PCTE to organise Dr.D R Singh Memorial British Parliamentary Debate, Season VI

Ludhiana, February 12, 2015: Dr.D R Singh Memorial British Parliamentary Debate, Season VI is being organised at PCTE Group of Institutes, Ludhiana starting tomorrow. British Parliamentary Debate was first pioneered in India in 2008 by PCTE Group of Institutes. In 2009 it conducted the first of D.R.Memorial series in collaboration with LMA.

The two day event is organised by PCTE in collaboration with Ludhiana Management Association (LMA). In the event  about 32 teams from all over the country like   IIT, Ropar, IMT Ghaziabad, Delhi School of Economics, Dr. DY Patil College of Law, Mumbai , Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Jamia Milia Islamia Delhi, Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur and many more are participating in the current edition of debate.

The event will be followed by a musical evening performance by Lakhwinder Wadali, a Punjabi musician, who hails from a family of musicians. His grandfather Thakur Dass Wadali was a renowned vocalist and his father and uncle formed a Sufi qawwali duo, the Wadali brothers.

The event will be inaugurated by Sachit Jain, President, LMA & Joint Managing Director, Vardhman Textiles Ltd, Ludhiana. The Debate is sponsored by SEL Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd, Ludhiana. It is amongst the most prestigious and the most challenging debate tournament in the country, with total cash prizes of Rs. 1.5 lakh.

Harpreet K Kang, Chairperson, Student’s Forum, LMA and Dean, PCTE said that the British Parliamentary Debate gives one ample opportunity as a debater to gain wide perspectives, use a large knowledge base, and be able to offer views from multiple perspectives. The British parliamentary pattern is followed all over the world from and is typically carried out in the pattern of British, and most commonwealth countries, including the Indian Parliament House