Saturday, January 25, 2014

West Bengal pioneer in mountaineering & trekking in India

West Bengal pioneer in mountaineering & trekking in India

•1st mountaineering institute for imparting training to civilians also functioning since 1954.
•1st civil mountaineering expedition to Nandaghunti was in 1960 from this state.
•1st solo trans-Himalayas trekking was done by a mountaineer of this state.
•Maximum mountaineering teams are from this state in India.
•The leader and Deputy Leader of the 1st NCC mountaineering team was from this state.
•1st time the NCC flag was on a mountain top, (Lion 20100 ft, in Barasigri glacier, Himachal Pradesh) the expedition was organised from this state.
•Maximum numbers of mountaineering & trekking clubs are from this state.
In 2013 there were 64 Indian expeditions to Indian Himalayas out of which there were 39 expeditions to Indian Himalayas from the State of West Bengal. The results are
Unsuccessful Successful Abandon Not known
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•Maximum numbers of mountaineering & trekking journals and souvenirs are published from this state.

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•Mountaineering film festival held from this state.
•Mountain photography, Salon was organised from this state.
•State-level mountaineers & trekkers meet since 1980





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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Indian National Youths Festival 2014



In India there are 42% percentage of youths, they are not aware of their National event held every year at various level. It starts with Block in Panchyat area /Ward in Municipality area, District, State/UT & finally at National level. At the State level a plan is prepared to conduct various competitions on fine arts, visual arts, performing arts, debate, elocution,news reading e.t.c. The Adventure, computer, photography  related competitions are not included. In West Bengal there was about 400 participants they are youths of a block.







Saturday, January 11, 2014

National Cadet Corps : Indian biggest youths organisation in uniform

India is having about 42% of youths population of total population. The National Cadet Corps (NCC)
http://nccindia.nic.in/
 is under the Ministry of Defence and at the State it is under the Department of Education or Disaster Management. The Republic Day Camp, an  annual event of NCC. The various competittions are organised through out the year among the inter Directorate on the basis of the result of such competittions NCC banner is presented to the best NCC Directorate. It is genearally done by the Prime Minister of India at the Republic Day Camp of NCC, It is called Prime Minister Rally.This year it will be held on 28th January 2014, the Door Darshan Bharti will telecast live of this programme from 11.45 pm (IST). http://ddindia.gov.in/About%20DD/Gyandarshan/Pages/Gyandarshan.aspx

There are good numbers of Indian citizens who had joined this camp in the past, it is a good programme to see how this camp has changed over the years.