National Youth Day was celebrated throughout the Arunachal Pradesh, on 12th January 2011, commemorating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
VKV, Vivek Vihar played host to pass the message of Swami Vivekananda "Man Making and Nation Building" and value based education among the children by conducting various competitions held in different schools like drawing & sketch making, Essay writing and drama etc.
More than 100 children from different schools, including Govt. Middle School, Polo Colony, Gyan Ganga Vidyapeeth, Vivekananda Residential Public School, Vivekananda Central School, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Vidya Mandir, VKV, Vivek Vihar rejoiced in different innovative programmes.
MLA Karya Bagang encouraged the children by distributing the prizes and asked them to have value based education which is the ultimate aim of VKVs.
The National Youth Day was also celebrated at NERIST. To mark the occasion, a seminar on Voluntary Blood Donation was organized at the Conference Hall of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. It was jointly organized by the NSS Cell of NERIST and others.
Addressing the gathering, Prof. P. K. Das, Director of NERIST exhorted the youth to come forward for blood donations voluntarily. Sharing his own experiences, Prof. Das justified the motto of Voluntary Blood Donation (VBD), ‘young blood brings a ray of hope.’ The Director has also suggested that at least 50% of the total requirement of the blood in Naharlagun General Hospital could come from NERIST and also stressed upon the need to adopt villages or localities under the NSS scheme of the institute.
NSS Programme Officer of NERIST, A. Dinamani Singh, in his presentation on ‘Benefits of Voluntary Blood Donation’ highlighted the importance of young blood and provided with the details of the tests and procedures involved in the process of collection of blood.
Curtsey : Arunachal Times
