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Teresian college golden jubilee celebrations to conclude tomorrow

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Mysore :

The golden jubilee celebrations of Teresian College in Siddarthanagar here will end with a grand finale tomorrow (April 20).

A Thanksgiving Eucharistic Celebration will be held at 11 am to mark the beginning of the programme. Most Rev. Dr. Bernard Moras, Arch Bishop of Bangalore, will be the Chief Celebrant.

The main function will start at 5.30 pm, presided over by Most. Rev. Dr. Thomas A. Vazhapilly, Bishop of Mysore. Sudha Murty, Chairperson, Infosys Foundation, will be present as the chief guest.

Most Rev. Dr. Bernard Moras, Rev. Fr. Arul Raj, Parish Priest, St.Antony’s Church, Gayatripuram; Maria D’Costa, former Principal; Dr. Alexander, former Minister of Tourism; Dr. N. GopuKumar, Deputy Secretary, UGC, Southern Region and Dr. Sebastian Dasan, Chairman, Department of English, University of Mysore, will be the guests of honour.

Sr. Chris, Superior General, Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of St.Teresa (CSST); Sr. Fridoline, Provincial Superior, Karnataka Province, CSST; Sr. Annette and Sr. Joyce, former Principals of Teresian College; Sr. Helena, Manager, Teresian institutions; Sr. Prafulla, Principal, Teresian PU College; Prof. V.K. Jose, Officiating Principal and Sr. Sajitha, Principal, Teresian Degree College, will be present.

The college started for girls with a modest strength of 60 students in the eastern outskirt of Mysore city at a time when women’s education was not encouraged. Today, it has expanded into a strong institution with more than 1,600 students.

The campus houses Pre-KG to PG programmes. Bearing testimony to the doyens who have walked through its portals, students from Teresian College have left their mark in the fields of Governance, Politics, Sports, Corporate sector and education.

Students: The college has produced outstanding personalities in every field. Dr. R. Indira (renowned academician and scholar), Prema Cariappa (former Bangalore Mayor), M.S. Archana (KAS), Sapna Dutta (Corporate trainer), Pavitra Chandra and Reshma Chengappa (international basket ball players), Supriya (international volleyball player), G. Nisha (Indian team captain in Junior Asian Volleyball Tournament), Poojashri Venkatesh (international tennis player), Chitra Mahimairaj (international billiards player) are a few among them. Reena George, Thippava Sannakki, Bibi Summayya, Shradha Rani, Afsana, Shahajahani are athletes of national repute.

TeresianBF25apr2013History: The history of Teresian College can be traced back to 1858 when Mary Grace D’ Lima was born in Chennai. She gave herself to the service of God and became Sister Teresa of St. Rose of Lima. With a desire for the service of humanity, she started a religious congregation known as Carmelite Sisters of St. Theresa (CSST), to spread lofty ideals and spirituality of St. Teresa of Avila, in a little house in 1887 at Ernakulam, Kerala. Her efforts have grown today into a large Teresian Family with 120 communities and around 100 educational institutions.

Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, Teresian College, Avila School, Christ The King, Nirmala Convent and Teresian School in Mysore, Carmel College and St. Joseph’s School in Mandya are a few institutions doing yeoman service in Karnataka.

The College: Teresian College is named after St. Teresa of Avila, a 16th century Mystic Saint who symbolises selfless dedication and devotion to the cause of the downtrodden and oppressed.

Manoranjan Mahal: Teresian College was born in the minds of a group of CSST Sisters headed by Sister Euprasia. The decisive journey of Teresian starts in ‘Manoranjan Mahal,’ an architectural and historical monument, presently the convent, where I PUC classes were started in Arts with a strength of 60 on 22nd July 1963. In 1964, the science section and the degree first year were added. In 1966 hostel facilities started in the campus.Courses in commerce started in 1976. Other new courses were added later.

PG Centre: The Post-Graduate Centre started functioning from 2008 and is offering M.Sc. in Bio-technology, M.Com and MA (English). Professional courses like MBA and MCA are offered through Twinning programme with Pondicherry University.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore /Home> General News / April 19th, 2013

Mathematics wizard Shakuntala Devi passes away

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Bangalore : 

Legendary Mathematics wizard Shakuntala Devi, dubbed as the world’s fastest ‘human computer’ and who made complex mental calculations as a child prodigy, died at a hospital here today following respiratory problems.

Devi, who has enthralled fans with her prowess for decades, was 83.

“She passed away at Bangalore Hospital,” Shakuntala Devi Educational Foundation Public Trust Trustee D C Shivadev told PTI. Doctors declared her dead at 8.15 a.m., he said.

Devi was hospitalised a couple of weeks ago for critical respiratory problems, Shivadev said. “She developed heart and kidney problems later,” he added.

A household name in India, Devi cast a spell adding a 16-digit number with another one and multipliying the result with an equal array of numbers almost instantaneously, finding the cube root of the resultant and pops up with an answer in just about the time taken for a wink.

Devi, who had no formal education and who simply picked up reading and writing, had the ingenous ability to tell the day of the week of any given date in the last century in a jiffy.

“God’s gift. A divine quality,” is how Devi had once felt of her unique distinction that began showing visibility since the age of three. She has been quoted as saying that none in her family showed any signs of the same head for figures. “Not even remotely, although my dad was a stage magician.”

Rated as one in 58 million for her stupendous mathematical feats by one of the fastest super-computers ever invented-the Univac-1108-, Devi believed in using grey cells to silicon chips.

Born on November 4, 1929, Devi figured in the Guiness Book of World Record for her outstanding ability and wrote numerous books like ‘Fun with Numbers’, ‘Astrology for You’, ’Puzzles to Puzzle You’, and ‘Mathablit’

Hailing from a simple orthodox Kannada Brahmin family, Devi’s father was a circus performer who did trapeze, tightrope and cannonball shows. He had rebelled against becoming a temple priest.

Devi was also an astrologer and gave remedies purportedly based on date and time of birth.

It was while Devi was playing cards with her father at the tender age of three that he found his daughter’s calculation abilities. It turned out that she beat him not by sleight of hand, but by memorising the cards.

At the age of six, she demonstrated her calculation skills in her first major public performance at the University of Mysore and two years later, she again proved herself successful as a child prodigy at Annamalai University.

However, despite apprehensions in some quarters, Devi did not lose her calculating ability when she turned adult like other prodigies such as Truman Henry Safford.

In 1977, Devi extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number mentally. In the same year in Dallas, she competed with a computer to see who gives the cube root of 188138517 faster and she won.

On June 18, 1980 she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She answered the question in 28 seconds flat.

This event is mentioned in the 1995 Guinness Book of Records.

“Why do children dread mathematics?”, she was once asked.

“Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject,” pat came her reply.

“Mathematics is life, you have math in everything, right from time to your date of birth to the food you eat and the air you breathe,” she states. The right age to train children in mathematics is six, says Shakuntala, who sparkled at three.

source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com / Business Line / Home> News / by PTI / Bangalore, April 21st, 2013

Deeksha shines in MBA examination of VTU

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Mangalore :

Deeksha, a student of 2010-12 MBA batch of Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering (MITE), Moodbidri, secured the first rank in VTU MBA examination conducted in 2012. She is the first ever student in the Mysore zone of VTU to secure the first rank.

She was awarded four gold medals for having secured first rank – highest marks and topper in master of business administration.

The gold medals conferred on Deeksha include Prof MR Doreswamy gold medal, R N Shetty gold medal, Jain University gold medal and VTU gold medal.

She received the award and honour in the VTU convocation held at University Campus, Belgaum on Friday last.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Mangalore / TNN / April 11th, 2013

City students bag 2nd prize for Hybrid Bicycle

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Mysore  :

 The students of final year Automobile Engineering Department of D.Banumaiah’s Polytechnic in city, who participated in the ‘Do-it-Yourself’ State-level Project Exhibition, organised jointly by BCN Polytechnic, Lakshmeshwar in Gadag and Board of Technical Education, Bangalore, won the second prize for their Hybrid Bicycle concept for the academic year 2012-13.

The city students, who have developed the Hybrid Bicycle are S. Harish, Idrish Pasha, H.P. Praveen Sharma, V. Srinivasa, Syed Ummer, J. Nagaraju and H.M. Narayana. They were guided by A.R.Nanda Kumar and HOD B. Lakshminarayan.

The Hybrid Bicycle runs with the help of both petrol and solar energy. The advantages of this bicycle are: rapid developments in hybrid technology to improve engine efficiency, reduces pollution, helps reduce dependency on fossil fuels which directly affects fuel prices, powered by an electric motor and a small internal combustion engine, gives better mileage and are much cleaner than normal vehicles with lesser CO and other green house gas emission.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / April 12th, 2013

Remembering …: Sheila Irani : She brought futuristic change to school education

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She was an educationist, philanthropist, mother and a great personality who was loved by her students and employees. She was one of the most respected personalities among her friends’ circle. Though it is 10 years since she left for her heavenly abode on April 10, 2003, late Sheila Irani still lives on in the hearts of every student who had an opportunity to study in Ideal Jawa Rotary Children’s School of which she was the Principal and Correspondent for more than three decades. Here is a tribute….

Born on June 6, 1922 at Nainital in the then Uttar Pradesh (presently the city is located in Uttarakhand) to George Egbert Ferguson and Una Maud Ferguson, Sheila got trained herself as a nursery teacher in St. Margaret’s College, Bombay. She taught in Delhi, before shifting to Mysore in 1951 following her marriage to Farrokh K. Irani, Founder of Ideal Jawa factory. While F.K. Irani looked after the business, Sheila Irani spent most of her time teaching children. She started Ideal Jawa Rotary Children’s School on January 25, 1968 which went on to become one of the prestigious schools in Mysore.

Sheila Irani was not only involved in teaching students, but also in many charity programmes along with Farrokh Irani. Many organisations were beneficiaries of their services and both Sheila Irani and Farrokh Irani became household names in Mysore. She also volunteered to serve as a nurse during the Second World War.

Sheila Irani was conferred with the Viceroy’s Certificate of Merit for her service in St. John’s Ambulance Corps. She was also the President of Inner Wheel Clubs of India and Sri Lanka during 1980-81 and also the member of International Board of Inner Wheel at London. She served as the Senior Vice-President of All India Anglo-Indian Association, Delhi.

Sheila Irani was the Vice-President of Chamundi Children’s Home and Orphanage which she looked after for more than 25 years. She regularly visited Lepers’ Colony on Nanjangud Road and served them with love and affection. The Irani couple was blessed with three children — Raian F. Irani, Maureen Fernandez and Kairus F. Irani.

Speaking to Star of Mysore, Swarna Chittaranjan, Principal, Ideal Jawa Rotary Primary School, said that Sheila Irani was a highly respected personality in Mysore who believed that money was not the criteria to help the poor. During her visits to Lepers’ Colony she used to serve them with her own hands and clean their wounds which showed her motherly affection towards the downtrodden.

“She encouraged students to read books and took utmost care of their overall development. Even today we have been following her footsteps and working continuously to maintain the standard she has set for the school. I feel really proud to be sitting in her seat,” said Swarna Chittaranjan.

Many of her staff members still remember her and pay rich tributes to Sheila Irani for her services to the field of education and society. Raghavendra, Manager of the School, said it was a proud feeling to have worked with Sheila Irani. In his words, she was a dynamic and daring personality who made her staff work hard to provide quality education to students. “We are proud to say that whatever we are today it is because of her and the school. She always used to think about the school and work for the betterment of students by encouraging them in both academics as well as extra-curricular activities,” said Raghavendra.

Shelia Irani gave a lot of importance to arts and crafts and made sure that every student is taught arts and crafts while in school. In fact, there was a separate class for primary school, where teachers taught the kids to create different art works. There was also a drawing class for the higher primary school. The crafts and art works by students were displayed in school every year during the ‘Open Day’ which was started by Sheila Irani to mark the opening of the school on January 25, 1968.

The fun part was in the Lower Kinder Garten (LKG) where children were left to play the whole day. She made sure that he children had fun during LKG and only in the last hour they were taught alphabets and nursery rhymes. Children were served with snacks and milk during school hours to provide them with homely atmosphere. She was truly a mother who took care of her students.

Anne D’Monte and Lawrence D’Souza, former Head Mistresses, Ideal Jawa Rotary Children’s School, shared their experiences with SOM by paying rich tributes to their beloved Sheila Irani ma’m. According to them, Sheila Irani was humble hearted and straight-forward. “She took special care of students, especially the differently abled children and those below the standard mark. She also checked the food the children were eating and made sure that they had nutritious food. She always thought about the school and overall development of the students,” they added.

At the time when Rotary School was at its prime, Sheila Irani gave importance to differently abled children. There are examples of many differently abled students having studied in Ideal Jawa Rotary Children’s School and reach respectable positions in their professional life.

Ann Lillian Ratna and Jane Kunder, both teachers at Ideal Jawa Rotary Primary School, said that Sheila Irani was a gem of person with humble heart but at the same time very strict too. They said that she respected everyone and treated everyone equally. “As teachers we learnt to be punctual, honest and sincere towards our profession. She has been a model for all teachers in the school who made sure that right methods were used by teachers to teach the children,” they recalled.

To give an example of Sheila Irani’s generosity, she used to charge a mere Rs. 30 per month as school fee and for children with special ability Rs. 15 was collected. She always believed that parents should not be taxed in the name of school fee.

Sharing her experience with Sheila Irani, Anuraga Gowtham, an alumni of Ideal Jawa Rotary School, said that when she was in Class 6, five Guides were selected to participate in a camp out of which two students could not afford to attend the camp. When Sheila Irani got to know about it, she sponsored the entire camp for all the five Guides. Anuraga also said that every time during the stitching class she used to visit the class and insist that all girls learnt stitching. In fact there was one occasion when she scolded a few girls for not practicing their stitching.

Recognising her services to the field of education and society, she was nominated as the member of Legislative Assembly for two terms between 1969 and 1978. She was even nominated as the member of Lok Sabha during 1995-96 as a representative of Anglo-Indian community in the country. She was the Senate member of University of Mysore between 1993 and 1995.

Sheila Irani was the Trustee of Holdsworth Memorial Hospital (Mission Hospital), Board of Management member of P.K. Sanatorium in Mysore, Advisory Committee Member of K.R. Hospital, Trustee of Ideal Jawa Rotary Physically Handicapped Trust and Rotary Children’s Library Association. She was also a member of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan-Mysore Kendra, Member of Mysore Agenda Task Force (MATF), Executive Member of Frank Anthony Public School, Bishop Cotton School and Cathedral School, all in Bangalore and Laidlaw Memorial School in Ooty. She was a member of Mysore Race Club Charitable Trust.

Sheila Irani was so fond of her school even during her days in hospital, she told her teachers that she would be back in the school soon to inaugurate the new nursery block. Unfortunately, she breathed her last on April 10, 2003, which is also the last working day of the academic year.

Many of her students, colleagues and friends remember her even to this day and pray for her soul to rest in peace.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com /Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles / by  S. N. Venkatnag Sobers  / April 10th, 2013

LISAA School of Design launches its Second School in Bangalore

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New Delhi:
 Lisaa is a premier French design school based on founding principles of French design and aesthetics with multiple schools located in Paris, Nantes, Rennes and Strasbourg.  In India, Lisaa School of Design established its first institute in 2011 in Gurgaon. This has been followed by the recent launch of its second institute in Bangalore in March 2013, which saw Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri add her Midas touch to the star studded affair.
Ms. Nargis Fakhri had this to say “I am immensely pleased to be associated with this launch. Before a lot of students would go overseas to gain that much required work experience due to which we had missed out on many good talents. Thanks to Lisaa School of Design, Bangalore, students can gain the same expertise and skills sitting in India. I extend my heartiest congratulations to Lisaa Bangalore and wish the management all the very best for this venture.”
Lisaa School of Design, Bangalore is the city’s first ever branch of the acclaimed Paris based French design school. With a far sighted vision for quality education in design, Creo Valley has ventured to bring forth Lisaa School of Design, a globally reputed institute in the creative field of design to Bangalore.
Lisaa School of Design partners with world renowned universities such as the Rochester University and over 50 design schools globally. In addition, it has an association with prominent brands like Eurodisney, BNP Paribas, Louis Vuitton Moet Hannessy (LVMH), Saatch & Saatchi, and Christian Dior just to name a few.
source: http://www.indiaeducationdiary.in / India Education Diary / report by India Education Bureau, New Delhi / Thursday, April 04th, 2013

Hon. Professorship conferred

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Mysore :

In consideration of their services in the field of music, two eminent personalities, Prof. Mysore V. Subramanya, senior art critic and musicologist, great grandson of Veene Seshanna and Nadoja Dr. Mahesh Joshi, Additional Director General of Prasara Bharathi, Bangalore were conferred Honorary Professorships by the University of Tumkur in a glittering function held at the University premises on Apr. 4.

The honours were conferred on them by Dr. S.C. Sharma, Vice-Chancellor of University.

The chief guest of the function was Swami Veereshananda Saraswathi, the head of Ramakrishna Mission, Tumkur and was chaired by the VC.

Prof. Shivalingaiah and N. Lakshmikanth, Registrar of the University, were present.

In reply to the honours received, Prof. Subramanya requested the University to constitute a Chair in the name of Veene Seshanna in Instrumental Music for which he would donate Rs. 1 lakh.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / April 08th, 2013

Museum of love

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Amulya Shodha’, a museum in Shimoga, was built by a retired history lecturer, Khandobarao, in memory of his wife. The history lecturer now plans to expand the museum and make it the go-to  place for all students of history. Nrupathunga S K reports.

Inscriptions, coins, monuments, manuscripts, all stand as testimony to the many events in history. As we turn over the pages of history, we come across many kings, who took to the battlefield to either retain their kingdom or to expand it.

Speaking of love, though, only one king comes to the memory of most Indians — Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal. This monument has been a source of inspiration for lovers across the globe for several centuries. It’s not surprising then that H Khandobarao, retired history lecturer, better known as ‘Shah Jahan of Shimoga’ was inspired by this emperor.

He has built his ‘Taj Mahal’, a museum named ‘Amulya Shodha’, on a one-acre farm near Lakkinakoppa circle on N R Pura road, 12 km from Shimoga in the fond memory of his wife, Yashodha, who was also history lecturer. She passed away in 2007 due to kidney failure.
‘Amulya Shodha’, as the name itself suggests, is an invaluable search for lost values and culture of the bygone days. It showcases rare paintings of Ravi Varma, coins, inscriptions, manuscripts, weapons, all used by popular kings. The history professor collected these artefacts from various parts of the country.

He wants to create awareness among youth about the significance of lost heritage, culture of the previous era through his museum and thus aspires to make youth more aware of our culture and heritage. Apart from this, it also spreads the fragrance of his deep love for beloved wife Yashodha.

Khandobarao did his schooling and college in Shimoga. Yashodha was his neighbour during his college days. Both of them studied at the Sahyadri College together. Acquaintance turned into friendship, and later, love. They got married in 1972. Khandobarao began his career as high school teacher in 1968.

After serving for nearly five years, he was promoted as a history lecturer for National Pre-University College in Shimoga.

His wife worked as a history lecturer at Kamala Nehru Women’s College. His wife would often say that the Taj Mahal was not only a symbol of true love, but also the soul of true lovers. Inspired by her thought, he made up his mind to build a museum on a one-acre farm after the death of his wife in 2007.

Khandobarao is seeking financial assistance for the development of this museum. He has appealed to people’s representatives, including former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, in this regard. But, his efforts have failed to produce desired results. Khandobarao feels the museum is turning into a mere godown, owing to the presence of a large number of artefacts. He plans to expand it.

But he is short of funds to execute his plan. He has already submitted a proposal to the Centre along with his plan seeking Rs 3 crore for the development of this museum. He wants this museum to remain a symbol of true love and a school of history for future generations.

source: http://www.DeccanHerald.com / Home> Supplements> Spectrum / April 02nd, 2013

IIM-Bangalore toppers to pay back, chart new course

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Bangalore :

He is an ardent follower of ‘early-to-bed and early-to-rise’ philosophy. Probably that helped Raghavendran S get a gold  medal for securing first rank in the Post GraduateProgramme (PGP) in management at IIM-B’s 38th convocation on Monday.

Raghavendran, a native of Thiruvallur near Chennai, now dreams of starting a school for children. “I don’t have any short-term plan. I will work for 10-15 years, but after that, I want to start a school in a semi-urban area, which will focus more on curricular activities. I believe I have achieved this goal today because I was lucky to receive the right support and guidance. There are many such talented children in India who can achieve such goals if guided early in life,” he says.

Balagopal Ravibalan, a former employee of  Infosys  and winner of ‘Best All-round Performance’ gold medal, wants to put India on top of the world by using his experience he plans to gather working in the US. “I will join a company in  New Jersey . I want to work there for a few years and come back to India. In the past, people used to go abroad and stay there. Now people go abroad, gather experience and come back to utilize that for our country’s development,” says Ravibalan.

Pankaj Dhake (2{+n}{+d} Rank in PGP) and Mohammed Qasim want to use their work experience for development goals. Nirmal Purohit, gold medallist in Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGM), wishes to work in the field of research and insight.

Only two women  figured among the gold medalists this year. Adeeba Ansari, a young engineer and gold medallist in electronics and instrumentation from Indore, says: “I want to be a leader in marketing.” Shilpi Lal, gold medallist in Best Academic Performance adds: “Right now I want to be happy and content with what I have achieved.”

Among the 560-odd graduates, 29-year-old Prakash P stands tall. A paraplegic, he graduated in PGP and will join a top company as an associate business analyst. “I cleared CAT with 98% in the second attempt. I believe clearing the test was more difficult than graduating from IIM-B, because the faculty here is very cooperative and guided me well.”

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / Home> City> Bangalore / TNN / April 02nd, 2013

Lighting up lives of the underprivileged

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Dharwad :

Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank which covers nine districts of north and coastal Karnataka has come up with a scheme to attract students to school in association with Selco Solar Company, under a programme called “Light for Education”, which is being implemented in a few government schools.

According to a study, about ten percent of the children who go to government primary schools do not have electric lights in their homes. It is more so among the nomadic tribes, who go from place to place. It is their children who suffer the most as they are forced to read in the dim light of an oil or kerosene lamp. This nips most of their aspirations and creativity in the bud.

“Not only that, using kerosene lamps is dangerous as well, as we have heard of incidents of lamps falling on dozing children leading to fatal accidents. It is in this background that the bank has decided to help students with safe lights,” said KVGB chairman Sambasiva Reddy.

Under the programme, 50 students are identified and given solar lamps. The importance of this programme is that the batteries of these lamps can be charged only at the school where charging unit will be placed. The unit is a large one which can charge up to twenty five batteries at a time. Since the lamps can be charged at the school, children who use the lamps should necessarily come to school for charging. Lamps are made of good quality but since it cannot be charged independently, there can be no malpractice and it cannot be sold by unscrupulous persons and even by drunken parents. The lamps will be given to children studying in fourth standard and they can use it till they complete their seventh standard.

The Bank and Selco Solar Company have cast a responsibility on the school to maintain the solar charging panel and to keep track of the fifty solar lamps given to their students. The lamp and the solar panel will be serviced by Selco Solar Company.

The first beneficiary under the said scheme is the Government Kannada Primary School No.7, situated on Savadatti Road, Dharwad which has sheltered only students of poor background.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / Home> City> Hubli / by Gururaj Jamkhandi, TNN / March 31st, 2013