From schools and colleges
NSS camp at GHGH College
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
A 10-day NSS camp was organised at GHGH College of Education, Sidhwan Khurd, under programme officers Ms Manjeet Kaur and Ms Shally. One twenty six volunteers participated in the camp. Major activities conducted included a yoga demonstration by Mr Sanjeev, senior lecturer, physical education at Rampura Phool, an orientation of new currency notes by Mr Sunil Jindal, manager, OBC, Sidhwan Khurd branch and Mr Charanjeet Singh agriculture officer, a free dental check up camp by team officers from CMC Ludhiana.

A demonstration by Dr J.S. Bal, Prof of Horticulture, PAU, and an orientation lecture on NSS by Mr Sandeep Singh, programme officer PAU, were also carried out. The volunteers were taken to gurudwara sahib at Sidhwan Kalan twice where they performed sewa whole heartedly.

Ms Vanita was adjudged the best volunteer, Ms Neelam was declared the most dedicated volunteer and Ms Harpreet Sekhon was declared the most disciplined volunteer at the camp. Volunteers were awarded by Principal Dr Kanwaljit Kaur Gill. OC

BVM School: In the middle class board examination conducted by PSEB, BVM School, Shaheed Udham Singh Nagar, fared well. Forty students out of the 143 who appeared in the exam secured marks between 80 to 89 per cent . There was no third division.

Student honoured: A felicitation function was organised by GAD Public School here yesterday to honour Muskan Choudhary who scored 249 th position in the state in the middle class examination conducted by PSEB. Principal Rajinder Singh and staff members congratulated her.

2 in merit list: Two students of Jain Girls Senior Secondary School— Nisha Rani and Shilpa Garg— scored 706 and 704 marks respectively in the class VIII examination conducted by PSEB and obtained places in the merit list.

Shortage of books at sales depot
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 26
The new session of the schools affiliated to the Punjab School Board started nearly two months ago, but text books are not available at Ludhiana Book Depot, the biggest one in the state. Surprisingly, the books can be easily had from book depots of Fatehgarh, Nawanshahr and Jalandhar.

According to information some books are stored in the depot but these have not got the releasing orders. The books are simply dumped in the store and are of no use to the students.

Due to the non-availability of the books, students, teachers and parents are disturbed.

Book traders of Ludhiana have appealed to the Chairman, Punjab School Education Board, Education Minister and Chief Minister, Punjab, to get the books released.

Shopkeepers say the books of mathematics and English of Class VIII grammar and social studies books of Class VI are not available, creating a lot of tension among students.

Labour Lok Adalat settles 66 cases

Ludhiana, May 26
The District Legal Services Authority on Friday organised a Labour lok adalat to settle the pending cases between labourers and their employers, under the supervision of Mr A.K. Singla, Additional Sessions Judge-cum-Presiding Officer of the Labour Court.

Sixtysix cases were settled, out of the 131 cases placed before the lok adalat for settlement Compensation worth Rs 2,59,455 was awarded to the employees. Mr Chaman Lal Vashisht president, Labour Bar Association, Mr P.D. Sharma, Mr B.D. Arora, Mr B.N. Sehgal and Mr O.P. Mehta participated in the lok adalat. — OC