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Chandigarh: Senior Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Satya Pal Jain has alleged that Central government is not paying any attention to the issues concerning Chandigarh. He sought a meeting of Union Home Minsiter’s Advisory Committee to resolve various pending issues of the union territory.

Addressing the mediapersons here today, Jain said issues like building by-laws, transport system, housing, rehabilitation of slum dwellers and 13 type houses imbroglio need to be addressed at the earliest. He said the meeting of the advisory committee should be convened at the earliest.

He said the BJP has started a campaign to form booth committees in all the 422 booths of the city parliamentary constituency, which would come up by this end of this month.

Referring to the issue of organisational elections of the party, Jain said the organisational elections would be conducted in the first week of October. During his media interaction, Jain also announced the joining of the party by four prominent leaders from different sectors.

He said Satyender Singh, in charge, Bhartiya Jan Shakti Party has joined BJP.
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Chandigarh: A Five member team of the Bihar Legislative Council (BLC), Patna, along with Chairman, Urban Development Committee, BLC, visited Municipal Corporation today to know about the engineering projects and sanitation system in the city.

The team was led by Sanjay Singh, Chairman of Urban Development Committee, BLC. A spokesman of MCC said that the delegation is on a study-visit and they have visited the corporation to know the best practices involved in the engineering projects and sanitation system across the city. Mayor Harjinder Kaur made a brief presentation about services being provided by the corporation to the residents.

Briefing about sanitation system in the city, the mayor said that in the recent AC Nileson ORG survey of the 18 big cities in India, Chandigarh was declared the cleanest city in India, with respect to cleanliness of roads, efficiency of garbage disposal, dustbins in public place and cleanliness of public toilets etc.

She said nine villages have been transferred from the UT Administration to Municipal Corporation and these villages will be provided with facilities of water supply, sewerages, storm water drainage, roads and parks, at par with the sectors. The detailed survey of these villages is being carried out.
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Chandigarh: Students with ‘average’ marks, yet desiring to study in Australia, are fulfiling their dreams by taking admissions in various institutes in the country, instead of universities.The reason being not being able to fulfil the requisite conditions.

Manager of IDP Education India Private Limited, Anita Abbi says, “There are many students who do not fulfill the minimum requirement of marks for admissions to universities in Australia. Many prefer the institutes as it is easier for them to adjust due to the lesser number of students. However, after a year they are able to get admission in the universities.”

The preference of students continue to lie in job-oriented courses like hospitality, commercial cookery, hair dressing etc. The courses ensure that students get Permanent Residence (PR) at the earliest. However, with rules to change soon, students will have to work in the particular field they choose for a year.

Dr Kuldeep Singh Sandhu from the Department of Management, Griffith Business School, says there are around 1000 Indian students studying in different universities.
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Chandigarh: Panjab University authorities are planning on bringing about uniformity in the various funds being charged along with tuition fees. At present, the amount of funds being charged from the students of University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), Dental Institute and Departments having arts, sciences and other professional courses is different. The issue will be taken up in the Syndicate meeting to be held on September 13.

Though the admission fee, laboratory charges and other development charges will remain the same, there will be change in the other funds. For example, the admission fee, which is Rs 220 in UIET, Rs 180 in the Dental Institute and Rs 230 in all departments will now be fixed at Rs 230. The library security deposit, university sports fee and house examination fee will be fixed at Rs 230 each. The youth welfare fund will be increased to Rs 75 per annum, from Rs 60 being charged in UIET and BDS.

The other changes include student aid fund, medical fee, magazine campus reporter fee, student scholarship fee, environment fee, campus cleanliness fee, etc.

The uniformity in the funds will also lead to some increase in the amount already charged from different departments. Students of BDS will have to shell out more though.

Source: Express News Service