Admission rush begins in city colleges
Neelam Sharma
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 18
Its the great admission rush that has begun in the city colleges where hordes of students are thronging the college campuses to know their chances of getting admission in the session 2004-05.

As the admissions begin on July 5, Chandigarh Tribune decided to have a glance as to what the various colleges across the city offer to the students who want to take admission in undergraduate courses in various city colleges.

Courses in demand: The whole competition seems to be geared towards B.Com, as this undergraduate course with limited seats in each college is posing some sort of challenge for the students.

While getting admission in one of the umpteen seats in B.Sc (both medical and non-medical) seems easy, because of the large number of engineering colleges that have opened in the vicinity, the cut off percentages matter in few courses like B.Com, BCA and B.Sc (computers).

B.Com I: The ultimate merit list is worked out at the time of admission where weightage is attached to scores in individual commerce subjects. Added advantage is for those students who opted for mathematics in Class XII.

The general trend in the cut off percentage in various city colleges is

GC -11 — between 65 -70 per cent

GCG 11 — 75 to 80 per cent

GCG 42 — around 70 percent

GC 46 — around 65 percent

MCM DAV — 80 per cent and above

DAV college-10 — above 75 percent

SD college — between 80 to 85 per cent

SGGS, Sector 26 — around 70 per cent

* Each of the these colleges have 140 seats, except MCM DAV College Sector 36, which currently has 70 seats but is likely to add another 70 seats from this session.

B.Sc (medical and non-medical)

With plethora of engineering colleges in the vicinity, getting admission in almost unlimited number of B.Sc (medical and non-medical) course poses no challenge to students. Anyone with 50 to 55 per cent marks, and even lower in Class XII is able to get admission and no cut off list is also put for the courses. All major colleges in the city offer the courses except Government College, Sector 46, which does not have a science stream.

BCA, BBA, and B.Sc (computers)

While bachelor of business administration (BBA) is almost wiped out from the city colleges, bachelor of computer applications (BCA) still holds some ground and GCG -11, GC-11, GC -46, SD College, DAV College, SGGS College offer this course. “The demand for BCA has reduced over the years. However, the admissions are on merit basis students with 65 to 70 per cent marks generally make it,’’ says a faculty member at DAV College.

Similar is the trend in B.Sc (computers) offered by SGGS-26 and DAV College, GC -11 and GCG-11 which too is witnessing a waning trend. 

Lesser syllabus for CBSE chemistry students
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 18
From the new academic session, students taking up chemistry subject in senior secondary classes will have to cover lesser syllabus.

To reduce the load on the science students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to omit certain portion of the text from the NCERT books while evaluating the students in the examination to be held next year.

The students could read the text for understanding the concepts, but questions will not be asked from it . The decision has been taken on the recommendations of the members of the Committee of Courses.

A senior officer of the board said during the last two years, the board had been receiving feedback from teachers during their orientation camps. Information in this regard has been sent to the heads of the schools in the region.

Play leaves audience in splits
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 18
The Harpal Tiwana foundation today presented “Mela Munde Kuriyaan Da”, a production that reflects the inherent maladies of Punjab’s social, political and educational system. Written in the language of comedy, laced with sting, the play featured, among others, Harpal Tiwana’s wife Neena, his son Manpal, famous Punjabi actress Nirmal Rishi, Ashi Parashar and Tarsinder Soni. The play was sponsored by The Tribune.

Done up professionally, the play was a virtual delight to watch, as each of the characters fitted the script just perfectly. The story centres on Nandi, the Canada-returned protagonist, who has some romantic notion about the land of Punjab. She is highly educated and has chosen to come back to offer services as a lecturer in a village college in Punjab. The story features her struggle with the system, as also with corruption that is too deep rooted to be weeded out. Played by Ashi Parashar, the role is inspiring in that it sets a reverse trend.

The play ends on a nostalgic note, beckoning Punjabi immigrants to come back to clear the debts of motherland.

French DJ rocks city youth with magical sounds
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 18
French musician and deejay Romuald Tual loves to call himself DJ Rom. Ask him why he has a fascination for vague names, and he makes a strong reference to computers and to the art of making music on computers.

“Rom is a term we associate with the fastest technology. And I am the musician of the present times, a musician who makes electronic music that dabbles purely in sound and its many contours. I use computers to design sound,” says the eminent musician, who has several concerts in France, the USA and England to his name. He also designed the house of techno in Chicago and Detroit in 1998.

In India on an invitation from the French Embassy and the Alliance Francaise, Romuald is on a spree of music concerts. After playing in Mumbai yesterday, he was at Aerizzona in Sector 9, offering functional music to dancers. Technically, Romuald is into electronic and electro-acoustic music. Having absorbed the sounds of ballads as a child, he went on to experiment with sound on electronic instruments. He follows the genre of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Francois Bayle and Bernard Parmegani.

In Chandigarh today, Romuald mixed sounds, making techno music most lovable for the gathering. Differentiating between techno and electronic music, Romuald says, “Electronic music is precise because you can pick the harmonics you want and you can translate sounds easily. Techno, which I am playing tonight, is functional music, meant to enliven the ambience.”