Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 15: NHPC Limited organized State Level Painting Competition on Energy Conservation today at Brigadier Rajinder Singh Auditorium, University of Jammu.
Six students who stood first, second and third in their respective categories in the competition were awarded Rs 20,000, Rs 15,000 and Rs 10,000 respectively and 20 students were awarded consolation prizes of Rs 5,000 each in a prize distribution function, which was presided over by Sarita Chauhan, Commissioner/ Secretary Higher Education Department. Chander Mohan, Regional Executive Director of NHPC for J&K was also present on the occasion.
It is pertinent to mention here that NHPC was entrusted with the responsibility of organizing School and State Level Painting Competitions on Energy Conservation-2018 by Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Government of India. These Painting Competitions are part of National Awareness Campaign launched by Ministry of Power for promoting energy conservation in the country, which is need of the hour.
Earlier, all the schools across the J&K were requested to organize Painting Competition in their Schools amongst students of class 4th, 5th, 6th (Category-A) and 7th, 8th and 9th (Category-B) and to send 2 best paintings from both the categories to the State Nodal Officer. As many as 270 schools and 28725 students from J&K participated in the School Level Painting Competition in the two categories. On November 5 this year, jury consisting of eminent artists and representatives from State Education Department selected 100 paintings out of the 516 paintings received from various schools.
100 students thus selected at School Level appeared in the State Level Painting Competition. Arushi Gupta of Presentation Convent School Gandhi Nagar Jammu, Karan Kumar of Government Girls High School Sarore Jammu and Divyansh Bharti of Springdales English School Kathua won first, second and third prizes respectively from Category-A, Palvi Kumari of Fatima Convent High School, Bishnah, Parvinder Kour of KV No 1 Gandhi Nagar Jammu and Insiya Verma of Heritage School, Sainik Colony Jammu won 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively from Category-B.
Apart from Regional Executive Director, senior officers of NHPC Regional Office, Sion Tirkey, Chief (HR), BM Gupta, Chief (Finance), Ramesh Kumar, Chief Engineer (Civil), RC Sharma, Manager (PR) and Nodal Officer for J&K State Painting Competition, jury members, students along with their parents and teachers were present on the occasion.
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