In our school, we celebrate all the festivals. This is done to highlight the importance of each festival as well as to promote bonhomie amongst the cadets, who stay away from their parents during festivals. It gives a hand-on experience in performing various rituals, which breaks the monotony of the school routine and gives a chance to re-energize body, mind and spirit. The school celebrated Ganesh Utsav with lot of enthusiasm for five days from 07th to 12th Sept 2024.

The main Ganesh idol was installed in the Lord Rama Temple, while the three bhavans of the School installed their respective idols.

As a part of the celebrations, different competitions like Patriotic Song Singing, Storytelling, Quiz, Debate and Ganesh Decoration were organized with an aim to provide avenues to showcase their creativity to the Ramdandees.

Patriotic Song Competition.

Inter Company Patriotic Song Competition was conducted on 9th Sept 24. Each company was given patriotic song from the moral science textbook ‘Sanskar Sadhana’. Each company had a squad of 30 Ramdandees (Sub-Junior and Junior). The best patriotic song was adjudged on the basis of rhythm, discipline and synchronization.

The overall position is as follows:

Quiz Competition.

Quiz Competition was organized on 9th Sept 2024. Four Ramdandees from each company participated in the event. The competition was divided into six rounds based on Sanskar Sadhana, History, Geography and Science. It also comprised Rapid fire and Jackpot rounds in which questions were asked from prescribed syllabus as well as from the news updates of the last one week from ‘The Hitavada’ newspaper. The performance of all the Ramdandees in the competition was praiseworthy.

The result of quiz competition is as follows:

Story Telling and Debate Competition.

The story telling Competition was organised for junior and senior groups on 10th Sept 2024. The aim of the competition was to hone public speaking skills of the cadets and teach them to be articulate while expressing their thoughts and opinions.  Each Company fielded three participants. Topic of the story for sub-junior group was a story from Panchtantra and for the junior group story of historical personalities in English Language. Sub Junior category was divided Into Bhonsala Military School & Bhonsala Sainik School.

Story Telling Competition, result is as follows:

Debate Competition.

Debate Competition was conducted among the senior group i.e IX to XII. A team of 2 Ramdandees from each group participated; one for the motion and one against the motion.

The topic of the debate for IX to X group was “Do school uniforms promote confidence and a sense of belonging?” and the topic of the debate for XI and XII was “Do you need to have a college degree to get a job?”.

The students put across their views strongly and convincingly in the competition. They also vociferously argued against the points put forth by the opponents.

The Result of the debate competition is as follows:

Based on Storytelling and Debate Competition overall position of the companies are as follows:

Ganesh Decoration Competition.

Ganesh Decoration Competition was organised in all three bhavans. Each Bhavan selected different themes to convey their message.

The energetic Ramdandees of Tanaji Bhavan depicted the theme of ‘Bhakti Movement of Maharashtra’, while young cadets of Guru Govind Singh Bhavan carried the theme of ‘Bal Ganesha' The Moonje Bhavan decorated their idol on the theme of ‘Natural Ganesha’.

The cadets of all bhavans toiled hard and explained their respective themes to the Judges. The overall standard of the competition was exceptional.

The result of the event is as tabulated below:

Prize Distribution, Mahaprasad & Shri Ganesh Idol Visarjan

Prize Distribution Ceremony was organised on 12th sept 2024 for the winners of different competitions conducted in the school during five days ‘Ganesh Festival'. This was followed by Maha Aarti and Maha Prasad. The members of the Management, parents representative and staff members were present. The cries of ‘’Ganapati Bappa Morya’’, mantras and Shlokas and Aarti by the Ramdandees electrified the entire atmosphere. While taking idol to the visarjan, Ramdandees and staff danced on the beats of local band.