Makeshift Public Address System

We had a reasonably good public address system in our seminar hall. They stripped it down and lost it. They refuse to find it, and also to install a new one, because it is not a part of their contract. I processed for a new one, but the civic machinery takes some time to get results. The quoted price was also a bit high, if 4700 INR can be called high. In the meantime, the meetings are not very productive, because about five rows from the speaker at the front of the seminar hall, only lip movements are seen. Unless one is good at lip reading, the meeting becomes meaningless. So I went to the market and bought an amplifier for 600 INR. We had a mic. I got out two speakers from our VCD/DVD player, connected them to this amplifier, inserted the mic into its socket on the amplifier, and we had a new public address system for just 600 INR (not counting the parts we already had, which were good but useless as far as our need was concerned). It worked very well.