Budding singers all under 16 presented a live performance at a Jharkhand state level, National Group Song Competition here today. Children as young as 10 to 16 years of age group performed song in Hindi and Sanskrit at a cultural competition organized especially for school students of the state.
The present beamed with pride as they watched their children perform at one of the prestigious competition here on birth day celebration of Mahatma Gandhi. National Group Song at a state level, a day long group song competition organized by Bharat Vikas Parishad, Bokaro Thermal branch was held at station club hall today.
The competition was open to all and invitations were sent to all the schools to participate. The first prize in Hindi song for the group song competition was bagged by GPS, school, Chas ,second prize goes to Dhanbad public school, Dhanbad, while third prize awarded to Rajkamal Sarwsati Vidhaya Mandir, Dhanbad. Dhanbad Public school, Dhanbad emerged winner, Rajkamal Sarwsati Vidhaya Mandir, Dhanbad took away the second prize and M.G.M. High school, Chas stood third in Sanskrit song.
Altogether 13 schools from different parts of the state took part in the NGSC, out of which four schools were finally awarded by the local branch of BVP ,Bokaro Thermal on the basis of their performance .To make judging impartial ,the schools were allotted codes and the names of the institutions were not revealed to the audience and the judges. Giridih ,BJP member of parliament ,Ravindra Kumar Panday,National General secretary (Vistar) G.P. Singh ,state secretary P.K. Ambastha ,local president B.D. Sahu inaugurated NGSC function by paying homage to the Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi then by lighting the traditional lamp .
Chief guest MP Ravindra Panday explained in brief about the BVP and its activities in the Bermo coal city and nearby areas .He said that the BVP ,Bokaro Thermal is working on the theme of contact ,help ,dedication ,and service and its members are working for upliftment of society . Among other prominent people were the CE & project head GP Singh, CE, P Kumar, CE JP Singh, Dy CE, BD Sahu, State president of BVP, PK Ambastha, State secretary Sarita Singh, AP Singh ,Vijaya Tiwari, SB Singh, AP Mehta and others.