GUWAHATI, Aug 23 - As part of its yearlong silver jubilee celebration, Assam Jatiya Bidyalay today launched a plantation drive on both sides of the MD Road in Noonmati area of the city.
Besides its Higher Secondary students, former students, teachers, non-teaching staff, members of the Bidyalay management committee, musician Ramen Barua, Guwahati Refinery Executive Director Jogen Barpujari, social worker Debeswar Bhattacharya, officer-bearers of the Noonmati unit of AASU, the members of the Noonmati Bihu Sanmilani, Workers� Union of Guwahati Refinery, Srimanta Sankardev Kirtanghar, Durga Puja Committee, Noonmati Merchants� Association and Rana Star Club took part in the programme. Earlier, the programme started with the paying of tributes to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar, who had extended a significant financial aid to the Bidyalay from his MP fund. A meeting held on the occasion was addressed by school management committee secretary Dr Narayan Sarma, Guwahati Refinery Executive Director Jogen Barpujari and others.
