Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Approves Rs 690.8 Crore Budget

Chandigarh (Mera Chandigarh): The Chandigarh municipal corporation on Friday approved the budget of Rs 690.8 crore for the financial year 2010-11.

Chandigarh (Mera Chandigarh): The Chandigarh municipal corporation on Friday approved the budget of Rs 690.8 crore for the financial year 2010-11.

The approved budget under plan head was of Rs 409.35 crore and under non-plan head Rs 281.45 crore.

After tabling the budget in the house, Mayor Anu Chatrath announced to increase the budget in following heads: villages, colonies, Dadu Majra theme park, construction of community centres, martyrs’ pillar and global positioning system (GPS) system.chandigarh_by_night_8716378881


Government-Run Chandigarh Schools To Get Individual Computers & Internet Connections

Chandigarh government is planning to provide the students of government schools with individual computers and internet connections. These projects are being planned under the Vision-2010′.
Chandigarh’s new Director-Public Instruction (DPI-schools) Sunil Bhatia said Monday that 2010 is the year when the multi-million project to provide technology at the fingertips of students in the city would be implemented under the national e-governance project.
“Come 2010 and all schools and colleges in Chandigarh would be totally automated. Students will not only have computers on their study tables but would also be able to access the internet in their classrooms,” Bhatia said.
Education department officials said the move will shore up education standards in the union territory - which has emerged as the biggest educational hub in the northern states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh in the past few decades.
There are 103 government schools in Chandigarh, catering to over 100,000 students.
Unlike the general perception in the country of government schools not doing too well and lacking in facilities, some of the leading government schools here are much sought after, especially for classes 9 to 12.

Snow-rain: Life still remains paralysed Shimla, February 10

Even as there was some respite from the incessant rain and hailstorm in the lower belt but normal life continued to remain paralysnowfall in shimlased for the third day today as electricity and water supply in many parts of the state remained severely affected.

Rathore Stabbed outside Chandigarh Court

Former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore was injured in the face when he was stabbed outside the district court complex here Monday. He was coming out of court after appearing in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, for which he has been convicted.(IANS)


Microsoft cuts down Windows 7 Prices

MICROSOFT is to sell the standard home-user version of its new Windows 7 operating system for 8 per cent less than the comparable version of its Vista system, as the global downturn hits spending on technology. The world’s largest software company, whose recent ads champion low-priced PCs against more expensive Apple computers, said the new system will be available at even lower prices for a short time, as it looks to tempt buyers ahead of the holiday shopping season.

The new operating system, which Microsoft hopes will be a bigger hit than the poorly received Vista, will be generally released on October 22. It will be available on pre-order from US stores such as Best Buy, online retailer Amazon.com and the company’s own website from Friday.

The world’s lorgest software company’s low-priced PCs will be available at lower prices for a short time, as it looks to tempt buyers ahead of the holiday shopping season.

The new operating system will be released on October 22. t will be available on pre-order from US stores such as Best Buy, online retaiierAmazon.com and the company’s own website from Friday.

Microsoft said it would sell the Home Premium up-grade version of Windows 7 which most non-business customers already using Windows will want for $49.99 from Friday until July 11 in the US. The discs would be shipped after general release.

After July 11, the pre-order price will be $119.99, 8 per cent less than the present $129.99 price tag for the comparable version of Vista, which cost $159.99 at launch in early 2007.

The Professional upgrade version of Windows 7 ~ aimed at small companies using multiple computers will be on sale until July 11 at $99.99, then at $199.99 afterwards, The comparable Vista version is the same price. Prices fpr die full retail versions of the software for customers who want to install the system from scratch rather than upgrade Uieir existing Windows system - are also being reduced or held. Microsoft will sell the full Home Premium version of Windows 7 for $199.99, 17 per cent less man the comparable Vista version. Full versions of die more advanced Professional and Ultimate editions

will be unchanged at $299.99 and $319.99 respectively.

via Fastrack Computing Limited News.

Education Department Chandigarh Scholarships and Stipends

The various facilities are being provided to the students in order to encourage educational habits of the children as per time to time decision and programs of the Govt. Of India.

Attendance Scholarship for Girls

The aim of this incentive is to enroll maximum girls students in Chandigarh. Under this scheme, a girl student is given an attendance scholarship @ Rs.30/- P.M. for 10 months in a year from class Ist to Vth provided she has completed 75% attendance in a month. An Incentive of approximately Rs.1.50 lacs was disbursed to the 515 girl students under this scheme during 2005-06 and same amount has been proposed during the current financial year 2006-07.

Scholarship to SC/ST students

This incentive is granted to ensure enrolment of all SC/ST students in the age group of 6-14 years i.e. studying in Ist to 8th classes in all the Government Schools of UT, Chandigarh. All the SC/ST students (Boys and Girls) who have secured at least 60% attendance or above on total No. of working days during the period of Ist April to 30th September every year are eligible for the benefit under above scheme. A sum of approximately Rs.1.65 lacs was disbursed to the 554 students under above scheme during 2005-06 and same amount has been proposed for SC/ST students during the current financial year 2006-07.

via Education Department Chandigarh Administration.

Class XI Admissions

Chandigarh: 792 students were admitted today. All general category category seats for information technology are also filled with a cut-off 64.6 % for GMSSS-37, 64% for GMSSS-18, 63.8% for GMSSS-23, 61.8% for GMSSS-32, 62.2% for GMSSS-22 and 62% for GMSSS-33. Although seats are still available in most of the schools in humanities and vocational streams.
Three schools, GMSSS-10 (cutoff 64.6), GMSSS-8 (cut off 62.6) and GMSSS-22 (cut off 63.6), announced the closure of admissions in the science streams in the general category.

Interview Schedule for Admission– PU

Chandigarh:
The interview schedule for session 2008-09:

MA part-1(Psychology)
General category: July10, from 9am to 5pm.
Reserved category: July11, from 9:30am to 5pm.
NRI catgory: July11, from 9:30am to 5pm.
Venue: Department of Psychology at PU.

MA semester-1 (Public Administration)
July10, at 10am.
Venue: Department of Public Admisistration, Arts Block 3, PU.

ME-1(chemical),MTech-1(polymer),MSc-1(industrial chemistry)
July14, at 10am.

MA-1 (hindi)
July9, at 9am.
Venue: Department of Hindi, PU.

Master Disaster Mnangement and MA-1 (geography)
July9 and July10, at 9am respectively.
Venue: Department of Geography.

BAhons
July9, at 9am.
Venue: School of Economics.

MA-1(Economics)
July11, for general category,
July12, for reserved categories,
at 9 am.

MSc hons-1(chemistry)
July14, at 10am.
Venue: Chemistry Department.

MSc hons-1 (botany)
July11, at 10.30 am.
Venue: Department of Botany.

MA-1 (education)
July 9, at 11 am.
Venue: Department of education, Arts Block 2.

MSc (statistics)
July 9, at 9.30 am
Venue: Room no. 23, department of statistics (Mathematics Building).

MA II (English)
Which was earlier scheduled on July 8 at the department of English, has been postponed till the declaration of the result of MA I (English).

MSc hons I (anthropology)
July 11, at 11 am.
Venue: Department of Anthropology.

Admission in Sports Quota in PU– a mess for students

Chandigarh: The students applying for addmision in various departments at PU in sports quota had to face harrasments for getting addmission.
According to the university rules the students seeking admission under sports category are required to fill two forms , one to be deposited at the sports department and other with the concerned department.The students get the first form by paying Rs 400, for the second form they can get a copy of the first. Some students were denied of admissions because their forms had not reached the sports department.

According to students, the process of submitting two forms should be made simple.

BJP announces Bandh

Chandigarh: The local unit of BJP announced bandh in chandigarh in protest against the decision of J & K government regardint the cancelation of allotment of land to the Amarnath Shine Board.