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| Monday, May 22, 2000, Chandigarh, India |
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Students get
aid packets CHANDIGARH, Children of 21 government schools were given books, uniforms, shoes, water bottles and other stationery material. Mr Avinash Kamal Jain, Organising Secretary of the body, said a student had committed suicide in 1987 for want of school fee. "This prompted the parishad to introduce the Sahyog project for needy students. Mr Sushil Singhal, All-India Secretary of the BVP, presided over the function. Mr P.
Khurana, a local astrologer, was the guest of honour. |
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Library facility for
Asha school CHANDIGARH,
May 21 — In a heartening development, the Asha school for slum children at Kumhar Colony added additional library facility here today. The Institute for Development and Communication has contributed books and assured a new programme under which all colonies of the city will be provided reading material. The President of Yuvsatta, the organisation behind the education programme, said that a painting contest was organised as part of the programme where children were to paint aspects of the locality in which they lived. Zulfiqar Khan, chairman of the programme, said Asha collaborated with Theatre Age, an NGO working with street children over the past eight years. Asha was basically an evening school which made efforts to include under-privileged street children, rag-pickers and school dropouts for the special teaching programme. Zulfiqar Khan said that the school had managed regular attendance of over 20 students which was a significant achievement. Reading material suited their age and assured more participation. The library is not very big but it holds great promise. Inquisitive children could be seen taking rounds of the storage space repeatedly in suspense. Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, the local member of Parliament, was the chief guest to inaugurate the library. |
A tryst with moon and music CHANDIGARH, May 21 — Moonlit nights come and go...but here is one which will last longer in the memory, for the touch of melody it has brought in its lap. Yesterday was yet another day of rhythm and melody at the Garden of Fragrance where the Tourism Promotion Society and Academy of Music and Fine Arts presented vocal and instrumental recitals for the second consecutive day. The day before was more about a typical tribute to the moon with local artist Subhash Ghosh playing raag chandrakons and then raag yaman on his forte — the classical guitar. The rest of the charm was added by Wavel on the flute. It may be mentioned that this is a part of the model project being undertaken to promote our cultural heritage and tourism at the same time. Although the beginning was a little apprehensive, all doubts were set to rest by the large number of viewers who took the pleasure of the cool dancing breeze and unmistakably refined tones. The programme today started with a bhajan in raag shyam Kalyan by Manisha followed by Subhash Ghosh’s performing dhrupad in raag Bhopali. The combination of strings and Wavel’s flute worked out too well for the crowd which kept on increasing as the night got darker. On the tabla was Mehmud, also from the city. Following this, came the performance in raag bageshwari and then a dhun in Bhairavi.  |
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