Govt sincere to flourish children’s extramural talents

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City Desk :
The present government is working sincerely to flourish extramural talents of children and disseminate true national history to make them luminous citizens with patriotic zeal.
Officials and cultural personalities said this at the prize and certificate distribution function of the two-day divisional level National Children Award Competitions-2019′ held at Shishu Academy auditorium in Rangpur on Wednesday evening.The district unit of Bangladesh Shishu Academy organised the competitions with participation of 280 children of the primary and secondary level schools from all eight districts in Rangpur division.
The children participated in fifteen subjects of the competitions including singing patriotic songs, poem recitation, ‘Jarigan’, regional folk dance, group dance, ready debate, drawing, preparing wall magazines, knowledge query and others.
Additional Divisional Commissioner (Revenue) Abdullah Sajjad attended the function and distributed prizes and certificates among the winner children in different competitions as the chief guest.
Presided over by Deputy Director (Local Government) Ruhul Amin Mian, former General Secretary of the district Shilpakala Academy Tauhidur Rahman Tutul and District Sports Officer Ferdous Rahman addressed the function as special guests.
District Children Affairs Officer Imran Mian delivered welcome speech in the function moderated by Mithapukur Upazila Children Affairs Officer M Abdul Wahed.
Noted cultural personality and Professor at the Department of Bengali of Begum Rokeya University Dr Sarifa Salowa Dina adjudged performance of the participants in different categories.
Professor Dina put importance on enhancing extracurricular activities, side by side with normal academic studies, to flourish multi-dimensional latent talents of school children to make them brilliant citizens. “Authorities of primary and secondary level educational institutions should work to popularise debate, drawing, essay writing, cultural, literary, sports and other innovative extracurricular activities among children to build a knowledge-based society,” she added.
The chief guest urged authorities concerned to property implement the steps taken by the government through frequently arranging extracurricular activities for young students to make them open-minded citizens with patriotic zeal and human virtues.
Later, he distributed prizes and certificates among winners of different events of the competitions and attended a colourful cultural evening arranged on the occasion.

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