Gandhi Jayanti was celebrated with great zeal and enthusiasm in VKV Nivedita Vihar Campus. All the teaching, non-teaching staff along with family members and Vivekanandra kendra Vocational Centre Didi’s together attended the morning prayer at 6 am. As usual morning prayer was chanted and this was followed by the prayer “Raghupati Raghava Rajaram” lead by Mamta Didi. After that a speech was delivered regarding the importance of the day by Mayuri Didi. School principal Smt. Nirmala Didi also told few words regarding the value of the day and it was followed by the flower offering ceremony as a Shradhanjali and a sign of respect representing the birthday of the Father of the Nation.

All the teaching, non -teaching, family members and Centre Didi’s did shramdan for one hour from 7 am to 8 am by cleaning the hostel campus to offer Shradhanjali to our Father of Nation. The students from class VII to X were given tasks to clean nearby surroundings and the students from class IV to VI were asked to plant saplings of any trees in their surrounding and all of them were asked to send their images to their respective class teachers. The day ended with a thought in everybody’s mind that cleanliness is next to godliness and service to mankind is the first step towards reading it.