As Banshihari High School prepares to celebrate its platinum jubilee, students marked the milestone not with fanfare but with service, fanning out across town on Sunday to deliver gifts and sweets to some of the community’s most overlooked residents.
Cadets from the school’s National Cadet Corps unit organized the effort, distributing essential items to impoverished people at Chowpathi in the municipal area of Buniadpur. They also handed out laddus to traffic police officers and passers-by, gestures that drew smiles and words of encouragement from locals who paused to watch.
Students said the initiative extended beyond the town center. At Rashidpur Rural Hospital, they visited patients and offered sweets, aiming to share what they described as the spirit of the anniversary with those confined to beds.
The response was immediate. Residents, commuters and shopkeepers alike praised the teenagers, many remarking that the anniversary of an institution can be most meaningfully observed through acts that bind a community together.
The school began its journey on Feb. 15, 1952. It was upgraded to the secondary level in 1960 and later to higher secondary status in 1980. Seventy-five years on, administrators have planned a series of programs through the year, with students taking a leading role.On Sunday, at least, history was measured less in decades than in small offerings pressed into waiting hands — tokens of celebration, and of belonging.
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