26th JANUARY CELEBRATION

INDIA WON HER FREEDOM ON THE 15TH OF AUGUST, 1947 AND BECAME A REPUBLIC ON THE 26TH OF JANUARY, 1950. THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF FREE INDIA CAME INTO FORCE WITH EFFECT FROM THIS DAY. IT IS A DAY OF NATIONAL REJOICING AND A RED-LETTER DAY IN OUR COUNTRY. THE DAY IS CELEBRATED WITH POMP AND SHOW ZEAL AND SPIRIT THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE COUNTRY. THE DAY WAS CELEBRATED IN OUR SCHOOL WITH GREAT ÉCLAT. THE SCHOOL BUILDING WAS TASTEFULLY DECORATED WITH BALLOONS, BUNTINGS, PICTURES OF HEROES OF THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND NATIONAL FLAGS. WE WERE BESIDE OURSELVES WITH JOY. LOUDSPEAKERS WERE FITTED. THE PROGRAMME BEGAN AT 8-45 A.M. THE WORTHY GAJERA TRUSTEE SHREE BAKUL BHAI GAJERA UNFURLED THE NATIONAL FLAG AMIDST LOUD CHEERS. THE N.C.C. CADETS SALUTED THE 'NATIONAL FLAG’. SELECTED CHOIR SANG THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. THERE WERE SOME VERY INSPIRING PATRIOTIC SONGS SUNG BY MUSIC SIR AND TEAM. THESE WERE FOLLOWED BY STIRRING SPEECHES BY THE PRINCIPAL DR. BHAVESHBHAI GHELANI AND CAMPUS COORDINATOR MR. JAYESHBHAI PATEL. SOME FINE AMOUNT WAS GIVEN BY GAJERA TRUST TO THE NEEDY PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR FAMILY MEMBER IN CORONA WARE. EVERY YEAR OUR TRUST ORGANIZED BLOOD DONATION CAMP AND THIS TIME ALSO IT WAS ORGANIZED IN VERY ZEST. WE WERE TOLD THAT THE COUNTRY HAD WON POLITICAL FREEDOM BUT IT WAS YET TO WIN ECONOMIC FREEDOM. FOR IT WE HAD ALL TO TOIL AND MAKE EVERY SACRIFICE THAT WAS DEMANDED OF US.

MAY WE CONTINUE CELEBRATING THIS DAY FOREVER!