Feast Day of St. John Bosco 2023

 

Feast Day Celebrations at Don Bosco Ashalayam

Don Bosco Ashalayam an orphanage, taking care of 250 children. A noble initiative of our Salesians.

Double wicket Cricket tournament 2023

We had a very exciting game of cricket 🏏. A good response/ turnout gives a lot of satisfaction to the organizers. 24 teams participated. Batting, bowling, fielding was full of enthusiasm.

Today's tournament was inaugurated by our Delegate Rev Fr Manoj Jose. Fr too hit a four and a six.

The semifinalist were Abhimanyu Rai & Nilesh Saraf
Prashant Saraf & Akshat Somani

Best fielder _Nikunj Somani

Runners up - Rajiv Tikmany & Chirag Agarwal

Winners were - Bikash Saraf and Nikunj Somani

Congratulations to all the winners, after it is the spirit of brotherhood that wins.
The winners were awarded prizes by Rev Fr Anand Raj, Administrator DBL.

We thank Fr Rector, Rev Fr Davis Veliyen, our Delegate Rev Fr Manoj Jose, Fr Anand, senior members, a special moments of thanks to all who participated.

Bikash Saraf and Saurabh Ag for organizing, Anil Agrawal for the snacks.
And above let us pray to our founding father St Don Bosco to bless us all in his feast day.

Media coverage of the MEGA REUNION 2023

 

https://hindi.thevocalnews.com/education-naukri/delhi-ex-students-from-26-states-12-countries-participate-in-don-bosco-school-alumni-meet/183330/

https://newsisland.in/2023/01/27/don-bosco-school-liluah-hosts-alumni-meet-ex-students-across-26-states-12-countries-participate-in-the-reunion/

https://thenewsexpres.in/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%88-%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8B-%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%88-%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%87/

https://www.infoans.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=17088:india-don-bosco-school-liluah-past-pupils-celebrate-55-years-of-association-s-founding&Itemid=1649&lang=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUFnOF6ofk

https://www.newsheads.in/education/news/don-bosco-school-hosts-alumni-meet-ex-students-across-26-states-12-countries-participate-in-the-reunion-article-68786

Mega Reunion 2023

DA MIHI ANIMAS, CAETERA TOLLE

GIVE ME SOULS, TAKE THE REST

On behalf of DBL Alumni, DBL and the entire fraternity of the institution, first of all, i extend my thanks to Almighty God for making the MEGA REUNION OF DBL PAST PUPILS held on Sunday January 15, a resounding success.

With his blessings and grace, we were able to make this day as a red letter day in the annals of the DBL Alumni. Let us thank our Founding Father St Don Bosco for bringing us together.

It was the inspiration of Fr Davis and our Delegate Fr Manoj Jose, that we could go in a big way. The day went out the way our as Delegate Fr Manoj Jose had envisaged. He ensured that from every angle it should be a MEGA one and yes it turned out to be the same.

An idea is conceived, a plan is made, to make it fruitful lot of efforts have to be made and the most important aspect is offcourse the eye catching presentation.

Yes we were able to somehow do it with a wonderful diligent, dedicated and devoted team who always put in a lot of hardwork in successfully holding an event.

Our sincere appreciation to all the Salesians present, The Provincial of Kolkata, Rev Fr Joseph Pauria,

South Asia Salesian Family Delegate Rev Fr Joseph Manipadam , Fr Bertie Fernandes, Fr Thomas Gomes, Fr George Chempakathinal , Fr Joe Pathickal, Fr C M Paul,

The Rector of DBL Rev Fr Davis Veliyan Veliyen, Our administrator Fr Anand Raj, Our guardian Rev Fr Manoj Jose , Fr Jaison Nedumkallel and Br Lawrence Mondal

We thank you all for your gracious presence.

The love care and support and cooperation of our Salesians has nurtured DBL Alumni over the years. We are extremely grateful to the Salesians of house for supporting and guiding us.

We are grateful for our retired teachers and our present teachers of DBL for making this day cherishing, infact it was the presence of the respected teachers which made the reunion complete. Salutations to all the teachers.

We have inherited a very rich legacy, the testament of the hardwork put in by our seniors. We thank earnestly our past Presidents, Aurobindo Bannerjee, Kishan Sony , Binod Adukia , Manoj Agarwal , Vinod Agarwal and Rajiv Tikmany .

Infact Vinod Agarwal sir has been guiding and encouraging us from day one all the way from Delhi and was instrumental in the presence of past Delegates as well in the financial needs.

Our biggest applauds for all our alumnus for turning up in large numbers. They proved their love and respect for their Alma Mater by turning up from different parts of India and abroad. What a turnout, hats off. My regards to all of you. Accolades for the monitors, splendidly done- getting your batchmates back to school, 2001 batch, Mahip Mittal as their monitor leading with 70 plus. We were all there from 1969 to 2022, enjoying the special moments - school assembly, prayers, classrooms, teachers, high tea, foot tapping music and food.

My gratitude and appreciation to our sponsors Mr Sudhir Maheshwari,Mr Dilip Bhutoria , The ISC 1982 batch, The 1976 batch, The 2001 batch, Gupta Jewellers, Ashok Sinha, Rajesh Jain and others besides all other individual sponsors.

We need to thank Sir Angshuman Chakraborty Chakraborty IC Belur for his continuous support, media Partner T2 and radio partner FM.

Then, we thank our alumnus Samrat Sarkar t for his excellent performance enthralling the audience. Samrat our star brightened the evening.

The non teaching staff led by Edward Toppo for always giving the backup. With out their support it is impossible to hold a big event in DBL.

The force behind the scenes and the success, Our Delegate Rev Fr Manoj Jose, we past pupils are extremely indebted to you for giving us this joyous day.

Thanks to team DBL Alumni, Mr Binod Adukia, Kamal Prakash Agarwal, Anil Agrawal, Yogesh Goel, Mahip Mittal, Raunak Agarwal, Rajesh Saraf, Bikash Saraf, Binay Yadav, Sanjay Yadav, Raunak Poddar, Rajesh Kakrania Alkesh Kakrania, Pradip Khaitan, Abhishek Sharma, Abhimany Rai Arpit Bansal Raghav Ag Debayan Basu Sailesh Gupta Prateek Singh Swarnava Hati and dear Saurabh Agarwal .

Thanks to Rajesh and Alkesh Kakrania for sponsoring the 360 degree selfie corner.

Team DBL Alumni

*पसीने की स्याही से जो लिखते हैं इरादें को,

उसके मुक्कद्दर के सफ़ेद पन्ने कभी कोरे नही होते...

Don't Forget

ভুলবেন না

मत भूलना

ਨਾ ਭੁੱਲੋ

മറക്കരുത്

ભૂલશો નહીં

We shall meet again for the next reunion.

Ye Nasha barkarar rehna chahiye.

स्कूल का पहला दिन और आखिरी

दिन एक जैसा था दोनो बार आँखो मे

आंसू थे पर दोनो बार रोने की वजह अलग थी !

Beautician course for AEP

A course on beauty techniques held for the second-year participants of the Adult Literacy Project.

Mahendi Class for AEP students

A Mahendi class was held for first-year AEP students, led by Madam Jotsana Mittal, who is the wife of our member, Mr. Mahip Mittal.