus, reindeer, stockings. DECORATION: As many as 38 students and four teachers of Vivek High School, who are the members of the Duke Of Edinburgh Award Scheme, decorated the Advance Paediatric Centre of the PGI, Chandigarh. SAVE THE EARTH: With a motto ‘Save the Earth’, a cross country championship was organised in the school, today. The students of the four houses were full of zeal, enthusiasm and energy. The chief guest A.L. Ahlawat, SSP, Traffic and Security, Chandigarh Police, flagged off the race which covered a distance of 3.5 km.
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‘Santa Walk’ marks X-mas celebrations
Tribune News Service
Mohali, December 19 RESULTS: The Rotary Club, Mohali, announced the results of Nitish Laharry Painting Competiton held at Shivalik Public School. The winners include Ekta, Gurleen Sidhu, Bani, Manjot Singh, Yashika Chandel, Harnoor Kaur, Sumit Chauhan, Sabia Jawel, Supreet Kaur, Anand Mohan, Preamvada, Rudraksh, Ruchika Sagar, Punkhuri, Ustaleen Kaur, Harkiran Kaur, Sukhman Kaur Virk, Sagnic Bhowmick, Amandeep Singh Rai, Rhythm Gandhi, Aastha Chaudhary, Aditi Miglani, Barinderjit Kaur, Rajvinder Kaur, Tanya Saini, Taranpreet, Navdeep Kaur, Ridima, Gagan Bansal, Manpreet Kaur, Avneet Kaur and Ravneet Kaur.
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Shop owner penalised for overcharging
Chandigarh, December 19 The forum has also asked the shop owner to refund the overcharged amount of Rs 3,000. The shop owner has also been directed to refund Rs 2,100 as the price of gift voucher along with Rs 1,500 as the cost of litigation. The petitioner had purchased the television set for Rs 19,000. However, Kohli noticed that the TV set sold to him was priced at Rs 16,000 and the DVD player was for Rs 3,000. The shop owner said the television was also available without the offer. He averred that the selling price of television and DVD, if purchased together was Rs 19,000 and the DVD was not being offered free with the television. The forum stated: “The shop owner is indulging in unfair trade practices and alluring the public into believing that they are giving free gifts which actually they are not. Thus they are liable to be penalised.”
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Courier company to pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 19 SAS Nagar resident Paramjeet Singh had moved the commission seeking damages for the harassment caused due to wrong delivery of the parcel sent through DTDC couriers. Paramjeet Singh stated that he had sent a parcel of medicines for his son studying in Melborne. And for the purpose, he had hired the services of Vee Kay Associates in March 2007. Paramjeet added that his son did not get the medicines and had to return to India to undergo treatment. The courier company, however, denied any deficiency in its services. The commission, headed by Justice K.C. Gupta, has also directed the courier company to pay Rs 1,350 as the cost of the medicines sent through parcel, Rs 1,300 charged as fee for delivery of the parcel along with Rs 10,000 as the cost of litigation.
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Patwari convicted of taking bribe
Chandigarh, December 19 He demanded a bribe of Rs 10,000 from Pawan Kumar for demarking and mutation of a piece of land in the village. Pawan Kumar offered the bribe demanded by Narinder on May 22. But he accepted Rs 5,000 at that time in the presence of a shadow witness of the Vigilance Bureau. Narinder Singh has been convicted under Section 7, 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
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City gets glimpse of Slovakia
Chandigarh, December 19 Later talking to The Tribune the troupe leader and danseuse Zuzana Hajkova maintained that life is all about emotions and though we have a strong tradition of folk dances but contemporary modern dances are better medium to bring alive the spectrum of sentiments in today's life. M.M. Sharma, the regional director ICCR welcomed the guests. |
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National award for theatre veterans
Chandigarh, December 19 Recipient of the coveted national honour Dr Mahendra, presently chairperson of the Department of Indian Theatre PU. He is known for his directorial elegance of plays, besides, the production designing of 150 plays and incredible work in UK. Dr Mahendra feels that the instant honour is the recognition of artists and art in the region. He attributes the triumph to his co-teacher wife Shweta, an accomplished theatre artist teacher for inspiration. Born in Patiala, educated at Chandigarh he holds Master degrees in Punjabi literature and Fine Arts with an unbeatable record of scoring the top position in all five years at Government College of Arts (GCA). After a short stint of teaching at GCA the great thespian Balwant Gargi inducted him to the Department of Indian Theatre PU where he is teaching and directing plays since 1972. Giving a new dimension to the perception and popularity of English drama in India and Punjabi theme based theatre abroad Dr Mahendra had ventured into staging Shakespeare’s plays in Hindi or Punjabi here and Punjabi plays, adapted in English at alien lands. A regular invitee to Scotland he had staged plays with English cast like Mirza -Sahiban adapted as ‘A love Betrayed’, Sohni-Mahiwal as ‘Fire Goddess’, Kanak di Balli as ‘Mango Tree’ and many more. The experiment had been a tremendous success as the foreign audience relished the literary aspect of our culture. The other awardee, a man of myriad talents Dr Navin Chand Thakur (90) holding postgraduate degrees in English and Persian studied theatre as a scholar at the Oxford University. His books on “Symbolism in Virginia Wolf” and an English translation of “Ashad ka ek din” are proud possession of the libraries in the alien lands, said educationist K. Atma Ram, a close relative. His passion for theatre blossomed in 1974, after his retirement when he became founder member and later the president of the oldest city ensemble ‘Abhinet’. He was pioneer of theatre movement and groomed budding artists cultivating their innate talents. With his maiden directorial venture ‘Ashad ka ek din’ he had two dozen English and Hindi plays to his credit. A pioneer in the theatre movement in the region he still strives for an innovated theatrical growth in the region, undeterred by his falling health.
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