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PU appoints public information officers
Chandigarh, October 12 Prof Veer Singh, Dean University Instruction, has been appointed for information relating to teaching departments, Mr B.D. Budhiraja, Dean College Development Council, can be contacted for information related to affiliated colleges. Mr K.C. Sharma, Deputy Registrar (Colleges) has been appointed Asstt Public Information Officer. Prof Nirmal Singh, Dean Students Welfare (Boys), will provide information relating to student welfare (Boys Hostels), While Prof Meenakshi Malhotra, Dean Students Welfare (Girls), will provide information relating to students welfare (Girls Hostels) and NSS. Dr Sodhi Ram, Controller of Exams, can be contacted for all matters concerning the university examinations. Mr S.K. Sharma, D R (Secrecy), and Mr S.C. Tiwari, D R (Exams), have been appointed Asstt Pub. Information Officers. Mr Ashok Raj Bhandari, Finance and Development Officer, has been appointed as PIO for matters concerning the administration (estt, accounts, general admn, and construction & health). Mr J.R. Sharma, DR (Estt), Mr Sudarshan Singh, AR (R&S), and Executive Engineer-I, have been appointed as Asstt. Public Information Officers. Prof Veer Singh, Director Sports, has been appointed PIO for information relating to sports and youth welfare activities & NSS. Prof D.S. Toor, Professor in-charge of sports, Prof S.M. Kant, Director Youth Welfare, and Ms Dolly, Deputy Director, campus sports, have been appointed Asstt. Public Information Officers.
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Actual PU bungling figure may never surface
Chandigarh, October 12 The affidavit is submitted by Prem Singh who was then working with the very old and well known Punjab Book Store, Ludhiana. In the affidavit he clearly states that how the bungling was done by filling in different figures on the counterfoils of the
receipts. The affidavit not only gives details of how the bungling was done but states that it was NK Mirnal, an official of the SBI counter who was involved. It also states that it was Mr Mirnal who later asked him to fill fresh receipts of the year 2001-2003 on the pretext that they were lost. Prem Singh would collect various admission forms not only for Punjab Book Stores, Ludhiana, but also for a few others in Ludhiana and also for book stores as far as in Jagraon, Punjab. Interestingly, in another affidavit Mrs Kanta Sharma, owner of Punjab Book Depot, has stated that she would remit the amount bungled by Prem Singh who worked for them for 20 years. “The difference of the examination forms received excess by changing the amount in figures and words on the bank vouchers by Prem Singh and further you are requested to kindly intimate the total amount which has to be deposited by me, so that I can refund the amount in two or three installments.” She has further already sent a draft of Rs 20,000 in favour of the registrar, PU. How the bungling happened Panjab University has three receipts that one has to fill at the time of making payment to PU. Most of the payments are made through the SBI branch in PU only. One of the receipts is given to the individual while the other two are kept with the SBI. Later an entry is made into the official records and along with a copy of the receipt as a record are sent to the accounts department.
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Computer course begins
Chandigarh, October 12 Mr Ashok Raj Bhandari, Finance and Development Officer, PU in his presidential remarks said there was further scope for providing specialised courses in computer education. At the same time, he assured all financial support to the programmes, which were being organised for the benefit of PU employees, their wards, students and unemployed youth. Dr Sween, Director of the centre, said the centre was initially established to cater to the needs of illiterate and semi-literate persons to promote and spread literacy. However, the time has come when the centre was introducing new courses to develop professional skills of the beneficiaries so that they could find employment and earn income for raising their quality of life. Mr Sham Singh, Project Officer from the centre, while explaining the objectives of the course said the course was planned to train the learners in the elementary of computer applications, which includes operation of a computer and various operating systems, particularly Windows; the terminology and concepts used in Microsoft Applications according to Dr Sween, Director, CACEE, PU.
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Teachers to help spread traffic rules
Chandigarh, October 12 Sources in the police headquarters reveal that the intention is to ensure adequate information about traffic rules and regulations among the teachers so that they pass on the right knowledge to the students. They add that a majority of the teachers have very little or no knowledge of what to do in case of a road accident, or how to avoid one in the first place. Several of them cannot even differentiate between a yellow and a white line running in the middle of a road. Giving details of the proposal, a senior traffic police officer says once through, the schoolteachers will to be attached for a fortnight with the Road Safety Cell. They will participate in road safety education activities. For the purpose, each school will nominate a teacher. The instructor, in turn, will act as an agent of change in his or her school. The teacher will also help in coordinating road safety education activities in the institution. Describing it as a very valid suggestion, a senior officer in the UT Education Department says they are “seriously looking into the proposal” and are likely to take a final decision in the matter in the next few days.
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‘Izzat’ at stake, say war heroes
Chandigarh, October 12 All Maha Vir Chakra awardees were eligible for allotment of 10 acres by the Punjab Government. In case land was not available anywhere in Punjab, only then were they to be given a cash grant of Rs 30,000. In the case of Vir Chakra awardees, the land to be allotted was five acres or Rs 15,000, in case no land was available. But the Revenue Department of the state followed a pick-and-choose policy while agreeing to the allotment of land. In many cases, at least 17 of which have come to the knowledge of The Tribune, officers were given cash grant with the undertaking by the government that no land was available for allotment. However, the same officers, inexplicably, found land aplenty when it came to dealing with the cases of some other gallant soldiers. In the mid-80s, a gullible Department of Defence Services Welfare, on the instructions of the Revenue Department, Punjab, had given an undertaking that cases where cash grant had already been given in lieu of land would not be reopened. When Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, on coming to know of the case of Brig Chandpuri and other officers, directed the Revenue Department to make allotment of land to him, the department again began a cover-up exercise. A note signed by an additional secretary-rank officer of the Revenue Department on March 31, 2003, reads, "… The request of Brig K.S. Chandpuri appears to have emanated from the fact that the market value of the land has escalated much more as compared to the monetary value of Rs 30,000 in 1977. Further, the government is likely to be flooded with such requests in the cases already settled if the case of Brigadier Chandpuri is reopened after a lapse of a period of quarter of a century." What the officer did not reveal was that Brigadier Chandpuri and many others like him had been regularly making representations to the government ever since it dawned on them that they had been deliberately misled to accept cash in lieu of land and a policy of pick-and-choose decided who among the war heroes got land. Not surprisingly, the officer holding the post of financial commissioner (revenue) in May, 2003, also agreed with the words of wisdom penned by the additional secretary. Ironically, even while it was claiming that it had no land, the Punjab Government had been including more categories of gallantry awardees in the list of those eligible for land allotment. A war hero, who did not wish to be quoted, said the Punjab Government must order an inquiry and fix responsibility for the irregularities. "In the Army,
'izzat' is the biggest thing. But, for a small piece of land, we have been made to make rounds of petty officers sitting in their cozy offices. The government should have come to the war heroes and not the other way round. After all, we are not beggars", he asserts. |
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Play corrects projection of Bhagat Singh
“UTHO meri duniyan ke garibon ko jaga do/Kaa khe umra ke dro deevar hila do/ Jis khet se dehkaan (farmer) ko myassar na ho roti , uss khet ke har khosha-e-gandham (wheat) ko jlaa do...”.
The couplets from Allama Iqbal express the buoyancy of the patriotic spirit and love for motherland and its people that radiated the persona of Bhagat Singh, the peerless patriot and fearless fighter. The National Integrated Forum of Artistes and Activists (NIFAA) staged a play, “A Misunderstood Hero of India — Bhagat Singh”, in light-and-sound form at the Tagore Theatre on Tuesday. The play is based on extensive research work in India and England and a book, “Martyrdom of Bhagat Singh — Some Hidden Facts” by Dr Gurpreet Singh Sindra and UK-based K.S. Kooner son of a former British secret agent. Playwright C.S. Sindra maintains that facts leading to important events in the life of the legendary martyr had been distorted as proven in the referred book being released in London shortly. The play claimed that the national hero had not been projected properly in the films which were tailored to suit commercial considerations. Facts like the haphazard advance of the scheduled time, date and place of his execution besides the presence of only British officers on duty there unanswered so far. They find a clarification in the play, though without historical authenticity. Director Pritpal Pannu relied upon many theatrical forms like the Maharashtrian ‘Tamasha’ Nautanki Brechtian and Persian theatre tradition. Trilochan Singh, Gaurav Sharma, Supriya, Narender Tank, Mukesh Kumar, Sukhpal Pannu, Chaman Bhaskar, Komal Sharma, Kuldip Surjit and Shaifali played multiple roles in the play. The play will be staged in Mauritius next month, said Dr C.S. Sindra. |
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