Apala Mandal of Class IX won the First prize in Senior Category of All India Scholastic Writing Awards Competition organised by Scholastic India for her story on the topic,”When a friend betrays……………..” .She was invited to Bangalore for felicitation & received a copy of the anthology, a certificate of merit and a tablet.
Drawn from over 2000 manuscripts, her story has been published in a book titled,“For Kids,By Kids”.
