Chief Secretary Sajal Chakraverty on Wednesday held a meeting on ‘Bal Samagam’, a cultural event for school children, which will be organised across Government schools of Jharkhand. The CS instructed Deputy Commissioners to ensure that school children participate in the cultural event.
CS said ‘Bal Samagam’ is a step to identify talents of children and emphasised on personality development of children through sports, essay writing, extempore, group discussion, painting and other types of competition. Chakraverty stressed upon participation of children of upto Class VIII in events of the cultural event.
The event will be organised in two phases. Phase-one will take place between January 19 and 20 and the winners of the phase will take part at block level competition which will be organised between January 20 and 23. Phase-two and incidentally the last phase of the event will be held from January 30 to 31. CS asked officials to make complete arrangements for students taking part in the competition. A cultural event will be organised on the evening of January 30.
Secretary Human Resources Development department, Aradhana Patanaik said the event will be held under Sarv Siksha Abhiyan and different types of events including sporting events will be organised during the programme. The Secretary also asked for photographs of events which will be organised in schools across Jharkhand. The photographs will be published in the souvenir, Bachpan.
Director of Jharkhand Education Project Council urged all deputy commissioners to play their part in the organizing the event successfully.