Friday, April 27, 2012

Odisha: DAV Vedanta International School celebrates 5th Annual Day

Orissadiary, April 26, 2012
Report by OrissaDiary.com bureau; Lanjigarh: DAV Vedanta International School, Lanjigarh celebrated its 5th Annual Day on April 23, 2012 with Dr. Mukesh Kumar – President & Chief Operating Officer of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), Lanjigarh graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
The function commenced with the lighting of the lamp, followed by the welcome speech by Ms. Sukla Chakraborty – Principal. Addressing the audience, Dr. Mukesh Kumar commended the contributions made by it in grooming children in a tribal dominated area like Lanjigarh.
The major attraction of the Annual Day was the two stall prepared by the students on the ‘Anti-tobacco Awareness’ and ‘Ban on the use of plastic bags’. The best prize – ‘Student of the Year’ went to Subhashree Mishra of class VIII; for excellence in various activities were also given away by the invited guests including the.
Present on the occasion were parents of the students from different areas like, Lanjigarh, Muniguda, Biswanathpur and Ambodala; VAL officials – Bimalananda Senapati, B S Mund, R N Mishra, J K Mishra, Avilash Dwivedi, Naval Sharma and Dr. Chinky Gupta of Vedanta Hospital and others were also present.
The atmosphere was quite enthralling with a variety of entertaining cultural programmes like songs, skits and dances performed by students. The audiences of about 1000 people were captivated by Hariwanvi Dance, Krishna Lila, Vampire Dance, Tiger Dance, etc. The children also played a short drama.
The DAV Vedanta International School, Lanjigarh is the only English medium school in Lanjigarh region with more than 350 students. The school has benefited a number of tribal students in the periphery area along with children of employees of Vedanta Aluminium limited.

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