EDUCATION

Protest against scheduling of training

Chandigarh, December 13
Vocational instructors in government school have lamented that the wrong scheduling of an ‘in service training’ programme, being run by the Chandigarh Education Department, was affecting their teaching. As regular teachers had gone for the in service training programme, their duties of the terminal examinations were being forced on the vocational staff.

Demanding that the training programme should have been conducted at the start of the current academic session, the instructors said the schedule was affecting the studies of the students who had already appeared in their second terminal examinations which began on December 1. The training programme for teachers of English and Science teachers is scheduled to begin from December 14. TNS

COURTS

Seagrams penalised for fly in bottle
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 13
The District Consumer Redressal Forum-II has penalised the Seagrams Limited, a multinational corporation (MNC, for a fly in one of its liquor bottles.

Acting on a complaint by Capt G.S. Ghuman (retd), a resident of Sector 8 here, the forum awarded a compensation of Rs 5,000 besides Rs 2,000 as the cost of the litigation to the complainant. Out of Rs 5,000 an amount of Rs 2,000 will go to the complainant and the rest to the State Free Legal Aid Fund of Chandigarh.

In his complaint, Captain Ghuman said be bought six bottles of Royal Stag brand of whisky from the CSD Canteen in Sector 21 in May 2003. After a few days, he noticed a fly in one of the bottles.

Captain Ghuman alleged that he contacted the representative of the company, who did not bother to redress his grievance. He even posted his complaint to the website of the company but failed to get any satisfactory response from it.

Terming Captain Ghuman as a crusader for a good cause in exposing company, the forum said he commuted from Shimla, where he is currently posted, to Chandigarh at least eight times to contest the case.