Deepa Sharma Sood, a senior correspondent in Ludhiana, reports on education and health.
Articles by Deepa Sharma Sood
Govt schools told to ensure no mosquito breeding on campus
As part of precautionary measure against mosquito bites and dengue, of ficiating district education officer (DEO), Charanjit Singh has directed the heads of government schools of the district to submit certificates declaring that there is no breeding site of mosquitoes at their schools.
Updated on Apr 30, 2014 12:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Surprise check finds five teachers absent, four late for work
During surprise visits to three government schools of the district on Friday, Charanjit Singh, deputy district education officer (secondary) and officiating DEO secondary, found five teachers absent and four unpunctual.
Updated on Apr 25, 2014 11:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Campaigning for Phoolka, funny 'Mann' takes jibes at senior Badal
Villagers termed Bhagwant Mann "Rural Kejriwal" as he reached Narangwal on a tempo for the road show from Sangrur highway to Jagraon on Wednesday.
Updated on Apr 23, 2014 11:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Narangwal (ludhiana)
Nominal increase in cheating cases during boards in Ludhiana
The Punjab School Education Board has not set up any separate examination centres for the open school students this time to check the menace of cheating, but in Ludhiana it were mostly the open school students who were caught cheating during the annual board exams.
Updated on Apr 19, 2014 11:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
At 110, Ludhiana’s oldest voter still going strong
Like in previous parliamentary elections, 110-year-old Sarwan Singh is determined to cast his vote on April 30, come what may. A resident of Bassian Bet village in Dakha constituency and arguably Ludhiana district’s oldest voter, he has appealed to residents not to be swayed by intimidation when exercising their franchise.
Updated on Apr 17, 2014 11:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Contractual teachers get deputed on poll duty again
The election commission has asked the deputy commissioners-cum-district election officers to deploy contractual teachers on election duty on April 30. There are over 1,000 contractual teachers in the district, who have shown resentment towards the move.
Updated on Apr 15, 2014 12:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Govt employees to take pledge on voting in Lok Sabha elections
To ensure fair and peaceful elections, and that every person votes, the election commission has come up with a pledge, which says that every person must vote fearlessly and make use of their democratic right during Lok Sabha elections.
Updated on Apr 15, 2014 12:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
At government schools in Ludhiana, diaries do not exist
At a time when several private schools are reaching out to parents through mobile apps, instead of diaries, informing parents about their wards and regarding what is happening in the institution, government schools in the district do not even have the ‘luxury’ of normal school diaries.
Updated on Apr 14, 2014 10:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
PTU exams: Pay 5,000 per subject to improve div
Giving the pass-out students an opportunity to improve their marks, Punjab Technical University (PTU) has decided to conduct their improvement exams with the final examinations held by the university.
Updated on Apr 12, 2014 04:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Distribution of textbook with chief minister pics stopped
Punjab education secretary Anjali Bawra has directed all districts in the state not to distribute the Class-8 social studies textbook. A chapter in the book on efforts of the government in social circles throws light on the schemes of the state government.
Updated on Apr 10, 2014 10:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Now, pay Rs 5,000 per subject to improve division in PTU exams
Giving the pass-out students an opportunity to improve their marks, Punjab Technical University (PTU) has decided to conduct their improvement exams with the final examinations held by the university.
Updated on Apr 10, 2014 09:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
No centres in Dehlon, Sidhwan Bet for JET
The Punjab State Board of Technical Education and Industrial Training (PSBTE and IT) has no plans to set up examination centres at Dehlon and Sidhwan Bet areas of the district, despite the fact that 330 students from Dehlon and 200 from Sidhwan Bet have applied for the exam, which is scheduled to be held on April 20.
Updated on Apr 08, 2014 12:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
PSEB cancels Class-10 exam at 2 Amritsar centres
Taking a serious note of the mass copying in Class-10 exams at two schools in Amritsar, the Punjab school education board has cancelled the exam at both the centres.
Updated on Apr 04, 2014 10:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Potable water still a dream for govt schoolkids
Learning no lessons from failed water samples last year, the education department continues to put the health of government schoolchildren at risk.
Updated on Mar 31, 2014 10:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Punjab schools told to declare results on March 31
Due to the ongoing Class-10 annual examination, Punjab education secretary Anjali Bawra has extended the date for holding the parent-teacher meeting (PTM) to declare the results for Classes 4 to 9 and 11 from March 26 to April 7. However, teachers have been told to declare the results to students on March 31.
Updated on Mar 25, 2014 09:57 PM IST
None | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
PSEB Class-10 exams to start tomorrow
The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) Class10 examinations will start from March 25. There are 392 examination centres in the district where around 56,000 students will take exams. To curb copying, 36 flying squad teams, district education officers (DEOs) and deputy DEOs will visit the examination centres for checking; but for only three exams - English, mathematics and science.
Updated on Mar 24, 2014 01:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
School continues to function in unsafe structure, MC does nothing
Government Primary School, 6A Miller Ganj, has been functioning from a dilapidated building as all three rooms of the school have been declared unsafe by the public works department (PWD) here.
Updated on Mar 22, 2014 02:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Poll code: teacher segregation on hold
The model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha elections being in force, there will be no shifting of men teachers to boys’ schools and women teachers to girls’ schools from April 1.
Updated on Mar 22, 2014 07:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
MC, police sit on hands over haphazard parking outside city’s private schools
With neither the municipal corporation (MC) nor the traffic police taking action against unauthorised parking outside private schools in the city, commuters have been left at the receiving end.
Updated on Mar 21, 2014 01:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood and Harshraj Singh, Ludhiana
Regular faculty of Punjab colleges awaits salaries
To protest against the non-payment of salaries for the past three months, the regular faculty of government colleges sat on a dharna in their respective districts on Wednesday.
Updated on Mar 20, 2014 08:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
1200 JET forms sold on day one, Forms available at nine venues
To reduce competitive phobia among the students, the Punjab State Board of Technical Education and Industrial Training is organizing the Joint entrance exam on April 20. However, the sale of the JET forms started today in the district and on the first day around 1200 forms were sold at nine venues. The rush was more at Government Model Senior Secondary School, PAU where 400 forms were sold on day one.
Updated on Mar 06, 2014 09:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
51 PES officers transferred, but no substitutes provided to schools
Punjab education secretary Anjali Bawra has transferred 51 Punjab Education Services (PES) officers (school and inspection group A) from various districts of Punjab, and yet again not provided substitutes to the schools and departments from where these officers have been transferred.
Updated on Mar 02, 2014 10:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
CBSE, PSEB Class-12 exams begin with English
Class-12 exams for both Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) began with English here on Saturday. There was excitement in the air as students came out of the examination halls, as both students of both boards found the exams easy.
Updated on Mar 01, 2014 10:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
2,500 govt teachers without salary since December
Around 2,500 teachers of the district education department employed in 329 government high and senior secondary schools have not received their salary since December, making it difficult for the teachers to run their houses.
Updated on Feb 25, 2014 07:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
PSEB set up 389 examination centres in Ludhiana district
Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) has set up as many as 389 examination centres in the district for Classes 10 and 12 board examinations to be conducted from March 1.
Updated on Feb 05, 2014 06:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Will boycott exam duty if demands not met: lecturers
Members of Government School Lecturers Union, Punjab, have threatened to boycott annual exams, which are beginning March 1, it the state government failed to fulfil their demands. A decision in this regard was taken in a state-level meeting of the union at Government Senior Secondary School, Boys, Jawahar Nagar, Ludhiana, on Tuesday.
Updated on Feb 04, 2014 10:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
74-yr-old man awaits Aadhaar from past 1 year
A 74-year-old man, Surjit Singh, is waiting for his Aadhaar card from the past one year, and the department's website uidai.gov.in shows the status as under process.
Updated on Jan 31, 2014 09:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
For funds, CM suggests fee from govt schoolkids
For raising funds in the cash-strapped government schools of Punjab, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has suggested school heads to collect a fee of Rs 5 to 10 per student from Classes 1 to 8.
Updated on Feb 01, 2014 10:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
PU increases scholarship amount
Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, has increased the scholarship amount for students under categories, including physically challenged, sports, single girl child, AIDS/cancer patients and on merit-basis.
Updated on Jan 23, 2014 08:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana
Govt schoolheads jittery as DGSE sends dates to conduct Class 10, 12 pre-boards
The latest directions by the Director General School Education (DGSE) for conducting pre-boards for Classes 10 and 12 in February has left the government schoolheads jittery, as some of the schools have already started conducting exams.
Updated on Jan 22, 2014 06:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Deepa Sharma Sood, Ludhiana