On the occasion of Children’s Day, the schools in Dehradun will be organising various sports, educational and cultural events on Thursday. On the eve of the occasion, Uttarakhand Governor Dr Aziz Qureshi also extended his greetings to the people, especially the children.
Qureshi congratulated children of the State and said that schools and NGOs of the State should also organise various development programmes for the children from poor background. On Wednesday an inter school poetry competition was organised in the Gandhi Inter college. The topics of the competition was female foeticide, mother, girl child, environment and natural disaster.
Around 40 students of more than 15 schools of Dehradun participated in the competition. According to the event organisers, the competition had been a regular feature for seven years to provide a better platform to the children interested in poetry. Mansi Bansal of St Joseph’s Academy won first prize, Akanksha of Jaswant Modern School won second prize, Usma of Maheshanand Bahuguna Inter College, Majra won third prize and Parminder Kaur of Government Inter College Khurbura and Kirti of Rampyari Girls Inter College won consolation prizes in the competition.
At the Rehn Basera, the programme planned for Thursday will see the children getting an opportunity to meet the new Junior Masterchef Sarthak Bhardwaj who is also a resident of Dehradun. Senior coordinator of Sri Guru Ram Rai School, Rashmi Singh said that to mark Children’s Day the school has organised four-day sports and fine arts events for the students of class VI to class XII. Sports and fine arts event such as football, handball, athletics, badminton, kho-kho, kite making, puppet making etc. are the main competitive events, she added. Dr Nirmal Sharma of Sandalwood School said that to mark the occasion a cultural programme will be organised in the school.