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City girl is PM’s special guest at R-Day parade

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Posted: Jan 01, 2009 at 0323 hrs IST

Ludhiana Jashanjeet Kaur, a former student of BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, has been invited by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development to witness the Republic Day parade from the Prime Minister’s box. Jashanjeet has been given the privilege for being the national topper in the All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE). She topped in Non-medical stream of class XII with 96.4 per cent marks in the annual examination conducted by CBSE in the year 2008.

Now pursuing Bachelor of Designing at IIT, Guwahati, she says, “I never expected this opportunity. I have seen the Republic Day parade many a times on television. But this is the first time that I would watch it on spot. I got to know about it only this week and am ecstatic.”

Jashanjeet, who wants to take up web designing professionally, is fond of painting and reading, especially novels. Paramjit Kaur, principal of BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, says,”It is a proud moment for all of us that an old student of our school has got this opportunity due to her hard work.”

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