The Jagat Taran Golden Jubilee School stood first while Mahila Sewa Sadan Inter College secured the second place in a group song competition organised by Bharat Vikas Parishad Prayagraj and the CAV Inter College got the consolation prize.
The programme was organised at Jwala Devi Saraswati Inter College hall. Former vice-chancellor of Raja Maan Singh Tomar Music and Arts University Prof Swatantra Bala Sharma was the chief guest who garlanded the portrait of Bharat Mata and Swami Vivekanand to inaugurate the competition.
Appreciating the programme Prof Sharma said such competitions inculcate the feeling of nationalism and bravery in the younger generation. She spoke about national heroes and asked children to beware of anti-nationals and their activities of disturbing the fabric of unity in diversity.
President of the organisation Dr Alpana Agrawal welcomed the guests and participating institutions. The judges of the competition were Dr Geeta Banerjee of Sanskrit department of Allahabad University, Dr Sanjay Kumar Singh from Hindi department, Allahabad Degree College and Prof Indu Sharma from Music department, Allahabad Degree College. They also emphasised the need of holding such programmes at regular intervals to awaken national feeling in children.
The coordinator of the programme Dr Brijesh Kumar conducted the proceedings while vote of thanks was proposed by Dr Purshottam Das. Dr NC Agrawal honoured the chief guest by presenting a memento and a shawl.
Principal of Jwala Devi Saraswati Inter College Vikram Bahadur Singh, Umesh Dutt Bhatt, Prof Jagdish Dwivedi and others. were present.
joint degree programme: Good news awaits the students doing postgraduation (PG) and research from Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-A).
The students pursuing MTech, MBA or PhD will be able to obtain degree from renowned educational institutions abroad.
The institute is starting a joint degree programme wherein in the first phase, PG and research are being added. In the second phase, graduate level courses will also be added.
The postgraduate students will be able to study a part of their course from foreign technical educational institutions and universities. The joint degree will have the name and logo of both the institutions. This decision was taken in the meeting held recently in the institute.
Director of the institute Prof Mukul Sutavane said that after the implementation of the New National Education Policy (NEP), MoUs have been signed with technical institutions of other countries including USA, France, Germany and Korea, where students of the institute will be able to study while pursuing their joint degree.