By Sunil Sonker
Mussoorie, 7 Nov: The 136th Annual Athletics Meet of Oak Grove School was organised, here, today. The Chief Guest was Sujit Kumar Mishra, Principal Chief Personnel Officer, Northern Railway Headquarters, New Delhi. He inaugurated the function by unfurling the national and school flags in the Major Girish Chandra Verma, Vir Chakra awardee (posthumous) Valley Ground, and took the salute at the march past.
The Chief Guest said that, along with education, sports are also important as they help in developing the overall personality of the students. He said that, while playing any game, sportsmanship should be kept in mind. Sujit Kumar further said that sports have different places in a students’ life as they develop self-confidence and physical abilities. He congratulated the students on excelling in the fields of academics and sports at the regional and national levels. He added that Northern Railway is keen on supporting the school to make it a premier institution in the country with all modern amenities and infrastructure.
The Annual Athletics Meet was inaugurated by running with the Olympic torch by outstanding sports persons of the school Prinshu Raj, Pranjal Singh, Nirupama Roy and Siddhi Priya along with two ex-Oakgrovians Rashmi Pandey (2001 Batch) and Alka Parti (1982 Batch).
The meet started with a well-coordinated March Past by the students of the three wings of the school. The School Captains, Abhinav Krishna (Boys’ School) and Vaishanavi Yadav (Girls’ School) Shashi Shekhar, Games Captain (Boys’ School) and Rajnandini, Games Captain (Girls’ School), led the march past proudly by holding the school flag along with the Games Captains and School Captains of the Junior School.
In Javelin throw, Arpit Singh and Rajnandini bagged Gold in the Senior category, along with Siddhi Priya and Nitesh Singh in the Inter division. In the discus throw, Priyanshu Raj (Junior Division) Siddhi Priya, Nitesh Singh (Inters) and Sashi Shekhar and Vaishnavi (Senior Division), Vishal Prasad and Shanu won Gold medals in 400 m, 800 m and 1600 m race. In the 1600 metre race, Chinkal Kumar (Sub junior), Priyanshu Raj (Junior division), Mintoo (Intermediate Division) and Vishal Prasad (Senior Division) bagged Gold medals. Anvi and Suraj of Junior School won the Gold medals in the long jump, hurdle and high jump. In the Shot Put, Suraj, Surubhi, Rajshekhar, Alka Kumari, Aditya Kumar, Nitesh won Gold medals in their respective divisions.
The Trophy for the Best House in Sports was given to Takshila House of the Junior School. The most prestigious trophy Cock Shield was given to Shivaji and Mirabai Houses in Boys’ and Girls’ section respectively.
Naresh Kumar, Principal, Oak Grove School, thanked the Chief Guest and other dignitaries present. He appreciated the spirit of the sportsmanship exhibited by the students and said that sports and academics go side by side in the development of a student’s personality and inspires the youngsters to work hard both in academics and sports and further stated that winning and losing are part of the game and everyone should jointly celebrate the victory of sports.
The programme was conducted by Deepti Butola, Ashita Dabral, Aliza Raza and Utkarsh, students of Class-VII. Vipul Rawat proposed the vote of thanks.
The Annual Athletics meet was witnessed by Shruti Mishra, Savita, Brother Jaysheelan S, Principal, St George College, Mark Windsor, Principal, Woodstock School, Mussoorie, Leslie Tindale, Principal, Wynberg Allen School, Major General Anand Singh Rawat (Retd), DS Hanspal, President, TOGA, Dr Leena Roy, ACMS, Oak Grove School Health Unit, Kusum Kamboj, Dharya Nagpal, Lt Col Sunny Bakshi (Retd), Vipul Rawat, Anupam Singh, Dr Atul Kumar Saxena, GD Raturi, Sports Secretary, Shadab Alam, Priyanka Ranjan, Abhishek Rawat, Pooja Rawat, Archana Shankar, Manisha Sharma, Ashutosh Kumar, Pranil Nandeswar, Pratyesh Kumar, Santosh Kumar, Ashutosh Kumar, AK Sengar, Tilak Gurung, Narendra Singh Bisht, Ranjeet, SK Raza, Salim Ahmed, Bhoopendra Singh, Pramod Dhama, Sachin Gupta, Ravi Verma, and other faculty members of the school.
