Shikaripur Morarji school students to attend R-Day celebrations in New Delhi as guests
Shivamogga: Two class 10 students of Morarji Desai Residential School at Churchigundi in Shikaripur taluk, M S Yashavath and Shankar, will participate in the 77th Republic Day programme, to be held at the Red Fort in New Delhi on January 26, as guests.
According to Deccan Herald on Friday, the students earned the honour after their school emerged as the only institution from Karnataka to win a national-level competition organised by NITI Aayog.
Guided by second division assistant M V Tejaswi Kumar, the students developed a multi-purpose agricultural equipment machine using the school’s Atal Tinkering Lab. The model integrates 12 agricultural equipment, including sowing machines, pesticide spraying, drip irrigation and other equipment, have been installed in a single machine.
Second division assistant M V Tejaswi Kumar, who guided the students, and Principal Suma B S will fly to Delhi soon to be part of the event. They can sit with the guests and watch the parade at the Republic Day programme.
They are scheduled to meet Union Minister of Education and Skill Development Dharmendra Pradhan.
Through NITI Aayog, Atal Tinkering Labs have been set up in 10,000 government and private schools in the country. Students are selected for the Republic Day programme based on the quality and innovation of projects developed in these labs.
Out of 10,000 projects, 1,000 schools were selected in the first phase, and this school secured 86th position. Later, the project was reviewed by the Engineering College in Jaipur. Later, it was selected as the best project in Karnataka.
Further development of the project has been entrusted to Mangaluru-based Nitte Engineering College, which will work with the students from February 16 to 18.
The Morarji School students, teachers and parents have congratulated the students for their achievement.
Shivamogga MP B Y Raghavendra said the students’ success would inspire others. “The good use of the Atal Tinkering Lab has brought me joy. I will try to expand the laboratory to more schools in the district,” he said.
Principal Suma B S reportedly said the lab was set up in the school in 2020. Tejaswi Kumar, who has done a PhD, is interested in developing ideas into models.
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Four held in Kalaburagi for brutal murder of man
Kalaburagi: Four men have been arrested in Kalaburagi on charge of hacking a man with lethal weapons and pelting stones at him under the limits of Station Bazaar Police Station recently.
According to police sources, Anand Jalak Shinde (34), Ashitosh Jalak Shinde (30), Imran Mehboob Sheikh (28) and Sohaib Anwar Qureshi have been arrested. The men are accused of the brutal murder of Syed Mehboob, a resident of Station Bazaar Upper Line Hamalawadi in the city.
An FIR was filed by the Station Bazaar Police Station based on a complaint given by Syed Ismail, father of the deceased Syed Mehboob.
Following quick probe, the police team successfully arrested the suspects within 24 hours. The arrested men were produced in court and have been sent to judicial custody.
The City Police Commissionerate has appreciated in an official release the police team’s quick solving of the murder case and arrest of the four men accused of murdering Syed Mehboob.
