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Remembering ‘Chacha’ with fun and frolic
Chandigarh, November 14 Sri Guru Gobind Singh Collegiate Public School: Sports activities, including frog race, sack race, spoon race, tie your laces and colour identification for juniors, were held on the occasion. Girls of senior classes enjoyed matka race whereas boys displayed skills in slow cycling. Shishu Niketan Model Senior Secondary School: Sports events and fun-filled games for students were organised in the school. The programme started with a colourful drill by students of nursery and KG. Ajit Karam Singh International Public School, Sector 45: Morning assembly at the school was one long hour of fun -filled activities. Children participated in various races and danced to foot tapping music. The special attraction of the day was the balloon race. Sri Guru Harkrishan Model School: An on-the-spot painting competition and a seminar on "The legal rights of children" was organised in collaboration with PGI Child Line. Mr Gurmeet Singh, from the state Legal Services Authority, told the children and their parents about the main function of Lok Adalat and free legal aid available to children and women. MDAV School, Sector 22:
Students and teachers spoke
about the day’s significance. An interactive session which included
patriotic songs and a speech by the principal was held.
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sector 31: Students of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sector 31, celebrated Children’s Day with gaiety and gusto on Monday. While students of secondary classes exhibited skills in rangoli making, fresh flower arrangements and dry flower arrangements, students of the primary section took part in the fancy dress competition. Tender Heart School: The playgroup children participated in various sport events like tricycle race, frog hopping, monkey race and engine shunting. Mount Carmel School, Sector 47: Students of classes V to X took part in various competitions and contests held at ‘LECMA’, 3 BRD Air Force Station. Students of primary classes participated in various competitions, including craft, dry/fresh flower arrangement, plants/ferns and leaves arrangement. Rai School: Colourfully dressed kids had a rollicking time at the fancy dress contest for students of primary classes. Senior students participated in contests like tongue twisters, musical chairs, tug-of-war. Chitkara International School: It was a day of music, dance for the children at the school. The students were told about Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru’s life and works and a fancy dress show was organised for tiny tots. Chitkara College of Education for Women (CCEW) celebrated Children’s Day on Monday. Students delivered speeches themed on Chacha Nehru. A series of events, including dumb charades, fancy dress, mock press conference. Mohali The Generation Saviour Association, an NGO working in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, organised a cycle rally by school students on Children’s Day here on Monday. Ms Amteshwer Kaur, president of the association, said the main objective of the rally was to impress upon the government to implement ban on glamorising smoking in films and on TV. Shemrock Senior secondary School: The day started with a cross-country race followed by drawing and painting competitions. Golden Bells Public School, Sector-77: The programme commenced with recital of a shabad ‘mitya andhera chaman chadya’, followed by prayer by the teachers. Speeches were delivered by the teachers making the students aware of the teachings and values of Guru Nanak and Jawaharlal Nehru. One minute games, fancy-dress competition, open quiz, antakshri, tug-of-war were the activities which tested the creativity and ingenuity during the function. Jan Shikshan Sansthan: Mr Dildar Khan, Director in-charge of the sansthan, explained the importance of the day. An on-the-spot painting competition and a debate on "Should education be made compulsory for all upto 14 years of age" was organised. Skits, competitions and various other fun filled activities were organised in several other schools, including Shastri Model School, St. Soldier’s International convent School, Phase VII, Small Wnders School, Phase VII, Swami Ram Tiratha Public High School, doon International School, and Genius Public School, sector 69. Panchkula Doon Valley Public School: Fun games like forward and backward running, skipping, sack, spoon and lemon races were organised at the school to mark Children’s Day. New India Senior Secondary School: All students from nursery to Plus II classes took part in the celebrations. The school was divided into four houses for the contests. Primary students participated in fancy dress competition, solo songs and dances, news paper reading. The senior students took part in declamation, solo-dance, group dance and rangoli competition, word making. Satluj Public School: The celebrations began with speeches on the significance of celebrating the day. Students highlighted Pt. Nehru’s political and literary achievements. A mini athletic meet was also organised. DAV Senior Secondary Public School: A fancy dress competition was held at the school. Kendriya Vidyalaya No II, Chandimandir Cantt: Children’s Day and birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev ji were celebrated in true spirit at the school on Monday. A fancy dress show was held while students of senior classes participated in shabad recital. Hansraj Public School organised a variety of activities on the occasion of Children’s Day on Monday. The students were shown a movie and they also participated in fun games organised specially for them. Blue Bird High School: The school was decorated with charts, roses, and buntings on the occasion of Children’s Day on Monday. On this occasion Camel colour painting contest was organised. DAV Senior Public School, Surajpur: A fancy dress competition was organised for the students of nursery and kindergarten as part of the Children’s Day celebrations. Jean Rodrigues spends time with children: It was an exciting and thrilling experience for about 500 kids of Dadu Majra Colony to find Ms Jean Rodrigues, wife of Punjab Governor and the UT Administrator, in their midst to celebrate Children’s Day and offering them delicious food gift packets, sweets and toys at Fun Republic, here on Monday. Ms Rodrigues, after joining the cake cutting ceremony with the children, interacted with them, blessed them and shared their childhood experiences with them. This mentorship programme has been sponsored by Platinum Honda. The children were also shown the movie "Hanuman".
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200 Niper students awarded degrees
Mohali, November 14 Dr V Krishnamurthy, Chairman, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC), delivered the convocational address. He underlined the importance of the pharmaceutical industry in country’s economy and appraised the students about the steps initiated by the NMCC to improve manufacturing capabilities of the pharmaceutical sector. He stressed that research and innovation were the primary drivers for pharmaceutical industry, as it was a knowledge-driven industry. Highlighting the changed patent scenario in India, he pointed out that “effective utilisation of intellectual property rights, particularly patents, had acquired great importance for technology upgradation, growth of the industry, wealth creation and gaining international competitiveness”. Delivering the presidential address, Dr Nitya Nand, acting chairman of the NIPER Board of Governors, said the pharmaceutical sciences to (education and research) was not only highly multidisciplinary, but also multi-professional. “The Indian pharma industry had made remarkable progress and has emerged as a source of low cost quality drugs for not only India but for the entire world, including to the largest and most regulated markets of USA, Japan and Europe. However, we are now in the post-WTO joining era which throws big challenges before us both for R and D for new drug discovery research and process technology. Earlier in his inaugural speech, Prof P Rama Rao, Director, NIPER, spoke on the innovative educational tools NIPER had adopted to encourage inter-disciplinary interaction amongst the students. As many as 24 students were given Ph.D. degrees during the convocation.
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Computer literacy award for DAV-8
Chandigarh, November 14 The award comprises of a trophy along with a cash prize of Rs 1.5 lakh and will be handed over to the school at a function on December 7 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. An elated Principal, Ms Sarita Manuja, says,”The award comes as a consequence of team work and total participation of the school faculty in the innovative computer programs initiated in the past three years.” While computer-aided learning has been implemented in classrooms to supplement information in books, the school has taken IT beyond its school portals to slum children. “We are training children from slum areas to operate computers and familiarise themselves with the basics during summer vacation and after school hours. Another club, Koshih, is trying to promote computer literacy among other schools of the city,” she adds. The Principal and staff maintain that the award only emphasises the fact that the number of machines in a computer lab don’t matter at all. “What really matters is their optimum utilisation and a team of the ministry which visited our school found that these were being used during and after school hours. The fact that all our staff members were not only computer literate but using them in everyday teaching also impressed the members. That’s probably what got us this prize,” the Principal maintains.
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Panchkula reverberates with ragas
Panchkula, November 14 The young upcoming classical vocalist, Aditya Sharma, commenced the concert with an explicit exposition of raga Shree, — the oldest Indian raga. He presented a composition ‘ gazrava bajo re..’ in ‘Vilabat gat’ and ‘Tilwara taal’ before proceeding to a bandish in ‘drut’ ‘Ae ri vo to aas naa’ was set to teen taal. Later, the world famous maestro, Vidhyadhar Vyas , presently the Chancellor of the Bhatkhande University took the centre stage and regaled the audience with evening ragas. He chose to explain the features and nuances of the ragas like ‘Yaman’ and more complex ‘Chhaya nat’ he presented. Pandit Vidyadhar rendered an elaborate ‘alaap’ before presenting three compositions in each. He concluded the concert with a bhajans. Dr Mahendra Parsad Sharma and Neeraj Gandhi accompanied them on Tabla and Harmonium, respectively. |
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Play on environmental degradation
Chandigarh, November 14 The play takes a dig at development that goes on in the face of ecological imbalance. Holding vested interests and the governments responsible for environmental degradation, the play warns of worst consequences. It offered suggestions to control damage to environment. Channi said in view of the powerful theme and the audience response, CEVA planned to hold over 300 shows of the play. |
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