Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 3: As a part of School Stamp Show-2012 the Postal Department organized a Philately Fun Run for school children. Over 200 school children from 12 schools of Srinagar participated in the Run.
The Philately Fun Run was flagged off by John Samuel, Chief Post Master General, Jammu and Kashmir Circle. The run started from Floating Post Office and concluded at SKICC, Srinagar covering a distance of about 3 Km. J&K Postal Circle has been organizing School Stamp Show for past one month in various schools in Srinagar.
In the boys category, Nadeem Azad of Green Valley School stood first while as the Second position was bagged by Basan Thapa of Burn Hall School and the third by Azan Javid Shah of Green Valley School. In the girls category all the three positions were bagged by Kashmir Valley School, the first being Iram Imtiyaz, second being Saira Showkat and third being Fatima Zahoor.
The top three position holders in both boys and girls category will be felicitated by Chief Post Master General on June 8 at his office.