RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Mo­hess Road SDMS Hin­du School, the al­ma mater of for­mer prime min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, re­cent­ly cel­e­brat­ed its 70th an­niver­sary.

At a spe­cial func­tion to com­mem­o­rate the plat­inum ju­bilee, school prin­ci­pal Shievanand Gokool re­called the days when class­es were held in a small wood­en struc­ture.

Gokook said more than 4,000 stu­dents have ben­e­fit­ted from an ed­u­ca­tion at the school over the years. They pro­duced a prime min­is­ter and three stu­dents—Gir­i­ja Ram­nar­ine, Ajay Seecha­ran and Ri­car­do Kalloo—placed in the top 100 list of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment Ex­am­i­na­tions this year.

“In the Baal Vikaas com­pe­ti­tion host­ed by the SDMS an­nu­al­ly, Mo­hess Road Hin­du has placed first and sec­ond in the Hin­di cat­e­go­ry and has qual­i­fied for the fi­nals many times in the past. We have al­so placed first and sec­ond in the Folk Song cat­e­go­ry as well as placed third in the cham­pi­onship in the small school cat­e­go­ry in years gone by,” he said.

“In the Vic­to­ria Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict and oth­er sport­ing com­pe­ti­tions, our school has ex­celled, one year win­ning the Vic­tor and Vic­tress Lin­do­ri­um in the Vic­to­ria Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict,” Gookool said.

He said the school will con­tin­ue to pro­mote the holis­tic de­vel­op­ment of the stu­dents and ex­pose them to reg­u­lar field trips, Phag­wa cel­e­bra­tions and oth­er art and singing com­pe­ti­tions.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal con­grat­u­lat­ed the school on its plat­inum ju­bilee.

“We are fac­ing many chal­lenges, es­pe­cial­ly in the ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor, and my of­fice, to­geth­er with the sup­port and co-op­er­a­tion of busi­ness­es and well-wish­ers in the con­stituen­cy, will con­tin­ue to schools and stu­dents,” he said.

Mooni­lal said dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, stu­dents were equipped for on­line learn­ing to con­tin­ue their ed­u­ca­tion. He used the op­por­tu­ni­ty to call on the gov­ern­ment to com­plete the Ra­mai Trace Hin­du school.

Bar­rack­pore West coun­cil­lor Nicholas Kan­hai, who was al­so a past pupil, com­mend­ed the prin­ci­pal, staff, pupils and oth­er stake­hold­ers for pro­vid­ing safe and com­pet­i­tive learn­ing. He pledged to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing the school.

Mo­hess Road Hin­du school was opened in 1953 by the late Bhadase Sagan Ma­haraj and the late Shri Sat­narayan Ma­haraj. In 1993, a con­crete struc­ture re­placed the orig­i­nal wood­en struc­ture.