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Friday, July 23, 2010

Students participated in Queen's Baton Relay



After much waiting for the Queen's Baton Relay in the Itanagar-Naharlagun city finally it arrived in the city on July 22, 2010 in a warm reception at Rajiv Gandhi stadium by minister's, Public and the huge gathering of school students from VKV, Nirjuli, Govt. ME. School, D & G Sector, Naharlagun holding banners and placard prepared by the students to pass the message on "Low Carbon Practices" to save our mother earth. Under Future Generations Arunachal, the selected school students were located along the Queen's Baton Relay Route from Naharlagun to Itanagar to cheer up, pass the message on Low Carbon practices through slogan, placards & banner and to get a chance to see the Baton closely. In Itanagar, Govt. ME school (P-sector), Kingcup Public school, Govt. ME school (Nitivihar), JNK public school, Green Mount school and Govt. Hr. sec. school took part in the Queen's Baton relay programme. The students community were very happy witnessing Baton and shaking hand with "Shera" the official mascot of XIX Commonwealth games 2010.

It may be mentioned that, Future Generations Arunachal (FGA) partnering with Center for Environment Education (CEE) involving the students from various schools to create an awareness on "Low Carbon Practices" to link with the Commonwealth Games which is scheduled to be held in New Delhi from 3-14 October 2010.

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