De Nobili School, Digwadih, in Dhanbad is all set to host more than 700 alumni from across the globe, who will be visiting their alma mater on Saturday and Sunday.

The occasion is the two-day diamond jubilee celebrations of the cradle.

Hoardings and banners welcoming the guests have been placed at various points of the district, including Jharia, Katras More, Digwadih, Dhansar and Shramik Chowk.

Divulging details about the alumni arrival, Shantanu Sen, a member of the 1993 batch (Class X) who is looking after accommodation, said that 29 hotels of the coal town had been booked for the guests.

"We have tried to accommodate the former students at different hotels in batch-wise so that they can easily reach their batchmates," said Sen, adding that they had received 500 registrations so far, but were expecting the figure to touch 700 by Saturday.

While Day One of the celebrations will be marked by a cultural programme, the major attraction being an hour-long musical story Coat of Many Colours from the Bible and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat to be presented by the students, it will be a walk down the memory lane during Homecoming 2015 on Sunday.

The chief guest on the second day will be Rear Admiral Sudarshan Srikhande. Prominent alumni will include dean of California University Ramesh Rao, former president of Standard and Poor's Deven Sharma and CEO of Metlife Kush Kamra.

Vice-president of De Nobili School, Digwadih, Bernard Pandey (1969 batch), who taught at the cradle for more than three decades, said, "We are eagerly waiting to meet our batchmates whom we will see after 45 years."