City page for April 3

Weather

Forecast (April 3): Weather will be mainly dry in plains and low hills, and in medium and high hills

Temperatures:

Shimla: 19.2 (max), 8.1 (min) Degrees Celsius, Sunrise: 06:08am, sunset: 06:42

Dharamsala: 23.6 (max), 9.4 (min) Degrees Celsius

Manali: 17.4 (max), minus 4.4 (min) Degrees Celsius

Readers Say

Non-functional streetlights trouble commuters (pic)

The road between housing board colony to government ITI and NGO bhawan adjoining the boundary of ward number two in Nurpur is without streetlights. Some portion of the stretch is in Municipal Council (MC) area and rest falls in the panchayat area. Around one kilometre stretch has six poles on the roadside but not even a single has any LED bulb or tube rods. Earlier, the MC had provided streetlight facility within the council area with florescent tube rods and CFLs. But during the previous Virbhadra regime, the MC had replaced all CFL and florescent tube rods with LED bulbs, but ignored this region. The MC or the state electricity authorities should provide LED bulbs on this stretch, too – Praveen Sangalia, ward number 2, Nurpur

Reduce syllabus or promote students

During Covid classes were taken online. It did not help students much, especially those with network issues. Several students of Government College, Hamirpur, also faced the problem. Besides, only 30 to 40 per cent syllabus was covered online and when the college opened in February, the remaining syllabus and practical were covered within a month in a hurried manner. What are students going to write in exams? My request is, either reduced the syllabus or promote the students – Students, GC, Hamirpur

Education Notes

Special chance for hotel mgmt students

The HPU is offering a special chance to the students of Bachelor of Hotel Management for the academic session 2011-2012 to 2016-17 to complete their degree. By paying a fee of Rs 20,000 per semester, they could appear in the next examination (odd and even) as and when the examination is conducted by the university

Webinar on teaching strategies

A webinar on teaching strategies and methodologies in English (writing) was organised by the CBSE’s Panchkula-based Centre of Excellence where the resource, person Ravi Sharma from Army Public School, Dagshai, elaborated upon why writing is important. “Writing is not only a key element of student’s education but is also crucial in a job. Besides being a key form of communication, it can also be an important outlet,” said Sharma. Various aspects of writing were pondered upon and stress on how to improve writing skills of students were also discussed in the webinar.

Dharampur college gets ‘B’ grade from NAAC

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Government Degree College, Dharampur (Mandi), was granted “B” grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) on March 31. A three-member NAAC team had visited the college on March 18 and 19 to gauge the performance of the college on various parameters, and the college was given “B” Grade. Expressing satisfaction over “B” Grade given by the NAAC, college principal RR Kondal said the college had done a commendable job. It was all due to the immense efforts of the teaching and non-teaching staff and students. Now the college is eligible for seeking grant from the UGC and RUSA.

Online workshop on digital forensic

In APG Shimla University, an online workshop on cyber investigation and digital forensic will be organised from April 3 to 5. Cyber crime investigation and digital forensics veteran Shrikant Ardhapurkar, Prof Arun Kumar Choudhary, Dean, Engineering Department, and Dr Ramesh Kumar, the chairperson of Computer Science Engineering (CASE) Department, will be the experts. Prof Ramesh Chauhan, Vice-Chancellor (Acting), and Prof Anil Pal, Registrar (Acting), said cyber crime was increasing all over the world due to information technology illiteracy among masses. “The growing demand for smart mobile phones, Internet and online illiteracy has opened up new avenues for online or digital frauds, so masses, students must learn the tips of cyber crime investigation and digital forensics to avoid being a victim of fraud,” Prof Chauhan said.