PU zonal youth and heritage festival commences today

Ludhiana: A four-day Panjab University (PU) zonal youth and heritage festival of Ludhiana zone-A, is all set to commence from Friday at Mata Ganga Khalsa College, Manji Sahib Kottan. A total of 1,750 participants from 16 colleges affiliated from PU will compete in three venues. This year's theme is Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat.
The students will unleash their talent and creativity in fine arts, literary, music, dance and theatrical events in these four days. There is a great zeal and zest among students of all the co-ed colleges.
Kuldeep Kaur Dhaliwal, principal of Mata Ganga Khalsa College, Manji Sahib Kottan said, “This year, more students are participating when compared with last two years. We are hosting for the last three years. Last year, only 1,000 students participated, but this year more students are participating. We have over 1,750 students registered from 16 co-ed colleges of Ludhiana, who will be participating in these competitions.”
“These competitions help students to polish their skills to compete for other inter-college and inter-university youth festivals. The staff members are functioning round the clock to ensure that the participants are able to meet their goals during the festival,” she added.
Director of youth welfare department of PU, Rohit Kumar Sharma said, “A student can participate maximum three times at undergraduate level and two times at the postgraduate level.”