State Award to the Pioneer of VKV movement in the State

State Award to the Pioneer of VKV movement in the  State

The grateful state honoured the pioneer of VKV movement  Shri. A.Balakrishnan with State Award for his excellent service for the Educational upliftment of State. 

 

Shri. A.Balakrishnan is  a real Karma Yogi who firmly believed in the dictum “Service to man is service to god”. His association with North-east began way back in the year 1974. Under the guidance of his mentor Man.Eknathji Ranade, Sri.BalaKrishnanji took up the responsibility of Vivekananda Kendra’s work in the north-east. The seeds that he has sown then have born fruits and have spread its branches all over north-east, giving solace and encouragement to large number of people in the Northeast in general, and Arunachal Pradesh in particular.

He is personification of love and loved the people of Northeast very dearly. When the first seven residential schools were planned he extensively toured all over the state to select the places. At many places, he has to walk long distances on foot and also even enjoyed the elephant raids to cross rivers during those days. In spite of topographic and terrain difficulties, lack of communication and other  related problems he could surmount them and could set up the first seven residential schools in the year 1977.

As a pioneer, he closely monitored the progress of each and every school from dawn to dusk, giving clear instruction to teachers. The standards he set during those days became the hallmark of VKV’s and are being retained even today creating niche for itself in the state and Vkv’s have become a household name in Arunachal Pradesh.

He had immense faith and trust in the teachers whom he had selected and he remained as a fatherly figure to all of them rather than an employer. His attitude that it is his responsibility, to look after the welfare of those teachers whom he had selected made the teachers to stick to the organization as true Karyakartas. He had so much love and faith on the students and even today he remembers the names of the students of those early years. His charisma and magnetism could attract people towards Kendra and could bring a cadre of good Karyakartas in to the fold of Kendra. By his humanistic approach, simple living, down to earth thinking could create a large number of well wishers all over the state. This further helped in the expansion of Vivekananda Kendra activities in Arunachal Pradesh.

Today with 33 schools in Arunachal with more than 13000 students in its rolls have transformed the socioeconomic and educational scenario of Arunachal Pradesh to a great extent and will definitely mould itself into a model state of Northeast in the days to come. No doubt, sri.Balakrishnanji has played a key role and will definitely look up as a fulcrum in Vivekananda Kendra’s work in the Northeast and as a harbinger of transformation in the state.

News Round up - January 2014

 News Round up - January 2014

Band Camp:   

In order to hoan the skills in band, performance of which has often stolen the attention of the spectators, a band Training Camp was organized at VKV Tafrogam from 4th to 9^th January, 2014.  Three schools namely, VKV Roing, Tafrogam and Sunpura participated in the camp. 

The details of the same have been given below:

Sl No	Name of the item	Number of students participated			Total
		Roing	Sunpura	Tafrogam
1	Bigul	4	5	8	17
2	Side Drum	1	4	7	12
3	Tenor Drum	-	-	3	3
4	Flute	2	4	4	10
5	Trumpet	-	2	5	7
6	Saxophone	-	-	3	3
7	Efonium	-	-	3	3
Total		7	15	33	55

Pushpanjali Karyakram:

Pushpanjali Karyakram was conducted in all the schools and different centres with great devotion on the culmination of the yearlong celebration of Swami Vivekananda’s 150^th Birth Anniversary on 12 January, 2014.  In simple karyakram the students, staff, Parents, well wishers and a large number of people offered floral tribute to the portrait of Swami Vivekananda and resolved to spare time to organize the people to understand their potential to work for this mother land.  The statistical details of the same have been given below:- 

Sl No	Cluster	No of places	Male	Female	Total number of attendance
1	Papum Pare	14	1645	1790	3435
2	Siang	12	905	864	1769
3	Tirap	13	781	612	1393
4	Subansiri	7	433	232	665
5	Kameng	7	850	510	1360
6	Lohit	37	2807	2532	5339
Total					13961

Utsarg Samaroh, 2014:

The programme was designed in such a way that the participants get refining touch on the subject from carefully chosen resource persons , experience of living together in a well-planned daily routine, get such messages which would help them to consolidate the value education which they have been receiving as a part of the schooling for the last 10 years and experience  the program like Vande Mataram, in which, all pay floral tribute to Bharat Mata, witness the act of expressing gratitude to who  are contributing in one’s life etc  to create an everlasting impression in the minds of the participants.

Venue	Date	Boys	Girls	Total	Participating VKVs
Itanagar	14 to 16 Jan	88	91	179	Nirjuli,  Oyan, Kuporijo, Yazali
Nirjuli	15 to 17 Jan	111	65	176	Itanagar, Banderdewa, Vivek Vihar, Sher
Roing	20 to 22 Jan	81	89	170	Roing,  Sunpura, Amliang, Balijan
Tafrogam	24 to 26 Jan	48	102	150	Tafrogam,   Seijosa, Nivedita Vihar, Ziro
Kharsang	29 to 31 Jan	91	92	183	Kharsang, Shergaon, Bana, Jirdin
Total		419	439	858

Dignitaries present in different venues:

Venue	Dignitaries
Itanagar	Dr Shalini Verma, IRS, Secretary of Social Justice and Empowerment and Women and Child Development, Govt of Arunachal Pradesh
Nirjuli	Sri Sanjay Goel, Deputy Commissioner, Papum Pare District
Roing	Sri Laeta Umbrey, MLA, Roing and Sandeep Kumar, IAS, Assistant Commissioner, Lower Dibang Velley
Tafrogam	Sri Rajiv Takuk, Deputy Commissioner, Lohit and Ojing Rukbo, Labour Officer, Lohit
Kharsang	Shri N. Ngemu, Vibhag Pramukh, Tirap Vibhag., (EE, Electric Division, Miao)

Matrupooja:

Matrupooja is another programme conducted for the Class X students. The students with lot of shradha wash the feet of their mothers and offer a simple pooja. The importance of Motherhood and the need of keeping everlasting values like Matru Devo Bhava, Pitru Devo Bhava, Acharaya Devo Bhava, Rashtra Devo Bhava etc in life to lead a meaningful and joyful life is shared to the students and their parents.  It was quite emotional in witnessing the pooja and to listen to the sharing of the impact of the pooja by the students and the mothers after the pooja.

Sl No	Name of the VKV	Total  mother present on the occasion
1	Roing	76
2	Tafrogam	42
3	Sunpura	17
4	Amliang	17
5	Kharsang	47
6	Itanagar	69
7	Banderdewa	38
	Total	306

Inter VKVs Essay Writing Competition:

Inter VKVs Essay writing Competition was conducted on 30^th December, 2013 in all the VKVs. Well in advance, three topics of essays were assorted for preparation for each category.  First prize winner of each category of each school were evaluated centrally for Inter VKVs Result. Prizes were given for the school level winners. The result of the Inter VKVs Evaluation is as follow:

Group A: (Class III to V)

Position	Name of the Student	Class	VKV
First	Km.  Archisha U.K	IV	Oyan
Second	Kr.  Nishanka Goswami	V	Nirjuli
Third	Kr.  Shobit  Dubey	V	Wessang

Group B: (Class VI to VIII)

Position	Name of the Student	Class	VKV
First	Tadar Yaming	VIII	Nirjuli
Second	Km Roncha Tikhak	VIII	Tafrogam
Third	Kr Puspak Mishra	VIII	Wessang

                        

Group C (Class IX to XII)

Position	Name of the Student	Class	VKV
First	Km Simranjeet Kaur	XI	Nirjuli
Second	Km Dani Yamang	X	Nivedita Vihar
Third	Km Tanya Mena	XII	Roing

Cash prizes were given for the winners in the Inter VKVs level.

Result of Prajnya Vikash Quiz Declared:

The result of the Prajnya Vikash Quiz, in which 7132 students participated, has been declared.  A summary of the result is given below:

Category	Position	Name of the student	VKV	Class
Sub Junior	First	Km. Gyammar Ania	Balijan	V
	First	Kr Sushil Kr Singh	Liromoba	IV
	Second	Kr Toko Jill	Joram	III
	Second	Kr Goyi Bole	Liromoba	III
	Third	Km Gyamar Cheku	Joram	III
	Consolation	Total 16 students
Junior	First	Km Nabam Yama	Joram	VII
	Second	Km Likha Ane	Joram	VII
	Third	Km Joram Nijum	Joram	VII
	Consolation	Total 4 students
Senior	First	Kr Bomnuk Don	Bana	X
	Second	Kr Yagyaj	Kuporijo	IX
	Third	Km Gyamar Nanu	Nirjuli	X
	Consolation	Total 4 students

Problem Solving Assessment Examination:  

Students of Class IX, X and XI appeared in the Problem Solving Assessment Examination conducted by CBSE on 18 of January, 2014.

Alert VKV students saved Zoo at Itanagar from wildfire:   

The Class-IX Students of VKV, Chimpu,   garnered wide ovation by showing the presence of mind to inform the Zoo authority while detecting origin of wild fire occurred in the Biological Park at Itanagar on 29th January 2014 at about 10.00 am. The students were doing their project study on wild animals in the park along with their science Teacher, KK Subramanian. Timely information to the zoo authority saved a devastation that would have happened due to the fire engulfed on a very old tree. The leading dailies of Itanagar covered this exemplary act of our students.

We are all debtors to the world and the world does not owe us anything. It is a great privilege for all of us to be allowed to do anything for the world. In helping the world we really help ourselves. ~~ Swami Vivekananda