Female foeticide campaign
Chandigarh, May 03 As a part of its campaign against female foeticide, the Rotary Club of Chandigarh announced the results of a poster-making and slogan-writing competition held last week in the city here today.
The prizes for the same were given away by Director Public Instructions (Schools) SK Setia.
The Club has adopted female foeticide as one of the focus areas and had organised a poster-making and slogan-writing competition among schoolchildren last week with the help of the Education department of the UT Administration, said club President Arvind Mehan. There had been a tremendous response and the club had received over 400 entries from students of 30 schools of Chandigarh and Mohali, informed the project chairperson, Neena Singh.
All entries have been displayed at the Rotary House in Sector 18A, and three entries from each of the categories were awarded prizes.
The slogan-writing contest winners included Mamta of GMSSS, Rajeev of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Secondary School, and Vishal Sharma of GHSSS. In the poster-making competition, Tsewang Lama of Guru Nanak Public School, Manisha of Government Model School and Harkirat of Ajit Karam Singh International Public School, Mohali.