Cooch Behar News

Text books for primary students

The Cooch Behar District Primary School Council (DPSC) will make
arrangement to send text books in all primary schools in the district
by 1 January. The text books will be distributed among the students of
Class I to Class V. The Education Minister, Bratya Basu has instructed
all the DPSCs to send books to all the government run primary schools
by 1 January and following his instruction the DPSC in Cooch Behar
will start sending of the books after the Puja vacation. The
Chairperson of Cooch Behar DPSC, Kalyani Poddar said that a few books
of Class I, Class III and Class V will be changed according to new
syllabi but the books of Class II and Class IV will remain unchanged.
The Education Minister issued the instruction in a meeting of all the
DPSC chairmen that was held on Tuesday in Kolkata, Poddar said today.

Taking over the evaluation system, Poddar said this time the DPSC may
arrange question papers locally for external evaluation of the
students reading in Class II and III. Earlier the state council used
to send the questions from Kokkata, she said.

Handicrafts competition

The district level handicrafts competition was held at Cooch Behar
District Industries Centre (DIC). About 100 artisans participated in
the competition. Cooch Behar DM, Mohan Gandhi and DIC General manager,
Niranjan Biswas were among the distinguished persons that attended the
programme.

In the Shital Paati (cool mat) category the successful competitors are
Sanjib Dey (First), Sandip Dey (Second) and Narayan Chandra Pal
(Special award), In the Jute category the winners are Usha Barman
(First), Alpana Barman (Second) and Lakshmi Pal (Special). Sadhan
Chandra Barman (First), Haridas Sanyal (Second) and Jagmohan Barman
(Special) are the successful competitors in the Wood, Cane and Bamboo
category. In the Miscellaneous category Bipad Bhanjan Pal stood first
for his bag made of Paati. Nisha Rani Roy stood second for her doll
made of old cloths. The special prize winner is Md Abdul Samad. He
made a Cactus with ground-nuts.

DIC sources said the prize winning artworks will be send to Kolkat to
place in the exhibition to be held on the occasion of the state level
handicrafts fair.