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PU move on permanent roll
numbers
Chandigarh, October 4 “Currently we are working on the giving the registration cum roll number cards to the first year students in BA, B Com and B Sc in the affiliated colleges, who will take their final examination in April next year. We are hoping that the registration cards are delivered to the students by December,” said a senior official at the examination branch in PU. The advantage of having a registration card, also serving the purpose of a roll number card, is its availability with the students much before the examinations get underway. The university is working on the premise that while the registration number of the student, who enters the university system does not change regardless of his changing the class or the course, the roll number however is different every time. With the introduction of the new system, which had already got the mandatory approval of the syndicate, the large chunk of students who throng the examination branch at the university to have their duplicate roll number cards is expected to reduce. Officials however add that the new system would be limited to the three undergraduate streams only, keeping the students in the Department of Laws and various engineering branches out of the procedure due to the technical reasons of the number of chances of reappears allowed in these classes for acquiring the degree. While the examination branch is busy making changes in the old format of the registration cards, the affiliated colleges have been asked by the PU to provide the required information about the students in the return forms by the end of this month.
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Six-day national winter school begins
Chandigarh, October 4 The winter school is a joint venture of the Department of Statistics, Panjab University, and Applied Statistics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. In his presidential address, Professor Pathak spoke about the importance of statistics in general and on the topics of the winter school, in particular. He appreciated the sincere research and teaching efforts of the Department of Statistics towards recent upgradation of the department. Earlier, Prof G.P. Mehta, local coordinator, welcomed the participants and other distinguished guests. Professor Ashis Sen Gupta, coordinator of the winter school from ISI, Kolkata, gave an introduction to the winter school and pointed out that a research level school on two such topics as having significant impacts on our national scenario has been planned by the ISI to be staged outside Kolkata after many years. Prof. Arun K. Adhikary, another coordinator from ISI, Kolkata, presented a note of appreciation. Dr Narinder Kumar, Chairperson, Department of Statistics, Panjab University, proposed a vote of thanks.
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Story telling session
held
Chandigarh, October 4 This week the story enacted was ‘ The Enormous Turnip’. After enacting the story the children told the theme of the
story. The theme was we should respect even the tiny creatures on this earth as the dog cat and mouse helped the old man pull out the enormous turnip. The show was conducted in the school library which was decorated for the children. The story was narrated by teacher, Ms Lata Bhardwaj.
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Landran college students
excel
Mohali, October 4 Mr Satnam Singh Sandhu, Chairman of the college, said though the merit list of the PTU was not available so far, the college expected to have a good number of its students in the merit list. He said Archna Thakur and Richa Vashisht of ECE branch had secured more than 85 per cent marks while Parminder Kaur Gaganpreet Kaur, Sanjeev Kathuria, Simardeep Kaur, Dalwinder Singh and Gaurav Mahajan of the ECE, Sehija Monga, Harpreet Kaur Kohli, Samriti Sharda, Sonia Goyal Sheenam Malhotra, and Rashmi Sethi of the CSE and Lalit Sharma of ME have secured more than 80 per cent marks. Mr Sandhu, while congratulating the students for their performance, announced special cash prize for all students securing above 80 per cent marks. He also said these students could draw any number of books from the library for the whole semester. Dr G.D. Bansal, Principal of the college, said the college was giving charge of about 30 students to one teacher, who monitored the progress of these students and advised corrective measures from time to time. The college arranged extra classes for weak students as well as bright students separately.
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All-India intellectuals conference on Oct 31
Chandigarh, October 4 The new office-bearers are Mr H.S. Gill (president), Mr H.S. Nagra and Mr Gurbachan Singh (Senior Vice-Presidents), Mr A.S. Brar, Mr T.S. Chauhan and Mr B.S. Dhillon (all Vice-Presidents), Mr Sanjeev Manrai (Secretary General), Mr Onkar Singh (General Secretary), Mr M.S. Gill (Press Secretary) and Mr M.S. Bal (Organising Secretary). The members of the Executive are: Mr C.S. Jhim, Mr Pritam Singh Hundal, Mr Amrik Singh Bhopal, Mr Harshinder Singh, Mr Gurdial Singh, Mr G.S. Goraya and Mr B.S. Giri. The committee also decided to organise an all-India conference of intellectuals on the subject of ‘Justice for weaker sections under the Indian Constitution’ in Chandigarh on October 31. Retired judges of the Supreme Court and various High Courts will be invited to the conference.
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Court directs police to book MLA hostel employee
Panchkula, October 4 A resident of Pinjore, Sonu Devi, had approached the court and alleged that her husband, Pawan Kumar, his father, Sarwan Kumar, mother Shanti and sister Kiran were harassing her for dowry. She alleged that Pawan Kumar had married her after pretending that he had divorced his first wife, which she later found was not true. The victim, who is also a divorcee, has alleged that she had married Pawan in February this year. Pawan had reportedly claimed that he had divorced his first wife, Rani, and Rani and her two sons were living separately. However, even after the marriage, Rani continued to visit Pawan, and Sonu later realised that they had not been legally divorced. Sonu has also alleged that she conceived after marriage, but her husband and in-laws forcibly made her abort the baby.
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Three refused bail in fake stamp papers case
Panchkula, October 4 The bail application was rejected as the judge observed that the charges against the accused were of serious nature. Defence counsel had pleaded that the police investigation had failed to find any incriminating evidence against them. The trio were arrested by the police on September 28, on charges of possessing fake stamp papers. The Panchkula police had raided their premises in Sector 11, on the suspicion that they were in possession
of fake stamp papers.
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‘Manch Tantra’ raring to go
Naa koi manzil hai, naa koi thikana hai
Dil mein junoon hai, chalte jaana hai (No destination, no shelter, just enthusiasm in heart, we have to move on) These are the lines we always sing when we are together. The reason: The song binds us, said Ravi Yuvraj Panthi. He and 19 other young energies with new hopes came together to form “Manch Tantra” a few months ago. Since then, there has been no looking back. Continuing with their march towards excellence, the group is all set to enact yet another play. ‘Painter Babu’ would be staged at Tagore Theatre on October 11 and 12. The artiste says that the idea came to my mind when I was reading R K Narayanan’ s novel ‘ The painter of signs’. The main thing which attracted me was the story structure. When I told it to my friends, they all lapped up and now we are working towards it,” said Ravi Yuvraj Panthi, lead actor-cum-writer. He is also directing the play. Bonded together by their love for theatre, they did a play “Socha na tha” last year. It set the pace for them to channelise their creative energies. They have also enacted street plays. Finance is, as usual, the biggest obstacle which artistes face and they are of no exception. “ We have not many sponsors “, they all said in chorus. The best thing about our group is that we are not taking much technical help from outside. We are almost doing everything ourselves. Talking about the play, Ravi said, “It is about day-to-day life. It is love story but with a different kind of message in it. Interestingly, there is also a light comedy in the play. “Though the story has been from the novel but we have tried to handle the script differently. We have translated it from English to Hindi and we have worked especially on dialogues.” The group has diversity of talent with Ayushman Khurana, who was selected for MTV Roadies and was among eight finalist in Channel V popstar. Another member Vikas Sharma also got selected for the audition of the Zee “We will try to weave magic on stage to justify the name of our group ‘ Manch Tantra’ “, they said.
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‘Freedom’ or vulgar display?
The display of sensuous overtures as seen in films is not as remote as it seemed, with similar scenes being enacted unabashedly in open spaces of the City Beautiful.
While some youths of the city are apparently declaring their “freedom,” elders are sceptical about the public display of personal feelings.
The police, though flooded with complaints, feels helpless. Satbir Singh, SHO, Sector 17, said, “Now the culture of Chandigarh has changed. Not only in parks, you can spot many couples in intimate moments openly in Sector 17 also. If these couples are willing, we cannot do anything. Now these things are considered normal. The offence is only when the girl does not give any consent. If it is happening with her consent, there is no offence.” Ms Neeta
Bharadwaj, a resident of Sector 10, said, “There is a right age and right time for everything. I would never accept if my son or daughter gets involved in such things. Whatever norms society has set, we should move according to them only. Such embarrassing things should not be encouraged. In fact, parents should give cultural values and maintain discipline. Parents should be more friendly to them. They should devote more time and energy to them and should keep a check on what their ward is doing”. Love birds sitting under a tree and whispering to each other are a common sight in city gardens. It is only when they become intimate, leaving many fretting and fuming. A daily evening walker at the rose garden Ramesh Gupta finds the presence of these love birds irritating. “It is very embarrassing. They are setting a very bad example for our children. They should not forget our traditional values. All this is happening because of our T V channels. Our so called item numbers and movies have left a negative impact on our children. I think such incidents should be stopped”, he said. A college student Vikrant Moudgil, says, “Turning them away from parks would serve no purpose. Love is such a powerful emotion and need that if curbed, it is sure to find other outlets. Moreover, he said not to talk of unmarried couples even married couples are not spared of the intrusive glances of people.They are also looked down upon if they get intimate”. The dilemma stems from the fact that we are at a point where we are not fully able to follow old traditional values and neither have we adopted the western value system. This has left young generation confused and they do not know which way to follow Jai Prakash, a marketing executive, questions the intolerant behavior towards such couples. “I wonder why people object to two loving persons . No eyebrows are raised or scrutiny is done if they are fighting or abusing each other. In fact, rather than getting intimate, I find the display of negative emotions more objectionable,” he said. But the question arises for how long we can lead the young generation by the nose, telling them to do this or not to do this. Vikram Sinha, a student of D A V College, says most of the youngsters are mature today. They are capable of taking their own decisions. Gone are the days when they needed full-time supervision of their parents. According to Rajneesh Kumar, a psychologist, “There are two factors behind it — age and urges. It is a concept of western society only. We think that it is something illegal. But I think if all these are happening within limits, we not should raise much hue and cry over such matters”. Interestingly, it happens only when there are restrictions over such things. If the freedom is not given to them, they will find corners of gardens or some other places. If society will permit, such cases will decrease automatically. But society is changing slowly. Some people said urbanisation presents a peculiar problem. There is a lack of open and secured spaces, the favourite spot of the love birds of the yesteryear. The parks are there but these are normally visited by a lot of people. The public display of love is also possible in cities, as anonymity is guaranteed in big cities as there is no fear of being caught by the close ones in the family. Apart from the change in the TV-imposed culture, it is the enlargement of the city which is presenting what some feel are shocking scenes. I suggest that there is a need to educate our young generation. They should have complete knowledge of what they are involved in. They should also be aware of the consequences. |
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