Jalandhar: Eklavya School, Jalandhar, conducted an online workshop on ‘Safety rules on roads’ for Classes IX to XI students. The objective of conducting the workshop was to make the students aware about the importance of road safety and to make them aware about the latest updates of safety rules. Daljit Singh, transport in charge of the school was the resource person of the workshop. He laid stress on the motto: ‘Alert today-alive tomorrow’. Daljit said that road safety rules and regulations are made for the safety of citizens. They prevent accidents and promote the smooth functioning of traffic. The director of the school Seema Handa said that it was mandatory to follow the safety rules not only for the children but for every person. Arvinder Kaur, principal, appreciated him for putting in the efforts for making aware children about traffic rules.

Course on textiles, polymers

Prof Lalit Kumar Awasthi, Director, NIT, Jalandhar,on Tuesday inaugurated a five-day online ‘Short term course on Characterisation Techniques in Textiles and Polymers’. The event is being organised by the Department of Textile Technology. Dr Vinay Midha and Dr Lalit Jajpura, the coordinators of the course, said that there would be of 21 sessions which would be conducted by eminent speakers from different institutions/industry of the country and abroad, including Thermetrics Seattle, USA, IIT Delhi, ICT Mumbai, Bruker India, Thermofisher, SASMIRA, SITRA Coimbatore, LabIndia, Malvern Panalytical and NIT Jalandhar. The keynote lecture was delivered by Prof Ashwani Kumar Aggarwal, IIT Delhi, who highlighted on the use of NMR Spectroscopy in the textiles. Prof Awasthi, during his inaugural speech informed the participants about the central characterisation facility, which has been recently created at NIT, Jalandhar, with X-Ray diffraction technique and shortly it will be upgraded with new characterisation techniques. Dr Ghanshyam, coordinator of the course said, more than 120 participants from different textile institution, including faculty and students are participating in the programme online.

Business plan, declamation contest

The department of management of Lyallpur Khalsa College Technical Campus (LKCTC) organised ‘Business plan and declamation contest’ with the objective to enhance communication skills and raise confidence level of students. Literary Club of School of Management organised this literary club activity over the Zoom platform. The activities conducted in the event were declamation and business plan competition. The topic for the competition was ‘Online Schooling: Can it be a future of education?’ Taniya (M Com, GNDU) and Kirandeep (MBA I, LKCTC) bagged the first position in declamation competition, Priyanka (B Com, GNDU) and Narinder Singh (MBA I, LKCTC) remained second while Priya (MBA I, LKCTC) and Harshita (B Com I, LKCTC) got the third position. Consolation prize was awarded to Chetna (BBA III, LKCTC). Rakesh Kumar (MBA I, LKCTC) bagged the first position in business plan competition while Akash Soni (MBA I, LKCTC) got the second position, and RohanYadav (MBA I, LKCTC) bagged the third position. Consolation was awarded to Sunita Rajput (MBA I, LKCTC). The event was coordinated by Jaskamal Kaur and Mohneet Bedi. TNS