Ranchi Schools to mark Maths Day
Ranchi District Education Officer SC Marandi has directed all the city schools to organise various programmes in their schools on the occasion of National Mathematics Day on December 22. The theme of the programmes is on ‘Growing Aptitude in Numerical Innovation and Training’. A meeting regarding the celebrations was held under the DEO on Friday. Notably, MHRD has issued a notice to the districts on celebrating the day.
Australian Varsity to hold Film Fest at RU
The University of Newcastle, Australia will likely host a day-long film festival at Aryabhatta Auditorium on January 19. Journalism and Mass Communication of RU will be screening the Australian movies at free of cost. A member of the foreign university met RU authorities on Thursday. DSW SC Gupta said Registrar AK Choudhary has instructed the Director of Mass Communication Department to make proper arrangements.
Abhibhavak Mahasangh seeks holiday for schools
Seeing the increasing cold in the town, and keeping the health of children in mind, the Federation of Jharkhand Abhibhavak Mahasangh has asked the district administration to announce holidays in the schools of Ranchi. Chairman of the federation, Ajay Rai has sent a letter to the District Commissioner Vinay Choubey, requesting him to make a decision on this matter. The Federation also informed that some school buses do not have the upper glass of windows because of which children have to shiver on their way to schools.
Senior team of JVM Shyamli wins CSI IT Quiz
The Computer Society of India, Ranchi Chapter organised an IT quiz on Friday at the SAIl Auditorium. Team of Pranjal Prasoon and Anubhav Anand from JVM Shyamli were the winners in the senior category. First runner up was the team of Ayush Diwan and Ashish Kumar from DAV Kapil Dev and second runner up was the team of Ninad Sinha and Ayush Priya from DPS. AK Tyagi, CMD MECON was the chief guest for the occasion.
DPS students qualify for Science Meet
Five students from Delhi Public School, Ranchi have qualified the first level and three have qualified the second level of Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) conducted every year by IIC , Bangalore and have brought laurels to the school. The Annual Sports Day of the Primary Section and Senior Section will be celebrated on Saturday.
NHM Workshop concludes
The five-day workshop of National Health Mission on Training of Trainers on Social and Behavior Change Communication concluded at IPH on Friday. As many as 33 participants from High Priority Districts- Chaibasa, Simdega, Gumla, lohardaga, latehar, Palamau, Pakur, Sahebganj, Dumka, Godda and Saraikela participated here. The participants were felicitated with certificates by Director-in-Chief Health Services Sumant Mishra.
SAIl CSR ORGANISES EYE CAMP AT ANGARA
Steel Authority of India limited, Ranchi units in association with Yogoda Satsanga Society of India organised an Eye check-up and cataract operation camp at Shalini Hospital, Angara on December 17 and 19, 2014. Around 168 patients checked up their eyes and 110 patients got their cataract operated in this camp. MK Barman, General Manager of RDCIS, SAIl donated blankets to the poor patients whose eyes were operated.
DEO holds meeting with counting officials
District Election Officer Vinay Kumar Chaubey on Friday conducted a meeting with the counting officials of Hatia, Silli, Khijri, Kanke and Mandar passing directions to them regarding the procedures to be followed during the counting. Kumar informed the officials present in the meeting that the counting will start at 8 am. According to Chaubey, 16-17 rounds of counting will be done on an average. Chaubey said that the polling agents or his representatives will be imparted training on December 20 at 4 pm.