The Opening functions started sharp at 9.a.m in the school Multipurpose Hall with the Chief guest and special guest like Ven. Karma Gelek la, Shri Gopal lama, ADM Darjeeling and Shri S.P. Rana ,the Education Officer, CTSA as guest of honours and august gathering of more than 800 people including about 50 Ex staff, 52 present staff ,260 ex students, some all the way from  USA, Canada, Nepal, Bhutan and various parts of India like Bangalore, Delhi, Orissa, Shillong etc.
After a short ceremonial function, Mr. Tashi Dhondup, the principal and Ven. Nawang Tenzing, President of Alumni Association presented brief report. In his report the principal said that the school started way back in 1961 with just 5 staff and 30 students in a rented buildings ,and how it has grown in these last fifty years to the present status. Mentioning the names of few of the outstanding alumni of the school like Dr. Lobsang  Sangay, Mr. Roshan Giri , Shri Sonam Wangdi Bhutia, Mrs. Dolma Gyari, he urged the present students to emulate them. He thanked the His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Late Pandit Jawarhar Nehru for their far sightedness and, the Govt. of India  for administration and financial support for setting up the schools.
Ven. Nawang Tenzin la while thanking the govt. of India, stressed the need of alumni for continuous help and support to the school for bringing further improvement. He told about the functions of the Alumni Association and its contributions made to the school since its formation in 2007.
Mr. Gopal Lama ,ADM Darjeeling , special Guest of Honour said how he had seen since this school grow since its inception in 1961 and how fortunate he feel to be the  Chairman of its Local Advisory Committee today. He expressed his deep desire to assist it in every way possible within his capacities. Mr. S. P. Rana expressed his happiness to see the sapling sown in 1961 grown into a large tree with lots of leaves and branches giving protection to so many lives. He urged the students not to forget their roots and culture.
Ven. Karma Gelek  ,in his speech as  a special Guest ,expressed that the education of Tibetan children in exile is one of the biggest achievement since H. H. The Dalai Lama and Tibetans sought refuge in India .He thanked the Govt. of India and local government and administration for the valuable support. The incumbent staff are asked not to remain complacent but to explore means and techniques to solve the present problems in the light of past events. He invited all the guests, present staff and the students for sumptuous lunch on behalf of the DOE Dharamsala on occasion of Golden Jubeliee Celebration.
Prof. S. Rinpoche while speaking at length about the system of the education during his days in the school as a religious teacher for a year ,he stressed that the celebration of the Golden Jubilee becomes meaningful and successful if following points are kept in mind.
1.  Paying tribute to its founding members, staff and administrative body.
2.  Identification of short coming in the light of present experience.
3.  Strategies to be evolved specially by the local staff and the students to overcome the loopholes.
4.  Understanding the purpose for which the schools are set up and why Tibetans have to remain as refugees and why more than 12 lakhs of Tibetans have been killed by the Chinese.
For the non Tibetan speaking he also spoke in Hindi.
Immediately after the speeches of the guests, the school brochure and Golden Jubilee Magazines were released followed by the presentation of the souvenirs to the former staff who were present and incumbent staff and also to the guests a-midst the loud cheers and thundering applause. Among the former staff besides the Chief Guest, Mrs Marleane Thomson popularly called Ama Lhamo la by the students in 60’s was there with her daughter and friend all the way from to be on this occasion .
The function ended with the vote of thanks by the officiating Rector, Mr. Dawa Tashi.
There after a visit to photo exhibition and various labs and departments of the school were the  programme before the lunch . The photo exhibition was of special attraction since every effort had been made to display photos from early 1960s till date with captions on each. About 260 former students were far too excited to see themselves so many years back as students. The photos took  all down the memory lane and brought back many wonderful memories making all nostalgic of those golden days on the Golden jubilee. The present students enjoyed their seniors looking at old photos and sharing their memories of friends and teachers. Many felt sad to know of those staff and friends who are no longer in this world.
At 1 p.m a sumptuous lunch was hosted in buffet system with an eye catching and highly standardized service by the school’s Hospitality and Tourism stream and the team of female ex students from Darjeeling town. At 2p.m the school Literary and Cultural Committee staged educative and entertaining items like nursery rhymes, poem recitations in action ,Hard Talk by the senior students on topic” Education in C .S .T in 1960s and 70s was far better than today” which kept all present interested. The audiences were divided into two groups.  The staff and the ex students who belonged to 1960s ad 70s would have supported the motion. Several colorful cultural shows in Tibetan, and Nepali were staged .Every one thoroughly enjoyed the cultural programme. At the end Ven . Karma Gelek la expressed his deep appreciation for the quality and confidence of the students .Thus the first day programme ended at 4P.M. 

The second day was exclusively for the ex students and the seating arrangement was made according to each decades.  Mr. Tseten Phunstok, the General Secretary, Alumni Association was the Master of the ceremony and he invited atleast two speakers from each decade to share their memories and to express their feeling as well as some words of wisdom for the present students. Senior students attended this meeting .The atmosphere was more informal and everyone expressed their opinion freely. In between there were moments of tears as well as laughters traveling down those old memory lanes. Sometime in between some present students asked few questions.
The speakers representative for each decades were Mr. Tenzin la, Ven .Nawang Tenzin , President of Alumni Association, Mr. Tsering Norbu, Treasurer, Alumni Association, Mr. Lobsang Dargay, Mr. Sangay Woser, Mr. Sonam Tsering, Mr. Tsultrim Dorjee, Mr. Tenzin, Mr. Tenzing Phuntsok, Miss Tsewang DikiandMr. Tenzin Wangdhen . Gen Lhamo too kindly attended this session along with some of the other ex staff too. This session is going to leave a deep impression in the mind of the present students and also inspire them greatly . The present students will never forget the deep sense of belonging in the heart of the ex students for their school even after so many years.
The main points stressed by most speakers were   (i)  how hard they all worked in the past under the dedicated staff many of whom played the role of the parents in the absence of parents as most of them were either orphan or had parents in distant places.   (ii) How poor the facilities were for instance they had their first food served in polythene and slept on floor sharing blankets. The dal was full of pebbles and tingmos so hard with rope of sacks . Yet all studied hard with a main objective of getting back Tibet from Chinese.  (iii) Some expressed their deep regret in life for not taking study seriously so advised the present students not to repeat the mistakes.  (iv) Some of them expressed  their view that students who have been to Tibetan schools not only have succeeded in life but are richer in ones culture like understanding of Buddhism, respecting  elders and parents . (v) Need to be more career oriented. (vi) And above all the need of  Alumni to support the school like Dr. Gram School, Kalimpong are doing .
Soon after this there was a friendly basket ball match between the Ex students and the present students followed by photo sessions which again was another memorable event.
Lunch was followed by cultural show by ex students from different decades and places. Gen Lhamo was the chief Guest for this Cultural Show. The hall was full of cheers, applauses, laughters, each time the performers entered the stage. There were oldest group from 1960s led by Acha Dorjee Wangmo’s group, Acha Youlo’s from Sonada, Tibetan Self Help center, the present Darjeeling colleges and many individual songs. Overall it was a grand success and once again a very entertaining and memorable one .

 21st October was the third and the Closing Day of the Golden Jubilee function which started at 8.A.M.
Shri Apurna Chandra , IAS ,HRD,Govt. of India and the Chairman,CTSA was the Chief guest , Dr. Lobsang Sangay ,Kalon Tripa ,the Special Guest, Shri Roshan Giri , Gen. Sec. GJMM ,Shri Sonam Wangdi Bhutia, A.C , Jalpaiguri , Shrimati Loden Tsomo, A.C. Income Tax Commisioner and Mrs Pema ,the wife of Mr.Sonam Gyaltso ,the Minister of Power and Cutural ,Sikkim (who could not come due to recent earth quake in his Constituency )were the Guests of Honour . Like on the first day ,they were received with the school band party at the gate. Everyone present were excited with a special feeling for all except the Chief Guest all other were the Ex students .After the presentation of the report by the Principal and the President of Alumni Association ,the guests were request to address the gathering .
Mr.Sonam Wangdi Bhutia expressed his deep gratidute to the school for what what he is today and how fortunate he felt to be ableto assist the school as the Chairman of its Local Advisory Committee for few years before his transfer to Jalpaiguri.
Mr. Roshan Giri too said he is indebted to the school since it has given him especially the training  in elocution and debates which developed his oratory  skill . He also added how emotionally he is attached to the school and felt glad to see it grow to its present height .
Dr. Lobsang Sangay  shared about his days in the school as young boy with several interesting facts which made all  roar with laughter especially about the poor food in hostel and how the meat got lost from one’s plate when light went off. He also mentioned about how Mr.Roshan  Giri and he participated in debates bringing laurel to the school. He urged all alumni to contribute in whatever possible way to  the school’s growth. As Kalon Tripa he said he would try his best to achive three most important objectives (a) Self Reliance . (b) Unity among all Tibetans.  (c) Innovation. He would strive hard to make it possible for  His Holiness to return  back to  Tibet in the same way as His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama did.
Mr. Apurna Chandra ,the Chief Guest expressed his happiness to see many Alumni of the school in such high and responsible position as guests of the day. He further said that govt. of India is committed to the cause of Tibetan children’s education. He would do  whatever possible as the Chairman of CTSA to solve some problems such as low allowances of boarders, contractual appointment of Tibetan staff  etc. He further requested the Central Tibetan Administration to take the charge of Pre and Primary sections under their administration so that CTSA could devote more time running senior classes, VIth above.
Literary and Cultural programme were presented after the speeches of the guests which included Indian classical songs ,dances in Tibetan, Hindi and Skit in English  ‘Oliver Twist ‘as the condition of the students in initial years were similar to Dicken’s Oliver Twist .Some of the class mates sang a song especially composed  to honour their classmate ,Dr. Lobsang Sangay as  Kalon Tripa.
After this another visit to school labs, Departments, Photo Exhibition followed by lunch at 12.30 for all .
At 2.P.M. special public talk by Dr. Lobsang Sangay was arranged in which he explained about functions of new Kashag and programme of the Central Tibetan Administration headed by him.
At 4P.M. all the former students gathered in  the school hall  with Kalon Tripa where he expressed how  eagerly he had waited for this great reunion during the Golden Jubilee and how he had made it despite his busy schedule . He wished such get together should take place, not 50 years after but after every 5 years at which all gave thundering clap which echoed in the hall . Dr. Losang Sangay had to leave to attend another meeting but the farewell  was most touching, shaking hands with all present .Many were emotional with tears of joy in their eyes. Soon after all shared their school lives and expressed what further developments the school needs .Alumni Chapters members in different parts of the world were appreciated by the present Alumni members with Souvenir and scarves .This session was followed by dances in big circle where all joined irrespective of their age differences.
Then at 7p.M. there was a grand dinner and the great days ended, all expressing their joy of being back to their childhood school and  promising to keep in touch .The present students were left  awed seeing in reality how much sense of belonging  the alumni feel for the school and inspired  by all whom they have seen reached great  height in every  corner of the world.
All the preparation and hard work  that had gone into this Golden Jubilee was worth it. Alumni Association ‘s executive members  would like to extend deepest thanks to all who had contributed in one way or other to make it Golden Jubilee a grand success and most memorable events.