Singla felicitates winners of ‘Ambassadors of Hope’

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, October 30

School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Friday felicitated winners of ‘Ambassadors of Hope’ belonging to Jalandhar district with Apple iPad, laptop and android tabletx during a brief ceremony in view of Covid-19 pandemic held at PAP Complex here.

The minister specially visited Jalandhar to give away the prizes to the winners of record breaking online competition, ‘Ambassadors of Hope’. Apart from congratulating the winners, Singla assured them every possible help in achieving their future goals.

Notably, Gopesh Gupta, a Class X student of Apeejay School has been awarded an Apple iPad, while Ramanjot Singh, a Class VIII student of MGN Public School Urban Estate, who stood second in the district, was given a laptop. Meanwhile, Mona Kashyap, a Class X student of RK MGM Senior Secondary School, has been felicitated with an android tablet. However, as many as 6,180 entries were registered from Jalandhar district. The winners thanked Singla for organising an interesting competition during the lockdown.

While giving away the prizes, Singla said the ‘Ambassadors of Hope’ competition had served its purpose by nurturing skills of students in a positive manner.

He said that as many as 1,05,898 school going students had shared their videos in eight days for ‘Ambassadors of Hope’, the campaign which was launched for students of Punjab to share their creativity during lockdown. He categorically said, “Winners have been selected strictly on merit basis.”

The minister said that apart from a total 66 main prizes, as many as 1,000 consolation prizes were also being given to the winners in all 22 districts under the ‘Ambassadors of Hope’.

Title prize winner Gopesh Gupta said that he was curiously waiting for his prize and receiving it from the minister made the day very special for him. Meanwhile, Mona, who clinched third position in the district, said that her family had been leading a hand to mouth existence which could have hampered her higher studies but now she was confident to achieve her desired goals. She added that the android pad would help her in online study and she would also clear her doubts with the help of internet after virtual classes.

On the occasion, DGP Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota, IGP Dr SK Kalia, SDM Rahul Sindhu, DEOs Harinder Pal Singh, Ram Pal and others were present.