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SASA STUDENTS BACK FROM FINLAND

Roopnagar: Dated: May 22, 2009 A group of six students of Sahibzada Ajit Singh Academy, residential school at Roopnagar, Punjab are back after attending week long conference on Environment at JOENSUU in Finland. This conference was organized by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and University of JOENSUU. The students who attended the conference are Mr. Ranjit Singh, Mr. Gurtej Singh, Mr. Harmandeep Singh Mr Gurkirat Singh Mr Ranjodh Singh & Mr. Gurveer Singh along with sharing their views on Global Warming with the selected students from 30 countries they conducted the workshops on Future Town Planning keeping in view the problem of Global Warming. They were appreciated by one and all.

The students were made to visit the Finnish Forest, JOENSUU Art Museum, and the Carelicum  at JOENSUU. At Helsinki, the Capital of Finland, they visited Kindergarten Museum,  Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Ateneum Sinebrychoff Museum of Foreign Art, Cygnaeus Gallery, Seurasaari open Air Museum and Urho Kekkonen Museum.

They were also arranged to visit Stockholm Capital of Sweden by ship and they visited Gamla Stan, Kungliga Slottet, Helgeandshohrien, National Museum, Historiska Museet, Djurgarden and Nobelmuseet- a place full of information of Alfred Nobel, the father of Nobel Prizes.

The Indians in Helsinki arranged the big reception in their honors at Wanha Waijari, the popular restaurant of Mr. Devinder Singh in which His Excellency Om Prakash, Ambassador of India in Finland & Estonia joined as a Chief Guest. He highly appreciated the students being aware of the Environment and doing something special world-wide in this regard. The other dignitary’s present during this occasion have been Mr. R.K. Kalra IFS Minister at Indian Embassy in Finland, Mrs. & Mr. Maan Singh, Mrs. & Mr. Sher Jang Bhadur Singh, Mrs. & Mr. Deepak Chauhan. Mrs. & Mr. Bhupinder Singh, Mrs. & Mr. Gurdeep Singh, Mrs. & Mr. Munish Sharma, Mrs. & Mr. Rajiv Arora, Madam Karam Saini, Mr. Manjit Singh, Mr. Gurpreet Saini, Mrs. Neelam Saini,Mr. Sapna & Mr. Devinder Singh Saini

Caption — The students of Sahlbzada Ajit Singh Academy Roopnagar with His Excellency Om Prakash, Ambassador of India in Finland & Estonia when they visited Finland to join International Conference on Global Warming.

(Rajan Chopra)

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