Respected Sri Ch. Sriranganadha Raju garu Chairman Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Kendra and the Schools extend a warm welcome. Your great vision of providing quality education to children and of expansion of Bhavan in coastal Andhra Pradesh, has already resulted in establishing and strengthening of the Schools at Rajahmundry, Palakol and Guntur during last year and this year. We look forward for more such institution coming up in future. We feel happy with your kind presence and to preside over the function today.
On behalf of Chairman, Managing Committee Members, Teachers and students we extend a warm welcome to our Chief Guest. Shri J. Veeraraghavanji, Chairman, Dr. K.M. Munshi Institute of Educational Leadership and Management and Former Secretary of Education and Culture. GOI and the Director of Delhi Kendra. Shri Veeraraghavanji is amongst the Top Educationists of the country whose guidance is sought by Government of India and the UNESCO. We express our gratitude to you sir, for sparing time to join us, all the way from Delhi.
We welcome Mrs. Neelanjana Sen, Educationist our Guest of Honour, who has come all the way from Shantiniketan, and whose presence is a great inspiration to all specially at the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. We are extremely happy with the presence of Vice-chairmen Shri U.K. Viswanadha Raju and Shri Bh. Achutharama Raju, Secretary Shri Harinadh garu, Treasurer Shri Siva garu and all members of Managing Committee. We express our gratitude for their support and guidance. I welcome all our parents whose patronage and support has gone a long way in building up this institution. We look forward for their similar support in future. With you kind permission Mr. Chairman sir, I now present the Annual Day Report for the year 2010-2011.
On the Annual Day in 1985 Sri S. Ramakrishnanji, our Executive Secretary said that Bhimavaram Kendra of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan sponsored by West Godavari District Rice Millers Society is an auspicious confluence of Sri and Saraswati. Sri the Goddess of wealth and Saraswathi the Goddess of Learning. The prophecy has come out right and within years the society has brought-up 4 schools of Bhavan in the region and the school at Guntur is being expanded.
The Vidyashram here at Bhimavaram is a great experiment in school education. It has Hostlers from Andhra, Manipur, Bihar, Chattisgarh and other parts of country and day boarders from Bhimavaram. It has a National character. Its education is rooted in Indian Culture and pedagogy encompasses the best of the practices including smart class rooms. With Best of infrastructural facilities the school is providing education for all round development.
Academics: Vidyashram, Bhimavaram this year has been able to achieve the Best of the Board results, with all children passing in I class and mostly with distinction out of 72 students sent for the Board Exam this year 12 got CGP-10 i.e. 10 grade points out of 10 in all 5 subjects i.e. 96% and above. Another 14 students got A1 grade point i.e. between 91% to 96%. 29 students got A2 grade i.e. 81-90%, 13 students got B1 i.e. 71%-80% and only 2 students got B2 grade i.e. 60% to 70%. Our academic star achievers and recipient of Bhavan’s Gold medals are -
1. V. Navya Geethika 5. Amit Gupta 9. Bobo Singh 2. S. Mounika 6. Puneet Kumar 10. Prasanth 3. I. Sri Vidya 7. Rishab Agarwal 11. K. Pradip 4. S.V. Padmaja 8. Subhakar Mishra 12. Sri Ram Naidu
The Gold Medals have been sponsored by Old students, Association called Bhavanites Association. We are grateful to them for their encouraging gesture. Results of Home examination 2010-11 have been equally good and all children form KG to IX classes qualified to next class. Credit for this success goes to our hardworking Teachers in School and concerned and caring parents at home.
Teacher Orientation and preparedness: A school can scale the heights in Academic Excellence only to the extent that its Teachers are capable of Teachers Training in School is therefore a continuous process. Besides five days orientation at the start of Academic Session, the School conducted Two each Workshops in English and Mathematics in collaboration with Oxford University Press, Pearson Longman and Longman Blackswan and by Mr. V.S.N. Raju our Senior Expert. A Workshop on Value Education was guided by Sri Prasada Raju of Antervedi and another on Life Skills and Personality Development was conducted by Porf. K. Subba Raju, SRKR Engineering College, Mrs. Rama Devi, Principal, Ashram Public School Kakinada Oriented Teachers in Inclusive Education. Shri T. Hanuman Choudhary former MD Telecom Dept. and G. Balasubrahmaniam Former Director CBSE, guided teachers on Indian Heritage and on latest trends in Education respectively. Mrs. Zehra Mehdi, Mrs. Maya Choudhary and Mrs. Mary Corbet, senior faculty from Bhavan’s BHEL School, Hyderabad in Pre-primary Education conducted Workshop for our Pre-primary Teachers and also took classes for students. A TEACHERS CENTRE has been started in the School. Department wise faculties meet in groups once a week for review and planning. The Teachers Centre also provides resources and keeps updating the faculty with latest trends in pedagogy and books added to the Library. Mr. K.R. Veerendranath, HOD-Maths in coordinating the Teachers Centre. Participation in the Competitive Exams & Reading Enrichment Programme:
School encourages students to participate in higher level All India Exams – such as ASSET exams in English, Mathematics and Science, Mathematics Olympiad, Science Olympiad and G.K. Exam. The School has collaborated with SCHOLASTIC INDIA and BOOK TRACT to get the low priced and best books for reading, and through the Book clubs mode and Class Libraries enhanced the reading habits of students. Our school Library has over 10000 books and through its Book Review Programme it encourages the reading habits of students. During this year Class VII C is declared the Best Reading Kum N. Laxmi Prasanna of Class X and Mas. Anurag of Class X has won the Best Readers Award. Our Librarian Mrs. S.N. Jyothi is also maintaining 40 Theme wise Resource or documentation files with cuttings from News Papers and 8 supplement documentation files for ready reference of students; when they have to prepare for debates, PPP and other project works.
Collaboration with The Hindu: Under the programme of NIE students from classes VI to IX get and read Hindu News paper every day Social Science Department conducts News paper based G.K. Tests periodically. English Department uses News stories for comprehension Tests and vocabulary building. The Beauro Chief of the Hindu, Vijayawada will be coming shortly to interact with our students and give a career guidance talk.
Creative Writing in School:The School organized two Workshops for students in Creative writing. It has provided opportunity to students to write for School Annual Magazine and News Bulletin. Manuscript Class Magazines brought out by students this year vividly portray their creative talent. We feel proud to share that Mas. Nivesh of Class VII has written a New Novel this year. Last year when he was in VI his first Novel made a News in the Town. We congratulate him for his Creative genius. Inspired by Mas Nivesh, this year we have one more creative writer in making from class IV, Mas. Bala Aditya whose illustrated story has been highly appreciated by his English teachers. Kum. J. Anusha of Class VIII won Silver Medal in coveted All India Jim Corbett Essay Competition, Kuma Sweta Suman Class X and Mas. Korouba of Class X won 2nd and 6th position in All India G.K. Competition of U.S.O. In various Hindi Inter School competitions held from time to time. Kum Sowparnika of Class IX has won the Gold Medal in Hindi Essay Writing, Kum Sri Vidya of Class X won 1st position in LIC Essay Writing, Kum. I. Vineeela of Class X and Mas. Charan of Class VII won District level I & II position in Essay Writing, S. Monica got 2nd position in Inter School Debate. In State Level Wetland Day organized by WWF, Mas. Ram Mukesh of Class VII bagged the Second Position in Debate, Mas. Toiba of Class IX and Mas. S.K. Pavan of Class VII got 1st and 2nd position in Drawing and Painting Competition. Paintings of our children have been regularly published by The Hindu in the Young World Supplement Mas. Toiba, Langimba, Mas. Pavan, Wanglemba, Mas. Vineel, Mas. Shanmukh and Kum. Radha Devi and Kum G. Laxmi Nandita are regular contributors.
Green School Award:Bhavan’s Vidyashram Bhimavaram has been declared as one of the high ranking Green Schools in the Survey by CSE (Centre for Science and Environment), Delhi and bagged Green School Award and Certificate from the organization. We feel proud to share that our children are not only sensitive and take good care of plants and trees of the campus, but also of mangoes esp. during summer. No to plastic and No to cracker campaign were initiated this year.
New initiatives: * Gandhi Study Centre – inaugurated in campus by Dr. G. Venkateswara Rao, Director, Gandhi centre, YN College, Narsapur. Besides creating general awareness in School, Class IX has been inducted for systematic study of Gandhiji and his ideas. * Formation of Book – clubs and Environment club (WWF). * Adventure Sports Education – Training in adventure sports skills was introduced under guidance of Attitude Expeditions Pvt. ltd. Delhi. * Heritage Education – School has formed Heritage Club in association with INTAC Delhi, and conducted an Exhibition of Books, Ramakrishna Mission. * News Paper in Education (NIE) programme in collaboration with The Hindu News paper. * Swami Jnananda Centre for Science – for advanced experiments in Science and for learning about Swami Jnananada. An Inter School Recitation Competition of Swamiji’s poems will be held on 19th Nov. in School. * Summer Camps in communication and Life skills, swimming and Horse riding were conducted.Games & sports:
is an integral part of Vidyashram Education. A new Cricket practices pitch in being developed and one more basket ball court will be developed for girls. Two Table Tennis Tables have been added. A small Football Court and Mini Basket Ball court for std. I, II & III Class children are being developed.
A few Achievement – Highlights: • School boys Hockey Team won South Zone Championship Mas. Nainaveer of class IX was declared best player. • Girls Hockey Team won 3rd position in South Zone. Last year both teams were runner-up in south Zone. • Boys Badminton team won 3rd position last year. • Aman Sakhre got Gold medal in 100 mtrs. race and in Long Jump in Cluster 7 Athletics Meet of CBSE, he was also declared as Best Athlete Under-14 Age Group. • Kum. Maggie won Gold Medals in National Rope Skipping Competition held in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. This year she won 5 Gold Medals in various forms of Rope Skipping at National Meet organized by Cosmopolitan Club, Bhimavaram. • In Chess Mas. Siddhi Vivek of Class VI and Mas. Baswant of Class VII has won number of prizes at State Level in various Chess competitions. • Mas. Goutham Kumar of Class VIII bagged Silver Medal in State Level Karate and Kumphu Championship held in Visakahpatnam.
NCC: As a part of 19th Andhra Battalion, Junior Division our NCC boys and girls attended NCC Training Camp Nuzividu and won 10 Medals in Rifle Shooting, Drill, Debate and Dance competitions. Our NCC Cadets are in force front of Independence and Republic Day Celebrations, in discipline and in Voluntary Service. Under the guidance of Mr. M.H.S. Sekhar Kumar, NCC Officer our cadets are shaping will. Educational Tours: Last year Educational Tour was taken to Puri – Konark & Bhubaneswar. This year 63 students were taken to Mumbai – Ajanta – Ellora & Pune. Thanks to Mr. Ganeswar Mahapatra and Mr. K.R. Veerenedranath for taking initiative. Local Educational Exclusions are a part of regular Academic Programme. Camps: In May this year seven of our students attended the National Integration Camp organized by Shikshan Bharati at Jaipur, Rajastahan. It was highly enriching experience for students and Teachers as well. Mr. K.R. Veerendranath and Mrs. T.J. Devi Padma escorted and guided students. In April this year a 4 days Adventure Training Camp was organised in the school. 500 students participated and learnt how to take initiative, overcome fear, balance oneself on rope, taking risk, quick decision making, team building and cooperation. A team of 13 experts including an Everest Climber who came from Delhi conducted the Adventure Activities such as Burma Bridge, Rappelling, Trust Fall, Jumaring and other Rope Courses.
Students Leadership Training:The New School apex body led by Head boy Mas. Lionard Sharma and Head Girl Kum S. Sridevi and the House Captains were installed in office in Julep by Commander S.G. Pawar in a Solemn; Investiture Ceremony. We are proud of prefectorial Board of the school and the Houses for they are always in fore front in organizing all activities in School.
Bhavanites Association:I Last year on 15th Aug. old students Association was formally inaugurated by our Chairman. The core Committee has now got the organization registered and initiated the programme of developing a corpus fund. All Bhavanites have been requested to contribute. The interest of the fund will be used for instituting Scholarships. Old students are a great resource of the School. They have helped school in career guidance programme, Dental Check-up, organsing Workshops for students, and sponsoring an Inter House Quiz programme. The Association has installed a sound system and gifted a music system for Dining Hall. Ananda Group – whose young members are our old students has gifted a Key Board to Music Department. Dr. V. Vasudeva chakravarthy will be gifted a Laptop and Dr. Ravi a Gitar and other Musical Instruments. More such initiatives are coming from Bhavanites which is highly encouraging to the school.
Parents Awareness Programmes:‘For know your child better’ were conducted last year with Swami Aksharatmananda of Ramakrishna Mission, Dr. V. Ramakrishnam Raju, Dr. Ramana Rao, Dr. J. Rama Laxmi and Dr. Surendra Varma were the expert guides for the programme.
+ 2 Programme:The school has restarted Class XI Science. From this year and appointed senior faculty to guide + 2 Science students in EAMCET, IIT, JEE and other Competitive Exam. With Medical council and CBSE holding a common exam for entry into medical colleges of the State and the country we hope more students will be joining as at + 2 level. Under the expert guidance of Shri K.S. Bhupati Raju, former HOD-Chemistry, DNR college and Sri V.S.N. Raju – Mathematics Expert and Former Principal – a core team of senior Teachers in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology are providing EAMCET coaching to + 2 students of Bhimavaram and Tadepalligudem schools. Foundation Course has also been started for Classes IX & X. We are a specially thankful to Shri K.S. Bhupati Raju and Shri V.S.N. Raju for taking initiative. Our Head of the Departments and Staff are a dedicated team of inspiring and hard working teachers. It is because of them that we have acquired a quality dimension in the School. Joining of Shri U.R.K. Raju a highly experienced person as Administrative Officer has strengthened the school. Dr. B.V. Seshagiri Rao, our Director is always a source of guidance to all of us. His care to the details keeps us alert and prompts us for excellence. Our Chairman Sri Ch. Sriranganadha Raju garu is a visionary and has contributed immensely to the expansion and infrastructural development of the School. A building block for Staff Quarters is under construction in School. A fun station for pre-primary has been installed KG classes have been provided new furniture. More expansion plans are on the board for the future. We thank all our parents for their love for school and their contribution from time to time.
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In his message, Chairman Sri Ch. Sriranganadha Raju, shared his experiences regarding the inception of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Vidyashram, Bhimavaram. He paid his homage to Late Shree K. Dharma Rao and his gratitude to Shri T. Hanuman Chowdary for thieir involvement in the progress of the school. He further added that the Rice Millers of the West Godavari District are striving their level best to provide quality education which is evident by the mushrooming of Bhavan's schools in Rajahmundry, Palkol, Guntur etc. He also complimented the principal Mr. G.S. Negi and his staff members for the excellent result produced b y std X students in the academic year 2010-2011. He exhorted that tyhe students have tremendous capacity and they have to utilize them to excell in their career.
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Respected Shri Ranganatha Raju Garu, Shri Negi and other distinguished persons present here, dear teachers and students, It is a great pleasure for me to be the chief guest on the Annual Day of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Vidyashram at Bheemavaram.
The need for a good English medium school was felt in 1980 to provide quality education to the people of this area and the Rice Millers of this region responded with the establishment of Bhawan’s International Residential public school. Appropriately the school started on 15th August 1983. This also shows the commitment of the people of Bheemavaram and the founders of this school to our national cause.
In this 17 acre of lush and green environment, the project was funded by Rice Millers Educational and Cultural Society under the dynamic leadership and guidance of its Founder Chairman K. Dharma Rao. The school has made tremendous progress under the present chairman Shri Ranganatha Raju and his colleagues in the Managing Committee. It has developed physical and academic support needed to meet the needs and aspirations of the students. The strength of number of student has reached more than 1000 and the quality of education is something to be proud about.
But there are greater challenges ahead. Education has to be the main instrument for meeting the social and economic goals before the people of the country and it is very true of Bhemmavaram and other schools with which you are associated here as it is for the entire country. Here I would like to request the Rice Millers Association and all of you here to play a leading role in setting an example to the entire country as to how our goals can be met in a fair and just manner and how education can help in this process. You may ask what these goals are? Is it mere accumulation of wealth, power and status?
This is what is called economic development, where individuals and families focus on money making and wealth accumulation. The great sage Thiruvalluvar had said that earning money and wealth is necessary for good life but only a small part of it, indeed a very small part of life goals and objectives. We should not imitate the Western countries and imbue the students with values that focus only on money making and status thinking and neglect all the finer and nobler aspects of life. This is what we mean by value education and Bhawan is committed whole heartedly to nurturing these values.
Every student of the Bhawan must carry the message of our national heritage which puts Dharma, the seeking of justice and fair play and compassion in all our actions before any other value. The question is often asked what is special about Bhawan’s school? We have 80 schools in the country and all these schools seek to carry forward the mission of then Founder Kulapathi K.M.Munshi. As you are aware Munshi started the Bhwawan in 1938 not so much with money but as an act of faith. Faith in the great heritage of India, faith in our national values, and faith in our future, and faith which will enable us to modernize to get the best of technical and scientific education and at the same time preserve the great values they stand for. These are values of truth and justice, honesty and compassion for which the country has been known for thousands of years. Should we allow these values to be corrupted by modern ideas of progress confined to material accumulation and satisfaction of the senses? India has never thought so and never will. A succession of saints and sages have kept alive the great cultural and spiritual tradition of India in the face of many invasions and temptations. We cannot afford in this 21st century to sacrifice this Bharatiya culture at the altar of the so called economic progress and development.
Let there be no doubt that economic development is necessary to provide the basis needs of the people, food, health, housing, water supply, sanitation and other essential of living which are the birth rights of every citizen of the country including the poorest of the poor. During the British days we thought our poverty was due to exploitation by the British. There may be some truth in that but after 60 years of Independence we still find a shocking state of malnutrition and lack os basic educational, health and housing facilities for million of our people. The goal of economic development is first and foremost to redress the situation. For this purpose, it is necessary that the young student must have right perspective in terms of values. To mitigate the poverty and deprivation and yet without harming the environment around us one needs to have a different model of development, a model that would provide productive jobs for all and ensure mother earth on whom we all depend is not harmed or destroyed in the process of development. Economic values of enterprise, hard work and efficiency, social values of compassion, helpfulness and solidarity, ecological values of preserving the environment and spiritual values that underlie and strengthen all other values together constitute India’s heritage. It was Bhawan’s founder who commenced in the fifties the programme of Van Mahotsav or the festival of afforestation. He was therefore fully aware of the links between economic, environmental, cultural and spiritual aspects of our life. We as managers, teachers and students and parents of the school have to find ways of integrating these values in our day to day activities even as they seek to develop the talents and merits of every single student in all possible ways. The development of the personality of the student in this multidimensional manner is the greatest challenge before your school and I am sure you will set an example for all the rest of the schools.
I say this because West Godavari had led the nation at the time of green revolution. In 1965 the country was facing acute food shortage, depending on imported food supply given on loan by the United States of America as we could not pay for it. The Govt. decided to launch a major programme of high yielding variety in which the introduction of a dwarf variety of paddy was an important element. I had the privilege of coming to Bheemavaram along with Dr. GV Chalam who pioneered this project from the Ministry. Of Agriculture, Govt of India. I was then with the National Seeds Corporation and we both came to Bheemavaram with a mission of sowing a completely new variety in 7000 acres to be planted by December end so that the seeds are available by April for distribution to one million acres in Kharif 1966. Most people thought that it was an impossible task. With the help of the farmers of West Godavari and Rice Millers here particularly at Bheemavaram and Tadepallikudam we successfully achieved the mission and a million acres were plated in Kharif 1966 across the country from Kerala to Kashmir and to Manipur in the East. Within a couple of years the country became self sufficient in food. The farmers of the West Godavari deserve the nation’s gratitiude for this vital contribution that they made.
In another three years or so we will be celebrating the 50th year of this event. I am sure you will on that occasion take up a similar mission in the field of education, value and culture for the entire nation.
Before concluding I would like to pay a tribute to the enlightened leadership of Sri Ranganatha Raju and his colleagues who have in addition to helping in establishing schools in this region are also assisting in building a school at Guntur. In doing this they are playing a great national role as at the time of green revolution. We are also fortunate in having the services of Shri G.S.Negi who is not only a very experienced educationist but a geographer and a humanist to the core. I have known him for many years , his knowledge is vast but his humanity is even greater. He is the right kind of person to lead the renaissance in education which our country very much needs so that it does not take a wrong turn in terms of values and development in these critical times. I thank you for this unique opportunity given to me to come to this beautiful place and share my thoughts with all of you gathered here.
I also congratulate on this occasion all the students gathered here especially those who havewon prizes and awards and all the others too and the teachers and uge you to strive your utmost to make this school the very best in the country.