Located on the western side of the historic Chaugan maidan here, the local
Sainik School completes 25 years on November 2. It was on November 2, 1978
that the then Indian President Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy had inaugurated the
school here. It is one of the 18 such schools functioning in India under
the direct supervision of the Union Defence Ministry.

The school has the credit of sending 221 of its students to the Indian Army
as officers in various disciplines during past 25 years. This is the reason
that the school is celebrating its silver jubilee function on November 2,
where the HP Chief Minister, Mr Virbhadra Singh, will be the chief guest.

A record number of 786 students have passed out from here with flying
colours. It has sent 55 of its students to the medical stream, 137 to the
engineering stream and 103 to various other government services. The school
has also sent 43 students to the agriculture stream and 223 to other
national-level institutions of India where they are performing their duties
in various capacities.

The school has received the Defence Minister's trophy thrice for its
outstanding contribution in the field of sending its students to the
National Defence Academy. The school had created a national record of
sending 15 students of a last year's batch to the NDA.

Old boys of the school are busy these days to make the silver jubilee
function a memorable one. It will organise a function on this occasion.

The highlights of the function will be skydiving, paragliding and cultural
programmes. Three M.I-17 helicopters would also present a flypast on this
occasion, according to Col R.C. Laddha, Principal of the school.
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This article is authored by Chander Shekhar Sharma and come to this website courtesy Ajay Vidyarthi.