Students design ‘biggest’ Clock

Class X students of Hills International Public School, Jubbal, have designed a watch and christened it as "The Jubbal Clock". The clock with dimensions of 100 X 72 inches was the brain-child of students and the entire exercise from ideation to assembling and finishing had been done by students during the school hours without neglecting studies. The project which started in June 30 was completed on July 7, in just eight days and the chairperson and teachers of the school backed students and shared the expenditure, which was about Rs 11,000. The school authorities claim that this was the biggest portable wall clock in the world and vying for entry into the Limca Book of World Records. "Students who visited the Bhalku Museum in Shimla, established in memory of an illiterate who helped engineers chalk out the alignment of Shimla-Kalka UNESCO heritage railway line, were inspired by the rare feat and encouraged to do something innovative and moulded their cherished dream into Jubbal Clock", said Balwant Singh Jhouta, honorary chairman of the school. 

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