The Doraha College of Education brought laurels to Ludhiana district by winning the Ms Saroj Bansal Memorial Trophy for the second consecutive year in a state-level competition organized by the Satyam College of Education, Moga. The theme of the competitions was gender equality and it was held jointly with the Punjab Human Rights Commission. Justice R. L. Anand, Chairperson, PSHRC, and Mr N. K. Arora, Member PSHRC, were the chief guests.

The competitions were organized to create awareness about issues related to gender equality, female foeticide, domestic violence and sexual harassment of women.

Nearly 170 students from 23 education colleges of Punjab participated in these competitions. The participating colleges included the Dev Samaj College of Education Chandigarh, DAV Education College Abohar, the GHG College of Education, Sidhwan, SDS College Lopon, Malwa Central College of Education, Ludhiana, BCM College of Education and GMT College Education Ludhiana, DM college and Baba Mangal Singh College of Education, Moga.

In these competitions, the Doraha college bagged six prizes. In the paper presentation through power point competition, Prabhleen Kaur bagged the first prize for her presentation “Female Foeticide- An Insight” while Ashu Joshi got the second prize for her presentation" Women's constitutional Rights' which she presented in Punjabi.

In the power point presentation for teachers, Ms Jaspreet Kaur won the first prize for her presentation “Gender equality- still knocking at the classroom door”.

In the poster-making competition, Ruchi and Sapna stood second, Rashmi Sharma won the third prize in collage-making and Prabhleen Kaur bagged the consolation prize in creative writing.