Ludhiana, May 3
Spring Dale Senior Secondary Public School, Ludhiana, organised “fruit activity” for creating awareness among tiny tots about the nutritious value of fruits. All students of the kindergarten participated in it.

Students of Spring Dale Senior Secondary Public School, Ludhiana, take part in “fruit activity”. A Tribune photograph

Founder principal Avinash Kaur Walia told students that fruits were a rich source of energy and provided minerals and vitamins to the body. She advised the students to eat plenty of fruits as these were important for mental and physical growth.

Children performed “fruit activities” in fancy dresses. Some acted as apples, mangoes, oranges, pineapples, grapes and bananas, while others recited poems related to “fruit activity”.

Creativity day

Creativity day was celebrated at Guru Nanak Public School here today to commemorate the birth anniversary of Jagat Singh, founder secretary of the management of the school. Students of classes IX to XII came out with their creative instincts through charts and models.

About 30 models were displayed on a variety of subjects like conservation of energy, modern architecture and communication.

R. Saluja, J. Mankoo and Manjit Kaur were the judges. The results: Jagmeet Singh of class X-F and Sukhsagar Singh of class X-D got the first position for “What next after mobiles”, while Charandeep Singh and Ganga Singh of class X-D got the second position for “Conservation of energy” and Godobhaginder Singh and Jaskaran Singh of class IX-E got the third the position for “Modern architecture”

Poetry contest

Sanatan Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School organised an inter-class poem recitation competition for the primary and playway wings here today.

Monika, an educationist, and Sonia, a social activist, were in the panel of judges. The programme began with the lighting of a lamp followed by Saraswati vandana.

The management, principal and staff members welcomed the judges.

Students from pre-nursery to class V presented poems on various topics like money, my mother, jeewan, kale badal, please pay attention and examination rules. Poems recited by Himanshi and Sunaina were well received by the audience.

Balwinder, in charge of the primary and playway wings, encouraged the participants and congratulated the winners. President Rajesh Kashyap, manager C.L. Sachdeva and vice-president Hanish Sachdeva extended a vote of thanks to the judges.

Road safety

To make students aware of road safely rules, a team of traffic controllers visited M.G.M. Public School.

Head constable Jagmail Singh apprised the students of traffic rules along with his partner Sukhdev Singh.

It was an enriching experience as Jagmail Singh explained the concept in a demonstrative way covering each and every detail starting from the different kinds of transport systems and then explaining the rules and regulations one needed to follow.

Jagmail Singh invited the students to visit the traffic park on May 5.

Director of the school Gajjan S. Thind thanked Jagmail Singh.

Best principal award

The Science Olympiad Foundation, an NGO popularising science and computer education, has shortlisted a principal, a teacher and a student from the Punjab region for the best principal, best teacher-coordinator and best student awards. They are: R.S. Patyal, principal, DAV Public School, Ludhiana; Bhupinder Gogia, teacher, Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, BRS Nagar, Ludhiana; and Shrey Rastogi, a student of class VIII of DAV Public School, Ludhiana, who bagged the seventh all-India rank in the National Cyber Olympiad conducted in February.

Seminar conducted

A seminar was conducted on “Mantras of success” at Bharatiya Vidya Mandir, Kitchlu Nagar. Harinder Kaur and Parveen Padam, teachers, shared their views on discipline, honesty and punctuality. 

Jagraon, May 3
Teachers of private schools have protested in front of the office of the local SDM to get implemented the instructions issued by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) to all affiliated schools.

The secretary of the PSEB issued a letter to the affiliated schools in the state to give salary to teachers, under the affiliation rule 7 (111), equal to the preliminary salary scale of government teachers through cheques.

Harpreet Singh, president of the Private Schools Teachers Union, said the instructions contained in the letter addressed to the schools that the primary teachers are to be paid Rs 4,550, teacher cadre Rs 5,480 and lecturers Rs 6,400 per month. But the private schools were not giving them so much salary.

Most of the private affiliated schools have not yet paid the salary for April.

Taranjit Singh, Paramjit Duggal, Sanjeev Jhanji, Manjit Singh, Jagjit Singh and many others participated in the protest.

Ludhiana, May 3
The Khalsa Institute of Management and Technology for Women (KIMT) organised a seminar on “Healthy living based on science of naturopathy” for the students of MCA, MSc (IT), BCA and BBA here today.

Dr R.S. Gupta, director, in a press note issued today said the resource person was S.R. Mittal, a trustee of the Nature Cure Education Trust, Ludhiana. Dr Gupta introduced Mittal to the students. He said Mittal was bringing awareness on “Healthy living drugless way.”

Mittal explained key factors that helped mankind to live healthy without medicines. He said the nature had provided them air, water, fire, sky and earth for living and judicious uses of these had the capacity to keep all diseases away.

He explained the role of nature in keeping creatures healthy. In tune with nature, animals, birds and other creatures lived healthy whereas man was the sickest animal on earth due to his own faults.

He elaborated on the importance of clapping, laughing, deep breathing, yoga, discrete use of water, role of fasting, etc, in keeping oneself fit. He showed many natural herbs and talked about their medicinal value to keep oneself healthy and happy. He said yoga and pranayam were key factors in the science of naturopathy.

A set of nine books on the subject of naturopathy was presented to Dr Gupta for keeping these in the library of the institute so that students could read them and take advantage of these.

In the end, students interacted with the speaker.

Mandi Gobindgarh, May 3
Extra-curricular activities are equally important while achieving academic goals, said S.K. Ahluwalia, commissioner, municipal corporation, Patiala, while addressing the annual prize distribution function organised by the Desh Bhagat Institute of Management and Computer Sciences, Mandi Gobindgarh, here today.

Emphasising the importance of hard work, he shared his personal experiences in this regard.

Ahluwalia said hard work and respect for teachers and parents was the key to progress. He asked students to serve society in whatever way they could.

The chief guest gave away prizes to students of MBA, MCA, BCA, BBA, PGDCA, B.Sc (airlines) and B.Sc (media and film technology) who got the first three positions in academics and cultural and sports competitions, respectively.

Earlier, director of the institute Shalini Gupta welcomed the guests and presented the annual report.

Students presented Malwai giddha, a fashion show, songs, western dance and skit, which was well received by the audience.