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Senate meeting to take up promotion issue Chandigarh, May 18 Reliable sources said the UGC had pointed out technical problems in promotion in two cases. Promotions have been refused in as many as 14 cases in this category. At least nine teachers have been allowed promotions as Readers from the Lecturer grade. The case of Dr B.B.Goyal, who has been accused of increasing marks of a candidate from zero to 42 will also come up for discussion in the meeting. The report of the committee under Justice D.V. Seghal will throw light on the issue. Interviews for certain posts are due on May 24 and the issue will also figure in the House. These include posts of professor in Food Technology at the Chemical Engineering and Technology Department, Lecturer and Professor in the Micro-electron Microscopy and Chair Professor of the Baba Seikh Farid Chair. The meeting will also take up a resolution put up by Mr Satya Pal Dang asking the Vice-Chancellor to recommend a five-member committee to recommend procedure for discussion on Budget. Another resolution asks for a co-ordination committee between Vice-Chancellors of Guru Nanak Dev University, Punjabi University and Panjab University. Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, the local MP, too has moved a resolution seeking the establishment of Maha Rana Pratap Chair in History department. The Senate will also take up recommending committees on Youth Welfare, Publication Bureau, Standing Committee on Unfair means cases, Regulations and Revising. Mr R.K. Jain, formerly from the Haryana Government, is being considered for the post of the technical advisor on a honorary payment of Rs 1. PU will also consider the cases of awarding doctorate degrees. Benefits to teachers above 60 years of age too will be discussed. |
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Confidence & hard work paid off:
Gurkirat Chandigarh, May 18 ‘‘Confidence and hard work’’ he says are the two qualities which have brought him where he is today. ‘‘A single digit position in the Civil Services examination is something one can only dream of achieving. In fact once one has made a reasonable attempt at the mains and the interview one can expect anything between the first and the 100th position.’’ A resident of Sector 27 here, Gurkirat (26), is the only son of Mr Kirpal Singh, Engineer, Operations, PSEB, Punjab. ‘‘I initially got my inspiration to attempt for civil services from my brother-in-law who is serving in the Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Island the civil services. In fact after having done my engineering from Punjab Engineering College I took up a job at
PCL, Mohali. But then I realised that nothing can match the civil services and I got down to preparing for the examination.’’ Gurkirat passed his preliminaries in the first go and the second time he ranked 248th and had a choice of joining the Railway Protection Force. But persistence and sheer ambition propelled him to appear for the examination again and to his ‘‘utter surprise’’ he ranked third this time. ‘‘I could not believe it and thought that maybe it is a typing error or something. But then I got the news confirmed from Delhi.’’ His parents, too, seem to still grappling with the reality of their son having brought laurels to the family. ‘‘And a jat family that too”, they say laughingly. ‘‘I have never ever pressurised my son into doing anything. All his decisions have been his own and I am proud of them. But at the same time never have I been a hindrance in any of his plans. After his Class XII from DAV College here he was selected at IIT Kharagpur but since he wanted to graduate with electronics he chose PEC instead of Roorkee being closer home. He got through PCS too but was posted as Food and Supply Officer which he resigned to join the
RPF’’ informs his father. An avid cricketer and tennis player, Gurkirat says that from the first attempt he had to put in five to six hours a day from three months for the preliminaries but in the later attempts it took only a month to prepare for the preliminaries. ‘‘All along the focus remained on the optional, physics in my case for the preliminaries. But its the mains which are the real test of one’s grasp of the subjects. It was eight hours a day for the five months between the preliminaries and the mains for me. But since maths and physics are subjects for which much coaching is not available, one has to just self study. Moreover, this time they had changed the syllabus in maths and it was tougher. For general studies I prepared in Delhi and for the interview I got some guidance from an institute in the city.’’ Any tips for those who are preparing: ‘‘The essay is important. In fact it could be the deciding factor also. And so is the interview. But then luck matters quite a lot in the interview. There are many boards and one could be placed in any one of them. But a lot depends on the performance one does in the interview and how one clicks with the members of the board. Those people are very cordial and make you feel comfortable. The questions they asked me were very technical but also general questions like Indo-Bangladesh problem
etc.’’ Gurkirat will be getting married to Puneet, a law student from Jalandhar whom he has been engaged to for some months. |
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Fall in number of CET candidates Chandigarh, May 18 Only 14,670 students have applied this session, as compared to more than 20,000 last year. One of the reasons was the increased reservation quota for the local students. Previously in these institutes, 60 per cent seats were for the local students and the rest for outsiders. Since last year, the quota for local students had been increased to 85 per cent. Another major reason was opening up of several engineering and medical colleges in Punjab and Haryana. Mr Ashok Raj Bhandari, the Joint Controller of Examination, while addressing a press conference, said the available options were engineering courses at the local Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh College of Architecture, Government Medical College, Dhanvantry Ayurvedic College and the local Homoeopathic College. Candidates would also be eligible for the 12 honours schools on the campus, Department of Pharmacy on the PU campus and the Department of Chemical Engineering. There was also the course for Agro-Processing Technology on the campus. Chandigarh has 34 centres, Ludhiana has seven and Delhi has 19. Approximately 8,160 candidates are applying from the Chandigarh centre, 1,750 from Ludhiana and 4,760 from Delhi. Mr Bhandari said the question paper would be totally objective type, as in the existing practice. There would be a total of five papers, including physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology and architecture aptitude. The maximum time for the declaration of results was not more than three weeks, Mr Bhandari added. |
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15 students
honoured Chandigarh, May 18 Mann, who was a special guest at a function organised by the Parent-Teacher Association of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, here yesterday to honour meritorious students, told the students that hard work was the only key to success. Mr Brahmjeet Kalia, District Education Officer, who was the chief guest urged the parents and the teachers to inspire the students to attain success in life. Mrs Khushinder Sharma, Principal, thanked Mann and Mr Kalia for encouraging the students. Mann and Mr Kalia gave away prizes to 15 students for their academic performance in Classes VIII and X. Each Class X student was given a cash prize of Rs 1,000 and a citation while in the case of Class VIII the prize was of Rs 750 besides a certificate of merit. The following students were honoured at the function: Class VIII: Nishtha; Meenakshi Malik; Ritu Goel; Puneet Arora; Neha Devasar; Deepali Thapar; and Dheeraj Kumar Jha. Class X: Kunal Jindal; Nishtha; Monica; Jaideep Kaur; Siddharth Aggarwal; Harleen Kaur; Ankita Baijal; and Renuka Kinger. |
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BHATNAGAR
TRIAL Chandigarh, May 18 He was being cross-examined as a prosecution witness. Sub Ram Niwas stated before the court that 25 troops of the ad hoc company had been de-inducted from Siachen just a day before the company was to move from Siachen to Ganasok on June 10. The witness stated that some of the troops were suffering from blisters on the feet, joint pains and blood clotting in the toes because of the type of snow shoes they were wearing. Sub Ram Niwas stated that on June 16 Major Bhatnagar and another officer, Capt S.S. Bisht, had come to the company location and had asked him and another JCO, Rajinder Singh, to collect maps from Brigade Headquarters. He said that en route, they encountered the GOC, 3 Division, Maj-Gen V.S. Budhwar, arriving in a chopper. He added that they had seen him speaking to both Major Bhatnagar and Captain Bisht but could not understand the conversation. The witness added that thereafter the GOC had spoken to him as well as Rajinder Singh and had asked them about any problems being faced by them. He stated that both of them apprised the GOC of the physical condition of the troops and the problems they were facing. The witness also stated that when the company assaulted Pt 5203 on the night of June 20, it did not find any enemy. He added that no enemy mines were discovered around the objective, though enemy artillery and machine-gun fire continued till 4.30 a.m. |
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DISTRICT COURT Chandigarh, May 18 The complainant, the father of the victim, alleged that the accused Kamalpreet, a resident of Sector 48, had raped his minor girl. The accused was also fined Rs 1000. One acquitted The UT Judicial Magistrate (First Class) acquitted Rajesh Sharma in a case of rash and negligent driving. The case against the accused was registered under Sections 279 and 304-A of the IPC. It was alleged that the deceased Sanjiv had died due to rash and negligent driving by the accused. The accused was driving a motor cycle. He was acquitted as the three witnesses in the case had turned hostile.
Bail granted The UT Judicial Magistrate (First Class) today granted bail to Vinod Kumar in a case of theft. The case against the accused was registered under Sections 379 and 406 of the IPC. It was alleged that the accused, who was working as watchman in the PGI, was held along with others for stealing car stereos. The accused was granted bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs 10,000. |
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Travel agency directed to pay
compensation Chandigarh, May 18 The complainant filed a complaint that he had paid Rs 800 as advance to the travel agency for getting air tickets for his son, Sukhpal Singh, from New Delhi to Ukraine on August 7, 1997. The travel agency confirmed the tickets for August 21, 1997. The complaint mentioned that Sukhpal Singh and his brother Sukhcharan Singh, went to Delhi by Shatabdi and on reaching the airport it was found that the tickets were not confirmed. The travel agency, when contacted by the complainant, again confirmed the tickets for August 25, 1997. The second visit of Sukhpal Singh and his brother proved equally unpleasant and they returned to Chandigarh. On contact, the travel agency put a sticker and said the tickets stood confirmed for August 28, 1997. The visa of Sukhpal Singh had to be extended on payment of Rs 1000. Ultimately Sukhpal Singh approached Air Ukraine, which helped him to travel on September 1, 1997. The complainant alleged that in spite of having paid Rs 28, 300 towards the advance and cost of the tickets, his sons were put to great inconvenience, expense and torture. The complainant pleaded that the travel agency be directed to pay Rs 1, 00, 360 as compensation. The bench, comprising the president, Mr R.P. Bajaj and Ms Urvashi Aganihotri, observed that there was deficiency in services of the agency. The complainant was awarded Rs 14,500 compensation for inconvenience, harassment and travel expenses. |
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Carry out survey, HC tells
MC Chandigarh, May 18 Pronouncing the orders in the open court on a public interest litigation filed by advocate Kapil Kakkar, Mr Justice R.S. Mongia and Mr Justice K.C. Gupta of the High Court elaborated: “This is for finding out if some arrangement could be made to get such vehicles parked behind the main market in Sector 17 as also in Sector 9 parking lot near Ebony departmental store”. In his petition against the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh, the UT Administration and another respondent, Mr Kakkar, had earlier sought directions for the upkeep of city roads “so as to avoid inconvenience and danger to the general public”. He had also asked for directions to the respondents to carry out periodic survey of the roads. Giving details, the petitioner had stated that worse affected roads were running across the southern sectors and in the villages in the city. |
Dream fabric comes to
town Chandigarh, May 18 Headed by a young MBA, Ms Sangeeta, Vividha has decided to bring Banarsi fabric to the city as its first venture, a two-day exhibition at Aroma Hotel, opening from tomorrow. Ms Sangeeta says earlier Banarsi work was mainly restricted to silk, but today it embellishes crepes, georgettes, chiffons, tissue, cottons and nets. |
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