Dance, drama contests mark Children's Day celebrations

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Dance, drama contests mark Children's Day celebrations


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Scare of swine flu dampens the spirit at many places in Sundargarh district

Governor releases Oriya book ‘Sachitra Internet’Week-long Sisumela gets under way


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Glamour touch: Actor and Samajwadi Party MP Jayaprada with thousands of tribal students at a function in connection with Children’s Day celebrations at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. —


BHUBANESWAR: Dance, song, drama and other competitions among students marked the Children’s Day celebrations in the State on Saturday even though scare of swine flu dampened the spirit at many places especially in Sundargarh district.
Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare released an Oriya book “Sachitra Internet” written by former chief secretary of the State Sahadev Sahoo at Rajbhawan.
Mr. Bhandare cautioned on the disastrous impact on the young minds particularly of children to the negative effect of Internet. Every effort should be taken to protect children in cyber space by means of proper education and awareness to them and also to the parents, the Governor said on the occasion.
City-based DAV Public Schools also celebrated Children’s Day by performing a play to pay tribute to the country’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 120th birth anniversary.
Similarly, week-long Sisumela (Children Festival week) got underway here to promote the participation of children, highlight the issues relating them and provide a platform for wider section of the children for development of their inner qualities, creativeness, and facilitate cultural exchanges.
Organised by city-based voluntary organisation, PECUC, the 20th Sisumela witnessed students, non-school going children, child labourers and street children celebrating the occasion and it made the event a special one.
On Saturday, about 200 students from 20 junior colleges and higher secondary institutes participated in Youth Parliament. Assembly Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat inaugurated the function.
Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences arranged a meeting of Jayaprada, Samajwadi Party MP from Uttar Pradesh and Bollywood actress, with its students to mark the occasion.
However, swine flu scare had its impact in celebration in Sundargarh district. About nine students have so far tested positive of H1N1 virus in the district. Parents showed reluctance to send their children to crowded place.

Clothes distributed
KORAPUT: Every child has the ability to respond to kind gesture, love and care from the adults, said Gadadhar Parida, district Collector, while speaking at a meeting after distributing clothes to inmates of Manas, school for mentally challenged children, on the occasion of Children’s Day here on Saturday . He was overwhelmed with the response of gratitude shown to him from a mentally challenged child when he offered a rose to the child during the function. He appreciated the initiative by a group of people, who had come forward to support the school.


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