Students shine in JEE main

Amritsar: Three students of Aakash Institute score an impressive 99 percentile and above in the third session of JEE Main 2021. The results were announced on Friday. This was the third out of the four Joint entrance exams for Engineering scheduled to be held this year. The students who scored 99 percentile are Chaitanya Gupta, Partik Singh and Harah Dhunna. Over 7 lakh students registered for the third session of JEE Main 2021 from across the country. JEE (Main) is conducted in four sessions. While JEE Advanced is the only for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), JEE Main is for admission to several National Institute of Technologies (NITs) and other centre-aided engineering colleges in India. Students must appear for JEE Main to sit for JEE Advanced. Vaibhav Sobti, a student of FIIT-JEE has got 99.77 percentile in JEE Main-2021, along with seven students from the same institute. As many as 17 students have scored more than 90 percentile in general category.

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Online storytelling event

Japan Foundation, New Delhi, with its headquarters in Tokyo, an institution to carry out international cultural programmes in 24 different countries in collaboration with Bookaroo Trust, New Delhi, organised an online storytelling event, “Nanhi Aawaaz”, in which students of Senor Study II participated. The event was to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 76 years ago. The story of the events in Hiroshima were based on the picture story show by ‘Arthur Binard’ who also made a special appearance during the session, ‘Kamishibai’, the unique Japanese art of storytelling was used by the storyteller, ‘Vasundhara Bahuguna’, to add depth, drama and versatility to the entire story. The translator from the Japanese Foundation, Dr. Kikuchi Tomoko, PhD in Hindi, addressed the students in impeccable Hindi. The impact of the narration of the Hiroshima events could be judged from the entire event’s poignant theme and depth of the message conveyed through the story.

Green Champion Award

BBK DAV College for Women is conferred with prestigious Green Champion ‘One District One Green Champion Award’ by Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education(MGNCRE), Department of Digital Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India in recognition of various activities and achievements in the field of water conservation, cleanliness and successful implementation of Swwachhta action plan. This award is given to only one institution per district. Principal Dr Pushpinder Walia received the award at the office of Deputy Commissioner. While receiving the award Principal, Dr Pushpinder Walia said that college has been conducting Sawachhta Pakhwada since 2014, under which an SAP committee has also been constituted to look after activities of cleanliness, water conservation and waste management. TNS