Bal Puraskar for Ludhiana girl

Ludhiana, January 25

Namya Joshi, a Class 8 student of Sat Paul Mittal School, has done the region proud as she has been conferred with the prestigious Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, 2021, the highest civilian award for an individual below 18 years.

“I have got the recognition in the field of innovation for my work on ‘Minecraft’,” she says. ‘Minecraft’ is a skill-based learning programme, which gives teachers and students a platform for better understanding and makes learning interesting. A keynote speaker at ‘KEOS 2019 – a global education conference’ in Jyvaskyla, Finland, she has got many national and international achievements to her credit. — TNS