Coimbatore City Police, central prison celebrate Gandhi Jayanthi
The Hindu
On Gandhi Jayanthi, Coimbatore City Police AR organised various programmes incl. cleaning, fancy dress, drawing, elocution & Thirukkural recital competitions. Prizes distributed by DCPs. Prisons Dept. celebrated Prisoners' Welfare Day with Senthamizh Trust & doctors from Ganga Hospital sponsoring prizes & SEED organising cultural programmes.
Various programmes centered around the Father of the Nation marked Gandhi Jayanthi celebrations organised by the Armed Reserve (AR) of the Coimbatore City Police on Monday.
According to the police officers, a cleaning competition for ‘Kutti Gandhi’ prize was organised on the AR campus on Sunday in which more than 100 children of police personnel attached to the city police took part. They cleaned places such as the police martyrs column, children’s playing area and other parts of the campus.
More than 80 children took part in the fancy dress, drawing and elocution competitions on the theme Gandhi held at the Hamilton Club on State Bank Road on Monday.
A Thirukkural recital competition for children and poetry contest for police personnel were also held. This was followed by performances of the newly-formed orchestra team of the Coimbatore city AR.
Deputy Commissioners of Police K. Shanmugam (south), G. Chandeesh (north) and M. Rajarajan (traffic) distributed prizes to the winners. Assistant Commissioner of Police (AR) A. Sekar and inspector (AR) Prathap Singh organised the programmes.
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On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi, the Prisons Department celebrated the Prisoners’ Welfare Day at the Coimbatore Central Prison on Monday. G. Shanmuga Sundaram, Deputy Inspector General of police, Prisons, (Coimbatore range), and M. Urmila, Superintendent of the Coimbatore Central Prison, took the lead for the celebrations.
The Medical & Health Department launched a mass screening test in the tribal hamlets of Buruga and China Konela of Ananthagiri mandal in the Alluri Sitharama Raju district on Monday, June 10. It also organised a medical camp to detect malaria cases and treat those with symptoms of the infection at Buruga.
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