(openPR) - Located in the heart of Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, Pilani is well known in India today for various top ranking educational institutions, CSIR Laboratory CEERI as well as the upcoming BrahMos Missile Assembly Project unit.

For the past over six decades, every year at Pilani the Itihas Parishad has been conducting an All India Hindi debate competition at the century old Birla School. For the year 2011, the debate competition was held on 10 September for the middle school children and had over a dozen schools participating. The topic for debate this year was "The Merger between Science and Spirituality is Good for Society or not". The venue for the debate was the imposing auditorium of the Birla School Pilani.

The prominent among the participating schools included the well known Pilani schools Birla School, Birla Public School, Birla Balika Vidyapeeth, Birla Shishu Vihar, Goenka Vidya Mandir, Hari Devi Jhutharam Shishu Sadan, Udairamji Padia Vidya Mandir, Bal Niketan, Jamuna Mishra Acdemy - JMA etc as well as Schools from Jhunjhunu, Dundlod, Sikar, Sadulpur – Rajgarh etc.

This is the second consecutive year JMA children have participated in this debate competition. Master Vikas Sheoran and 2010 same debate winner Himakshi Alaria from Class 8 of JMA spoke for and against the topic respectively. She is just no ordinary child Miss Chandrika from Lords International School Sadulpur – Rajgarh not only won the hearts of the audience with her performance but also bagged the first prize.

Principal Mrs Booma Natarajan and Mrs Alka Sharma from JMA Pilani received the Institutional participation memento from the Principal of the host school.

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About JMA Pilani: Smt Jamuna Mishra Academy - JMA Pilani is a Co-educational English Medium School with Experienced Teachers, Spacious Classrooms and Modern Amenities Designed to impart Quality Education combined with All Round Personality Development and lay the Best Foundation for the Child's Future. For more details about JMA Pilani see www.jma-pilani.page.tl/

Mrs Booma Natarajan MSc (Chemistry), MA (Childcare & Education), B.Ed
Principal Jamuna Mishra Academy – JMA
Atma Ram Padia Marg
Pilani Rajasthan 333031 India
Phone 91-1596-242314
Email booma_pilani at yahoo.co.in
Website www.jma-pilani.page.tl/