EDUCATION

A well-equipped school library
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Nov 28 — R.S. Model School’s library is located in a big hall. There is no separate reading room. Two classes can be easily accommodated in the library. There is no library period as such in their curriculum but students of +1 and +2 often go to the library.

The main wall of the library is dominated by a huge portrait of Swami Dayanand Saraswati and some inspiring posters.

The librarian, Ms Anjana Verma, who has been working in the school as a librarian for the last seven years said, “When I joined the school, there were only 2000 books. Now the library possesses more than 7000 books.”

“What kind of books do you have in your library?”

“We have all Vedas and books on Arya Samaj, books on fiction and reference books. We have sections according to merit.”

“Do you have book exhibitions?” “How much money do you spend on books?”

“We have book exhibitions three or four times a year. Students as well as the library purchases books.”

Mr M.L. Kalra, Principal of the school, said, “We spend Rs 1 lakh on the purchase of books. Our students always figure in the merit list. It is because they get extra knowledge from the books of the library.”

Ms Indu, a Punjabi teacher, said, “I am in charge of declamation and debates and quizzes. The library books help me in preparing students for such contests.”

The library was getting 25-30 magazines for students as well as teachers. The librarian said that she assisted children in selecting the right books for the right topics so as to inculcate in them the love for reading and thirst for knowledge.

GNPS team wins Limca quiz
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Nov 28 — The host team of Guru Nanak Public School (GNPS) emerged as the winners out of the 17 contesting teams from Ludhiana, Nawanshahr and Jalandhar in the Limca Book of Records Quiz 2000 held here today.

Each team comprised of three students of classes IX and X. A written test was conducted in which 30 one-word questions were asked and eight teams were screened in this round. The qualifying teams which further contested for the various rounds included Saint Thomas School, CFC Public School, Guru Nanak Public School, Sacred Heart Convent School, Sarabha Nagar, Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, BRS Nagar, Kundan Vidya Mandir, BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School and Dayanand Model School, Jalandhar.

There were eight rounds and questions pertaining to various subjects were asked. The participants and the audience had a tough time identifying the digitally mixed faces of two personalities in the ‘two-in-one round’.

In the audio round, clippings from English and Hindi albums were played and the students were asked to name the singers, composers and the lyricists. Classical numbers were also played and the students were asked to identify the instruments played in the music.

In a Limca round, all the three team members had to guzzle a full bottle of Limca and then answer five questions in 60 seconds. Questions on history were asked in the last round.

Finally, Simaranjeet, Anumeet Bagga and Puneet from Guru Nanak Public School came out first with 80 points, Sabina Grewal, Harleen and Harshdeep Singh from Sacred Heart Convent School, Sarabha Nagar, stood second with 75 points and the third prize went to Simaranjit Singh, Niti Rawal and Sidhartha Joshi from CFC Public School.

The winning team, while talking to Ludhiana Tribune about the way to success, said, ‘‘We have always been reading newspapers and magazines and regularly watch the various music, news, movie, wild life and kids channels which really helped us today.’’

The renowned quiz master, Barry O’ Brien, conducted the show very well and made the audience sing, clap, wave and even dance. He told the students that they could always contact him online at his e-mail barry@schoolcircle.com. He said, ‘‘The kids need to listen carefully to everyone from grandma tales to books, newspapers, class room lectures and the TV. They also need to keep a record of all the information they keep collecting and go through it from time to time.’’ 

Prize distribution function
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Nov 28 — To bring down the rate of unemployment, efforts are being made to vocationalise education at the senior secondary level. The rural youth need to be given such a training that would help them earn by means of self-employment.

This was stated by Mr Charanjit Singh Atwal, Speaker, Vidhan Sabha, at the 15th prize distribution function of Khalsa Model School, Meharbaan village, here today. He said that during the past year, Rs 11 crore had been spent on the construction and renovation of primary school buildings.

Mr Atwal gave away the prizes to the students who secured top positions in the last session. Principal Lakhbir Kaur read the school annual report. 

Youth festival for PG students
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Nov 28 — The three-day Zonal Youth Festival for the postgraduate students of 18 colleges was inaugurated at Guru Hargobind Khalsa College, Gurusar Sadhar, here today.

The chief guest on the occasion, Cdr R.S. Bhogal, Air Force Station, Halwara, lit the lamp.

While the contests for shabad, Bhajan, group and Vaar singing were held in the morning session, those for geet, ghazels, folk songs and quiz were held in the afternoon session.

The results of the contests are: Shabad or Bhajan singing: Ramgarhia Girls College (1), Government College for Girls, Chandigarh (2) and DAV College, Abohar (3).

Individual prizes for shabad: Ritu from GCG College, Chandigarh (1), Amarpreet Kaur, Ramgarhia Girls College (2) and Gurcharan Singh from DAV College, Abohar, and Amandeep Kaur from Guru Hargobind Khalsa College, Gurusar Sadhar (3).

Group singing: DAV College, Abohar (1), Ramgarhia Girls College (2) and GHG Khalsa College for Women, Gurusar Sadhar (3).

Individual prizes for group singing: Navneet from Ramgarhia Girls College (1) Pritpal from DAV College, Abohar (2) and Shalini from GCG, Chandigarh (3).

Vaar: Guru Hargobind Khalsa College, Gurusar Sadhar (1), GCG, Chandigarh (2) and Khalsa College for Women (3).

Individual prizes for Vaar: Harinderjit from Khalsa College for Women (1), Kulbir Kaur from Guru Hargobind Khalsa College, Gurusar Sadhar (2) and Jyoti Virk, GCG, Chandigarh (3). 

Declamation contest organised
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Nov 28 — The district-level declamation contest of the members of youth clubs running under the patronage of the Department of Extension, PAU, in Ludhiana district, was held at Government Senior School, Bandala.

While inaugurating the contest, Dr S.S. Sokhi, Additional Director of Extension Education, PAU, said that such activities help in giving direction to the rural youth. He advised the young boys and girls to conserve the natural biodiversity of their area so as to maintain the balance in the environment. About 27 students took part in the contest and spoke on different topics like pollution of the environment, problems of education, social evils, population explosion etc.

The eminent Punjabi poet ,Surjit Singh Pattar, was the judge on the occasion and he advised the youth to always remain in high spirits and the nation has great hopes on them. He said that the youth of today is intelligent and they should fully harness their potential.

Ms Navneet Kaur of Shaheen Baba Khushal Senior Secondary School, Hambra, got first position while Mr. Amandeep Singh of the same school got third position. Ms Ankita of Government High School, Bandala, got the second position.

Antakshri by Asian Club
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Nov 28 — Asian Club International organised an inter- class antakshri competition at Arya College yesterday. The musical programme was inaugurated by Mr V.K. Mehta, Principal of the college.

Four teams with three members and five supporters in each team participated. The organisers had arranged five rounds for the participants. The game started with the traditional round and was followed by the ''word'' round in which a particular word was given to the participants and they had to start the song with that word. However, the students were little confused with the antra-mukhda round.

Then came a good mixture of suspense and laughter when the students guessed the ulat-pulat round. It was basically a jumbled word round and the audience had real fun during the round. The translation round added flavour to the event with some of the participants making wrong guesses.

Special questions were prepared for the audience and 23 prizes were given to them.

Famous Punjabi actress Sarabjit Mangat was honoured on the occasion and the two songs which she performed during the event were appreciated by all. The show was prepared by Mr Ravi Nandan Sharma and Mr Sukhminder Singh compered it.

NCC camp organised
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Nov 28 — To mark the Harmony Week, a one-day NCC camp was organised at the Devki Devi Jain Memorial College for Women here today.

More than 100 students participated in the camp and 19 of them took part in the paper-reading contest on the topics of Role of women in Indian Society, Communication — a threat to Indian Society, Problem of illiteracy, Need of secularism in India, National integration and Pollution.

Aditi of Class XI stood first, Saloni Walia of BA (I) was declared second and Shivani Katyal of BA (I) third. Ms Sudesh Sharma, Principal, gave away the prizes to the students. All the NCC volunteers took the pledge to strengthen the national unity.

COURTS

SHO summoned
Tribune News Service

LUDHIANA, Nov 28 — The Civil Judge, Mr Gurnam Singh, has summoned the SHO, Mr Jatinder Singh Khaira, to his court on December 22 and to file reply in a contempt of court complaint filed against him.