Exhibition at DAV School held
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 6
An exhibition of science, art and craft was held at DAV Public School here today. The exhibition was a blend of the scientific technologies and students' aesthetic sense. Mr G.S. Julka, GM Telecom inaugurated the exhibition and had a look at students' creativity.

In his address, Mr Julka lauded the efforts of the teachers and students for making the event a success. The science faculty of the school put up a grand show in the form of 200 models (working as well as non-working) and charts. The working models of human heart, radio-set, inverter, slides on open heart surgery etc attracted all the visitors whereas skywave communication and telephone network became the cynosure of every eye.

The creativity of juniors who worked on different themes according to their class-like health and hygiene, habitat of animals, water conservation to name a few spoke volumes about the budding scientists. There was a beeline at the corner where the would be pathologists were busy determining the blood group and HB count of people. The live model-Vishal Gupta, who was a human calculator demonstrated his skill which left people spellbound. The other live models of vegetables and fruits talked to the people about the importance of vegetarian diet for healthy living.

The display by the art faculty added colour to the campus where about 1000 posters on theme of AIDS, Drugs, Dowry, Pollution etc cried loud for the social cause. Each landscape was vying with the other for attention. The craft section was a wonderful display of ingenuity of the students who made best out of waste, decoration material, artistic rangoli designs, Rajasthani Craft and cushion covers etc. The various forms of painting, doll making, wall hangings, Pop work gave lessons to many a visitors in Interior decoration and artistic display.

Students also gave a live demonstration on how to make the best out of waste. The school organised an embroidery competition for the girls of V to IX standard in which about 30 girls participated. The visitors to the exhibition were full of appreciation for the talent of students.

NCC Day celebrated
Our Correspondent

Mandi Ahmedgarh, December 6
NCC Day was celebrated at local Anand Isher Senior Secondary School on Monday. It was presided over by Mr Kartar Singh, Principal of the school, and Lt-Col S.S. Saini, Commanding Officer of the 19 Punjab battalion, was the chief guest.

Addressing the cadets and students of the school, Lt-Col Saini claimed that Punjab had contributed the largest share in the defence forces of the nation. “Though there had been apprehensions about the crisis in the management of the NCC in the state during the past years but the same has now been overcome,” said Lt Col Saini. He said the crisis was partly due to the financial constraints in the state only and the Centre had been contributing its share regularly.

Lt Col Saini called upon the leaders of the various social organisations to impress upon the managements of private schools to start NCC in their respective schools so that a disciplined class of youth was prepared to fight for the cause of nation.

Besides recognising the contribution of all the cadets, Sergeant Charandeep Singh, Shiv Sahib Puri, Jaskanwal Deep Singh, Gur Iqbal Singh, Manmohan Singh, Jaspreet Singh and Simranjit Singh (all cadets) were felicitated for outstanding performances at various camps held during the current academic year.

COURTS

DBA gears up for elections
Legal Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 6
A large number of candidates aspiring to win in the elections to the District Bar Association have stolen a march over their opponents by starting their campaign even before filing their nominations. The filing of nominations would start tomorrow.

The polls, scheduled to be held on December 20, were keenly contested each year. In view of the high stakes in the over 1200-strong body, candidates were leaving no chance to ensure their victory and had already started campaining and distributing pamphlets and among the voters.

The present incumbent - Mr Balwinder Goel — was once again in the fray for the post of President.

He had already started his door-to-door campaign much before the appointment of the Returning Officer and Assistant Returning Officer.

The second contender for the post of DBA presidentship was Mr Dev Raj Sharma. He was also trying to persuade the voters in his favour.

Till now, Mr Harish Rai Dhanda, Member Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana, who had headed the DBA for more than five times did not seem to be in race for the presidentship. Sources claimed that his supporters were urging him to contest the elections.

The vice-president of DBA, Mr Nagesh Singh Gill, had also decided to try his luck for the same post again. Mr Gurdeep Singh Gill and Mr P.L. Anand were also trying to woo the voters for the vice-presidentship.

For the post of secretary, Mr Kamaljit Singh Bajwa and Mr Rana Harjasdeep Singh had announced their candidature. Mr Kamaljit Singh Bajwa was today given a good response by lawyers in Sales Tax Bar Association, when he went there with the former Bar Secretary, Mr T.P.S. Dhaliwal and others.

Mr Rajesh Mourya, executive member of DBA, had decided to try for the post of Joint Secretary. He had started his campaigning for a long time back. Mr S.P. Singh and Mr Kuldeep Singh Mand would also contest for the same post.

Mr Deepak Rana was a contender for the post of finance secretary. Six executive members were to be elected but till now nobody had started campaigning.

The process of filing of nomination papers would start tomorrow. The last date for filing nomination papers had been fixed as December 10.

HEALTH

World AIDS Day observed
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 6
Volunteers of the NSS unit of the College of Agriculture, College of Horticulture Science and College of Agricultural Engineering of the Punjab Agricultural University observed World AIDS Day by organising awareness camps held in various parts of the district.

Dr K.S. Verma, Programme Coordinator, NSS, informed that the objective of the camps was to create awareness among the youth about some basic facts relating to HIV/AIDS to equip them, educate the people especially the rural people about various modes of spread and effective methods of prevention against this most dreaded and fast spreading lifestyle disease.

The main feature of the camp comprised an informative talk by Mr K.J. Singh, who was recently trained under the University Talk-AIDS workshop organised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports at Dalhousie besides a poster-making competition. The status of the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS was adjudged by getting a questionnaire attempted from volunteers both before and after the talk.

He said it was noteworthy that both male and female volunteers took keen interest in the talk and showed significant improvement in their level of awareness. The volunteers came out with excellent ideas on AIDS awareness through posters which were evaluated by a team of judges.

The camps were held under the supervision of Dr Damanjit Kaur, Mr Sandeep Singh, Mr N.K. Chhuneja and Ms Deepka Vig, Programme officers.

A comprehensive report to this effect will be submitted to the NSS Regional Centre, Kendriya Sadan, Chandigarh, for onward transmission to the ministry concerned.