Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday joined the faculty, students and the distinguished alumni of the Yadavindra Public School (YPS) to celebrate the institution’s platinum jubilee in a spirit of festivity, marked by a colourful cultural extravaganza.
Accompanied by his wife Preneet Kaur and former Union Minister Dr Karan Singh — also alumni of the school, Capt Amarinder was welcomed at his old school, which was established by
his father Maharaja Yadavindra Singh, by cheering students.
School’s Board of Governor’s chairman and Capt Amarinder’s brother Malwinder Singh described the institution’s establishment as the taking of wings of his great father’s vision.
Recalling that the school was envisioned by his father in difficult times of the partition, he pointed out that one of its oldest students, Justice SS Sodhi, who passed out in 1949, had attended the celebrations on Thursday.
Though the school had come far in the past 70 years, and was today ranked among the best, it would continue to strive for more progress and excellence, he said.
Besides strengthening of the school’s infrastructure, new forays were being into the sporting field, he said, exhorting the students to imbibe the values that the institution wanted them to inculcate and continue to give their best.
Dr Karan Singh exhorted the students, whom he termed as the makers of the new India, to build their bodies and minds, using the tsunami of knowledge they were receiving, to build the India of their dreams.
Stressing the importance of constant dialogue, he told them never to be afraid to ask questions, and to build their social skills through team work, which alone could help them accomplish their tasks.