The metropolitan administration organised a daylong programme on Sunday at the Gandhi Mandap atop Sarania Hill on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. Deputy commissioner Samir Kumar Sinha announced various projects for the development of the mandap. The Guwahati Planetarium and Pragjyotish Amateur Astronomers? Association are jointly organising a show for public viewing of the annual solar eclipse that will take place on Monday. The eclipse will be visible in Guwahati at 4.34 pm. The Central Guwahati Students? Union organised a drawing competition on Sunday for the school students of greater Guwahati. The competition is part of a series of programmes planned by the union to develop the creative potential of the students. The Guwahati Senior Citizens? Association observed the World Senior Citizens? Day on Saturday by holding various programmes. HelpAge India, an NGO, also observed the day by distributing relief material among the poor elderly people of the city. The Vivekananda Kendra Institute of Culture, Guwahati, recently presented the status report on the short-term project undertaken by the institute to investigate the present status of the satras in greater Guwahati. The All Assam Educated Youth Self-employed Association recently organised a camp at Dhirenpara where relief material was distributed among the underprivileged families. The Guwahati chapter of Indian Geotechnical Society organised a workshop on geotechnical investigation on Sunday. Speakers elaborated on the need to conduct a hazard analysis of landslides in the city. The Gauhati University Teachers? Association will hold a meeting next week to discuss the problems arising out of keeping posts in several departments vacant.
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To Mridupawan Deka, a student of Pragjyotish English Medium High School, Maligaon, Guwahati, for securing the first position in the all -Assam mathematics talent search examination
