Nearly 700 Children Participate in Hausla Festival

Dr. Virendra Kumar giving away the trophy of overall best performing team to Chhattisgarh, at the closing ceremony of the weeklong festival ‘Hausla 2017’, in New Delhi on November 20, 2017

Hausla 2017, a festival to celebrate children living in Child Care Institutions (CCIs), ended with a closing ceremony of cultural performances by the children in New Delhi on Monday. Nearly 700 children from CCIs across the country including Delhi participated in the 7-day programme.

Speaking on the occasion, the Minister of State for Women & Child Development, Dr. Virendra Kumar said that the festival brought out talents in children whether in sports or painting or speaking or dancing.

It also gave them an opportunity to travel outside their states and to meet children from other states, thereby giving them a feeling of unity in diversity. The effort of the Ministry to organize the festival of this scale is only a beginning and the Ministry is determined to give all the children a better and bright future, the Minister added.

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The scheme guidelines of Unnati for giving scholarships under National Children’s Fund to children of CCIs who show good academic performance were released on the occasion. A compilation of speeches written by children was also released.

Earlier in the day, Dr. Virendra Kumar felicitated the winners of Athletics and Sports Meet organized under “Hausla 2017” in the presence of cricketer and Parliamentarian, Bharat Ratna, Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar gave away the trophy to the winning football teams.

Various events organized during the sports and athletics meet included 100 meter race, 100×4 meter relay race, long jump, high jump, chess and football matches for boys and girls categories.

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