EM Patton and M Patton with the organizers of Old Riphyim Students’ Union platinum jubilee held at Old Riphyim on December 28.
Wokha, December 28 (MExN): Old Riphyim Students’ Union (ORSU) celebrated its platinum jubilee with EM Patton, IAS, Principal Secretary, Government of Nagaland as special guest of the inaugural session on December 28.
A press release stated that speaking during the event, Patton said that jubilee is a time for thanksgiving and forgiveness, and also a time to introspect and to move forward with new visions and goals.
On the present context, he remarked that the present generation needs to be more agile and added, “‘more governance, less government’ is the only mechanism for sustainability and one has to look into various fields of opportunity rather than giving that opportunity to those non locals.”
M Patton, IAS (Rtd) chairman, State Quality Control Board, Government of Nagaland called on the student community to redefine their duty to achieve greater heights. Though the village is blessed with high literacy rate and good number of government employees, he lamented that ‘the village is still lacking behind in producing more through competitive exams.’
In the second session, the literary event and election of new office bearers for tenure 2023-2024 was held where Henry Ngullie and Rentsan Patton were elected as president and general secretary respectively.
