BIS #1773 PARENTS DAY AT DON BOSCO NARUKOT

Kamlesh Dodia
NARUKOT, FEBRUARY 20, 2010: Apart from Valentines Day there were some more reasons for the students of Piloo Modi (Don Bosco) High School, Narukot to celebrate: 150 years of beginning of the congregation of Salesians of Don Bosco and the Nineteenth parents’ day at the school.

Prominent Kathakar Fr. Ignace Macwan grabbed the attention of the parents almost for two hours when he narrated the katha on the life of Don Bosco. More than five hundred parents remained unspoken and unmoved in order to relish the taste of the life of Don Bosco.

No sooner it was over; local MLA Mr. Jaidrathsinh Parmar, Taluka President Jashodaben Bariya and other guests joined the celebration. The program began with a prayer and lighting of ‘deep’ followed by a cultural program that consisted of folk dances of Rathwa, Punjab and Maharashtra.

Later on, the students with excellence were publicly felicitated by the guests. Their names are as follow Dheyay Joshi stood first in SSC examination both in school and in taluka the last year. Dinesh Rathwa represented the school at National football team last year. Nisha Rathwa too represented the school at National hockey team last year. In addition to that four girl students were also honored with gift of cycles by the government.
In their dazzling speeches, the MLA and taluka president proudly took note of the lion’s share of Don Bosco School in the development of the area as it accommodates more than 90% of students of schedule tribe and other backward classes.
Sr. Asha Macwan, principal of school then gave a glimpse of activities of school by reading out an annual report and Fr. Stanny Ferreira, manager of school thanked all and sundry namely Fr. Ignace for his pioneering katha, the guests for their availability, the parents for their esteemed presence and the students and staff for making both of these events colorful and memorable.