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Sacred Heart team to attend seminar in Guwahati
Ludhiana, December 18 District Science Supervisor Varinder Kumar Sharma had motivated them to take this project and do a research on it. The team members, Sidhant Srivastava, Parag Jain, Prabh Kiran Singh, Leon Bassi of Class X and Japji Singh of Class XI, along with their science teacher, Ms Amrinder Kaur, started their project three months ago. Ms Amrinder Kaur said,”These students volunteered in spite of preparing for their board examination. We visited the neighbouring Barewal village and got support from villagers, especially the Secretary, Development Committee, Mr Charanjit Singh.” Parag and Prabh are preparing a presentation in computers for the finals.
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Workshop on technology and communication
Our Correspondent
Ludhiana, December 18 Dr Veena Gian Mann Singh, Head, Post-graduate Department of Hindi, spoke on “Positive attitude”, while Dr Paramjeet Kaur, Head, Department of Home Science, spoke on “Presentation skills”. Mr Kundan Kamboj, Head, Computer Department, delivered a lecture on “Use of projector in teaching” and Ms Ranjana Sood, Head, Department of Economics, spoke on “Practical application of teachers”. Community service
week
As part of the ongoing community service week, BCM College of Education organised a blood donation camp in collaboration with Oswal Hospital here today. Mr B.K. Gupta, Assistant Commissioner, municipal corporation, was the chief guest. Staff members also donated blood. About 30 students donated blood. Some teachers from BCM Senior Secondary School also donated blood. Declamation
contest
With a view to creating awareness in budding pharmacy professionals, a seminar and a declamation contest were organised at the Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College of Pharmacy here today. The topics were “Pharmacist — a link between doctor and society”, and “Computers in aid of a pharmacist”. Ms Shefali Gupta of a pharmaceuticals company, outlined the role of a community pharmacist. She said a pharmacist should inspire patients. Fifteen students participated in the declamation contest. Sudhir stood first, Manpreet and Preet Kanwal second, and Ramita third. Shiani was awarded a consolation prize.
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Army school celebrates annual day
Ludhiana, December 18 In harmony with the surroundings of the military station, issues related to environment dominated the proceedings. The chief guest, Brig B. Chakravarty, Station Commander of Ludhiana Military Station, gave away prizes to outstanding students in academics and extra-curricular activities. Gifts were also distributed to all participants of the programme.
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Lok Adalats settle disputes of over Rs 2 cr
Ludhiana, December 18 A Bench headed by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Sarabjit Singh Dhaliwal, settled cases involving disputes of around
Rs 2.20 crore including bank loan cases.
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Workshop on adolescence
Doraha, December 18 Ms Jaspreet Kaur, secretary, organising committee, welcomed and introduced the team to parents and children. The team spoke on examination stress, nutrition and good health, good parenting and life skills. There were two sessions, the first general sessions was attended by the parents, teachers and students. In the second session, boys and girls had separate interaction with the doctors regarding their personal problems. Dr Parveen Sobti counselled the girls and boys were counselled by Dr Sibia, Dr Sukhmeet and Dr Chawla. This inspiring session had an overwhelming response from the students. It was entirely a new experience for the students. It was for the first time that such a workshop was organised at Doraha. The school Principal, Mr Matthew
Varghese, thanked the doctors and assured the parents and the students that the school would arrange such a workshop once in four months so that the youngsters would be able to face the challenges of the society with a confidence. The other dignitaries present on the occasion were the chairman, Mr Sukhpal Singh, the Director, Mrs Umal Kaur.
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Teams from 27 states arrive for national games
Ludhiana, December 18 Kho-kho matches were on in full swing at many different venues.This correspondent met girls and boys in three categories from Karnataka playing kho-kho matches at Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Bharat Nagar Chowk, this afternoon. In another court Rajasthan girls were playing against the Punjab team. But Rajasthani coaches felt that they were not getting a fair deal as the two referees were from Punjab. Mr Girdhari Singh and Mr Nand Kishore from Rajasthan felt that referees from other states should have been deployed . When officials were asked about this, they said: “Organisers have nothing to do with it . Referees have been deployed by the School Games Federation of India
(SGFI) beforehand.” Girls from Chhattisgarh had come to Punjab earlier and were happy to be back once again. But one of them said, “We are not given any quilt but a ‘dari’ on such a cold night. We managed with blankets that we had brought from home. We are hoping that we will get quilts tonight. We are 36 girls in our team. But there is only one bathroom and two
latrines. We wish there were more. But we are happy with the food for it is different and more delicious.” The boys and girls were all in excitement for the formal opening of the games tomorrow.
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