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Deputy Commissioner of Solan Rakesh Kanwar receiving the award in New Delhi from
the Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar under 'Clean India - Clean School initiative
Our correspondent
Solan
Solan district of Himachal Pradesh
has been awarded 'Second Best
Clean School Award' for 2016-17 at
the national level. Deputy Commissioner
of Solan Rakesh Kanwar received
the award in New Delhi from
the Union HRD Minister Prakash
Javadekar. This award was given
under the 'Clean India-Clean School'
initiative that is “Swachchh Bharat-
Swachchh Vidyalaya prayas”.
Rakesh Kanwar informed that
Solan district had been selected
among the 11 best districts across
the country for school sanitation.
Among these 11 districts, Solan district
was placed at number two in
the country. He said the district has
also been awarded another national
award for being the best district of
the country.
He said that the Solan district has
been given two awards at the national
level. Kanwar has said that Government
Senior Secondary School,
Bhatis in Nalagarh sub-division was
also given the ‘Clean School Award'
and was one of the top 172 schools in
the country. This award was given
for the year 2016-17.
The Deputy Commissioner said
more than 3.5 lakh schools across the
country had applied online for these
Progressive
Mushroom city stands second in
Clean India-Clean School initiative
Solan district
has been ranked
second among
the 11 best
districts across
the country for
school sanitation.
The district has
also been awarded
another national
award for being the
best district of India
awards. Of which, 2.68 lakh schools
completed the self-assessment process.
He said that after this process,
648 schools of India were independently
assessed by the Government
of India of which 172 schools of the
country were selected in this process.
Kanwar congratulated all stakeholders
including the officers, employees,
teachers and students for
getting this award at the national
level.
He said that such awards would
definitely give inspiration to others
to compete in such programmes. He
hoped that Solan district would sustain
the cleanliness initiatives in the
future.
Our correspondent
Shimla
Adrain and Aishwary Thakur
of St Luke's Senior Secondary
School, Solan, won the
Shimla City Round of the annual
national level CCCC Cryptic Crossword
Contest 2017. Aanchal Mittal
and Mannat Sood of Gurukul International
Senior Secondary Schol,
Solan, won the runner-up position.
The contest was held at DAV Public
School, Lakkar Bazaar, Shimla.
Principal Kamna Beri gave away the
prizes.The winning team has qualified
for the year-end Grand Finale to
be held in New Delhi. The runner-up
team may also get a wild card entry
to the Grand Finale. The winner at
the Grand Finale will lift the National
Crossword Champion trophy.
The winner of the last edition,
CCCC 2016, is Navrachana School,
Sama, Vadodara. The contest popularly
known as CCCC is a national
Saturday, September 9, 2017
St Luke's wins Shimla city
round of National level
Cryptic Crossword Contest
level annual contest involving school
teams comprising two members
each. It is open to students from Std 9
to 12 studying in schools affiliated to
any of the recognised boards. CCCC
2017 is the fifth edition of the contest
that began in 2013.
Conducted by civil society initiative
Extra C based in Patna, the contest
is being held in association with
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Navodaya
Vidyalaya Samiti and Doordarshan.
The contest is held in two phases:
in phase 1, schools send teams to the
various city rounds across the country
for an hour long written test. The
winning teams then assemble at the
national capital for the Grand Finale
in phase 2.
The Shimla round was the last
city round in the region. A total of
16 teams participated. Earlier, city
rounds were held in Jammu, Ludhiana
and Chandigarh.
Winning and runner-up team with teacher in-charge and Kamna Beri