Skip to content Skip to navigation

Students Join Rally to Support Children, Prevent Human Trafficking

By CM Paul |

Sonada: The Women’s Cell of Salesian College Sonada along with Radio Journalists (RJ) of Radio Salesian organized a rally on 25th October 2019 to create awareness on the need of child support and prevention of human trafficking.

The rally was lead by Assistant Professors Miss Nomu Sherpa accompanied by Miss Pinky Gupta, Miss Shreya Agrawal, Mr Manoresh Thapa and two RJ's of Radio Salesian RJ Smriti and RJ Rejina and students of Salesian College Sonada.

Guest Faculty Miss Bernali Gupta was also part of the Organising Committee.

The rally with some 150 plus students in college uniform and carrying placards on child support and prevention of human trafficking started at 12:30 pm from Sonada Shiv Mandir just before the town, to Sonada Petrol Pump, at the end of the town.

Mid way, the rally stopped at Sonada Railway Station situated on high street in the middle of the town, where the students distributed handbills and had sloganeering stressing the need for prevention of child abuse and human trafficking.

Local television, Hamro Gorkhaland, covered the rally with extensive news-reporting.

The Sonada Traffic Police supported the rally, and facilitated smooth flow of the hill traffic during the peak Diwali holiday season.

“The initiative, the Women’s Cell has taken to make people aware of the need for child support and prevention of human trafficking is something very appreciative work,” commented one of the onlookers.

Assistant Professor Pinky Gupta says, “The rally was a huge success as the students participated very enthusiastically, and crowds of people had gathered to watch the rally and sloganeering at the railways station.”

Miss Gupta adds, “Now only the third phase of the project remains, the field visits to villages to complete the child support and prevention of human trafficking campaign.”

After about two hours, the rally ended at 2:30 pm by singing national anthem.

The three phase campaign for the protection of children and prevention of human trafficking is a Hong Kong based United Board project implemented by Salesian College Sonada / Siliguri, Women’s Cell .

________________
Report by Gaurab Subba

Add new comment

Random Stories

Kidnappings and Extortion in Assam: The numbers are staggering

20 Jul 2007 - 3:55am | Rituparna Goswami Pande
The recent spurt in crime and violence in the state is a danger signal and needs to be curbed with immediate effect. There is an alarming rate of dacoities where single elderly people have been...

NSLA cadre arrested

12 Feb 2016 - 9:17am | Hantigiri Narzary
Security forces belonging to police and army apprehended a senior cadre of National Santhali Liberation Army (NSLA) in a joint operation launched today at Shiyalmari area under Serfanguri police...

Bhairabkunda Festival from Jan 20

4 Jan 2016 - 11:04pm | Shajid Khan
The 4th Bhairabkunda Tourism Festival will be held from January 20-23 at Bhairabkunda a beautiful picnic spot on the foothills of Indo-Bhutan border. The three day programme will include cultural...

Kejriwal opposed to big dams in NE

29 May 2012 - 3:38am | editor
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal strongly defended protest against big dams in the North East. Addressing a gathering in Guwahati, he said that the dam had been taken up without transperancy. He said...

Other Contents by Author

Northeast author reflects on saga of violence

Guwahati: A lone voice that has undertaken several peace initiatives over several decades in the conflict ridden northeast India has come out with a new book chronicling and reflecting on the saga of violence perpetrated down the ages. “The book is precisely about the “Collective Anger” that accumulates,” says the octogenarian author.   The book traces the anger of the primitive man in self-defense to the aggressive postures of World Powers in our own days. Violence has become so frequent these days that Pankaj Mishra has called our age the Age of Anger.  The President of the Pastoral Conference of Northeast India, Archbishop Dominic Jala of Shillong, released...

Silchar school opts for multi-religious campus

Silchar : In a rare show of inter-faith display of multi-religious acceptance in an educational institution, a Catholic school in Bharatiya Janata Party ruled Assam state has used Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh religious symbols in the newly built school facility to inspire and instruct its pupils in tolerance and harmonious living in a pluri-religius setting. Holy Cross Bishop Stephen Rotluanga of Aizwal conducted the blessing of Don Bosco School Silchar Extension building while Salesian Provincial of Shillong Dr George Maliekal unveiled the dedication plaque and inaugurated the building,11 May 2018. Present at the event were Sri Aminul Haque Laskar (MLA), Sri...

Bandel prior’s Good Friday message stresses peace, harmony

Bandel, West Bengal —   The head priest of the oldest Catholic church in eastern India has called people to “actively promote peace and harmony in these volatile days by extending good will of tolerance and forgiveness to mark Good Friday commemorating Jesus who died on the cross forgiving his enemies.”  “Whatever be our religion or culture, living in peace with fellow humans and in harmony with nature and other living beings as did St Francis of Assisi is the hallmark of Good Friday, and is the only path to co-existence and peaceful living,” says Father T L Francis, prior of Marian shrine at Bandel in Hooghly district.  Pointing to a 20 feet wide and 8 feet high mural...

Golaghat holds national seminar on ‘Conflicts in South Asia’

Golaghat — The Departments of Political Science and Sociology at Don Bosco College Golaghat organised a national seminar entitled ‘Conflicts in South Asia: It’s Consequences and Implications’ in collaboration with Salesian College Sonada Darjeeling from 16 to 17 March 2018. Peace activist and socio-cultural academician Prof. Thomas Menamparampil graced the event as chief guest.  Prof. Menamparampil, the Chief Guest of the seminar, spoke on a need to build up a “Thought Bank” that will lead to Dialogue and a sense of Co-Belonging – Working for peace. He emphasised the need to promote inter culture communication in which one is able to understand the other and come together through...

Study fare helps hill students make up lost days

Darjeeling — A college in the hills which lost 104 days due to Gorkhaland agitation (June-September 2017) held 3-day study fare as immediate preparation for the upcoming send-up test in preparation for April-May university exams. Over 500 students belonging to 12 departments participated in the event held from 1st to 3rd March 2018. “Study fare is an unique experiment we devised to help students make immediate preparation for the selection test being held next week,” says Campus Coordinator at Salesian College Sonada, Dr Terence Mukhia who conceived the idea. The sessions lasted five hours each day, from 10 am to 3 pm. Each day started in the auditorium with a brief meditation lead by...

Lifetime achievement award for Salesian Varsity VC

Guwahati — Vice-Chancellor of Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) Fr. (Dr.) Stephen Mavely was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by Confederation of Indian Universities on the occasion of 4th International Conference on  Environment and Ecology at Gauhati University Auditorium on February 12.  The award is an international felicitation given by the confederation as per the recommendation of International Association of Educators for World Peace (affiliated to UN, ECOSOC, DPI, UNICEF). "Don Bosco University has undergone a transformation in the recent years in terms of academics, infrastructure and overall development and has become a preferred institute not only in the...

Youth March for Peace in Siliguri

Siliguri — A group of young people holding a four day interntional youth festival held a peace rally witnessing to the fact that in spite of racial, ethnic, linguistic and religious differences, it is possible for humanity to live in peace.    Some 500 young people belonging to Don Bosco group of institutions from the states of West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Jharkhand, and neighbouring country Nepal partcipated in the peace march held on Saturday 27 January.   Accompanied by their teachers and mentors - Salesian Fathers, Brothers, Salesian Family Sisters, Teachers, Salesian Alumni and other esteemed dignitaries marched along with young people in Siliguri, the second largest...

Indo-Nepal Friendship Tour Marks 25 years of Don Bosco Nepal

Darjeeling — A college community radio in Darjeeling hills plans to set out on a historic “Indo-Nepal Friendship Tour” with a team of Radio Journalists visiting 7 institutions in Nepal managed by alumni of Salesian College Sonada (SCS) to mark its 80th year celebrations as well as 25th year of Don Bosco Society in Nepal.   The road show also marks first anniversary of Radio Salesian - first college radio in Bengal and entire northeast India. The tour on Radio Salesian Maruti Omni Van is scheduled to start on Sunday 7th January from Sonada passing through Indo-Nepal Kakrabitta border near Siliguri and proceed to Dharan from where Don Bosco Centre Nepal started and reach...

Salesian College Grabs UK Environmental Project

In a keenly contested environmental energy efficiency project presentation a college in the Darjeeling hills is among four selected out of 22 applicants for the Residential Environments Project (known as RESIDE). It is a four-year research project that aims to evaluate the impact of urban design on energy efficiency.  “It is a matter of pride for us to partner in knowledge creation in the field as the only undergraduate college selected for the task,” says Saleisan College Principal Dr George Thadathil.  Dr Thadthil adds, “One research scholar will be funded by the project during its first phase.”  Further explaining the implications of the project Dr Thadathil says, “The...

Stress on scientific agriculture

A Non Government Organization in north-eastern India working for the Integral development through empowerment of people by enabling them to build People’s Organizations and enhancing their capacities to utilize their resources optimally believes that systematic agriculture can lead to people’s prosperity. “Systematic Agriculture can lead to people’s prosperity,” says Director of the NGO Bosco Reach Out (BRO) Fr Jaya Prakash. The quote was also the theme of the two days training programme he conducted at BRO Agri-Training Centre, Joropara, Meghalaya, 4 to 5 May 2017.   The ‘Agrarian Prosperity Training Programme’ gave an impetus to some 100 members of Self Help Groups (SHG) from Garo...