Kings XI Punjab and Rotary Chandigarh tribute to CRPF martyrs

Kings XI Punjab and Rotary Club Chandigarh give Rs.25 lakh to 5 families of martyrs from Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.

Rs.5 lakh each to the CRPF jawans from Punjab and Himachal

In a unique campaign run by Kings XI Punjab, with the assistance of the Rotary Club for the CRPF jawans who lost their lives during the Pulwama attack, had their families present at the press meet today and were each given cheques of Rs 5 lakh by Kings XI Punjab.

The five CRPF jawans who lost their lives were Jaimal Singh from Dharamkot, District Moga; Sukhjinder Singh from Tehsil Patti, District Taran Taran; Maninder Singh Attri from Dinanagar, District Gurdaspur; Kulwinder Singh from Tehsil Anandpur Sahib, District Rupnagar; and Tilak Raj from Kangra, Himachal Pradesh

Present at the event were Kings XI Head of Operations Anant Sarkaria, Rotary District Governor Rtn. Praveen Goyal, Rotary Club Chandigarh President Rtn. A.P. Singh, Kings XI Captain Ravichandran Ashwin, Mayank Agarwal, and Mandeep Singh in the presence of Senior DIG CRPF Punjab V.K. Kaundal, and other senior Rotarians.

Anant Sarkaria said, “We are extremely grateful to have partnered with the Rotary Club of Chandigarh for this project who have helped us connect with the families of our brave jawans, who put their lives on the line every single day for us, and we as a team would like to stand behind and honour their sacrifice.”

These five jawans being honoured were part of the 78-vehicles convoy carrying 2,547 CRPF personnel who were ambushed and attacked at Pulwama on 14th February.

Rotary Club Chandigarh President Rtn A.P.Singh said that three years back we had initiated the project of sending 5000 kg of sweets every  Diwali to the jawans at the border, and we are grateful to KXIP for making us a vehicle of doing good for the Pulwama martyrs as well.

Indian wireline broadband pricing likely to fall by 50%; segment to generate Rs 80,000 crore over 5 years

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Meritocracy is not the role of education says Prof Krishan Kumar

3rd J.C.Anand Memorial Lecture held at PU

One of the important functions of the education system in India has been in selection of the elites, who become the office-bearers of the state apparatus, and this is a continuing legacy of the colonial state in Independent India, said Padamshri Prof Krishan Kumar, a renowned academician, and former Director of NCERT while delivering the 3^rd J.C. Anand Memorial Lecture at Panjab University today.

Education system in India is focussed on the examination system through which the selection process takes place with the idea of meritocracy, which is not the main public role of education, he argued.

Drawing from Ambedkar’s critique of the caste system which does not allow for different knowledges to have a common space,  Professor Kumar averred that the specific public role of education is that it creates pre-dispositions resulting in socialising us into specific ways of thinking and approaching the world.

But this process of socialisation, where education is part of the secondary institution of socialisation with the family being the primary one, also creates the possibility of change in society, he said.

Prof. Krishan Kumar delivered the annual 3rd J.C.Anand Memorial Lecture organised by the Department of Political Science, Panjab University, here today.

The three bureaucrat daughters of late Prof J.C. Anand, namely Urvashi Gulati,  IAS, former Chief Information Commissioner,  Meenaxi Anand Chaudhery, IAS former Chief Secretary Haryana, and Keshni Anand Arora, IAS, Addl Chief Secretary, Revenue, were present on the occasion.

Remembering her father, Urvashi Gulati said that what better example could be of women empowerment that he made sure and encouraged his daughters to get into the Civil Services.

Professor Kumar while speaking on the ‘Public Significance of Education’, started his lecture by distinguishing the question of public significance from that of private significance where education is associated with social mobility and participation in the modern economy.

He also noted that the issue in a South Asian context also requires reflection on the nature of the public sphere including who it includes and its regional variations given the legacy of colonialism.

 Professor Kumar’s lecture was a scintillating account of the philosophy and practices of education and was listened to in rapt attention by a large audience.

Prof. Bhupinder Brar, Prof. Emeritus in Panjab University chaired the session, and many senior officers including Alok Nigam, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Haryana,  Prof Ranbir Chaudhary, Centre for Social Sciences, Delhi, Neerja Sekhar, Addl Chief Secretary, Haryana, Navraj Sindhu, Addl Chief Secretary Haryana, academician Ms Pam Rajput, and many other bureaucrats from Government of Haryana, PU Fellows, faculty, researchers and students participated.

Engineering Growth with MyFresh

Sudarshan Patel redefined his career path from being a mechanical engineering to highly unorganised sector of vending fresh fruit and vegetables. 

But he is bringing in professionalism to the segment through his disruptive innovation by meeting the need for good healthy food. 

Hailing from Jodhpur, Sudarshan is a 2010-batch mechanical engineer from PEC, who worked with different corporate in Gurgaon but ultimately his love for the city brought him back to Chandigarh where he successfully established his online startup, sabkuchhfresh, in 2013, which got acquired by PayTM, where he did his stint as its CEO. 

I was cutout for entrepreneurship, so I quit again, and started my company Oregano Fresh for B2B supplies of imported fruit and organic vegetables to all big stores, malls, and hotels in the region, said Sudarshan Patel. 

Today he opened his retail outlet, MyFresh in the busy Sector 9 market to take these exotic healthy fruits, vegetables to the discerning market, and intends to expand to three outlets by the end of 2019. 

MyFresh offers over 200 varieties of exotic fruits and vegetables in the store that are sourced from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Karnatka, while several others from abroad.

One can pickup freshly prepared salads, healthy fruits and organic vegetables from the store, including avocado, blue berries, Thai grapefruit, cranberries, oyster mushrooms, enokhi mushrooms, kale lettuce, baby spinach, micro greens, fresh herbs to name just a few.

There is live-salad and juice corner where one can pick up from fresh lettuce salads or detox shots including amla (gooseberry), wheat grass, tamarind turmeric, etc. 

'This had been an entirely unorganised market but offers huge potential for the organised retail of fruits and vegetables," said Sudarshan. 

The demand for healthy food is growing and the people who have travelled abroad always prefer to buy the best in the market, he added.

MyFresh has started its first retail outlet from a rented 450sqft store in Sector 9 of Chndigarh. 

Rotary and Connect Broadband for Cyber Safety of Children

Chandigarh, 28th February:  Rotary Club of Chandigarh and Connect Broadband have tied up to conduct cyber-safety programme for the parents and school children.

This was announced today at a workshop organized for parents at Rotary House here today.

Rotary Club Chandigarh’s president A.P. Singh said that with the growing penetration of mobile phones, ipads, laptops and computers in people’s homes, children are getting exposed to internet content which poses grave threat to the children.

He  informed that Rotary shall introduce Connect’s school initiative, NetChamps, in more schools in the tricity including the government schools, and its 12 Interact schools in Chandigarh, under its ‘Saksham’ programme.

Dr. Shilpa, a noted psychologist lamented the growing trend amongst young mother to handover mobile phone to their infants in order to keep them calm make them eat their food.

This unattended access to internet content is a dangerous trend that could harm the children, she said.

Connect Broadband has sensitized over 10,000 children under their NetChamps programme in various schools in Punjab and Chandigarh, which receives tremendous participation from teachers and children, and has also received international recognition for this initiative

Are you a Valentine Couple? and Connected?

Connect Broadband initiated early this month, a digital campaign to bring around 'connected couples' together and share their photos on social media. 

Connect tied up with Smaaash Centres across Punjab where photo booths have been setup at Smaaash Centres, like Elante Mall in Chandigarh, Curb Mall in Jalandhar, MBD Mall in Ludhiana, and at the Mall of Amritsar. 

Visit the Smaaash Centre and have a smaashing way to celebrate Valentine. 

Turn Your Kids Cyber Smart to Keep them Safe and Secure

Connect Broadband organizes Cyber Safety workshop in Sacred Heart School  at Kapurthala today.

Teenagers need to be aware of the usage of internet on their mobile and computers though even the infants are becoming technology savy, said Ashok Rana, Principal of Sacred Heart Public School.

Today this is a full time responsibility of the parents and the teachers to protect children against cyber crimes, frauds, and even dangerous challenge games.

That is the reason the School organized a cyber safety workshop and quiz with Connect Broadband under its CSR initiative NetChamps.

Sunil Sahota and Gurnoor Singh of Class 9th were declared NetChamps during the programme who would later participate in the city-wide and later the finals of the 2nd edition of this competition.

Looking at the sharp penetration of mobile phones, Connect initiated this campaign to educate every child, teacher and parent, to keep children safe and secure against the pitfalls of internet.

Connect has already covered 39 schools this year under NetChamps 2 programme sensitizing over 10,000 children in Punjab and Chandigarh.

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