A two-day bal samagam of schoolchildren involving district-level sports and co-curricular activities concluded on Saturday at the CH+2 High School campus Jhumaritelaiya. Jainagar Block emerged as winner in boys group while Chandwara Block shined in girls group.
Tejbahdur Singh from chandwara was awarded individual champion under Boys I-V Class group and PriyankaKumari of Markachcho bagged the individual champion under girls in the same Class group. Govind Kumar of Jainagar and Rita Kumari of Chandwara emerged victorious in Class VI-VIII boys and girls groups respectively.
Arvind Kumar Mishra, Additional Collector was the chief guest of the culmination ceremony. He appreciated the performance of the students in the events and said, “These kind of programmes are very essential for the all round developments of the students.”
He emphasised the need to organise such events regularly at school levels. Hundreds of students hailing from various schools of the district attended the event that included 100 m race, 400 m race, spoon race, high jump, long jump, speech contest and debate competitions.
The programme was inaugurated by Deputy Commissionor K Ravikumar on Friday with flag hoisting and torch lighting. An attractive march-past was also presented by the participants on the inaugural day.
DC Ravikumar said, “BalSamagam is a step to identify talents of children and emphasised on personality development of children through sports, essay writing, extempore, painting and other types of competition.”
“This huge gathering spreaded the message of brotherhood and unity alsoamong the students who have come from different parts of the district,” he added. Narayan Bishwas Deputy Director of higher education, Gaurav Kumar State programme coordinator were also present at the inaugural session.
The Bal Samagam programme was organised under Sarwa Shiksha Abhiyan in the State Government run schools to explore the talents of students, said Jitendra Kumar Sinha, District Superintedent of Education while delivering vote of thanks.
Ashwini Kumar Sinha was the anchor of the programme.
Prabhash Kumar Dutta Block Development Officer Koderma, Atul Kumar Circle Officer Koderma, Sushil Kumar Roy District Education Officer, Nalini Ranjan Additional District programme Officer(ADPO),Ujjwal Mishra APO, Block Education Extension officers Shailendra Kumar(Markachcho), PitambarRai (Koderma, Ramashray Prasad (Jainagar), Harendra Singh (Satganwan) and Omprakash Yadav Principal DAV Public School were also present in the programme.