Dehradun, May 20
Welham Boys’ Pranay Todi has topped the Class XII ISC exam in the commerce stream, scoring 98.75 per cent marks.

Speaking to The Tribune on the phone, he said: “I did not feel any pressure because of the way our school curriculum is framed. My achievement proves that students ought to look to quality time instead of going in for quantity time. I use to devote three hours after dinner for my studies.”

Pranay was the editor of the school magazine and captain of the TT team. He was the school prefect.

The school finished the Class XII course as early as October. This gave Pranay ample time for revision.

Pranay scored full marks in mathematics and commerce, 96 per cent in English and 99 per cent each in accounts and 99 economics.

Brightland School has performed exceptionally well in both ISC (Class XII) and ICSE (Class X) examinations with six of its students scoring above 98 per cent marks.

Richa Arora from commerce and Itiyama Sadana from science stream have topped with 98.5 and 98.25 per cent marks, respectively, in their Class XII examination.

Akshita Negi, Sakshi Rawat, Ayush Kumar and S. Sahani of Brightland School all scored 98.2 per cent in their Class X examination.

Richa Arora said it was hard work that had paid her rich dividends. She had put in four hours of hard work everyday after school.

“It was good that our school authorities completed our course way back in August. Thereafter, regular unit tests helped us revise our course and remove our mistakes,” she said.

Despite her tough study schedule, Richa took out time for hobbies like tennis and swimming. She plans to pursue economic honours from Delhi University.

Another topper from the same school, Akshita Negi, who scored 98.2 per cent in her ICSE examination, said: “It feels good to be a topper. I worked very hard. So did my friends. Our teachers worked equally hard”.

Results of other schools:

St. Joseph Academy Class X: Science Osheen Tripathi and Anandini Arora 96.4 pc; Commerce: Shubham Singh 94.6 pc

St. Joseph Academy: Science Subham Goel 97.75 pc; Commerce Ambit Melana
96.3 pc

St. Thomas College: Shrey Singh, Class X 92.4 pc; Sonali Gupta Class XII-Science 94 pc ; Ashwariya Shrivastva Commerce 90.5 pc

Carman School: Rashmi Sharma Class X Science 94.8 pc; Ankita Bansel Class XII-Commerce 92 pc

Guru Nanak Academy: Ambika Garg Class X- Science 94.5 pc; Shikha Thakur Commerce 87pc; Class XII-Science Mansi Sharma 91.2 pc ; Vibhuti Commerce 89 pc

Heritage School: Class XII: Lovika Jain 93.7pc; Sneha Ahuja 93.5 pc; Class X: Subhangi Sangal 92.8 pc;Anjali Joshi 92.6 pc.

Brooklyn School: Class X: Eaineesh Pundir 93.4 pc; Aarushi Sharma and Abhilasha Bangarnia 92.6 pc; Class XII Nancy Semwal 93.5 pc; Priyanka Sharma 92.75 pc.

Haridwar, May 20
The results of Class X and XII of the ICSE (Indian Council for Secondary Education) and ISCE (Indian School Certificate Examination) were announced today.

Haridwar city has only two schools affiliated to the New Delhi-based Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE) and both schools showed fairly good results.

In Class X, Vaishali Chauhan topped with a score of 89.14 per cent while in Class XII, Parit Gupta topped with 82.83 per cent. Most students were accompanied by their parents to the schools.

To provide prompt and hassle-free results to schools and students, the ISCE board, this time, had given special passwords to school principals and the entire school result was made available to them.

This made students throng schools instead of going to cyber cafes. Swami Hariharanand Public School had a 100 per cent result in both classes.

Out of 39 students in Class X, Vaishali Chauhan (89.14 per cent), Charu Aggarwal
(89 pc), Anjali Sehgal (86.86 pc) and Prateek Gupta (86.86 pc) secured the top
three positions.

While in the ISC examination, out of 61 students, Parti Gupta (82.83 pc), Mudit Bishnoi (79.16 pc) and Shubhangi Pandey (79 pc) bagged the coveted positions.

School principal Hema Patel lauded the work of the students and the efforts of the teachers. She said that the school has been providing special engineering coaching classes with a tie-up with a Dehradun-based leading coaching institute.

In the other ISCE-affiliated school, Doon Cambridge School, 30 out of 33 students got through Class X. Varsha Singh topped with 81 pc followed by Shruti Saxena (73 pc) and Lavesh Malhotra (72 pc).

In Class XII, 17 students passed out of 20 with Ishant Singh, Shiva Mamagain and Manoj Sood respectively bagging the first three positions.

Administrative officer of the school HP Mamgain termed the result satisfactory and attributed it to the hard work of the teacher and the students.

Dehradun, May 20
Daily commuters, especially students, are likely to face inconvenience due to cancellation of private bus permits on the busy Doiwala-Dehradun route here.

The state transport appellate authority passed the order to this effect on a petition filed by some private bus operators. Incidentally, the authority has ordered to release four new permits.

According to Regional Transport Officer AK Singh, notices were being sent to 46 permit holders under the order received by his office.

The order has put these operators under tremendous financial strain as many of them had reportedly availed huge loans to purchase buses for the purpose. Now, they have no option but to park the new vehicles rendered idle by the order.

The regional transport authority (RTA) had issued these permits between December 2008 and March, 2009.

The RTA had issued only 46 permits from among a total 267 applicants. Notably, as many as 17 city buses were plying on this route.

In its order, the appellate authority took cognisance of parameters like road factor, route survey and necessary paperwork required for issuing the permits. Those affected by the order are likely to appeal against it in the higher court.

Meanwhile, the order has put a question mark over the functioning of the RTA
regarding the process of issuing permits because it the same thing happened in
2005 as well.

At that time, 15 permits were issued by it, but the appellate authority on the petition of those who failed to get them, cancelled all the permits. It took nearly 13 months of legal battle for the affected bus operators to get them restored.

Dehradun, May 20
World Metrology Day is observed across the globe on May 20 every year but India’s common man is yet to be fully aware of his rights as a consumer.

While there is been general ignorance vis-à-vis metrology, the Uttarakhand department of weights and measures, under the aegis of the department of food and civil supplies, has been working hard to enforce weights and measures standards established by the central government in the interests of consumers.

Enforcement officials of the department till date this year carried out 80,620 inspections leading to detection of 3,952 cases of violations on the part of traders:

As many as 32 violations by LPG agencies, 146 by those linked to packaging, 75 concerning petrol stations, 196 by fair price shops, 17 by kerosene depots, 114 cases by hardware shops, 18 linked to garment sellers, 51 by milk sellers, two by wheat purchase centres, 207 by floor mills, 91 by bullion traders, 114 by sweets shops, 1,034 by grocery shops, 367 concerning vegetable sellers and 969 others.

In April, the enforcement officials carried out as many as 4,322 inspections leading to detection of 165 cases pertaining to various irregularities, including seven by petrol and diesel statins, 16 by fair prices shops, five each by hardware factories and wheat purchase centres, 13 cases of violations by floor mills, 16 by factories, six by bullion traders and 41 by general merchants. This is apart from the verification and stamping of 31,837 items of weights and measures.

The department from time to time holds workshops to sensitise people on precautions that need to be undertaken so as to his consumer rights are not violated. The department has been acting promptly on complaints while also undertaking drives against unscrupulous traders.

“Inspections are carried out from time to time by the enforcement officials of our department and punitive action taken against those indulging in irregularities,” said SN Aggarwal, assistant controller, weights and measures, Uttarakhand.

He said the department. apart from protecting consumer rights, provides handsome revenue earnings to the state.

In the last financial year 2008-09, against the assigned target of Rs 1.50 crore, the department earned a revenue of Rs 1,5083 crore. In April this year, the metrology department earned a total of Rs 11.77 lakh.

Continuing with punitive action against offenders, the department last financial year (2008-09) earned over Rs 10 lakh through compounding fee charges linked to 3,494 cases out of the 3,592 that came under the department’s purview.

Similarly, from April 1, 2009, to April 30, 2009, the department collected revenue to the tune of Rs 47,400 again through compounding fee in 151 cases out of the 165 violations detected by the department.

However, consumer rights watch dogs call for more effective measures. Dr SK Kulshrestha of the Doon Consumer Action and Protection Society says in the fast- paced world, consumers barely find time to verify weights and measures.

The Citizen’s Charter from time to time comes out with certain suggestions for the consumers in order to curb unlawful trade practices.

These include ensuring use of verified weights and measures while purchasing grocery, vegetable or other items.

Similar suggestions have come for scales measuring kerosene and the weight of LPG cylinders. Precautions need to be taken while purchasing gold and silver jewellery.

The department advises the consumers to promptly report violations and irregularities to laboratories spread across 22 locations in Uttarakhand, including Dehradun, Haridwar, Roorkie, Rishikesh, Kotdwar, Pauri, Chamoli, New Tehri, Narendra Nagar, Uttarkashi, Chakrata, Haldwani, Bhawali, Kictcha, Khatima, Sitarganj, Bajpur, Kashipur, Ranikhet, Almora, Bageshwar and Pitthoragarh.

Dehradun, May 20
Brooklyn School celebrated its annual prize day at the school premises and awarded scholarships to students.

In standard XII, Anshi Gupta, Vaibhav Gupta and Hitesh Kuniyal were awarded scholarships. In standard X, Garima Kandpal and Ambika Chauhan were given scholarship for their outstanding academic performance.

Shreyanshi Goel, Tulika Rawat, Manvi Singh and Tanmay Goel were awarded certificates for scoring more than 90 per cent marks in various subjects.

Principal Manju Grover in her address exhorted the prize winners to serve as role model for others.

She added that the results achieved by the students are the combined efforts of the parents, children and the school.