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Bee-keeping to get impetus Ludhiana, November 13 While training camps on advanced management of Italian honey bees began today and will continue till November 24, mass rearing of queen bees, bee breeding and production of bee products other than honey camps will continue for 30 days till December 2. These training camps have been sponsored by the ICAR, New Delhi, under the National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP). In all 18 trainees, during this course, will be exposed to the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of advanced apicultural technologies and they will learn in detail about the design, dimensions, development, working principles, uses of some latest apicultural equipment/machinery, honey, its processing, storage, quality, standards, etc and honey processing plants installed in Punjab. The training will also cover various methods of mass queen bee rearing, package bee production, management of honey bee colonies against diseases and mites production, collection and storage of bee products other than honey, including royal jelly, advanced seasonal management practices and management of honey-bee colonies for cross-pollination of crops and safe use of pesticides on crops to save honey bees. During the course of the training, trainee scientists will also be taken on a study tour to Nagrota in Himachal Pradesh where Italian honey bees were reared for the first time in India by a renowned entomologist, Dr A S Atwal. Lessons in artificial insemination of queen bees will also be given during the training. Besides, the trainees will also be given an opportunity to get exposed to the leading bee-keeping industry and entrepreneurs of the state as briefed by Dr P.K. Chhuneja, technical coordinator of these camps. Relating the success story of honey and honey bees, Dr Joginder Singh, Head, Department of Entomology, stressed the need of such advanced training to expand the well established network of bee-keeping industry to other states of the country with the purpose of boosting the economy of the peasantry of the entire country. He said the Italian honey bee project was initiated by the PAU in 1962 and in 1975 two farmers were given five boxes of Italian honey bees and now in Punjab there are 21, 000 bee-keepers, two lakh honey-bee colonies and from these 4,000 tonnes of honey is extracted annually. Dr Joginder Singh said the state earned a revenue of Rs 2,500 million from the sale of honey in a year. Besides, he said Rs 250 million were earned from the sale of colonies and the Punjab beekeepers were supplying honey-bee colonies to 14 states of the country. The equipment related to the honey-bee industry sold annually was worth Rs 50 million and Rs 2,000 million are earned from the cross-pollination of crops through honey bees, annually. He said wax, pollen, royal jelly, propolis and venom were other valuable byproducts, which had a miraculous medicinal value for curing arthritis and restoring vitality in human beings. The PAU being a centre of excellence in apiculture had established an apiculture club and all bee keepers of the state were its members. Its meetings were held after two months on the campus of the university to discuss problems and further the cause of apiculture in Punjab, he said. |
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Bir Devinder opens PU youth festival Ludhiana, November 13 The Deputy Speaker was addressing students after inaugurating three-day Punjab University Youth (Zone-C) Festival at Guru Teg Bahadur College, Dakha, 20 km from here, today. Referring to the cultural competitions through youth festivals, Mr Bir Devinder Singh said that these competitions go a long way in sharpening the talent of the students and inculcating discipline and spirit of competition among them, which further promotes the prospects of excellent achievements in future. He said that with the induction of computerised Information Technology at all levels, the whole world had shrunk into a small village and “our youth could not escape from the fierce competitions ahead.” Stressing upon the need to bring about substantial improvement in quality education, the Deputy Speaker called upon the teachers to shoulder their responsibility of nation-building earnestly. He also called upon the teachers to educate the students about the prevailing social evils like intoxicants, drugs, dowry etc, so that they could become a strong and useful part of society. He announced a grant of Rs 1 lakh for the library of the college. Mr Amarjit Singh Grewal, Principal of the college, informed that 800 students from nine colleges falling in Zone-C would compete in different competitions including art and craft, shabad gyan, group songs, gidha and bhangra. On the first day Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College, Kamalpur, Gangagiri Girls College, Raikot and Khalsa College, Sidhwan Khurd, won 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions, respectively, in shabad gyan competitions. Among others who attended the function included Mr. Kuldip Singh, SDM (West), Mr Mukesh Kumar, tehsildar, Mullanpur, Mr Gurbhajan Singh Gill, vice-president, Sahit Academy, Dr Harabans Singh, former Principal, and Mr Sher Singh Sekhon, President of the managing committee. |
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PAU youth fest from today Ludhiana, November 13 Giving the details of the programme, Dr A.P.S. Mann, Director Students’ Welfare, said before the inauguration, a cultural procession would be taken out by the students of various colleges of the university at 9.30 a.m. Folk songs and creative dances competition would be held at 11.30 a.m. and music events would take place at 5 p.m. in the open air theatre on the opening day. On the concluding day shabad gayan would be held at 9.30 a.m. and folk dances, classical dances and skits competitions at 5 p.m., he said. Earlier, Dr Mann held a meeting of the conveners of various committees and reviewed arrangements for the festival. It was decided in the meeting that all prizes would be announced at the prize distribution function and judgements would not be disclosed earlier. |
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Quiz, declamation contest held
Doraha, November 13 The topic for declamation contest was the “Anti-corruption move of the Punjab Government.” Jagroop Singh and Rampal Singh stood first and second, respectively. OC
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Teachers’ strike ‘undemocratic’ Ludhiana, November 13 Dr Ranu appreciated timely steps taken by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences which had shifted the examination centre of the said college to Sri Guru Nanak Dev Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, and saved the future of hundreds of students. He added that he would also write to the Central Council to intervene and direct the university authorities to take action against the teachers who had boycotted the examination process of the university. He stated that he would recommend the university to debar these type of ‘blackmailer’ examiners in the near future. |
2-year RI for patwari Ludhiana, November 13 “In order to curb the menace of corruption, which is spreading like a contagious disease in the society, such offences are to be curbed with a heavy hand’’, remarked Mr Inderjit Kaushik, Special Judge, while declining the plea of leniency raised by the accused. A fine of Rs 1500 was also imposed on the accused. The accused was booked under Section 7, 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act on May 10, 1999 by the Vigilance Bureau on a complaint of Jarnail Singh. He had stated to officials of the Vigilance Bureau that after the death of their father, they orally partitioned the joint land in Sahnewal Khurd village. Later on they prepared a
memorandum of partition. The complainant had alleged that on May 8, 1999, he along with Baldev Singh went to the accused and requested him to enter the mutation of the partition of their land on the basis of a memorandum. But he demanded Rs 6000 as illegal gratification. When he showed his inability to pay such a huge amount, the accused asked him to come on May 10 along with a sum of Rs 4000, added the complainant. However, the matter was reported to the Vigilance Bureau and it arrested the accused after he
received Rs 4000, as per prosecution. |
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