Get Set Go for BBVP Pilani Band Glorious March at India's Republic Day Parade for 52nd Year in a Row

Feb. 8, 2011 - PRLog -- Birla Balika Vidyapeeth - BBVP, Pilani Rajasthan established in July 1941 affiliated to CBSE working on modern progressive lines is an English medium Residential Public School for girls. Apart from providing the facilities of modern education, the school is well known for retaining the best traditions of India’s rich traditional heritage.

Besides the training of intellect, the school puts great emphasis on sound health of the students and imparts Physical Training, Yoga, Hockey, Horse-Riding, Lawn Tennis, Judo, Swimming etc to the enrolled students. The school children regularly participate in National Integration Camps as well as Trekking camps. The school maintains two troops of Junior N.C.C. - Army wing comprising of about 200 cadets.

The Pilani NCC Band the showpiece brand image of the BBVP School has achieved national fame by participating in the Republic Day Parade on January 26th at Raj Path, Delhi for the past 51 years. This year Jan 26th 2011 which is the 62nd Republic Day for India, also will be the 52nd  consecutive year for the Pilani Band and when they march playing Iqbal’s immortal Saare Jahan Se Achha, it will reiterate the Mahatma Gandhi quote “What really is needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts but right education” which indeed they were getting at Birla Balika Vidya Peeth.

On December 30, 2010 the BBVP Band girls had a grand sendoff by the School Principal Dr (Mrs) Kasturi and Director Birla Education Trust (BET) Col (Retd) V N Ratnakar. Sergeant Pooja Natarajan from BBVP who had participated in the Republic Day parade on 26 January 2008 playing the trumpet for the Pilani band said that she as band leader along with Akansha Rathi and Aditi Priya will bring glory to the alma mater by marching in Rajpath for the 52nd consecutive year.

For more details about BBVP Pilani visit http://www.bbvpilani.com/

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About BBVP Pilani: Birla Balika Vidyapeeth Pilani Rajasthan is a Premier English medium residential school for girls, which was established in 1941 and is affiliated to CBSE, provides a genial, tranquil, secure, natural learning environment - a comfort zone to interact, learn and bloom into sensitized, responsible, disciplined and balanced human being. For more details about BBVP Pilani visit http://www.bbvpilani.com/