Manav Rachna International School, Sector 21-C, celebrated Gandhi Jayanti today. The students of Grade IV started the special assembly with a small talk on the life of Mahatma Gandhi. The students also shed light on Gandhi Ji’s invaluable contribution in India’s freedom struggle and how his principles of truth and non-violence are still remembered today. The students presented mime act to depict the importance of peace and harmony. The school Principal Ms. Seema Malhotra spread the message of endurance, peace, harmony and expressed her gratitude to Gandhiji for giving us the powerful tool of Non-Violence. She not only paid homage to Gandhi ji but also talked to children about Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India, whose birth date coincided with Mahatma Gandhi.

The assembly ended with the students marking their respect by singing, “Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram….’ which aptly matched with the principles of our ‘Father of the Nation’. Students also promised to abide by the campaign- ‘Swachhta Hi Sewa Abhiyan’, which will culminate on 2nd Oct 2018, started by the Prime Minister on 15th Sept.’18 with the pledge to keep school, home, city clean.