CN & Heard

Thanks to a mobile number that the department has been passing on to journalists as UT Advisor K K Sharma’s mobile number. As it turned out that the number belongs to a senior accounts officer in Haryana government.

On receiving a phone call from a journalist,K K Sharma (the accounts officer) responded,“I hope you do not want to speak with the UT Advisor. On an average I get at least five to seven calls a day from journalists wanting to take my version and I am tired of telling them that I am not the UT Advisor.”

It is high time that PR department should first get the right number themselves and only then pass it on to the media.

Dejected

Lawyers,seemingly confident of getting away scot free after having entered into a compromise with Ram Karan,a police constable,whom they thrashed in full public view on district court premises,received a jolt when a single Bench refused to quash the FIR registered against them.

Their smiles fainted and voices tailed away when they came out of the Court discussing future course of action.

Not being left with many options they decided to engage senior lawyers and seek adjournment in the contempt petition which was to come up for hearing the next day.

I am the best

With elections of the Municipal Corporation scheduled in the coming months,the councillors are busy collecting their list of ‘achievements’. The officials are flooded with requests for compiling feats in their respective wards,each trying to outdo the other.

Among the highlights are the carpeting of roads and laying down of paver blocks. The officials meanwhile do not seem too pleased at the paper work they are being made to do.

Mud slinging

With the PUTA (Panjab University Teachers’ Association) elections round the corner,the mud slinging between the present and former elected faculty members on the panel has already kicked off . Letters are being circulated by both among the faculty members calling each other failures.

While,the group led by former PUTA president Prof Manjit Singh wrote an open letter to the V-C and faculty members highlighting the long pending issues related to teachers,hinting that the present PUTA has failed in meeting teachers’ demands.

In response to this,the current elected body did not shy away in taking credit as,“because of immediate and sincere efforts of PUTA executives and the V-C,the teachers have been able to receive more than what they had in the last one.”