As part of co-curricular activities to promote talent and friendship, Children’s Festival-2018 was celebrated at the Vidyabhawan School, Khudaposi, in which students from the nearby Badaneuli High School, Government UP School, Gyanakhetra School, Kaunrikala, and Sarawati Sishu Mandir, Ukhunda, participated.
Competitions in painting, art, Jhoti, sports, dance and song were organised among the students and prizes were distributed to the winners. Vidyabhawan students exhibited their artworks on recycled paper, plastics, waste materials, paintings, stamps, match box collections. Stalls on science models, newspaper and magazine collection, medicinal plants, handicraft and tourism were set up.
Minister of School and Mass Education Badri Narayan Patra, Patna MLA and District Planning Committee Chairman Hrusikesh Naik, Thriveni GM Bikram Kesari Patsani and ABEO Bijayananda Behera were guests at the valedictory function.
Minister Patra praised the organisers for imparting quality education to unprivileged children of the district through the free residential school and organising such essential programmes in rural areas for creating a healthy atmosphere in schools.