With an aim to create awareness among school students to practise human values in daily life, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Educare, Chromepet (a CBSE school offering Sai system of value-based education) is organizing ‘Swadhyaya’ – seminar on human values as an inter-school competition for the past 18 years.
The 19 th year seminar was organized on the topic ‘There is only one religion; the religion of love’ on 30 th July 2022 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Various schools from in and around Chennai were selected to participate in the seminar. Mr. P.Kumarasamy, Director, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Educare welcomed the gathering and introduced the chief guest for the inaugural session. Ms. T.Rukmani, Offg. Deputy Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Chennai Region, was the chief guest for the session. She emphasized that without character, education was nothing. Wherever there is peace, there will be prosperity automatically. Smt. Vedanayagi, Principal delivered the vote of thanks for the inaugural session.
A detailed synopsis about the seminar and the rules and regulations were presented to the students. A panel of 7 judges who are eminent professionals in various fields judged the best school on the basis of performance in Role play, PPT presentation, Question & Answer session, Team work and Poster painting event. After the judges presented a review of all the performances by the participants, the chief guest for the valedictory function Dr. Malini Chandrasekaran, Honorary Medical Director – South, Karkinos Healthcare Private Limited, inspired the audience with her invaluable talk on human values. She stressed that the conditioning done on the children at their young age played an important role in building their future. The diminishing of the traditional games in our culture such as ‘Pallankuzhi’ which taught the value of sharing, ‘Snake and Ladder’ which taught the value of perseverance, has led to the eradication of human values from the tender hearts of the children. She expressed that all the subjects should be taught with integration of human values.
The overall championship shield for excellent performance was awarded to Sree Gokulam Public School, Chengalpattu. All other participants and guide teachers were given Certificates and mementoes for their participation. Correspondent Sri S.Loganathan felicitated all the dignitaries and judges by presenting a memento. Smt. Savithri Chandrasekaran, Senior Principal proposed the vote of thanks. The programme ended with National Anthem followed by Mangala Arathi to Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and Prasadam distribution.
Jai Sairam