Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 14: The 7th annual Rt Rev Aziz William Memorial Inter-School Debate Competition was held in the historic ‘Cowie Hall’of Alexander Memorial School, Eid-Gah-Residency Road, here today.
The event was sponsored by the Alliance of YMCAs of North India in collaboration with Alexander Memorial School. The topic of the Debate was ‘Men Have Failed; Let Woman Takeover’.
Two debaters of eleven schools of Jammu participated in the event and the participating schools included St Mary’s Present Convent Gandhi Nagar, Army Public School Nagrota, St Xavier’s School Barnai, Delhi Public School Jammu, Heritage School Sainik Colony, Jodhamal Public School Channi Himmat, Army Public School Satwari, J&K Police Public School Miran Sahib, SD Tara Puri Gandhi Nagar, jk Montessori School and host Alexander Memorial School Jammu.
Neetu Gulati, formr Principal Govt Polytechnic College for Boys and Girls Jammu was the chief guest on the occasion, while Aksa Rao, Women’s Post Graduate College of Education, Jammu and Dr Sudhir Singh, Associate Professor of English , Post Graduate College, Udhampur were the adjudicators of the Debate.
Earlier, Esther William, Principal Alexander Memorial School and Honorary Secretary YMCA, Jammu presented welcome address.
The Rolling Trophy was bagged by Alexander Memorial School, Jammu, while Heritage School was declared runners-up. Medals and certificates of merit were given to Aviral Kaul of Alexander Memorial School for being the best debater, Mrigu Sambyal of Heritage School for claiming the runners-up slot and Sourav Singh of Army Public School for being the most promising debater. Meal for best question was presented to Supriya Bibi of APS Nagrota and for best answer to Aaditya Mahajan of APS Nagrota.
Rajni Kaul conducted the proceedings of the programme, while TN Kaul presented vote of thanks.
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