Students take a look at wall magazine creations at Patna Women’s College on Monday. Picture by Nagendra Kumar Singh

Patna, Sept. 26: Nearly 100 BEd students of Patna Women’s College today showcased their responsibilities in a wall magazine competition.

The college’s BEd department organises the competition every year. This year, 25 students from each of the four houses — Red, Blue, Green and Yellow — threw around their ideas on the theme, “Women beauty personified”.

At the end of the stipulated three hours, the Red and Green houses were adjudged joint winners. Yellow and Blue followed in the second and third places respectively.

The students, who would soon enter the professional world as teachers, put in their best efforts to bring out the theme of the competition. They portrayed the different traits of a woman with paper cuttings of famous personalities. They quoted achievements of some of the famous women personalities and the omnipresence of a woman at home performing responsibilities of a sister, a wife and a mother.

Some of the paper cuttings of famous women personalities used by the students included Mother Teresa, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, singer Lata Mangeshkar, late astronaut Kalpana Chawla and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Babli Roy and Madhumita, two teachers from the BEd department, were present during the whole event and encouraged their students to do their best.

Babli said: “The wall magazine competition is organised in the college every year. This competition is significant as through it the budding teachers (the BEd students) get to know the importance of creative and value learning and the spirit of teamwork. The enthusiasm of our students was clear today as they shared ideas among their teammates for the competition. It was really good to see them working together. I hope they would be able to imbibe the same traits in their students by organising such events in future.”

Ecstatic after her team’s victory, Supriya Ghosh, the team leader of the Red house, said: “Our efforts have borne fruits.”

A confident Kajal, describing her team’s wall magazine, said: “We have shown how a woman sacrifices her life to be a sister, a wife and a mother. For this, we put up pictures showing a woman carrying out her responsibilities towards her family. In our first picture, a newborn girl is shown as a baby angel. As she grows up, she is shown tying a rakhi on her brother’s hand. In the same sequence, she is shown taking care of her family members, including her husband and child as she gets married. ‘Yatra nari pujayante, ramante tatra devata’, a line in Sanskrit is quoted in our wall magazine, which means God resides where a woman is worshipped.”