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By Haryananewswire
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CHANDIGARH, APRIL
22
Punjabi Language
is being fully conserved in Haryana and students of the State are getting good
marks in exams of Punjabi language.
This
was stated by Director General Information, Public Relations and Cultural
Affairs, Haryana, Mr. Sudhir Rajpal at a function organized by the Punjabi
Sahitya Academy to give away prizes for best stories and honour those students
who got merit in Punjabi in examinations conducted by Haryana Board of School
Education in Panchkula near here today.
Mr.
Rajpal said that the State Government is making every possible effort to
promote Punjabi language and Punjabi teachers are being recruited from time to
time as per the need. He said that the State Government has declared
Punjabi as second language. He advised the students to get good marks in
other subjects too as it is necessary to have knowledge of all languages in the
present scenario.
He
said that apart from having apart from Punjabi Sahitya Academy, the State
Government has also set up Punjabi Cell where all the proposals received
are dealt on priority basis in Punjabi language. He said that we
should move forward with all languages so as to further enrich our culture. He
said that apart from Haryana Sahitya Akademi, other Academies like
Punjabi Sahitya Academy, Urdu Academy, Granth Academy
and Sanskrit Academy have been set up in Haryana.
Speaking
on the occasion, Director of the Akademi, Dr. Sukhchain Singh Bhandari
said that ever since Punjabi language has got status of second language in
Haryana under the leadership of Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, the Punjabis residing in Haryana are propagating this language to far
off places through their compositions. He said that as Director, he had
organized 76 conventions through the medium of Academy in the country out of
which 48 conventions were organized in Haryana. He said that Mr. Hooda has, on
demand of the Academy, directed to install name plates in Punjabi language too
at Haryana Civil Secretariat.
On
this occasion, Mr. Rajpal honoured students scoring 92 per cent or more marks
in examination of class VIII conducted by Haryana Board of School
Education . They are namely Navdeep Kaur, Seema Rani, Kusum Devi and
Nirmal. He also honoured Rahul Kumar of Kaithal who scored cent per cent marks
and Rajat Chawla, Ankit Kumar, Manwinder Kaur, Reena Rani for scoring 92 per
cent or more marks in board examination of class X. Similarly, Nirmal Kaur,
Veepal Kaur, Jaspreet Kaur, Vijay Pratap, Suman Rani and Gurpreet Kaur were
honoured for scoring 92 per cent or more marks in Haryana Board of School
Education examination of class XII.
Under
Punjabi Story Competition, Mr. Surinder Singh Oberoi of Faridabad was
awarded first prize of Rs 2500 for his story ‘Madari’ whereas
Ms. Jagir Kaur Sandhu of Elenabad was awarded with second prize of Rs 1500 for
her story ‘Pathar Cho Khidade Phool’ and third prize of Rs 1000 was given away
to Mr. Iqbal Singh of Fatehabad for his story ‘Manukhta Aje Mari Nai’. They
were also honoured with certificates and mementos alongwith cash prizes.
Similarly, consolation prizes of Rs 500 each were awarded to Mr.
Harnam Singh of Fatehabad for his story ‘Jaap Te Janu’, Dr. Indu Gupta of
Faridabad for ‘Kaleja Apna Nai Bechana’, Mr. Lakhwinder Singh Bajwa of Rania
for ‘Manuka’, Ms. Gurpreet Kaur Saini of Hisar for ‘Dhoan Ghar Ke Bhag’, Mr.
Raghuvir Singh Ishar of Kurukshetra for ‘Najare’ and Mr. Puran Singh Nirala of
Elenabad for ‘Joge Di Beans’.
Director,
Sanskrit Sahitya Academy, Mr. Shyam Sakha Sunder, Director, Urdu Sahitya
Academy, Mr. Desh Raj Sapra and Director, Granth Akademi, Dr. Mukta were also
present on this occasion.
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