EDUCATION

Bhawna excels in stamp design contest
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Sept 8 — Bhawna Sachdeva, a Class XI student of St Bawra Public High School, has stood second in India and first in Punjab in a stamp design competition at the junior level organised by the Department of Posts at the Ludhiana Philatelic Bureau. She has been awarded a cash prize of Rs 3,000 along with a letter of commendation.

The contestants were told to make a design on the theme ''pollution''. Bhawna told that she had painted a sparrow sitting on a tree being cut. The sparrow was crying as her nest was being destroyed. The sparrow was screeming, ‘‘Don’t cut trees, otherwise you will weep like me.’’

The competition was held in September last year, but the award was given recently.

Democratic Teachers’ Front clarification

LUDHIANA, Sept 8 — The Democratic Teachers Front, Punjab, Ludhiana district, in a press release has clarified that none of its teachers was absent from the school when the BDO’s officer visited the school.

Spokesmen of the front clarified that the BDO himself had not visited the school as had been reported. They also clarified that although the visit was made on August 9, the report appeared on August 29. They further clarified that the SDM, Khanna, had not issued any press note regarding the absence in this school.