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From Schools & Colleges
Chandigarh, December 25 Meanwhile, the NSS camp at Buterla village concluded with a valedictory function organised by volunteers of Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36, at Government Primary School, Butrela, near here. Dr Ravindra Nath Sharma, programme coordinator of the NSS units of Panjab University, was the chief guest. Congratulating volunteers, the chief guest said the camp was the best platform to inculcate qualities of leadership among students. The volunteers and students of the village performed various cultural activities, including songs, dances and skits. The programme ended with the national anthem. NSS CAMP: A 10-day NSS camp was inaugurated at Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 18, here today. According to principal Anujit Kaur, over 100 girls will participate in the camp and the focus will be on the health and overall personality development of the participants. SPORTS MEET: Annual sports meet of Strawberry Fields was organised on the school premises at Sector 26. Lady Governor Jean Rodrigues was the chief guest. All 300 children of the kindergarten section participated in various events and races. The programme ended with a surprise visit by Santa, who arrived on a camel with goodies for all. FUNCTION: Annual prize distribution-cum-fete function was organised on the school premises. As many as 36 students were awarded trophies for excellence in academic, sports, art, music, dance and essay writing competitions. Tambola was the main attraction. A short play, depicting the birth of Jesus Christ, was presented by students of Class IV. This was followed by a scintillating performance ‘Mojjanhe Mojjanhe’ by KG students. A Marathi and Haryanvi dance added colour to the show. The vibrant gidda performance was followed by a draw of lots for the raffle prizes.
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PU Notes
Chandigarh, December 25 Prof S.K. Kulkarni, dean, university instructions, distributed certificates among the participants. While delivering his presidential remarks, Professor Kulkarni stressed on the need for an interaction between the languages for growth of knowledge. Dr S.K. Sharma, director, Academic Staff College, said these inter-lingual courses were organised in order to promote national integration. Dr Jagjit Singh, chairperson, School of Punjabi Studies, laid stress on the need to evolve new perspectives, techniques and strategies to understand the classical and modern languages in the era of globalisation.
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Students find termite treatment
Panchkula, December 25 The region is badly affected with termites as trees and wooden fixtures in homes and other buildings were infested with the insect, said Nina Pandey, the biology teacher in the school who guided the students in the project. The students Mayank, Kanika, Ishita, Rishabh, Abhinav started working on the project in the month of August, informed the teacher. In fact many plants have been found to contain anti-termite chemicals but their potential has not been explored so far, said Pandey. “In case of Aak it was found that plant parts and plant extracts can be used effectively because these are less expensive and biodegradable, hence environmentally suitable. Moreover, these natural products are not going to fully eradicate the pests but maintain the food chain and thus helping to maintain the ecosystem,” she added The present work has been conducted to see the effects of extracts of different plant parts of Dhatura, Neem, Mexican prickly poppy also. Mortality of insect termite was observed after the use of extract from all these plants.Termites are polymorphic (having more than one form) social insects, informed the teacher. Termite castes include male, female, soldier, worker and swarms. Swarms are common in spring and fall, especially after a rain. They are winged reproductives. After a flight,the winged males and females (swarms) return to ground and shed their wings. They may live upto 25 years and lay more than 60,000 eggs in a lifetime. It was essential to spray extracts on these swarms to regulate the termite number, said the teacher.
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From Schools & Colleges
Panchkula, December 25 Beginning on a traditional note with tikka ceremony of the chief guest, the cultural extravaganza was followed by Ganesh Vandana, a classical dance item with a fusion of Bharat Natyam and Kathak. The Gurukul’s school song was also launched on the day. The song conveys and portrays not just the dreams and aspirations, but also the duties of The Gurukulites. The show stealer was an item by class II students, My name is Madhavi -----, which struck a patriotic and emotional chord with the audience. An item which beautifully depicted unity in diversity of the rich Indian culture. Billy the cook, by class III, show casing the escapades of a cat who is trying her hand at cooking for the first time had everyone in splits. Lecture: Stress is istmasthe emotional and physical strain caused by our response to pressure from the outside world. These were the views expressed by Swami Dhindraya Acharya. He was delivering a lecture on stress management at Chandigarh College of Education, Landran, during the on-going 10-day NSS camp being organised by the college. Giving details regarding the methods to reduce stress, he said that meditation and yoga are the best ways to reduce the ill-effects of stress. He practically demonstrated some of the aasans in yoga which are useful in reducing stress from a person’s life. Later during the day, the college had arranged a motivational lecture to encourage the students to donate blood. The lecture was delivered by Kamna Sharma and Usha Talwar, members of Blood Bank Society. The students of the college also participated in the poster and slogan making competitions based on the theme “Donate Blood Save Life”. Satnam Singh Sandhu, chairman and Rashpal Singh Dhaliwal, president, CGC said the role of the students and youths is of paramount importance as they have to play a vital role in shaping the destiny of the nation and future of society. Seeing the enthusiasm of the students, they pledged to hold such camps more often as it was the right way to
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Pension to HC Judges
Chandigarh, December 25 The orders were pronounced in an open court by a Division Bench, comprising Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Mohinder Pal, on a petition filed by Justice Pritpal Singh (now deceased). The Judge had claimed that the pension and retirement benefits payable to him were less than his entitlement as a District and Sessions Judge. In its detailed order, the Bench ruled: “Since the pension is payable under the statute and has fixed a particular ceiling, the proviso of the statute cannot be struck down.” The petitioner, represented by his wife and daughter, had sought directions for declaring proviso to Para 2 (b) of Part III of the First Schedule of the High Court Judges (Conditions of Service Act), 1954, ultra vires of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India. The petitioner had claimed that the same were arbitrary and discriminatory. Justice Pritpal Singh had joined Punjab Civil Services (Judicial) on April 25, 1951, and was promoted as Additional District Judge on November 12, 1969 . He was elevated as a HC Judge on February 2, 1983, and had attained the age of superannuation on October 15, 1987. The case of the petitioner was that Para 2 (b) of the Act provided for special additional pension of Rs 1,600 per annum for each completed year of service for pension, but the maximum limit was Rs 8,000 per annum. Besides this limit, the maximum limit of pension and additional pension by virtue of proviso was Rs 48, 000 per annum. The petitioner had challenged both the maximum limits fixed under the provisions. After going through the contentions and documents, the Judges observed: “The controversy revolves around the maximum of Rs 48, 000 per annum as pension payable to a former Judge. As per the petitioner, his pension, taking into consideration his pensionable service under the state itself, was Rs 48, 000 per annum. But, he did not get any benefit of pension for the service rendered in this Court on account of the limit of maximum pension payable under the proviso”. Speaking for the Bench, Justice Hemant Gupta held: “Since there is common ceiling in respect of appointment of Judges made from different sources, such ceiling provides uniformity in the maximum amount of pension payable to a Judge irrespective of source of appointment. We do not find any merit in the present writ petition. The same is dismissed accordingly.”
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Summons issued to Sunil Mittal
Panchkula, December 25 After holding that “prima facie, it appears that the allegations levelled against the accused are correct,” chief judicial magistrate Anshu Shukla said, adding that it was a fit case to summon the accused for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 420, 464, 465, 468, 469, 471, 511 read with Section 120B of the IPC. The judge further added that as Sections 406, 427, 463, 466, 467, 470 of the IPC and IT Act 2000, are concerned. Appearing before the court, Lalit Kumar Gupta, resident of Panchkula, contended that he purchased post paid mobile connection of Bharti Airtel under the ‘super saver plan’, which had a validity of two years and expired on July 10, 2007, said the petitioner. On July 20, 2007, he approached M/s Tele Deals, NAC, Mani Majra, Chandigarh, from where he got his earlier plan changed and got ‘ultra life plan’, he said. At the time of changing the plan, he was told that he would not be entitled to the discounted calls on the two numbers of Air Tel of his choice under ‘Air Tel F&F 600 minute capping’ as he was availing the facility under the ‘super saver plan’, contended the petitioner. However, he got a bill dated August 3, 2007, with the hidden charges of value added services, which the complaint never requested for its activation nor ever availed, alleged Gupta. The said bill carried the rental charges of F&F facility in spite of the fact that the plan did not have the facility of F&F, Gupta said. On August 15, he sent an e-mail to the company to make them aware of committal of offence breach of trust when the company admitted to give the waiver of illegal charges of Rs 23.55 for F&F rental and Rs 6.74 for SMS. Moreover, the accused did not supply the details as asked for till today except for the bill dated August 3,2007, marked page 7 and page 8 without pages 1 to 6 and page 8 onward, contended the petitioner. On downloading the itemised bill from Internet, he came to know that accused regularly charged Rs 6 or Rs 9 against hidden charges on account of using value added service, claimed Gupta in his petition. Though it had been refunded, but it did not absolve them from the criminal liability, contended the petitioner.
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Bar Council
Chandigarh, December 25 He is the third advocate of Punjab and Haryana High Court to be declared elected to the post in the election. He scored requisite 1,101 votes. Earlier, Harpreet Singh Brar, deputy advocate general, Punjab, and Dr Anmol Rattan Sidhu, additional advocate general, Haryana, were elected as members of the council. Formerly chairman of the council, Dr Anmol Rattan got votes in all districts of Punjab and Haryana. Among other candidates, Ashok Singla and C.M. Munjal were likely to clear the quota in the coming days. Harpreet Singh Brar got the votes of 39,000 advocates in the elections.
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Interaction with Canada-based artist
Chandigarh, December 25 At present the director of the Arts Council of Surrey, Bitish Columbia, the artist from Punjab has won laurels in the alien lands for depicting the rich cultural heritage of the state through his works. The interactive session will be held on December 27 at Punjab Kala Bhavan at 11 pm.
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