Civic body gives Rs 25 lakh to ‘Bharat ke Veer’

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 23

The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation handed over a bank draft for Rs 25 lakh to the CRPF Commandant in the name of “Bharat ke Veer” corpus fund as a tribute to the families of CRPF jawans martyred in the Pulwama terror attack, on the second day of the Rose Festival here today.

In addition to this, Dr Mamta Joshi, singer of today’s patriotic programme, handed over a cheque for Rs 1 lakh to the CRPF Commandant for the CRPF corpus fund on the stage.

Balihar Singh, Commandant, CRPF, 13 Battalion, and CRPF jawans paid tributes to the martyrs of the Pulwama terror attack at the “Amar Jawan” at 11.30 am installed by the MCat the Rose Garden.

During the cultural programme dedicated to the Pulwama martyrs, the Commandant was the chief guest. The second day of 47th Rose festival earlier started with the Rose Prince & Rose Princess competitions followed by kite-flying show and rose quiz at the Rose Garden.

Theatre group “Samvad” presented powerful light & sound play, “Guhar-e-Hind”, on Lt S Bhagat Singh’s story. After the play, Sufi singer Dr Mamta Joshi, paid tributes to the martyrs through patriotic numbers, including “aye mere vatan ke logo jara aankh me bhar lo paani”, “me rahun ya na rahun Bharat ye rehna chahiye”, “desh mere, desh mere meri jaan hai tu”, “ye desh hai veer jawano ka”, and many more.

Rose Prince  Age group 1 to 1.5 years

• 1st prize: Jasfateh Singh Gulati
• 2nd prize: Viraj Bansal 

 Age group 1.5 to 2 years

• 1st prize: Fatehbir Singh Ahuja
• 2nd prize: Anhad Singh Oberoi 

 Age group 2 to 3 years

• 1st prize: Jaikirat Singh 
• 2nd prize: Saarthak Arya

 Rose Princess  Age Group 1 to 1.5 years

• 1st prize: Jasmine Kaur
• 2nd prize: Jazlyn Kaur Pahwa 

 Age Group 1.5 to 2 years

• 1st prize: Yahira
• 2nd prize: Recheal

 Age group 2 to 3 years

• 1st prize: Aarza Kaur Waraich 
• 2nd prize: Aishwarya Singh Bali

Rose Quiz (school)

• 1st prize: Govt Model Sr Sec School Sector 21-A (participants: Nikit Singh, Anubhav Singh)
• 2nd prize: Govt Model Sr Sec School, Sector 22-A (participants: Mayank Pal, Vinit Mishra)
• 3rd prize: Govt Model Sr Sec School, Sector 37-B (participants: Sonika Kumari, Khushboo)
• 4th prize: Govt Model Sr Sec School, Kaimbwala (participants: Rashmi, Anjali)

Rose Quiz (colleges)

• 1st prize: Govt College of Education, Sector 20-D (participants: Neeraj, Jaspal Singh)
• 2nd prize: Govt College of Education, Sector 20 (participants: Sapna Rani, Vineeta Dobhal)
• 3rd prize: Panjab University (participants: Dheeraj, Manat Sharma)

Photography competition

Professional category

• 1st prize: Jag Sahil Saini
• 2nd prize: Ashwani Rana
• 3rd prize: Jagdish Singh

Consolation prize

• 1. Ashok Kumar
• 2. Sumit Kumar

Amateur category

• 1st prize: Hardeep Singh Dhillon
• 2nd prize: Vivek Kamboj
• 3rd prize: Kumar Kartik

Consolation prize

• 1. Sukhjinder Singh
• 2. Anish Kaura