EDUCATION

Mayor honours 100 MCD teachers
Tribune News Service

New Deli, September 5
Mayor Ashok Kumar Jain today honoured 100 MCD schoolteachers on the occasion of Teacher’s Day at a function organised in the Capital. These teachers have been selected for their meritorious performance and have been awarded a cash prize of Rs 5,000, a merit certificate and an insignia each.

Speaking on the occasion, the Mayor said all municipal schools would be provided dual desks and all classes being run in tents would be replaced by pucca classrooms.

He also assured that the MCD was committed to provide good environment to students studying in their primary schools. Chairman of the Standing Committee Ram Babu Sharma announced that computer education would be provided to students from October 2, and in the initial phase of the programme, five schools in each zone will be covered.

In a related development, the New Delhi Municipal Council also announced the names of 12 teachers for this years’ NDMC Teacher’s Awards. These teachers are being awarded for their meritorious performance in the field of education and co-curricular activities.

The teachers selected for the awards are Ms Chnadrwati, NP Nursery School, Pandara Road, Mrs P. Bhandari, principal, MNP Boys Senior Secondary School, Mandir Marg, Mrs Khima, TGT, Bapu Dham, Mrs Surinder Chaddha, GT, Havlock Sqaure, Mrs Sunita Bhasin, assistant teacher, Gole Market, Mrs Raj Kumari, nursery teacher, NP School, Netaji Nagar, Mrs Pushpa Bagga, TGT (Music), Navyug School, Peshwa Road, Mr Adarsh Juneja, PET, Navyug School, Sarojini Nagar, Mr O. Prakash, senior music teacher, NP School, Moti Bagh, Mr Sri Datt Sharma, music teacher, NP School, Gole Market, Mr Anil Gupta, lecturer, NP Boys School, Mandir Marg, and Mr R. K. Bhardwaj, lecturer, NP Bengali Girls Senior Secondary School, Gole Market.

CULTURE

Deepak Trikha invited to stage play in Lahore
Our Correspondent

Rohtak, September 5
Mr Vishav Deepak Trikha, an eminent theatre artiste and director of the famous comedy play, Gadhe ki Barat, has been invited to stage his play in the “World Performing and Visual Arts Festival” to be held at Lahore (Pakistan) from October 17 to October 26.

Mr Trikha claimed that it was the only play from Haryana, which had established itself as a masterpiece of healthy entertainment and had been staged 152 times all over the country by now.

He said he had got this invitation from the same organisation in 2001 but the play could not be staged as the Theatre Festival was cancelled in view of the attack on World Trade Centre and the subsequent discontinuation of the bus and rail services.

Mr Faizaan Peerzada, organiser of the festival and president of Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop, in his letter to Mr Trikha, stated that he had organised 14 international theatre, dance, music and puppet festivals in which around 3,000 artistes from 350 groups of 56 countries had participated since 1992.