On 10th September 2011, under the chairmanship of Mr. Tashi Dhondup, the school principal, along with the president of the alumni association, Ven .Ngawang Tenzin Gyatso, an important meeting was called at the Manjhushree Tibetan Cultural Centre, Darjeeling. This meeting was called for the finalization of the programs that was attended by Mr. Tsewang Tashi, the Tibetan settlement officer, Mr. Dawa Tashi, the school rector, and Mr. Tsetan Phuntsok, secretary of the alumni association. The programs for the three day celebrations were discussed in detail and within a week, the final program details will be updated in the website of the alumni association.

The Alumni Association, Darjeeling would like to express our sincere gratitude to the CSTD Alumni Chapter in New York for organizing a "Get Together Fund Raising Party" to help its alma mater in raising funds to meet the expenses for the upcoming Golden Jubilee anniversary. We request all to extend every possible co-operation and help to our volunteers. Their contact numbers:

a) Yanchen la - 6463792453
b) Ngawang Choedhen - 9177558367
c) Tenzing Tashi - 9175262395
d) Gyatso – 91723950170

The date fixed for the Golden Jubilee anniversary is on and from 19th to 21st October 2011. The members of the organizing committee for the Golden Jubilee programs of Central School for Tibetans, Darjeeling attended meeting on 14th May and 10th June 2011, to discuss in detail to chalk out its estimated budget under different heads, constituting the members for various committees, finalization of mascot for the Golden Jubilee, displaying of 50 years of photo exhibition, advertisement of date wise program, registration of alumni, formation of cluster of alumni for the better execution, collection of articles, and publication of magazine.

The members present in the meeting comprised of alumni association members, the principal and appointed teachers from the school. Therefore, in order to materialize the three day program with a grand success and a memorable one; this comes in one’s life to every alumnus/alumna who hailed from this great alma mater to rejoice the Golden Jubilee commemoration. Alumni association would like to take this opportunity to appeal to you all alumni and NGOs for financial assistance to defray the expenses for three day programs of the Golden Jubilee celebration. Following is the rough estimate worked out during the last meeting of the organizing committee members.

A few executive members led by the president met Mr. Sonam Gyatso Lepcha, the Minister of Power, Culture and Heritage, Sikkim, on 10th June 2011. This meeting was done, as requested by the alumni association for his appointment and audience to hand over the program of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations -2011, and imploring for being one of the core members of Local Advisory Committee. He was a former student of this school and has always been showing keen interest towards his alma mater for every kind of help for the school’s development. He has been very kind enough to donate Rs.1, 20,000.00 (Rupees one lakh and twenty thousand only) meant to renovate the school stage and decoration. The alumni association would like to express a deep sense of gratitude for his kindness shown at this hour of need.

The trio- the principal and the president with the help of expertise from Mr. Tsering Norbu Dekivas, an executive member of the alumni association, were fully involved over the overall overhauling of the school stage to be used and to get ready for the program of upcoming Golden Jubilee celebration i.e. on and from 19th to 21st October 2011.

We offer our immense “Thank You” to Ven. Sonam Lama (Gyarawa Rinpoche), a former student, for his consistent moral and financial support right from the very beginning when the alumni association was founded. He had initially donated Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand only) to meet the initial expenses to purchase stationeries and registration of the association. This time too, he has generously donated Rs. 1, 08,833.00 (Rupees one lakh eight thousand eight hundred and thirty three only) to meet the expenses for the souvenir and badge expenditure for the coming Golden Jubilee commemoration.

The school Summer Vacation had begun from 5th June until 24th June for 20 days. The majority of students had gone to their nearby home and far off places who could afford the expenses of travelling, except the primary children from Miao, Tezu and Tawang and a few senior from far-flung areas who stayed back in the hostel during this vacation. All those students were invited and treated with sumptuous lunch of Momo, Chowmein, and cold drinks. Then after, they were taken to watch Hindi movie called “Ready” at INOX movie hall by Ven. Ngawang Tenzing Gyatso, the President of Alumni Association, Darjeeling out of his generosity. They were escorted by Matron, Mrs. Ngawang Dolma and Mamala. The boarder students will report to school on 24th June and then from the following day, regular classes will resumed with renewed spirit for the second semesters of academic session-2011.

The whole week morning assembly program has been conducting with an enthusiasm and active participation of each and every child under the supervision of their class teacher. The each week activities are presented by particular class in rotation. Each day activity of the week program has been meticulously tailored to meet the interest and to develop the skill within the child is comprised of - Teacher talk on value education followed by meditation of two minutes on Monday, skit/song/dance/ on Tuesday and Friday, Physical exercise conditioning on Wednesday, Book Review on Thursday and Community song on Saturday. In addition, the scout and guide group perform the life skill activities on every Friday and the gardening group does the work of beautification of school garden and campus twice in a week after the school hour. At the end every month, one value education movie is shown to the whole students, the latest being shown was Hindi film “BOM BOM BO LEY”.
The scout and guide have to put on their dress code on every Friday. The scout contingent had drilled and demonstrated the skill with the help of improvised materials about how to rescue and provide relieve to the injured companion during the field excursion to the gathering of students.

Once again, the school produced and improved the result of both board classes over the last few years. The result was declared on 27th May. The Principal had applauded the teaching faculty and students for their performances. The school stood third rank in class XII result amongst the CTSA schools in India. A student,  Miss Kanchan Singh brought laurel to the school by topping the class XII-AISSCE result with 88.2% in Humanities Stream amongst the CTSA, THF and TCV schools. While the other, Miss Tenzin Pakdol got 77.5% in Commerce Stream. The result of class X is cent percent. The alumni association would like to congratulate every staff and student for the good academic performances of the school. The second picture is the Graduation Day, where both Arts and Commerce students were the guest of honour to witness the program presented by the Junior and Primary students on the significant moment of their life in the last day of school. The Principal, Rector and Teaching Faculty spoke about their crucial life, while in the school and suggested students on what they should do after the schooling.

The Grand School Exhibition was held on 28th March. It was inaugurated by the Rector in presence of the Principal and teaching faculty. All the Departments and Labs displayed their working models 3D with active participations of students to explain its underlying cause, effect, and phenomenon to aid an audience  of students to comprehend the abstract concepts of particular topic. All stalls were well decked with colourful charts displaying different explanation on other topics. As a whole, the exhibition ended with purposeful and successful delight.

The Chief Guest during the Annual School Function was Mr. Gopal Lama, ADM, the Representative Chairman of school and the Guest of Honour was Mr. Tsewang Tashi, Tibetan Settlement Officer. In presence of dignitaries of all NGOs and parents, various cultural programmes were presented by Primary, Junior and Senior Divisions. Both the Chief Guest and Guest of Honour delivered speech on the occasion and gave away prizes to winners- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for both academic and co-curricular activities of last year on 18th May.

Mr. Tenzin Jigme, the outgoing Rector and Mr. Pema Tsewang la have been given a warm farewell party by the staff and students on 30th April 2011. The Rector resumed the office late last year and worked in this school for more than six months and had discharged his duties at his level best. He relinquished the Rector’s post after getting the post as a bureaucrat in the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala. He has been replaced by the officiating Rector, Mr. Dawa Tashi (PGT, Tibetan). Mr. Pema Tsewang, popularly known as PT Ganla, as called by the students out of their love and respect. He had voluntarily worked for more than six months with shouldering the full responsibility even after his retirement from the school last year as reappointed by the Principal until replaced by Mr. Goekyila, new PT teacher. The Alumni Association wishes both the outgoing officials a very happy, healthy, and successful life in the years to come.
In addition, on 30th May, a warm farewell party was given to Mr. A. Sood, a teacher of Hospitality and Management who resigned from the teaching post to pursue his higher studies of MBA. He worked for a year and discharged his duties with full dedication.

The staff and students gave a very warm farewell party to Mr. A.D Singh, Post Graduate Teacher (Economics) and Mr. Lobsang Dakpa, Head Master by holding a daylong cultural program presented by V- XII classes in honour of the two retiring teachers. They gave speeches highlighting the wonderful program displayed by each class, their personal bio-data of service periods in different schools in different capacities, shared their rich experiences, and constructive suggestions to the teachers for the overall improvement of the school. At the end of the program, the staff had arranged a lunch party for them, an elaborate and delicious cuisines cooked by the Hospitality and Management teacher, Mr. D.K Bal and his students. The Principal expressed his thanks to every staff member involved in making the occasion very successful. The top-right photo captures the moment of balloons being  burst to inaugurate the program, top-left is English dance by class XII, bottom-left shows cultural dance and right is group photo
( Mr. A.D Singh and Mr. Lobsang Dakpa with scarf in sitting position.)
 

The officials from the Department of Information & International Relations, CTA, Dharamsala  showed a film on “ Chinese Repression on Peaceful Tibetan Demonstrations & Protests” - a gross violation of basic human and religious rights in Tibet in March 2008” in the post noon on 27th  June. The Department also organized photo exhibition on ‘Tibet since 1951’ and ‘Tibetans in Exile’ in the afternoon of 29th  June. It gave insight into the political, administration set up, economic, social and education in the pre and post 1951 until date. The students in class wise took round the exhibition stall with full enthusiasm and interacted with the officials from Dharamsala to elicit more information on diverse matters on the exhibited photos.

On 5th September, the students of CST, Darjeeling from class I to XII presented various and colourful cultural programs at the Multi-purpose Hall “as a mark of respect and tribute” to the staff members for their love, care, and guidance.  Soon after the show, a lively and entertaining musical chair competition amongst the staff was organized by the Student Organizing Committee. The winner for this competition was Mrs. Pemala. Afterwards, staff members were invited for luncheon party. Following are some shots at a glance taken on the occasion.

The school surrounding abounded with beautiful red flowers in the midst of February and beginning every year to welcome the new Academic session, Tibetan Losar and wishing the Look Luck to the final exams of class XII and X.

Students are  giving the final shinning and polishing in the neck of Losar.

WELCOME TO NEW ACADEMIC SESSION

The boarder students hailing from far of places like Mao, Tezu, Tawang, Orissa, Hunsur, Kollegal and nearby had rejoined the school for the new session on 7th February. All look very excited and afresh after their winter vacation in their new classes. On the first day, the Principal had extended his warm welcome speech to all and announced important notices in the morning assemble gathering. The school distributed the textbooks and notebook to every student of different classes under the supervision of class teacher on the same day. Also the time table for the new session to new classes had been circulated to resume the work smoothly. The Alumni association would like to wish every student and staff a very good beginning and successful new academic session.

THE ARTIST AT THE BACK OF GAYA JAMPA GONPO IS WORK ON THE MURAL
The chapel wall depicting the mural of different images of Buddhist had become old and dull for which the DoE, Dharamsala had sanctioned the amount to repaint the same is at the moment under the work. The popular thanka artists had come from Kalimpong, doing their work of skill meticulously and precisely on the old painted images.

THE FRONT SIDE OF NEW KITCHEN AND DINNING HALL

THE VIEW OF INSIDE KITCHEN

The old kitchen was demolished a couple of years back to build a two storied new building. It is now fully completed and is now in operational under the CTSA, Delhi sponsored sanctioned. The ground floor is exclusively for kitchen which has direct water connection with huge water basin enabled the cooks to work comfortable, also more spacious, airy and open to store the daily rations. The first floor is dining hall having the modern dining table of granite which has the capacity to accommodate all the boarders the boarders

THE THIRD PRE-BOARD EXAMS OF CLASS TWELVE STUDENTS IS ON PROGRESS  IN THE HALL.
The Third Pre-board Exams had begun on 7th February for the class of XII, comprising both the streams of humanities and Commerce and finished on 11th February 2011. This is the third trial test conducted under the innovative exams schemed introduced by CTSA, Delhi to give an ample practice and confidence to aspirant students who are appearing for the All India Senior Secondary Certificate Examination in coming first week of March-2011. Alumni associations like to extend a very “Good Luck” for their final Exams.