17th October 2022

National Unity Day is celebrated in India on 31 October. It is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who had played a major role in the political integration of India.

To commemorate the contribution of this great personality and to make future citizens and teachers aware about the same, National unity day or Rashtriya Ekta Divas was also celebrated this year at St. Teresa’s Institute of Education on 17th November 2022. The celebration started with a special assembly dedicated to the importance of Ekta Diwas conducted by the students. Videos on what does unity mean were displayed. Snippets of movie scenes from Bollywood were shown to understand how important is unity in team building and in our everyday lives.

There was a short program later on dedicated to National unity day. All the five internship groups conducted various activities and showed presentations based on national unity day.

Group 1 started the program with an introduction on National unity day. Their theme was Unity in diversity. They performed a jingle and the audience were to guess the jingle. They showed the various states and made us realise that even though we all are from different states we all are the same.

Group 2 presented a presentation on historical facts and unity of India. They gave a detailed information right from the British rule to the struggle of India’s independence. They also did a small role play of some rulers based on their efforts and fights on uniting the nation.

Group 3 gave a detail presentation on how the unity in India came in existence. They also had a poem on unity put forward to everyone which actually made us think.

Group 4 gave a short presentation on unity day and on sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. They also showed a documentary on the life of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Group 5 played game with the internship groups making us all work in unity towards one goal of winning the game.

The event was well organised and definitely ensured unity between the whole STIE family.

RASHTRIYA EKTA DIWAS Hindi Book Exhibition

St. Teresa's Institute of Education had organized grand display of books (556 Books) in Hindi language.

Objectives of the celebration to honor the National Language: Hindi, to boost the reading habits and to evoke a sense of Unity and Appreciation for the language and hindi literature among the students.

In all 131 people (including 81 DEd Students, 45 B.Ed. Students, 6 Staff) visited the exhibition. We were astonished to see the immense amount of books present in the library ranging from autobiographies, biographies, fiction, poems, etc in national language Hindi!. The students took their time and flipped through the pages in their own leisure.

Attractive posters were displayed for the students to read and ponder on. Posters on Rashtriya Ekta Diwas in Hindi language were pasted on the walls around the display.

The event was indeed an eye opener for all on how unique and vast the Hindi Literature is. It boosted their enthusiasm to read more such books from the library in the future.

Report and Picture Credits:
Diona Gonsalves (20)
Ashlina Gonsalves (19)
Lourdes Kottakali (28) 2021-23