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BSS-08
SCHOOL-CHILDREN (with picture)
Extracurricular activities stressed to flourish children’s talent
RANGPUR, Sept 06, 2018 (BSS) – Discussants at a function have laid
emphasis on enhancing extracurricular activities to flourish multi-
dimensional latent talents of the school children and save them from social
menaces.
They viewed this in the function arranged at the ‘Seasonal Competitions
for the Children-2018’ on extracurricular activities held at Bangabandhu
Auditorium in Hakimpur municipal town of Dinajpur district yesterday.
Hakimpur Upazila Education Office organised the competitions on debate,
patriotic songs, ‘Jarigan’, regional folk dance and preparing wall magazines
for the primary and secondary level educational institutions of the upazila.
Hakimpur Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Shukria Pervin attended the
function and distributed crests and prizes among the winners of the
competitions as the chief guest with Upazila Education Officer Masudul Hasan
in the chair.
The upazila level government officials, headmasters, taxpayers, students
and their guardians, local public representatives, civil society members and
elite attended the function.
The UNO appreciated the Upazila Education Office for organising the
competitions and called upon authorities of all educational institutions in
the upazila for arranging similar programmes to enhance extracurricular
activities for school level students.
“It has become crucial to nurture and popularise debate, cultural,
literary, sports and other innovative extracurricular activities among the
school level students to build an enlightened, knowledge-based and modern
society,” the UNO said.
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