Under the chairmanship of Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Vineet Kumar Srivastava, ‘National Children’s Day-2023’ was organised at the Mini Stadium of North Eastern Railway (NER), Lahartara here on Tuesday. Under this event, various sports, race and musical chair competitions for children were organised in the age groups of 8-12 and 12-14 years for boys and girls. The functions were also organised at different schools and the Congress workers also celebrated the day as it is the birth anniversary of first Prime Minister Pt Jawaharlal Nehru.
Addressing the children at NER Mini Stadium, the DRM said that the truest time of life and the best and most beautiful moments in the world are found only in childhood, hence congratulations to all the children on this day. “We all remember 14th November as Children’s Day as it is the birth anniversary of the first Prime Minister Pt Nehru, who loved children very much,” he said, adding that the children are called the future of our country.
He appealed to all the children to do good work throughout their life for becoming great citizens of the country.
ADRM (Operations) Rajesh Kumar Singh, ADRM (Infra) Roshan Lal Yadav, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer (Traction) RN Singh, Divisional Personnel Officer Vivek Mishra, Assistant Personnel Officer Ramesh Upadhyay, Assistant Personnel Officer Virendra Kumar and other Railway officers and employees were also present.
In the sports competitions organised in the first phase, 100 metres races were conducted for boys and girls of 12 to 14 years category in which Shivam and Ragni Sonkar among boys and girls stood first respectively while Akhilesh Yadav and Deepika Kumari finished second while Abhishek Yadav and Ruby Khatoon were placed third. In the 50 metres races for boys and girls of 8-12 age-group, Ayush Rajbhar and Aaradhya Gupta stood first among boys and girls respectively while Amit Yadav and Ruby Khatoon got second places and Pawan Singh and Mahi Singh third places.
In the girls’ needle thread (Sui dhaga) race, Sanjana got first place followed by Bharti Maurya and Ragini Sonkar while among the boys and girls hurdles race (Bora Daur), Ayush Rajbhar and Mahi Singh got first place, while Pawan Vishwakarma and Ruby Khatoon finished second and Yash Kumar and Anushka Verma third places respectively. In the girls’ musical chair competition, Kajal Kannaujiya got first place while Sandhya finished second and Anjali third respectively. On this occasion, children also recited patriotic poems and songs.
In this event, children of employees working in the divisional office, students of NER Junior School located in Railway Colony, Scouts and Guides of NER Bharat Scouts and Guides District Association, Varanasi and Bulbuls participated. The programme was conducted by chief welfare inspectors Yogeshwar Mall, Satyaprakash and Anil Srivastava while the vote of thanks was proposed by Vivek Mishra, Divisional Personnel Officer.