MOHALI: A delegation of the Lambton College, Canada and Overseas Education and Career Consultants, Australia, here today visited the Rayat Bahra University to understand the education system of India.
The delegation was received by Gurvinder Singh Bahra, Chairman of the Rayat Bahra Group of Institutions (RBGI), and Dr Daljit Singh, Vice-Chancellor of the Rayat Bahra University. Heads of different departments and senior faculty members accompanied the visiting team as it went round studying the teaching processes in different departments.
Bahra told the visiting delegation that the University has signed a MoU with Google India and opened a state-of- the-art Google Centre of Excellence where various undergraduate and postgraduate programs like B Tech Computer Science Engineering in Android Development and MBA in Digital Marketing were being offered.
Dr Daljit Singh told the visitors that the lush green sprawling campus of the Rayat Bahra University provides a vibrant campus life offering ultra modern infrastructure to its students like a huge 24-hour central library, computer labs, international level sports and recreational facilities, air-conditioned hostels, quality food prepared under strict hygienic conditions, wi-fi facility throughout the campus and round the clock security and CCTV cameras making the campus safe and secure.
A member of the visiting delegation said that the Lambton College, Canada, and Overseas Education and Career Consultants (OECC), Australia have joined hands to conduct a research activity with premier institutions in India regarding the different teaching and learning styles followed in Indian institutions.
He said that for this activity, Lambton is sending some of its professors to India. This activity is purely based for the purpose of Lambton College’s consumption and urge to understand how Indian students are taught in classes and the methodologies used by professors during the learning process.
Teachers in the subjects of Biological Sciences, Chemical Production Power Engineering Technology, Chemical Lab Analysis, and Hospitality comprised the delegation. The hospitality experts studies hotel operations and management team, food and beverage operations and management, tourism and tourism trends, financial control, and human resources and marketing.
Mathew Radford, Lambton Representative of the Lambton College, Prasenjeet Mukherjee, Director and Vice-President of the Overseas Education and Career Consultants (OECC) Australia, and Adil Ahmad, Manager Partner Relations OECC India, were the facilitators for the visiting team.
Concluding their visit the team members expressed their gratitude to the management of the Rayat Bahra Group of Institutions for the cooperation and hospitality extended to them.
Ministers & MLA's to submit suggestions for finalizing new policy within a week
Punjab News Express
CHANDIGARH: Moving ahead in the direction of formulating the new policy for regularization of illegal colonies and give relief to the stakeholders of these colonies, a meeting of ministers and MLAs was held here today at Punjab Civil Secretariat to discuss the draft of the new policy. The meeting was chaired by Tript Bajwa, Minister of Housing & Urban Development, Government of Punjab.
Onslaught of the meeting, the Housing & Urban Development Minister Mr. Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa briefed the members about the process adopted for drafting the New Policy. He said that he along with the senior officers of the department held separate meetings with the colonizers of both legal and illegal colonies and the residents of these colonies. He further briefed that the new draft placed for discussion in this meeting has been prepared by an officers committee which has tried to incorporate all the valid suggestions submitted by the colonizers and the common people in the earlier meetings.
After this Ms. Vini Mahajan, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, department of Housing & Urban Development formally placed the draft of the New Policy for regularization of unauthorized Colonies which was further elaborated by Mr. Harpreet Sudan, Chief Administrator, Patiala Development Authority. He explained that the policy has been drafted keeping in mind the interests of the residents/plot holders of the unauthorized colonies. The policy shall be applicable to the entire state including Municipal Limits, he said.
The ministers and MLAs present in the meeting placed their views on various points mentioned in the draft of the policy. They emphasized that the department must consider the welfare of the residents living in the illegal colonies as well as of those who have bought plots there. They appreciated the draft of the policy prepared by the officials of the department of Housing & Urban Development.
Mr. Tript Bajwa assured all the public representatives present in the meeting that the new policy would be finalized keeping in view the interests of general public and all the stake holders including colonizers, plot holders and government. He asked the ministers and MLAs to further send their suggestions in writing to the department, so that those could also be incorporated in the draft of the policy. 'Next meeting to finalize the policy would be held next week,' said Tript Bajwa.
Among those present in the meeting were Mr. Navjot Singh Sidhu, Local Government Minister, Mr. Manpreet Badal, Finance Minister, Mr. Balbir Singh Sidhu Animal Husbandry Minister, Mr. Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria Revenue Minister, Mr. Sundar Sham Arora Industries Minister, Mr. Bharat Bhushan Ashu Food & Civil Supplies Minister, Mr. Vijay Inder Singla, PWD Minister, Mr. Pargat Singh MLA, Mr. Sushil Rinku MLA, Mr. Sanjeev Talwar MLA, Ms. Vini Mahajan, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, department of Housing & Urban Development, Mr. Ravi Bhagat, IAS, Chief Administrator, PUDA/GMADA, Mr. TPS Phoolka, IAS, Director, Town & Country Planning, Mr. Gurpreet Singh, Chief Town Planner, Punjab and other senior officers of the department.