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Painting competition on 4th Day of Iconic Week

The fourth day of Iconic Week of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav was dedicated in spawning creativity among Underprivileged Children of SAIL CSR Schools for the noble goal of environmental conservation. Painting competitions were organized for underprivileged school children run by SAIL Ranchi Units. The first one was at MTI with 32 children from Mahatma Gandhi Smarak vidyalaya, Hatia and the second was organized at SAIL Samudayik Bhawan among 51 children of Bal Shiksha Kendra, a school run by Ispat Mahila Samaj (IMS).  Shri Sanjeev Kumar, ED(HRD) and Indrani Banerjee, President, IMS gave away the prizes as well as encouraged the children to achieve greater goals in their lives. The Moving exhibition tableau was taken today to a remote village Ober in Angara Block, Ranchi. In this village, a joint programme was held with Ramakrishna Mission, Morhabadi with the rural folk of three tolas of the revenue village Ober for generating awareness about usage of steel in rural areas. Several Films on Steel were shown and appreciated by the village folk.

SCS celebrates Van Mahotsav Week

The students of SCS celebrate Van Mahotsav week with great zeal and fervour under the aegis of Eco Club. The students of the Junior section undertook a variety of innovative and interesting activities which included Quotation writing, Slogan writing, Painting the picture of trees through the cotton dabbing and hand Painting techniques. Another mentionable activity was to tie Raksha Sutra to the trees.  The entire school fraternity wore green attire on the concluding day. The students of the Senior Section presented a beautiful dance form depicting the simplicity and festive nature of locals of Jharkhand. Students participated in a rally and got involved in a plantation drive focusing upon planting medicinal herbs in the patch of plot demarcated for the same. An informative PPT was prepared on the topic "Community and Conservation ". The celebration ended with the conduction of a Quiz competition organised by GK club in collaboration with Eco club involving the students of classes III to V ( Group A)VIIIand  IX ( Group B).

Students of JSSP plant saplings at campus

Van Mahotsav, a week-long festival of tree plantation was celebrated in JUSCO School South Park on Thursday at the school campus. In an earnest attempt to lend a green touch to the school environment and sensitise students about their role in conserving it the students planted Ashoka Trees along the school boundary to bind the soil and prevent soil erosion. They also planted Areca Palm trees. The school Principal Mili Sinha initiated the plantation drive where she administered the Environment pledge to the students .The chief guest, Jiju Thomas, senior manager, JEM Foundation planted the first sapling after which the students from Std VI to XII participated in mass sapling plantation drive.

Congress opposes LPG price hike

The Dhanbad district congress party has threatened a massive stir against frequent hike in LPG prices by the union government. District party president BP Singh in a statement bas demands for rollback of the price hike in larger interest of masses.Terming it pickpocketing  by the union government Singh said, congress party has been opposing the hike in past and would so again by organising stirs at district  and block level  till rollback were not announced.

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