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UDHAMPUR, Mar 21: District Police Udhampur organized a Mega Wrestling Competition under Civic Action Programme at Mini Stadium with the technical assistance of J&K Indian Style Wrestling Association.
On the occasion, DIG Udhampur-Reasi Range Surinder Gupta was the chief guest and SSP Udhampur Suleman Choudhary was guest of honour.
The senior police including Mohan Lal Kaith, Additional SP Udhampur, Gourav Mahajan, DySP Headquarters, SHO police station Udhampur Inspector Mahesh Sharma, Swatantra Dev Kotwal, Deputy Chief Warden Civil Defence Udhampur, Hans Raj Thakur, Post Warden Civil Defence, Vikram Slathia, Subash Sharma, Sewa Singh Mankotia, Retd SP and Sanjay Sharma, Sports Officer were also present.
In the competition, 24 bouts were held. Wrestler Ajay of Udhampur district won first bout by defeating wrestler Fiza of Kathua district. In the second bout, Nissar Ahmed of district Doda defeated Murrad Ali of district Jammu. In the 3rd bout, Vijay Sharma of district Jammu defeated Din Mohammad of district Udhampur.
DIG Udhampur-Reasi Range Surinder Gupta along with SSP Udhampur Suleman Choudhary gave the cash prizes amounting Rs 10,000, Rs 7000 and Rs 4000 to the winners of three bouts respectively.

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JAMMU, Mar 21: Dr Anil Kumar, chairman Sanfort group of schools inaugurated the new branch of sanfort , today .
The was inaugurated in presence of S K Rathore, Director Sanfort group of schools, Dilip Mishra,National Head, Sanfort group of schools,TarvinderKour, Regional Director, Sanfort Jammu, S K Puri,Chirman Sanfort Channi and Chairman Swadeshi welfare trust , Shivang Puri Trustee of Swadeshi Welfare Trust and other invited guests, participants of “Baby show” and parents .
S K Puri, chairman,Sanfort Channi highlighted that “ Sanfort strongly believe that a close partnership of school with parents is important for the development of the child. Good communication between teachers and parents enables to inform each other of relevant information concerning the child. Though the parent teacher meetings are regularly organized at sanfort but parents are always welcome at any time as there is an open-door policy at Sanfort”.
Sanfort was launched in December,2009 from Vasundhr,Delhi-NCR and inaugurated its first franchise branch in 2010 and now spread out to more than 80 locations in 16 states of the country.  Sanfort- The UK concept pre-school chain ventured by Sar Edutech limited a company pioneer in Preschool education.

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JAMMU, Mar 21:  BSF Ankur Play School organized a theme based celebration ‘ Spring Soiree – a cultural event today.
The event opened with the lamp lighting ceremony by the chief guest, Rakesh Sharma IG BSF Jammu Ftr  and  Pratibha Sharma BWWA president Jammu Ftr followed by the mesmerizing classical dance on ‘Saraswati Vandana’ which was marked by the invocation of the heavenly muses in the vandana dance.
The Head Master of the BSF Primary School presented the welcome address.
The colourful cultural bonanza enthralled the parents and the guests. The students presented a colourful ‘Spring Fusion Dance’ – a journey from winter to spring and the synchronized dance movements to the foot, tapping music enthralled the audience. This was followed by the bedazzling performances in the play ‘Grow More Trees’ during its course of telling about spring season. There was a ‘Sunflower Dance’ and a spell bound ballet performance on ‘Save Girl Child’.
The audience was left spell bound at the students’ calibre and poise.
The chief guest and the guest of honour presented recognition certificates to the students who had excelled in the field of sports and the participants.
The luminaries gracing the occasion included Mr Mehta, DIG Communication and administrator of the school, Dr  S S Khokkar, Principal of the BSF Senior Secondary School and many dignateries of BSF fraternity along with the parents were also impressed by the exhibition of low cost teaching material, art and craft items prepared by the students with the help of their teachers on Spring, Easter and  St Patrick’s Day.

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JAMMU, Mar 21: A highly interactive meeting of Principals’ of Schools of repute was held at GD Goenka, Public School Jammu governed by Om Prakash Bansal Charitable Trust, in which the participants discussed various educational reforms and allied issues.
The meeting was organized by Jammu Sahodaya School Complex (JSCC) which is a Central Board of School Education body of CBSE Schools of Jammu.
In the meeting, the educational leaders discussed the various norms of learning to improve the Quantitative and Qualitative learning.
In this meeting of intellectuals, the annual Sahodaya calendar was discussed in great detail and various competitive activities were chalked out. The Principals voiced their strong opinions regarding the policy of declaring the Host school as winners of the specific event.
It also came to light that the Modus Operandi regarding Information and Technology was still in its primitive stage and needs to be explored to the optimum level for better and more advanced results.
The meeting emphasized that the fourth pillar of all Schools, Class- IVth employees needs to be well trained to groom the personality of the children as they are in direct dealing with them.
The participating schools were KC Public School, APS Nagrota, KC International, KC Gurukul, Jodhamal School, Heritage School, SOS Herman Gmeiner School, St. Xaviers School, BSF Paloura, Jammu Sanskriti School, APS Domana, Sainik School Nagrota, MHAC Nagbani, DAV Akhnoor and Stephens International School.
The meeting ended with Dr R P Singh, Principal of G.D Goenka Public School, Jammu delivering the vote of thanks to the Principals and K C S Mehta, the convener of Sahodaya for conducting the meeting.

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RAJOURI, Mar 21: In order to empower women folk, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) organized awareness camp in collaboration with J&K Women Development Corporation (WDC) at Girls Hostel, here today.
The girls were offered educational loan up to Rs 20 lakh on only 3 percent interest rate which is the lowest rate being given by any agency in India.
On the directions of Vice Chancellor, Prof Irshad Ahmed Hamal,  a programme was organized in Girls Hostel of BGSB University in which Registrar and Dean Mohammad Rashid Chowdhary was chief guest, while District Manager of WDC for Rajouri Nasreen Gul was invited as speaker.
Deputy Director of Physical Education and Sports, Mohammad Din, Resident Warden Mubina Kousar and other staff and girls students were present on the occasion.
In his message, Vice Chancellor Prof. Irshad Ahmed Hamal said that this will be a major help to the girl students from Women Development Corporation that loan is being provided on meagre interest rate.
Terming the WDC’s Educational Loan scheme as major help by the Corporation for empowerment of women, chief guest on the occasion, Registrar Mohammad Rashid Chowdhary said that University is sincere for women empowerment.
Meanwhile, presenting detailed report of the activities of WDC, District Manager Nasreen Gul said that the Corporation is implementing various schemes like National Minorities Development, National Backward Classes Finance, National Handicapped Finance, Empowering Skilled Yong Women Scheme, and Skill Development, Vocational Training Programmes.
The proceedings of the programme was conducted by Assistant to Dean of Students, RC Bhat.

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RAJOURI, Mar 21: Carrying  forward its mission to develop  and maintain better Police Public relations. Police Rajouri today organized an open volleyball tournament at   Govt Higher secondary School Peeri , under its Civic Action Programme, under the supervision of SSP Rajouri Dr M.Haseeb Mughal and Tejinder Singh Additional SP Rajouri.
6 teams including Peeri A, Peeri B, Higher Secondary School Peeri, Koternaka and Tarkassi Police post Peeri participated in the tournament.
The final was played between Peeri B and Higher Secondary School Peeri, wherein Peeri B emerged as winners of the tournament, while the Higher Secondary School Peeri remained  runners- up.
Naib Tehsildar, Baaj Singh was the chief guest on the occasion.
Additional SP Rajouri, Tejinder Singh , organized  the tournament  on behalf  of SSP Rajouri.
SHO PS Kandi, Haji Mohd Bashir and IC PP Peeri SI .Abdul Majeed were present on the occasion.

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JAMMU, Mar 21: 2nd Annual Abhishek Memorial Sports Meet concluded at Tawi Technical Campus, here today.
Chairman of the Campus, Er Vidhi Singh Jamwal and MD Er Renu Bangroo graced the occasion with their presence, while College Administrative Officer, Hari Singh Jarial and Professor Moza were also present on the occasion.
A friendly cricket match was played on the concluding day. The match was played between Civil Warriors and Civil Super Seniors, wherein Warriors won the match by chasing a huge score of 103 runs set by Super Seniors. Vishavdeep Singh Sambyal was declared as man of the match and Shakti Singh grabbed the man of the series award.
The chairman felicitated the winners and praised them for possessing sports talent.
The winners of other events including chess, table tennis, badminton and athletics were also felicitated on the occasion.
The Meet was organized by the Sports Committee including Anuj Tidyal and Nitin Thakur.
Anuj Khajuria was presented umpire of the series award.

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JAMMU, Mar 21: Opening batsman Parveen Singh and left-arm spinner and skipper, Kuldip Kumar helped Rainawari Cricket Club (RCC) Srinagar to thrash the formidable and star-studded  team of Jammu Cricket Club by a big margin of 72 runs and enter the semifinal of the ongoing KC Sports Club Cricket Tournament at KC School ground, here today.
Earlier, batting first, RCC scored a decent total of 160 runs in the stipulated 20 overs, losing 8 wickets during the process. Parveen Singh contributed power-packed 49 runs, while Amit Sharma and Satish Kumar contributed 34 and 30 runs to the total respectively. Puneet Wattal hit 2 big sixes in the last over and chipped in with 12 runs. For JCC, Rahil Singh, Vishwajeet Singh and Paras Sharma bagged 2 wickets each.
In reply, JCC was bundled out for a paltry total of 88 runs in 17.1 overs to lose the match by a big margin of 72 runs. Sandeep Singh top scored with 38 runs, while Sidharth Magotra contributed 15 runs to the total. For RCC Sringar, Kuldip Kumar was the wrecker-in-chief, who took 4 important wickets by conceding 11 runs in his 4 overs, while Jatin Wadhawan bagged 2 wickets. Sourav Chopra, Amit Sharma and Dilbagh Singh shared one wicket each.
The match was officiated by Sadiq Hussain and Sohail Yousuf as umpires.