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HAMARA
SCHOOL “Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. It is the best of all devices for feeling for one’s peers. It is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.” Keeping this in mind, the Hero Group of Industries felt that it should provide educational facilities by opening a school for the coming generations when Westernisation was influencing India culture. To meet this social need, the group opened BCM Senior Secondary School in Sector 32-A, Urban Estate, Ludhiana, on 6.2 acres in April, 1996, from nursery to Class VI with a strength of 415 students. The present school strength is 3,110 from nursery to Class XII, with all streams — medical, non-medical, commerce and humanities. The school is ideally situated in healthy surroundings. In order to achieve the objective of individual attention and child-centered education, the number of students per section is limited to 40. Diagnostic remedial work is done for weak students doing school hours. Students’ inherent aesthetic ability is tapped and enhanced through activities like glass painting, pot decoration, embossing embroidery, knitting, etc. Separate computer rooms for junior and senior classes provide abundant chance to students to discover and comprehend vast knowledge through CDs and Internet facility. To provide library facility to its budding and young scholars, there are 12,200 books, 36 periodicals, eight newspapers, encyclopaedias, reference books and dictionaries, which provide ample opportunity to discover knowledge, facts and figures right from nursery to Class XII. The school has sprawling playgrounds for basketball, handball, volleyball, lawn tennis, badminton, skating, etc. The school boasts of floodlight facility in basketball and badminton courts. Planting saplings, weeding, and watering of plants keep students close to Mother Nature. In order to explore students’ calibre in various fields, various inter-house activities, like quiz, debates, mime, sports activities, greeting card competition, motto writing, etc. are organised each Wednesday in junior and senior sections. In order to inculcate healthy competitive feelings among their classmates, inter-section activities like flower arrangement, rangoli competition, poem recitation, declaration, calligraphy, etc., are organised every Saturday. The school lays special emphasis on moral and religious education through various programmes. Students energetically participate in various inter-school, zonal and district-level activities. In the cultural heritage Indian quiz 2002, organised by CBSE, only two schools were selected out of 32 for the zonal level in the written test. including BCM. This year, school students participated in maths and science olympiad and the National Talent Science Search Competition . |
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‘Individual’s
energy must be converted
He has introduced a five minute silence period for everyone in the school to “detach” from the family and “attach” with the school environment. This silence helps in discipline and brings students closer to the teachers and vice versa. “Process of discipline brings by disciplining yourself” he says. In this regard if Mr Kalia sees a paper littering the school campus, he picks it up himself and the results are gratifying as the ground is always spotless. Everyone including the Principal, on entering, touch the threshold of school in reverence, thus making them have a sense of belonging to the institution. 8On education The inherent qualities of a student are discovered by training experience of qualified teachers through education. The CBSE education provides a uniform platform for content, methodology, and administration of teaching. However, education is more bookish presently. It should prepare the students for life and equip them to face the difficulties in life.Recently there has been a explosion of knowledge and the teachers have to be more innovative.
The school has a multi-cultural composition with students from as far as Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Most of the students are from workers’ families and from diverse backgrounds. Hence, the school has adopted a total secular outlook. On two days, the students sing bhajans, while on the next two days, they recite shabads. On Fridays, a hymn or passage from Bible is read and on Saturdays a patrotic song is sung. ‘Havans’ are performed classwise every Saturday. Religious swamis also give talks on moral valurs. Mr Kalia’s oft-quoted remark is by Vivekanand, “An ounce of action is better than tons of thoughts.”  |
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Poems by students My Barbie doll
My Barbie is a great beauty, she make the cake so pretty. Her hair are very long my father bought her from Hongkong. She also has a pretty nighty. She is my best friend, and this is my first poems and its end Silky Bhasin, Class VII-C If you want If you want to be great never depend on your fate. If you want to search God Love humanity instead of going to church. I you want to be a flower, your studies must be regular. If you want to talk to moon, become a electric engineer soon. If you want to be intelligent and wise, please get up before sunrise. If you want to prove a gem, quickely join our
BCM. I promise, people will respect for your sure. Anubhav Sharma, Class V-C My dear teacher O’My dear teacher you are so nice, you are so good,that you deserve a grand piza O ‘My dear teacher you give me so much power without you, i do not think I could have gone that far. O’ My dear teacher How caring you are! You too build our character you take care of us. O’ My dear teacher, you are so kind a great person like you. I will never find O’My dear teacher You are like a precious gem, without you my life would be like a root without a stem. Pawandeep Singh, Class VI-A Poverty Poverty! Poverty! Poverty! what is this? Poverty1 Poverty! Poverty it is hell which does not keep a person well. Poverty! Poverty! Poverty! How it can be reduced? by children less than two poverty is reduced Gagandeep, Class IX-A Passion of
cricket Cricket is fun, only when Tendulkar is making run, Or when Afridi is in fix. Dravid hits a wonderful six And when Haque is out at zero. Jadeja is made the Hero When Akram thinks to take cup of Cricket Prasad takes away his wicket. When Kumble receives the cup of cricket Akhtar still dreams if he can take any more wickets. so cricket is fun only when India has won Saloni, Class VII-A |
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Art-and-craft exhibition Ludhiana, December 22 The results of the three groups in the rangoli competitions were: Senior girls: Srishti and Anny Narang (1), Sarika and Deepti (2) and Megha and Rani (3); junior girls: Nandini (1), Priya (2) and Neha Sachdeva and Sunita (3); and boys: Hitesh (1), Abhineet Godayal (2) and Pawan Panchal (3). The other part of the show was an art and craft exhibition. Himalayas made in wax by Kumar Shantanu won the first prize, while Smiley (fabric printing), Mukta (soft toys), Narmeet (Ganesh), Karan Gupta (swapan kutir) also stood first. The results of exhibition: Jhoomar: Razy Saini (1), Sarika (2) and Chandni (3); pot painting: Teena (1), Nidhi (2) and Aditi and Priayanka (3); art and craft: Kumar Shantano (1), Avtish (2) and Tamanna (3); flower basket: Chandri Chaudhry (1), Neha and Drishti (2) and Shiva (3); scenery: Priya Jain (1), Narmeet (2) and Gurleen and Neha (3); and soft toys: Mukta (1), Ratul Soni (2) and Deepika (3). |
Forum rejects PSEB demand Ludhiana, December 22 While disposing off the appeal by the PSEB, the President of the commission, Mr Justice H.S. Brar, upheld the order of the forum on the basis that the spot checking report, produced by the PSEB as evidence, did not bear the signature of the consumer. The PSEB also failed to prove that the consumer was present during the spot checking. Similarly, the report of the ME laboratory where the meter of the consumer was checked, was also without the signatures of the consumer. “As per rules of the electricity board, a notice was to be given to the consumer to be present at the time of checking of the meter in laboratory. The consumer was never joined in the checking of the meter”. The order further observed that in these circumstances, the PSEB was not justified in raising the demand and the forum had rightly quashed the demand. “For the reasons recorded above, we do not find any infirmity in the order of the district forum, which is hereby affirmed. The appeal stands dismissed with a cost of Rs 1,000,” the commission ruled. The appellant and the respondent were represented by Ms Dilarj Kaur and Mr S.S. Sarna, respectively.
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‘Only local lawyers
should vote in Bar poll’ Ludhiana, December 22
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Garhwalis
present cultural programme Ludhiana,
December 22 The president of the sabha, Mr Vikram Pundeer, said they had made special efforts to get best artistes. The popular singers of many hit songs in Garhwali, Preetam Bharatvaan and Meens Rana, made the crowds happy. The secretary of the sabha said the famous dance of Chomoli Garhwal was going to be presented by Nanda Devi. The president,
secretary and organiser of the Garhwal Kalyan Sabha, Shiv Singh, Mangal Singh Rawat and Manwar Singh, respectively, said local artistes would be performing besides the artistes from other cities. Mr Tej Parkash Singh, Minister of Transport, was the chief guest on the occasion. Mr Malkit Singh Dakha, MLA, and two councillors Mr Hemraj Aggarwal (Ward No.1) and Ms Amarjit Kaur (Ward No 2), were also present on the occasion. Mr Brijinder Singh Rawat Dagarya and Mr Shashi Bhushan Paras had conducted the stage. |
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Sufi group from Iran to regale audience Ludhiana, December 22 The National Convention of SPIC MACAY is being supported by GRD Academy and Ludhiana Sanskritik Samagam. More than 500 students would reach here to participate in the convention. Mr Navin Talwar, co-ordinator, SPIC MACAY, said the students would be provided free board and lodging. Local students would also be attending the convention. On December 24 registration will start from 6am to 6pm. Interested people can get free entry cards from LSS counter set up at GRD everyday between 4pm and 6pm. A seven-member Rumi Sufi from Iran would perform on the first day followed by a performance by Ustad Allauddin Khan on ‘Dilruba Esraj’, an instrument created by him. Christmas will be marked by dances. Padambhushan Uma Sharma would give a kathak performance to be followed by a Kutiyattam performance by Gopal Venu and his group. The last day would witness performances on the sarod by Ayaan and Amaan (sons of Amjad Ali Khan) and santoor mastero Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma. The performances would begin at 7.30pm. All artistes with the exception of Rumi singers, would later perform at Harvallabh Mela in Jalandhar. These artistes would hold workshops for students an pottery, kala kari etc.
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Mr Shivdatta Kalia, Principal, has a clear-cut vision and pursues it single-mindedly. He says, “Hardest stone must be in the foundation”. He tries to be the hardest stone of the foundation and absorbs all jolts and shocks. He spends practically the whole day in the school, arriving an hour earlier, supervising evening games. An educationist to the core, he was a lecturer in B. Ed College in Jalandhar, and has been the principal of BCM since 1997.
