Recipients of the Changki Educational Trust Award during the award ceremony held at Changki Village, Mokokchung on January 10.
Morung Express News
Mokokchung | January 11
The Changki Ayim Asem Senso Mungdang awarded the 10th Changki Educational Trust Awards to 12 recipients during a well-attended ceremony held at Changki village on January 10.
The award ceremony coincided with the Changki Students’ Union’s 4th sports cum conference where hundreds of Changki students and parents from different district units are currently camping at the village.
Senior Treasury Officer and a Governor Gold Medal awardee, P. Ajung Amer and Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service recipient, L. Ben Longkumer, NPS, Commandant, NAPTC, Chümoukedima exhorted the gathering.
Amer urged the students not to attend schools and colleges just for the mere sake of studying. He opined that the students today waste too much time on the internet and fail at realizing God’s given talents and allow life to pass by like a dream. He encouraged the youngsters to hone more competitive spirits in themselves, honour God always and try and become like the biblical Elijah.
Ben Longkumer commended the award function as an “excellent and classic example of offering young people more opportunities than ever before” to help them get positively involved and become pro-active and progressive. He added that, the effort made by the Trust can be a catalyst of change, nurturing positive values towards a healthy and constructive public spirit.
He also cautioned that in a world of opportunities, though the journey may be difficult, nothing was impossible and without solutions.
He encouraged the students to embrace one’s own problems and find strength in one’s own passion, by disciplining and motivating one’s own self through hard work to overcome the new challenges life presented every time.
Later, Dr. Narola Dangti and Yangerjungla Pongener gave the award speeches on behalf of all the awardees. Both the recipients expressed their gratitude to the Changki Senso Educational Trust for the initiative taken to encourage the students of the community. Furthermore, Dr. Narola encouraged the students to develop the habit of reading. Yangerjungla stressed that hard work never disappointed anyone.
The ceremony was chaired by Dr. Jamedi Longkumer, Secretary CSET. Aotsungba Longchari, President, CAASM and Lendimenba Amri, Chairman, Village Council Changki, also addressed the gathering.
