BSS-24 Flourishing extra-curricular talents of children stressed

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CHILDREN-COMPETITION (with picture)

Flourishing extra-curricular talents of children stressed

RANGPUR, Sept 08, 2018 (BSS) – Cultural personalities at a function here
have stressed on flourishing extra-curricular talents of the children and
disseminating true national history among them to build an enlightened
nation.

They came up with the view on Saturday afternoon at the concluding function
of the district level ‘Moushumi Children Competitions-2018’ held at Shishu
Academy auditorium in the city.

The district unit of Bangladesh Shishu Academy organised the competitions
with participation of about 150 children of the primary and secondary level
schools from all eight upazilas of the district.

Five groups of children from each of the eight upazilas participated in
five categories of the competitions including singing patriotic ‘Jarigan’,
regional folk dance, ready debate, preparing wall magazines and knowledge
query.

Former General Secretary of the district Shilpokola Academy and Office
Secretary of district Awami League Tauhidur Rahman Tutul attended the
function as the chief guest with District Children Affairs Officer Imran Mian
in the chair.

Cultural personality and former Head of the Department of Bengali of
Rangpur Begum Rokeya Government College Professor Md Shah Alam adjudged
performance of the participants in different categories.

Speaking on the occasion, Professor Alam put importance on enhancing
extracurricular activities to flourish multi-dimensional latent talents of
the school children to make them brilliant citizens.

“We have to popularise debate, cultural, literary, sports and other
innovative extracurricular activities among the children to build an
enlightened and knowledge-based society,” Alam added.

The chief guest urged authorities of the educational institutions for
frequently arranging extracurricular activities for the school students to
develop their multi-talent skills.

The chief guest distributed prizes and certificates among the winners of
different events of the children’s competitions.

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