Amritsar: DAV College and BBKDAV College on Tuesday began their new academic session by performing religious prayers and havan. Principal Dr Rajesh Kumar of DAV college said that Indian moral values have a different identity in the world. “Along with taking higher education, children should also maintain a connection with their moral values. Influenced by Indian civilisation and Vedic system, many countries of the world are progressing by following it,” he said. Principal Dr Pushpinder Walia, from BBKDAV College too said that performing Havan is the best way to start the new session, as Havan is the symbol of hope and optimism. She said that as humanity is passing through the challenging times of pandemic, only hope and optimism can lead us to the other side of the tunnel. Dr Walia said that need of the hour is to move together for the welfare of the whole mankind.

Online Training for dairy farmers

The office of the Deputy Director, Amritsar, announced that the online admissions for rural unemployed youth for dairy training courses is now open till July 15, 2021. The courses have been specifically started to provide employment opportunities for rural youth. Disclosing this here today, Kashmir Singh Goraya , Deputy Director Dairy, Amritsar said that in order to diversify the agriculture and increase the income of the farmers, two weeks training would be imparted for adopting the profession of dairy as an ancillary occupation . Unemployed young boys / girls belonging to district, who are Class V pass between the age of 18 to 50 years, belonging to rural area and can guarantee land for sowing of green fodder, can participate in this training. He said that after the training the department would provide dairy loan facility from various banks to the concerned persons by setting up dairy units for keeping up to 20 cattle and providing 25% subsidy to general and 33% to non-ethnic. Interested boys / girls can fill up the form by July 15 , 2021 with their original qualification certificate and passport size photo with the office of the Deputy Director Dairy , Amritsar . For more details contact on telephone no: 01832263083.

MBA 7th batch starts at IIM, Amritsar

Seventh batch of MBA programme and first batches of MBA (human resources) and MBA (business analytics) programmes were inaugurated at IIM, Amritsar. The seventh batch comprises 274 students. Professor Nagarajan Ramamoorthy, Director, IIM, Amritsar, congratulated the students for securing a seat and extended his warm greetings to everyone. Acknowledging the newly-inducted batch of MBA (human resources) and MBA (business analytics), Prof Ramamoorthy said the institution was working on new initiatives to cater to the industry requirements. He said the IIM, Amritsar, ranked sixth among all the IIMs in terms of student interest in joining an MBA programme. The MBA chairperson informed the students that term – I classes would begin from July 15. TNS