Junctionites run at TSK25K

Thirty-six junctionites gathered for the sixth edition of the TSK 25K marathon on the wintry Sunday morning of December 15 in Kolkata to raise funds for the Tata Medical Centre Trust.

While five mjunction bravehearts completed the 25 km run,

25KM

Name Timing

Sandip Thapa 02:11:43

Soumen Baral 02:43:16

Rohit Singh 02:51:00

Amit Surana 02:52:08

Dwaipayan Roy 04:22:29 as many as eight, including MD Vinaya Varma, completed the 10 km run.

Donning mjunction tees and caps, and holding mjunction flags, 23 junctionites completed the 5-km Ananda Run.

10KM

Name Timing Rajdip Tarafdar 00:59:46 Arfin Zubair 01:04:41 Sankhanil Mitra 01:11:04 Vinaya Varma 01:18:43 Sk Amanuddin Ahmed 01:20:06 Nikita Shroff 01:28:19 Javed Islam 01:28:21 Ashish Goel 01:29:00

5KM

Deepyaman Chatterjee | Sumit Jalan | Saptarshi Mallick | Soumya Sanyal | Dipankar Mukherjee | Debal Ray Avijit Pandit | Partha Chakraborti | Nishant Deepak | Imtiaz Ahmed | Soumita Das | Pankaj Mittal | Piya Nandi Soumya Paul | Amit Bhansali | Manish Mathur | Apurba Dey Singha | Godla Balaji | Arunava Mandal Kaushik Kr. Mitra | Rinku Ghosh | Naaz Ansari

Ahead of the festive season, clothes were distributed to villagers of Kalapathar and Barikul in Bankura district of West Bengal. Junctionites responded overwhelmingly to this drive and contributed spontaneously.

The Sunderbans in West Bengal is a unique biosphere reserve of mangrove forests spread across more than a hundred islands. It is also home to almost four-and-a-half million people living in abject poverty, chronic deprivation and acute suffering from climatic adversities.

The inhabitants mostly live in abject poverty, struggling for survival and combating natural calamities, which leads to trafficking and child labour. As a result, education has been neglected as children are involved in income generation activities. Identifying this need, ejunction, in collaboration with Ramkrishna Mission Lokashiksha Parishad, runs an Early Childhood Development Programme across 12 centres in West Bengal. These centres focus on inculcating the schoolgoing habit among children and primary orientation of basic literacy. Early awareness of environment, habitat and hygiene are the other focus areas. This is supplemented by promotion of cultural values from their early ages.

Eight of these Early Childhood Development Centres are running under Mayer Sangsar in Hingalgunj, North 24-Parganas and four in South 24-Parganas.

The centres run six days a week, between 7 am and 10 am in the morning, and every centre has 25 children and two local women as teachers. ejunction provides learning material along with other requisites such as cooking utensils, as well as meals for students three times in a week. Health check-up of all students and all regular vaccination programmes are also part of this project.

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