CHANDIGARH, Nov 24: As many as 4,108 students took part in various competitions which were organised by the Chandigarh Librarians Association on Saturday.Deepak Khanna, associate editor of the Competition Master, called upon students to adopt libraries as there was no substitute to books.Giving details about the competition, I. B. Verma, general secretary of the association, said that main objective of these competitions was to create awareness among students about libraries and good books.Following are the results of slogan-writing, cartoon-making and handwriting competitions in order of merit:Slogan-Writing Contest: Category I - Gagandeep Kaur (Mount Carmel), Harsimran Singh (St John's High School) and Milan Goel (Air Force Regional School). Category II - Govind Preet Singh (Ajit Karam Singh International Public School); Sanjeev Kumar (DAV Public School, Sector 8); Varun Thapar (Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35). Category III - Monika Angrish (Govt Girls Sr Sec School, Sector 8); Manpal Singh (Shivalik Public School); Sonika Gahlot (GMSSS-16). Category IV - Ajay Kumar (Govt College, Sector 46); Narinder Kumar (Govt College, Sector 46); Manpreet Kaur (Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36).Readymade entries: Sita Devi (GHS-Sector 47A); Sanjeev Arora (Fine Arts Master GHS, Sector 7C); Mohinder Kaur, Hindi teacher (GHS-Sector 47A).Cartoon Making: Category I - Bharti Sharma (Carmel Convent); Salil Aggarwal; Sachpreet. Category II - Apoorv Pandhi ( St John's High School, Sector 26); Piyush Goswami (DAV Public School, Sector 8); Puran Chand. Category III - Navdeep Singh; Jagdish Kumar (GSSS-Dhanas); Nidhi Bansal (Shivalik Public School). Category IV - Sushil Kumar (Indo Swiss Training Centre); Avin Kumar (Institute of Hotel Management), Manoj Kumar (Government College of Fine Arts).Readymade entries: Sanjeev Arora (Fine Arts Master, GHS-7A); Nisha Maini (Math teacher, GSSS-45).Handwriting competitions: English, Category-Ia - Pooja Bhat (Unique Public School); Prairna Sadhu (Unique Public School). Hindi: Anju Bali (GMSSS-35); Sahju Kumar (Government Primary School, Phase-III). Category-IB - English: Sanghapreeya (GMSS-Sector 21); Anushree Gupta (St Stephen School, Sector 45). Punjabi: Balpreet Kaur (Shivalik Public School); Asha (Government High School, Sector 22). Hindi: Akansha (DAV Public School, Sector 8); Vineet Ahluwali (Shivalik Public School). Category II Hindi - Niharika (DAV Public School, Sector 8); Meenu (Sharda Sarvhitkari Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 40). English: Priyanka Rishi (Mount Carmel School, Sector 46); Amrita Kochhar (Carmel Convent). Punjabi: Preeti Arora (Sharda Sarvhitkari Senior Secondary School, Sector 40); Nisha Verma (GMSSS-10). Category III English - Bhavjit Singh (DAV College, Sector 10); Chanmeet Kaur (Gian Jyoti Public School, Mohali). Category IV Hindi - Tek Dharni (Math Department, PU); Monika Garg (Dev Samaj College ofEducation, Sector 36). English: Amrita Doad (Dr Ambedkar Institute of Hotel Management, Sector 42); Komal Sharma (Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36). Punjabi: Sudha (Government College, Sector 46); Sonia Kaushal (PU Correspondence).
