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Save the Girl Child Rally S. S. Public Sr. Sec. School, Sadhaura, Haryana The judges and the participants of the workshop A baby girl is God’s Best Opinion that life should go on Te two hours workshop impacted the students and made them think and ponder on the topic. Tis S. S. Public Sr. Sec. School always strive to take interaction will go a long way in sensitizing them and expedient steps to eradicate diferent social evils by making them aware of the need to have a gender bias organsing diferent community-related programmes free society. to spread public awareness. Paper Presentation Competition To disseminate these thoughts, the school took out a rally on ‘Save the Girl Child’ under the able Kamla Nehru Public School, Phagwara, Punjab guidance of Health and Wellness club. Te school organized Jalandhar Sahodaya Inter- Te children marched with banners and slogans School Paper Presentation Competition on 29 January garnered and stole support of the public. 2014 in which 28 schools participated. Te rally was peacefully led by the Principal. The theme of the paper presentation competition was Gender Sensitization. Tey presented Gender Equality their paper on the various topics such as Sports and Mother's Public School, Bhubaneswar, Odisha Gender- A bridge, Gender Issues in Schools, Role st of Technology in Gender Sensitization, etc. 1 Te workshop on Gender Equality was held on position was bagged by Woodland Overseas School, rd nd 22 January 2014 by the Teosophical Order of Service 2 and 3 position by La Blossom School and DIPS (TOS). Mr. Jagadananda Panda, Dr. Shruti Mohapatra respective. Te Judges for the competition were Dr. and other eminent social workers from Bhubaneswar Palavi Khanna, Counselor, Psychologist and Ms. were present. Kalpna Yadav, Assistant Director DISHA Lovely Professional University. About 36 students of classes VIII, IX and X and their parents attended the workshop. Tey conducted Te Principal, Ms. P.K. Dhillon, said that the skits and displayed posters on world without gender, time has come to “sensitise” students on the gender legal consequences of gender bias, means of changing issues. Te school being a miniature society, the frst the mindset against gender bias. step in gender equality begins at the school level. 48 Collaborative Learning