Hamara School
Stress on moral education
Asha Ahuja

GUPTA Model High School is based on the principle of universal brotherhood. Guided by the message of the Bhagwadgita, the school was founded in 1982 and from a modest beginning it has made progress with the efforts of Mrs Simmi Gupta, daughter of the founder Principal, late Surinder Gupta.

The school has a tradition of inculcating book culture, etiquettes, unity and integrity among students. The school aims at developing qualities of leadership in students with emphasis on character building and discipline. It organises a number of co-curricular activities like quiz, debate, declamation and painting for the proper growing of students. The school has got 100 per cent results for the past three years. The school has excelled in all spheres of education and won laurels for its social and voluntary services.

The school provides day boarding facility, a hygienically operated canteen, a well-equipped science laboratory, audio-visual aids, a well-stocked library and computer education facility with job-oriented courses. 

Principalspeak
Imparting practical knowledge our aim

As the principal and captain of a ship, I am putting in efforts for the overall development of students. My aim is to make the school the best school in the state as desired by my father, who died seven years ago.

The teachers aim at imparting practical knowledge to students and do not concentrate only on theory. We hold regular parent-teacher meetings as we feel that parents must be apprised of their children’s progress. At times, parents provide valuable inputs.

“A school is not a teaching shop. Besides imparting bookish knowledge, our aim is to provide moral education to students so that we can give good citizens to society,” says Mrs Simmi Gupta.

COURTS

Dealer penalised for selling car of older make
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 29
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has penalised a local car dealer — Stan Autos, located at Sherpur Chowk — and directed it to pay Rs 20,000 to the aggrieved consumer for selling him a car of an older make.

Pronouncing the orders, Mr A.S. Narula, president, Mr T.R. Arora and Ms Puja Dewan, members of the forum, directed the car dealer to pay the compensation within one month of the receipt of the order.

The order was issued on a complaint filed by Dr N.K.Anand of Amritsar.

The complainant had submitted that he had purchased a Maruti car (Zen ) on January 8, 2003 from the car dealer. At the time of purchase, the car was stated to be that of latest model and manufactured in 2003. Trusting the car dealer, the car was purchased for Rs 3,81,587.95.

The car dealer also charged “enhanced price of the new model” as manufactured in 2003. The client then approached the District Transport Officer, Amritsar, for registration of the car and submitted the documents. After verifying the documents and inspecting the car, officials of the department confirmed that the car was that of 2002 make and not 2003, as claimed by the dealer. Thereafter, registration number and registration certificate were issued, mentioning therein the manufacturing year of the car as 2002 and not 2003, which depreciated the market value of the car, the complainant added.

Consequently, Maruti Udyog Ltd and the car dealer refuted the allegations of complainant. The car dealer claimed that the complainant was told about the 2002 make of the car at the time of its sale. However, on the request of the complainant, the model of the car was mentioned as that of 2003 make, as he had purchased it in January, 2003.

But the forum rejected the plea of the car dealer with the observation: “The contention of the counsel for respondent that this model of 2003 was mentioned at the instance of complainant does not hold good. This oral version of the respondent cannot be believed in any manner whatsoever.”

HEALTH

2,000 booths to be set up for polio drops
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 29
The district health administration will put up 2,000 booths in the district for administration of polio drops in two phases on April 10 and May 15. This was stated by the Civil Surgeon, Dr Rajinder Kaur, at a district level pulse polio workshop for Senior Medical Officers and other health officials here today.

She said the department would cover the entire 5 lakh children population in the 0-5 age group in the district.

Besides medical and paramedical staff of the health department, the workshop was attended by representatives of many hospitals in the district and functionaries of the Indian Medical Association and the Indian Association of Paediatrics.

Dr D.S. Dadwal, a representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO), who had come to address the workshop, outlined the strategy for the vaccination programme. He stressed the need for special focus on children from poor families in slums and other under-developed colonies in the city.

Meanwhile, Dr Manorama Awasthy, District Family Welfare Officer, said in a family planning camp organised at Raghunath Hospital here today, 50 sterilisation operations were performed. The Aggar Nagar Society distributed free medicines and blankets to those coming forward for operations.