Jalandhar February 21 (Jaswinder Singh Azad)- P.G. Department of Geography, Lyallpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar in collaboration with the Association of Punjab Geographers organized the North Zone Level Geography Quiz Competition. Principal Dr. Jaspal Singh was present as Chief Guest, who honoured the winning teams with mementos and certificates. He encouraged the students to look beyond their textual knowledge and establish a relationship between theory and application of learned concepts. The objective of the Quiz was to evaluate the knowledge of the participants within academics and beyond academics as well as to promote scholastic excellence and competence through healthy and fair competition.
Dr Pooja Rana, Head Department of Geography informed that ten colleges from different places participated in this competition and DAV College, Jalandhar took first, Doaba College second and SR Govt College for Women Amritsar third positions. At the end Dr. Pooja Rana thanked principal and faculty members as well as congratulated the winning teams and also encouraged the participating teams. She also said that Geography is an important subject and various types of competitive exams like IPS, IAS, PCS, etc put questions based on Geography. On this occasion, Prof. Onkar Singh, Prof. Mandeep Singh and Prof. Priya Kataria were also present.