“Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come...”
Thus begins the essay of our Regional Winner Sayani Majumder. Tagore Mahotsava Celebration was indeed lighting of a lamp in our academic calendar. The Mahotsava was launched on 15 December, which was also our KVS Foundation Day. Circulars were sent to all the 57 KVs about the Mahotsava. It was taken as a part of CCA. All the schools planned their strategies to celebrate the Mahotsava. Competitions were launched at four levels- Group A- Essay Writing (Classes IX to XII), Group B- Book Review (Classes VI to VIII), Group C- PowerPoint Presentation on Tagore’s Short Stories (Classes III to V) and Group D- Skit on Tagore’s play.
The regional co-coordinators were at help. For the Essay Competition, Ms. Ratna Pathak, TGT English, KV 1 AFS, Jodhpur, for the Book Review, Mr. Gulshan Hans, PGT CS, KV 3 Jaipur, for PowerPoint, Mr. R K Gupta, PGT Maths, KV 2 Kota, and the skit was taken up by the Regional Office itself. Seven schools were nominated to give their entries on skit.
There were hundreds of entries at the school level as the competition was taken as a part of the formative assessment. At the regional level 34 schools participated with a total of 57 entries- 32 in English and 25 in Hindi. There were 57 entries for the Book Review and 46 entries for the PowerPoint on Tagore’s Story. The winners at the Regional Level are yet to be awarded by the Regional office. They are eagerly waiting for their awards.
The KVS (RO), Jaipur, has played a pivotal role in such good participation by the Vidyalayas. There had been constant reminders and guidelines instructing the schools about the rules, deadlines, etc. Not only this, The RO was also keen on taking such projects as a part of regular academic calendar. Though there was not much pomp and show (as we believe in working silently- Tagore’s ideology), there was certainly a quality in our work.
The evaluation was done at the schools of the Regional Coordinators. The Essays were judged at KV 1 (AFS) Jodhpur, the Book Reviews at KV 3, Jaipur and the PowerPoints at KV 2, Kota. The guidance of Mr. H C Chawla, EO and Ms. Sandhya Rastogi, AC, had been the driving force throughout.
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