Monday, November 15, 1999
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N E W S Monday, November 15, 1999 |
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Contests
galore on Children’s Day CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — More than 4,000 students drawn from schools and colleges of the city and its nearby areas participated in on-the-spot painting, cartoon making, poster making, slogan writing, story writing, collage making, bookmark marking and general knowledge and IQ test competitions organised by the Chandigarh Librarians Association in collaboration with the Sector 26 St. John's School to mark Children's Day celebrations today. The Adviser to the Administrator of Chandigarh, Mrs Vineeta Rai, after inaugurating the competitions lauded the role of the librarians' association in promoting book culture and better reading habits among students, teachers and the general public. Books, apart from providing the ability and skill to manage one's affairs efficiently and wisely also at times facilitates one's wings to soar high and partake of something marvellous and mysterious, the unfamiliar and the unknown. Life without books would be awfully dull and barren, she added. The President of the association, Mr J.K. Kataria, talked about the details of the competitions while Mr I.B. Verma, General Secretary, read out the annual report. He said that competitions this time were being organised in three phases. In the first phase, teachers, parents, library professionals and general public have been asked to send their entries. The second phase held today comprised various competitions. In the third and final phase, a number of inter-school and inter-college competitions would be organised in January next year. Students from the host St John's School, Government College, Sector 46, Government Polytechnic for Women, Sector 10, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 21, DAV Public School, Sector 8, and Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, participated in today's competitions. A colourful cultural programme marked the Children's Day celebrations at Government School, Sector 40, here today. The show included skits, play, giddha and poems. The Principal, Mr Bahadur Singh, stressed upon the need to adopt the idea of worldwide peace coined by Jawaharlal Nehru. Sweets were distributed among children. Meanwhile, the Chandigarh Territorial Mahila Congress organised a function involving children of slums near Sector 26. The Chandigarh Citizen Welfare Front organised programmes at Sector 52. Brother C. D. Abreu', Principal of St John's High School, while presiding over a function to celebrate Children's Day here today, emphasised the importance of books. He said a book can take you places where you have not gone and make you experience experiences which you have not been through personally. Books are an ideal gift and poetry takes a special place in the emotional emancipation of children. As many as 55 children
in the age group 3-4 years participated in colouring
competition, 122 children in the 5-7 years in finding
hidden pictures and 111 children in the handwriting
competition organised by the Lotus Education Network. |
Games for
teachers add to fun DERA BASSI, Nov 14 — Fun and frolic marked the Children's Day celebrations at CVRM DAV Public School here today. A musical chairs game for the teachers, various competitions and fun games were organised for the tiny tots and senior students at the school. Mrs Jaya Bhardwaj, Principal, presided over the function and congratulated the children on Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday. She asked the students to follow the teachings of Chacha Nehru on this occasion. The results of the events are : Biscuit race: (Nursery)— Ramanpreet 1; Gurlal Singh 2; and Sheenam 3. (KG) — Piyush Sachdeva 1; Abhishek Singla 2; and Shubham Phutela 3. Banana race: (KG) — Abhishek Goyal 1; Vivek Thakkar 2; and Harsimran Singh 3. Frog race: Isha Jain 1; Rachita Gupta 2; and Karan 3. Three-legged race: Mohit and Vikrant 1; Mitul and Aman 2; and Karan 3. Sack race: Tirathankar Kundu 1; Ravneet Kaur 2; and Arashdeep Singh 3. Lemon spoon race: Nipun Rajput 1; Nikita Bhardwaj 2; and Harpreet Singh 3. Pot race: Sonika Sharma 1; and Harmandeep Kaur 2. Skipping: (Junior) — Megha 1; and Anuradha 2.(Senior) — Neha Aggarwal 1; Meenakshi Rajput 2. Slow cycling: (Junior) — Gurdeep Singh 1; and Neeraj Chawla 2. (Senior) — Gurdarshan 1; and Balwinder 2. Discus throw: (Boys) — Raj Kumar 1; and Ravinder Chaudhary 2. (Girls) — Meenakshi Rajput 1; and Kanupriya 2. Shotput: Karan 1; Gurdarshan 2. 100 m boys: (Junior)
— Vikas Bhatti 1; and Nikhil Sharma 2; (Senior)
— Digvijay Singh 1; and Ravinder Chaudhary 2; Girls
(Junior) — Komila Sharma 1; and Neha Gupta 2;
(Senior) —Meenakshi Rajput 1; Parul Mittal 2. |
Painting
contest PANCHKULA, Nov 14 — Over 600 students participated in an on-the-spot painting contest which was organised for children of Classes I to XII by the Build India Group, a social welfare organisation. The students were
divided into five groups on the basis of their class and
were required to draw on patriotism, health and hygiene,
help to needy persons, population and environment,
respectively |
In praise
of Chacha Nehru SAS NAGAR, Nov 15 — Competitions in on-the-spot painting, fancy dress, dance and speech marked the Children's Day celebrations organised at Shastri Model School in Phase 1 here today. A poem by a student, Surjeet Singh, on "My Messiah" set the function going. Renu Sharma and Gagandeep spoke in praise of Chacha Nehru. An exhibition on books for children was also organised on the occasion. The Sub-divisional Magistrate (SDM), Mr O.P.Popli, who was the chief guest, was presented aid for the cyclone affected people of Orissa by students of the school. The following are the
results of the different competitions held on the
occasion: Painting: Group A — Ankur, 1, Manisha, 2;
Group B — Anvinder Singh, 1, Gurpreet Singh, 2. In
the speech contest, Renu Sharma and Gagandeep Kaur stood
first and second, respectively. In the poem recital
contest, Amant Kumar bagged the first position. |
Sweets for
street kids CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — Street children in Sectors 20, 15 and 26 also had a taste of Children's Day as they relished sweets offered to them by the local Mahila Parishad today. Dr Promilla Kakar and
Prabhujyoti, President and Secretary of the organisation,
said 60 packets of sweets were distributed to beggars and
other street children found roaming in these areas. Dr
Kakar said most of these children were not even aware
about who Pt Jawaharlal Nehru was and the relevance of
the day but were keen to acquire education. |
Playing
cricket with blind CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — The Go Bananas Kids Club celebrated Children's Day with the inmates of the Institute for the Blind, Sector 26, here today. Nearly 50 little ones in the age group 3-14 years were amazed to see the demonstration of Braille and the weaving of hand-made dusters, cane chairs and play musical instruments by the blind. The most surprising was how they played cricket from just the sound of the ball. The hour-long
interaction with children was an eye-opening experience
for most of these children as it gave them an insight
into their lives and then compare them with their own.
The Director of the Club, Mrs Anu Vala said, "It is
extremely important to expose our kids to all this so as
to teach them how to overcome such handicaps in life.''
Later, the kids spent time playing with them and
distributing sweets and fruits. |
With
Mother Teresa kids in disco CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — Probably for the first time in the city, kids tapped to Western tunes in a disco in connection with the Children's Day celebrations here today. Attired in decorated dresses, the children posed as jungle heroes and rabbits, teddy bears, clowns and fairies. Children also witnessed a puppet and a magic show. Special invitees for the show were children from Mother Teresa School. Mixing with kids and families brightened the young spirits as they too joined on the dancing floor. The show was organised by X-Factor under its new chapter "Lollipops -the Party Boppers". Anchal Kumar, Gladrags mega model '99, a special invitee for the show, could be seen mingling with the kids. The city model has featured in several advertisements. Anchal said that she was being approached by movie producers but she was yet to decide upon any offer. "The modelling career usually lasts three-four years. I have gone abroad more than 75 times in the recent times for modelling assignments. Now I am thinking of an alternative career," she added. Sub-events pertaining to
beauty were also organised. The winners were crowned by
the super-model. |
Housing
society waterworks opened PANCHKULA, Nov 14 — The President of the Tribune Trust, Mr B.K. Nehru, today inaugurated the Tribune Mitra Vihar waterworks of the co-operative house building society at Madanpura, near here. Speaking at the function, Mr Nehru emphasised the need of building a friendly neighbourhood. "Let nobody residing in this society nurse a grudge against any other member. All must work towards promoting harmony and creating peace and tolerance. There is no doubt that money is important but even more important is to put in labour in whatever you undertake, and through it all, service to people should be the motto,'' he advised. Mr Nehru said his experiences abroad showed a striking contrast in the mental build-up of people there and in India. "In foreign countries, I have seen that each man is not only working for his progress but also for that of his fellow-beings and his country at large. However, in India, the disturbing part is that each man is for himself and is working only to promote himself at another person's cost. Each one is more interested in attaining success by pulling somebody else down which does not speak very well of us,'' he said. Addressing the gathering, Mr Bhambri said that the project had finally taken off and that it was one of the best examples of self-help where the employees had themselves contributed towards making their own society . "Making a house is difficult but getting a good neighbourhood is even more difficult. So, all of you must work towards making this a model society where everybody lives beautifully, creatively and harmoniously,'' he added. Earlier, the President
of the society, Mr S.C. Sinha, explained the rigours of
getting the project under way and how, finally, the dream
of a house became a reality for the employees after many
years of work. |
Dr
P.N.Raju Award for Prof O.N.Nagi CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — The innovative technique of fibular graft utilisation in neglected fracture neck femur developed and used successfully has brought Dr O.N.Nagi, Professor and Head of the Department of Orthopaedics at the PGI here, the prestigious Dr P.N.Raju Oration Award. A fax message received from the Indian Council of Medical Research indicates that the new technique has been cleared for worldwide use and forms part of the multimedia programme of the CME of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. A lot of experimental
and clinical work has been done in the use of allografts
( bone grafts from different individuals). The results
have gone into international medical journals and a few
new textbooks. |
Demand greenery, Bahuguna tells
youth CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — The young generation should raise its voice against exploitation of nature in the name of development. The end result of the current mismanagement of natural resources was not being projected accurately which only meant doom for the future generations. These remarks were made by noted environmentalist Sunder Lal Bahuguna in a talk at Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36, here today. The major threats to civilisation today were "dirt, smoke and noise". Simple issues like availability of water were being overlooked. Trees seen as road blocks were being cleared at a very dear price for future of the human civilisation itself, he said. Availability of pure oxygen was on the decline which was a warning. Yet the trees continued to be felled. There was unnecessary stress on the plantation of eucalyptus and popular trees at the cost of other trees which had great environmental value, Mr Bahuguna said. Another reason of concern should be that the water supplied for mass consumption was basically "dead" in nature. The water supplied through storage tanks and other storages did not have full nutrition values. Even the earth availability in contents of freshness had decreased because of excessive use of fertilisers, he said. The need of the hour in terms of securing a stable future included utilisation of human energy, waste , solar energy and water flows. He concluded by giving a slogan: " Say yes to life and no to death." Mr Bahuguna is a recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award and National Integration Award for his contribution in the social fields. He has declined to accept the Padam Shree award. Mr Parmod Sharma, President of Yuvsatta, said that environmental issues even rocked Chandigarh which was usually considered a model green city. He alleged that recently nearly 50 full-grown trees were sold by the administration to a private hand at a price which was negligible compared to the prevailing market rates. He said that the water level was decreasing very fast and needed due attention. Even the uncontrolled droplets from a tap amount to 10,000 litres wastage in a year. He said that only 2 per cent of the population was based in the biggest cities, but it was the biggest threats to ecological issues. Mrs Satinder Dhillon,
Principal of the college, while introducing the speaker
said Mr Bahuguna's deeds should be an inspiration for the
young. |
90 pc
found diabetic at camps in city CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — Various camps were organised in the city today to examine diabetic patients on the occasion of the World Diabetes Day. A "Run for the cause of diabetes'' was organised in Leisure valley, Sector 10, on the occasion by the Novo Nordisk Education Foundation. The run was flagged off in the morning by city Mayor Kewal Krishan Adiwal.He stressed the need to create awareness about diabetes among public, keeping in view limited resources at the disposal of the Health Department. Nearly 100 patients were examined for blood sugar at a camp organised by Nicholas Piramal India Ltd at Ambedkar Bhavan, Sector 37. Of these, 90 per cent were found to be diabetic. Dr Anil Bhansali, Associate Professor in Endocrinology in PGI, delivered a lecture for the benefit of diabetics and the general public. He said diabetes is caused by lack of insulin or excess of glucose. According to him, sedentary lifestyle, stress of modern life, obesity, family history, fast food are some of the causes of diabetes. The disease can affect eyes, kidney, nervous system and cause paralysis, high blood pressure and heart attack. Dr Bansali said though this is a life long-disease,it can be controlled by following regular check-ups, medication, exercise and diet as advised by the physician. It can also occur in children. Dr Bhansali answered various queries of such patients, various aspects about the disease were projected on the screen through slides to ensure that patients are able to control the disease better and avoid later complications. As many as 124 patients
were examined and given medical advice at a free diabetes
check-up camp organised by the Lions Club Chandigarh
Vishal at village Burail here today. Mr B.S.Jaswal,
Regional Chairman and K.K Monga, zonal chairman also
visited the camp.
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"Print
media should not ignore kids' issues" SAS NAGAR, Nov 14 — The print media should dedicate some space to stories on child abuse and atrocities against children. Keeping the children updated about the latest developments on the issues of their interest is also the duty of the media. These views were expressed by educationists, mediapersons, authors of books for children and students at a seminar on " Duty of print media toward children", organised by the Mohali Working Journalist Association in collaboration with the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) and the National Society for the Child Artist (NSCA) on the eve of Children's Day here yesterday. Amanjeet Kaur,a student from Gurdaspur, said in the race for commercialisation, media had forgotten the issues affecting children. Mr Gurbhachan Singh Bhullar, Editor of Punjabi Tribune, opined that fault was not with the print media but with the authors on books for children. " We are not getting quality reading material from authors. However, we try to present the best of what we get", he added. He saw the role of the media in imparting social and cultural values to the children. Col Jasbir Singh
Bhullar, an author, said : " As one grows, the child
within dies and it is reflected in our writings. We
should walk towards the children rather than make them
follow us".Mr Manmohan Singh Daon,a teacher, said
text books of children ought to be revised after every
five years so as to keep them abreast of the latest
happenings in the world. Similarly, the magazines for
children should bring out the best. |
MC staff
defer strike CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — The Coordination Committee of Government and MC Employees and Workers of Chandigarh has deferred the November 16 strike following a meeting with senior officers of the UT Administration. According a press note, the Adviser to the Administrator, Ms Vineeta Rai, has assured them of the acceptance of genuine demands of the employees shortly after getting orders from Government of India\UT Administrator. The leadership apprised the working committee of the outcome of the discussion. After obtaining the approval of the committee, the decision to put off the strike till January 2000 was taken. A rally will be held near Housing Board Chowk on November 16. Employees' leaders were told that deputation issue was taken up with the Ministry of Home Affairs and a bill to amend Municipal Corporation Act was nearing finalisation. It was decided that a committee headed by the Commissioner should be constituted, which would submit its report to the Administration by December 15. The Administration had recommended the release of bonus to the ministry. Representatives of coordination committee wanted HRA, CCA and DA to be paid uniformly to all daily-wage workers. A review petition had been filed in the Supreme Court. In case of discrimination while implementing the CAT judgement in favour of daily-wage workers, they were asked to furnish details of cases to the Deputy Secretary (Personnel). He would examine and put these up to the Adviser for a decision. The issue of giving uniforms to Class III employees and payment of arrears on this account from April 1, 1991, to August 31, 1997, would be examined afresh. The corporation would
make assessment regarding creation of new posts and
forward it to the Administration for further action. |
Conference
of immunology ends CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — A wide range of topics were discussed on the concluding day of the 33rd Annual Convention of the Indian College of Allergy and Applied Immunology at PGIMER today. Nearly 200 delegates from India and abroad participated in the convention. In the "Meet the expert'' session held in the morning, skin allergies ( atopic dermatitis and urticaria) were discussed at length by experts Dr Bhushan Kumar, Dr Sanjeev Handa, Dr Pradeep Bambery. A parallel session on rheumatoid arthritis was also organised in which doctors pointed out that the rheumatoid arthritis is one of the commonest autoimmune disorders and afflicts both children and adults. Dr Ajay Wanchu conducted this session. Dr Adam Finn, a paediatric immunologist from Sheffield (UK) talked about new vaccines against infectious diseases and gave a brief preview of his ongoing research work related to " Mucosal immune responses to vaccines.'' He emphasised that vaccines are incredibly safe and effective ways of preventing serious diseases in children, which cause death. He also appealed to the people of India to get the children immunised against polio so as to help eradicate polio by 2001. The highlight of the day's programme was a special symposium on HIV/AIDS which was supported by the World Health Organisation. Talking of the global prevalence of the disease, Dr Shashi Kant pointed out that there are nearly 30 million cases of AIDS in the world and the cases in India are progressively on the rise. Discussing the epidemological aspects , he said that improper blood transfusion leads to AIDS and safe blood transfusion facilities could help in controlling the spread of the disease. Dr Subhash Salunke,
ex-director, Health Services, Maharashtra, revealed that
highest incidence of the disease was in Maharashtra,
Andhra Pradesh followed by Gujarat and West Bengal. |
9 MC
wards reserved for women SAS NAGAR, Nov 14 — At least nine wards of the local municipal council have been reserved for women. This was stated at a meeting of the special board constituted by the Local Government Department to initiate the process of delimitation of wards of the local municipal council held here on Friday. The Sub-divisional Magistrate (SDM), Mr O.P. Popli, who is also Chairman of the delimitation board, said the wards which had been reserved for women candidates were 1 ( Scheduled Caste),4,7, 10,13,16,19, 22 and 25. Besides, ward no 14 had been reserved for a male Scheduled Caste candidate.Ward no. 17 had been reserved for a male Backward Caste candidate and ward no. 20 had been reserved for a general Scheduled Caste candidate. Earlier, the meeting had been postponed on three occasions. The total number of wards have been increased from existing 25 to 27. Two new wards would be created out of Matour village, Sectors 70 and 71. Besides, Phase 9 of Industrial Area had also been included in the municipal limits. According to the
population figures given by the Local Government
department the average population in a ward came to
around 3950. Due to increase in the population wards no.
5,6 and 11 had been split to adjust the ward-wise
population statistics. |
Nehru
worked for social cohesion CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — Jan Shakti, a social organisation, organised an open discussion on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision of free India at Lajpat Rai Bhavan, Sector 15-B, here today. The local MP, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, while presiding over the function, appreciated Nehru’s contribution towards the co-existence of multi-cultural diversity in India, leading to social cohesion. He said Nehru would remain relevant for generations to come and the roots of democracy strengthened by him in India and his desire to serve the down-trodden would served as a guide. Mr Tribhuvan Nath, a veteran journalist, referred to Nehru’s nationalism, freedom, democracy, socialism and unity of India and peace for the development as his vision for free India. Pandit Nehru’s democracy could not be separated from his democratic socialism, he said, adding that as a journalist he was indebted to him for giving freedom to the Press which was the cornerstone of the Indian democracy. Referring to Nehru’s diverse vision of being a liberal democrat and his commitment to socialism, Prof TR Sharma of the Department of Political Science, Panjab University, said he wanted a socialist economy with strong state intervention. Prof PS Verma, also from the same department, said India was lucky to have Nehru, a progressive liberal democrat, as the Prime Minister for about 18 years as he strengthened the roots of democracy in India. The secretary of the Jan
Shakti, Mr Onkar Chand, referred to Nehru’s vision
of honest and humanised Bharat rooted in scientific
temper with tremendous growth of science and technology. |
'Help
achieve education targets' PANCHKULA, Nov 14 — Governor of Haryana Mahavir Prasad here today appealed to the educationists and teachers to help achieve the national goal of free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of 14. He was speaking at a function organised at HUDA park, Sector 16, on the occasion of Children's Day. The Governor said the birthday of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, celebrated as Children's Day, was an occasion to remember the nation-builder who had given the policy of formulating five-year plans. He informed the gathering that there were 16 Bal Bhavans, 116 'balwadis' and 281 child-care centres being run in the state and were providing entertainment, health education, pre-school training and vocational courses. Earlier, the Governor visited Aashiana, a home for the destitute, in Sector 16. Appreciating the contribution of the home in taking care of orphans and destitutes, he added that 280 children had benefited from the services provided by it and that 34 children were residing at the home at present. A prize distribution
function to honour students of the state who had excelled
in different activities was held at the venue. A deaf and
dumb child from Bhiwani district, Rohit Bhaskar, was
honoured for his achievements. Colony number 5 houses searched;
19 held CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — To keep a tab on activities of anti-social elements, the local police conducted a house-to-house search in Colony number 5 early this morning, during which 19 persons, mostly migrants, whose antecedents were not known, were detained. Later the SDM ordered the release of all those detained under Section 109 of the CrPC. The search operation started at 4 a.m. under the supervision of Mr B.D. Bector, DSP, and lasted for three hours. |
SNIPPETS SPCA formed in Kharar KHARAR, Nov 14 — A society for prevention of cruelty to animals was formed for Kharar subdivision at a meeting held here today.Mr Amarjit Singh Dhindsa, SDM, Kharar, presided over the meeting. Mr Chetan Aggarwal, President SPCA district Ropar, asked the members to work for preventing cruelty towards animals. He said any person inflicting pain or torturing animals was liable to be prosecuted under the PCA Act, 1960. Mr Mohender Jain,
Secretary, district Ropar, said that despite complaints
lodged so many times, thousands of animals were being
sent to slaughter houses from Kharar. He said law was
being violated openly on the Kharar-Kurali road and
animals were being loaded in trucks. |
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