‘Awareness Mission', a Chandigarh-based NGO, distributeduniforms and stationery items to as many as 470 students of Government SeniorSecondary School, Narot Mehra( Pathankot).
The NGO activists - Dilawar Singh Thakur (Retired SubInspector Chandigarh Police), also an old student of the school and InspectorRam Dyal (Chandigarh Police) were the chief guests. They also honouredstudents, who have excelled in academic, sports and co-curricular activities onthe occasion.
Dilawar Singh Thakur, while sharing his memories ofschool days, exhorted the students to concentrate on their studies to shapetheir future in a better way. He lauded the efforts being put by the educationdepartment as well as dedication of the school teachers to provide better infrastructuralfacilities and quality education facilities in government schools.
He also promised to extend help to contribute for thedevelopment of the school infrastructure as well as welfare of the students.
Ram Dyal in his address, while enumerating the various communityservice activities of "Awareness Mission", announced that the NGOwould honour the strudents scoring 90 percent or above marks in the ensuingBoard examinations.
The coaching classes for the government school studentsaspiring to seek admission in Jawahar Navodaya Vidhalya would also be startedand the parentless students would be adopted by the NGO, they added.
District Education Officer (SE), Pathankot, Varinder Prashar,DEO (Elementary), Hoshiarpur, Sanjiv Gautam, Deputy DEOs, Rajeshwar Salaria andRamesh Lal Thakur, Principal, Neelam Rathaur, Sarpanch Raj Kumar, whileaddressing on the occasion, lauded the gesture of the activists of "AwarenessMission".
Bhupinder Singh, Surinder Singh, Arjun Thakur, ManujPaetap, Kamal Kishore,Ramesh Kumar, Balkar Attri( District Media Coordinator)Meetu, Anil Kumar, Tarsem Lal, Pawan Kumar, Dara Singh, school staff and NGOmembers and among others were present on the occasion.