KOKRAJHAR, SEP 5: Along with rest of the state, the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) districts joins the celebration of 62nd Teacher’s Day on Tuesday to mark the birth anniversary of eminent educationist, scholar and former president of India, Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.
The day was seen celebration of the great personality’s birth anniversary with day-long colourful programme scheduled at different educational institutions across the Bodoland region.
In Baksa,the education department, government of Bodoland Territorial Region centrally celebrated the Teacher’s Day at Salbari College that witnessed grand gathering of teachers, student and guardians from different educational institutions of Baksa district. Assam cabinet minister Urkhao Gwra Brahma, chief executive member of Bodoland Territorial Region, Pramod Boro, Bhawanipur MLA Phanindra Talukdar were graced as guests and offered floral tribute to eminent educationist Dr Radhakrishnan on the occasion.
During the day, the chief executive member of Bodoland Territorial Region, Pramod Boro handed over appreciation certificate from the department of education, government of BTR to all teachers who are relentlessly rendering teaching services for bringing quality education amongst the students in the schools.
In his speech, CEM Boro said that the teachers are guiding beacons of the society who disseminate the gift of knowledge upon the citizens and mould students into becoming good human beings. Boro extended his happy teacher’s day greetings to all teachers, said that the teachers are torch bearer of the society, so the teaching fraternities must be dedicated with bold initiative to render teaching services. He has interacted with the teachers and commended them for their yeoman’s service to the society of empowering the youth of Bodoland region as skilled human resource of the region through quality education. He also sought suggestions from teachers to further improve the education sector in Bodoland Territorial Region.
He has urged the teaching fraternities to work hard and reduce the C Category Schools and bring them into A Category in next Gunotsav. He informed that the government of BTR remains committed to provide all assistance to all schools of the region and helping hand in augmenting of efforts to provide quality education in days to come.” Our teachers are our guiding beacons who disseminate the gift of knowledge upon us and mould us into becoming good human beings”, Boro added.
In Kokrajhar,the Teacher’s Day was celebrated at various educational institutions with befitting programme scheduled.The UN Academy, Kokrajhar, a private managed Bodo medium school celebrated the day at it’s academy complex in Kokrajhar.Students have offered their warm respect to all the teaching fraternities with bouquet and gift items on the occasion besides performing cultural showcase which attracted the gathering.
The All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) also celebrated the day at different school premises under various anchalik committee/unit levels across the state of Assam. ABSU president Dipen Boro extended his happy greetings to all teaching fraternities on the occasion of Teacher’s Day celebration.
