Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalayas Arunachal Pradesh Trust December Month Report

Habung Asun brings laurel to the State:

The excellent performance of Km.Habung Asun of VKV- Shergaon in the National Level Children’s Science Congress at Bhopal brought laurels to the state as she has been included in the best 20 positions in the National Level out of 643 projects.

VKV’ s  performance in State Level Children’s Science Congress:  

VKVs  have once again showed the mantle by securing seven positions out of top ten selected in the state level 21^st  National Children’s Science Congress-2013 held on 5^th  and 6^th of December  organized by Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science and Technology, GoAP at Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre, Itanagar. A total number of 46 projects were presented at the state level Competition.

The top 10projects were selected for participation and representing Arunachal Pradesh in the “21st National Children Science Congress 2013” held at Vigyan Bhawan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh from December 27 to 31, 2013. The projects were evaluated by a panel of evaluators comprising faculties from Department of Physics and Mechanical Engineering, NERIST, Naharlagun, and scientist of State Remote Sensing Application Centre here.

Lecture/ Demonstration Program of Classical Dance Form in Lower Dibang and Lohit Districts

Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalayas in collaboration with SPIC MACAY has organized 6 day programme starting from 4th to 10th December in various schools of Lower Dibang Valley and Lohit Districts in various VKVs and Government Schools.

Dr Malabika Mitra, one of the foremost Kathak exponents of our country and the winner of many prestigious awards presented an enthralling lecture demonstration of Kathak in11 Government Schools and VKV Roing.

She was also accompanied by Pandit Dinanath Mishra, disciple of great table Maestro late Pandit Sarda Sahai of Beneras Gharana and Pandit Anand for Vocal ,the disciple of late Ustad Habib Khan of Lucknow Gharana.

SPIC MACAY (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth) is a voluntary movement intended to enrich the quality of formal education by increasing awareness about different aspects of Indian heritage and inspiring the young mind to imbibe the values embedded in it.

History Teachers Camp: 

An orientation camp for the History teachers was held at VKV Golaghat from 11^th to 13^th
December, 2013 by Vivekananda Kendra Siksha Prasar Vibagh. Sri M.D. Srinivas, Director, Centre for Policy Studies, Chennai was the main Resource person for the camp.15 Teachers from the VKVs of Arunachal Pradesh attended the camp.

Gyan Setu Program: 

VKVs in collaboration with Gynaa Prabhodhini, Pune conducted 55 Science workshops in various Government Schools of the State. The workshops were conducted by 34 Volunteers drawn from various Universities from Bangalore and Pune. 

The activities conducted in the workshops included: Hands-on science experiments and toys, activities based on natural, environmental and social sciences.  Volunteers visited Daporijo, Along, Tezu, Yingkiong, Oyan and Amliang.

State level Inter VKV Bhagawad Gita Chanting Competition:

The State level Inter VKV Bhagawad Gita Chanting Competition for the VKVs of Arunachal Pradesh was held at VKVAPT, Dibrugarh on the Gita Jayanti day, 13 December, 2013. A total number of 26 Cluster level winners  from the VKVs  Itanagar, Oyan, Seijosa, Roing, Sher, Shergaon, Bana ,Jairampur ,Nivedita Vihar, Sunpura, Yazali, Vivek Vihar, Tafrogam, Wessang, Joram , Shergaon, Nirjuli participated in the Competition in four categories.

Result of State level Competition

In addition to this, a special program was also organized on the occasion in the evening.  Reverend Yadupati Ram Dasa from ISKCON, Dibrugarh Branch illuminated the gathering by his valuable discourse on Bhagavat Gita.  The students and the teachers together chanted   13th Chapter of Gita and did Gita Arati on the auspicious day.

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP CONDUCTED IN VKV, Itanagar, Nirjuli and Banderdewa.

VKV- Itanagar, Nirjuli and Banderdewa conducted one day Personality development camp in their own respective schools in collaboration with the VIVEKANANDAINSTITUTE OF Human Excellence, Hyderabad run by Ramakrishna Mission.

Prof. SUMITA ROY, Chair Person BOS, Dept of English Cum Director of OUCIP, ACAS and Canadian studies, Osmania University, Hyderabad and Smt. Chandrima Roy were the main resource persons for the Camp.

How to develop willpower, manage time in one’s life, the need of developing Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing skills, incidents from the life of Swami Vivekananda who was an embodiment of will power etc were some of the inputs of the camp. Rev. Swami Vishweshanandaji, Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission Hospital, Itanagar was also present in the workshops.  He motivated the students to manifest the divinity within by following Dharma-the righteous way of living.

Laudable performance of VKVs in the State level Science Exhibition, 2013:

VKVs have occupied the chunk of the top positions in the State level Science Exhibition,2013 organized by Directorate of Secondary Education, GoAP in collaboration with NCERT, New Delhi held at the Govt. Higher Secondary School Library Hall, Itanagar  on 18 December,2013 on the topic - "Scientific and Mathematical Innovations" under five sub-theme - Agriculture, Health, Resource, Environment and  Energy.Altogether ten teams from eight VKVs (VKVs Sher, Jirdin, Oyan, Roing, Amliang, Bana, Vivek Vihar and Ziro) ,which were the winner of the respective districts, participated in the state level.

VKVs occupied five positions out of top seven in the state:

The top seven selected students will represent Arunachal Pradesh at the National Level Science Exhibition to be held on 7th January 2014 at Kolkata.  Altogether 18 students from 11 districts participated in the exhibition.

Vivek Utkarsh, All Arunachal Written Quiz. :

VKVs in Arunachal Pradesh conducted a mega event, a written Quiz, by contacting all the Government and Private run schools of the State as a part of 150th Birth Anniversary celebration of Swami Vivekananda. The written quiz was based on the Current affairs, History and culture of our country, quantitative and qualitative reasoning, Indian epic, life and messages of Swami Vivekananda. A book named “Arise! Awake” was supplied to all the participants well in advance. The written Quiz was conducted in 184 schools on 7th December, 2013.VKVs were not included for the competition.

Some details of the same are given below:

All the VKVs of Arunachal Pradesh did a commendable job by covering so many schools situated in the remotest corner of the state.

“The wars are won or lost in the minds”- the famous saying is better understood when we analyzed the mammoth work which we had undertaken recently to organize Vivek Utkarsh, all Arunachal written Quiz for the School students of the state.  Our team accepted the programme with much enthusiasm and that resulted in reaching to every nook and corner of the state. Shri Keshab Upadhya of VKV Kharsang walked 10 days for the to and fro journey to Vijayanagar on foot.         

Vijayanagar is a narrow stripped mountain valley; surrounded on three sides (Northeast, South and West) by Myanmar while from Northwestern side, enclave by stretches of Namdapha National Park. There is no surface road connection to the area and is totally cut-off from rest of the world.The only conveyance for the 6000 population of Vijayanagaris AN-32, the transport flight operated by IAF. It is said the people of Vijayanagar often look to the sky, not for rain, but for the fair
weather, which facilitates the get in of the sortie from behind the snow-clad mountain. Most of the people rely on six days foot journey to Miao for the essentials. Foot marching for six days through thick forest, steep accidental slopes and across the gushing waters really puts the life into stake.   In many places the foot-track passes through precipitous slopes. In between 27 to 31 miles from Miao, it negotiates steep cliff overlooking the river below. People crawl along the slope climbing up and down and holding rocks, twigs, plants and roots.

Accepting the fact ‘We can do!” has helped us to undertake such task. Before undertaking the mammoth task we decided to make that happen and
we could make it as a great event. This winning attitude is to be our habit as we have to do many such tasks in the days to come.

Prajnya Vikash Written Quiz:

The written Prajnya Vikash Quiz was conducted for the students of VKVs on 13 December, 2013. The large number of registrations in all the categories proves the esteem of the Quiz. The written quiz aimed to train the students in competitive examinations and also to improve the students’ ability to process, interpret and use information many new sections were introduced like qualitative reasoning, quantitative reasoning, application of science and mathematics, current affairs.

The numbers of students writing the Quiz in all the categories are given below:

Participation in National Teachers’ Science Congress:

Shri K.Jaisankar of  Itanagar and Shri L.D .Singh of Shergaon participated in the 7^th  
National Teachers’ Science Congress at Al-Falah School of Engineering and Technology, Dhauj, Faridabad. The National Teachers’ Science Congress was conducted by NCSTC, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India from 14^th to 17^th December 2013. There were 761 projects in which 24 were selected as the best project. The excellent performance of Shri L.D.Singh helped him to be one of the 24 selected in the National Level.

We want fiery young men-intelligent and brave, who dare to go to the jaws of Death, and are ready to swim the ocean across.  We want hundreds like that, both men and women.  Try your utmost for that end alone
 

                                                                                            ~~Swami Vivekananda