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EDUCATION

From Schools
X-mas celebrated with fervour
Tribune News Srvice

Chandigarh, December 20
Fun and Frolic reigned supreme amongst the budding flowers of Guru Nanak Public School, Chandigarh, who celebrated Christmas with full zeal and fervour. Students of primary wing sang various carols and danced to the tunes of jingle bells around a huge Christmas tree adorned with coloured starts, strings and balls. Kids of the pre-primary section in their multi-coloured dresses, imbibed with the festive spirit participated too by blowing white and red balloons which filled up the air to spread the message of peace and promotion of prosperity.

Jaskaran.S.Grewal of class VI dressed up as Santa Claus and distributed sweets and children exchanged gifts. The principal of the school Paramjeet Toor, cut the Christmas cake and aeveryone relished a huge feast.

CHRISTMAS: The carol singers of Carmel School presented Christmas carols. A short play on the birth of Lord Jesus Christ was also represented by the students of the school on this occasion.

1,000 students participate in run-for-fun
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 20
Commemorating the silver jubilee of the Army Welfare Education Society (AWES), a run-for-fun was organised by Army School, Chandimandir, today. About 1,000 students and 50 teachers participated in the event.

The run was flagged off from the Chandimandir Military Station by Maj Gen Gurdeep Singh, the Major General-Incharge-Administration at Headquarters Western Command.

Spreading the message of the importance of education, good health and environmental protection, the participating students carried placards displaying these themes. They covered a distance of 6km, moving via the Central Board of Secondary Education office, Hafed building and the Sandeep Sankhla War Memorial in Panchkula before returning to the Military Station.

Festive spirit descend over EuroKids
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 20
Christmas was celebrated at EuroKids, Sector-9, Panchkula, Sector-18 and Sector-37, Chandigarh. These schools wore a festive look and were tastefully decorated with Christmas trees, balloons, buntings and bells. Kids, smartly attired in party dresses, were welcomed by Santa Clauses.

Kids of kindergarten and nursery classes’ along with teachers enjoyed learning and singing Christmas carols. They also danced to the tunes of jingle bells.

EuroKids heads, Ashima, Priya and Renu, cut the Christmas cakes on their school premises, in the presence of teachers and kids.

COURTS

Mayoral Poll
All depends on councillors’ eligibility: HC
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 20
A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today verbally observed in an open courtroom that the court may quash the mayor's election scheduled to be held on January 1, if three municipal councillors were found to be ineligible.

The observations were made by the Bench, headed by Chief Justice Vijender Jain, while adjourning the hearing on a petition against the nomination of three municipal councillors of Chandigarh till January 28.

The Bench aired its view after the counsel for the petitioner said the purpose of the petition would not be served as the elections were to be held on January 1, and the case was to be taken up after that.

Earlier, during the hearing, the respondents presented two voter cards of Neelam Malik and Amrit Bularia. Reacting to this, the petitioners' counsel said these were old voter cards; and an elector was a person having name in the current electoral roll.

Previous photo identity cards would be of no use unless one has a name in the current electoral roll. The counsel for petitioner contended that absence of name in the current electoral roll meant it has been deleted. As such, he was not the qualification to be a nominated council, the petitioner's counsel argued.

In the petition filed against Neelam Malik, Amrit Bularia and Arshad Khan, besides UT administration and deputy commissioner-cum-municipal commissioner, the petitioner has sought the quashing of impugned notification of December 21, 2006, vide which UT administration through its home secretary-cum-secretary local bodies had nominated these councillors.