TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 3: All students of the Government Jinnah Public School have passed the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) annual examination for 2007 and this is a record in the Faisalabad Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, the school principal said on Friday.

Talking to journalists, Principal Col Ishaq (retired) said that 10 students got more than 760 marks. Ahmad Saleem secured 803 marks, Iqra Akhtar 785, Moosa Niazi 781, Seemal Aziz 780, Ahmad Chaudhry 778, Hasan Shafqat 775, Hafiz Usman 775, Waliya Nazir 770, Mughees Khan 770, Zarak Khan 764 and Zain Ali Sattar 762, he added.

He claimed that no student of his school was placed in C grade.

ANTI-POLIO CAMPAIGN: A three-day anti-polio campaign will start in the district from August 7 and 357,348 children under five years of age will be administered polio drops, District Nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar said on Friday.

Addressing a meeting at the office of the executive district officer for health, Sattar said that 814 vaccination teams had been formed in all three tehsils of the district and 685 of them would go door to door to administer polio drops to children.

World Health Organisation representative Dr Muhammad Asif told the meeting that Toba Tek Singh had been declared polio-free district, but still anti-polio steps were being taken to stop import of the disease into the district.

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