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 हिंदी भाषा का यह अक्षर नेतरहाट के सन्दर्भ में एक विशेष अर्थ ग्रहण कर लेता है और एक क्रिया की तरह उपयोग किया जाता है.  आखिर कर घ है क्या? सीधें शब्दों में घ का अर्थ खाना - छात्रों को मिलने वाला खाना खाना - घट जाना होता है. किन्तु यह घ होता नहीं, किया जाता है.
इसके मूल में कारण कुछ भी हो सकता है. मसलन श्रीमान जी से किसी बात पे डांट पड़ जाना, कक्षा डक करने और पकड़े जाने पर भड़ास निकलने के लिए घ करवाना. लेकिन यह काम कोई वरीय छात्र ही करवा सकता है.
परन्तु सबसे ज्यादा घ के होने के पीछे कारण खाना का स्तर घटना होता है और घ होना एक संकेत होता है की खाने का स्तर में सुधार की आवश्यकता है.
अपनी आवाज़ उठाने के और भी तरीके होते हैं नेतरहाट में. उदहारण के तौर पे बगान उजाड़ना जिसके बारे में फिर कभी बताया जाएगा.

Netarhat - Names of Ashrams

Just a quick post to remember my alma mater. I am going to list all ashrams in Netarhat School.  They were grouped in sets.

Shanti
Gautam
Arun

Anand
Prem
Arjun

Kishore
Ashok
Saket

Vikram
Takshila
Nalanda

Raman
Bose
Bhabha

Arvind
Pradeep
Ramkrishna

Kanva
Kanad
Kapil

चहबच्चा

नेतरहाट के किसी भी छात्र से अगर आप "चहबच्चा" शब्द की चर्चा करें तो सम्भावना है की आप उस छात्र के चेहरे पे मुस्कान पायें। तो आयें हम यह जानने की कोशिश करें की ऐसा क्या है इस शब्द में जिसे सुन कर एक व्यक्ति बेसाख्ता ही मुस्कुरा पड़े।
चहबच्चा एक आयताकार गढ्ढा होता है जो चापानल के पास में हुआ करता है। यहाँ पे चापाकल के निकला हुआ इस्तेमाल के बाद का गन्दा पानी जमा होता है। एक साधारण सा गढ्ढा , जो गन्दा पानी जमा करने के काम आता है , में ऐसा क्या है जो एक पोस्ट का शीर्षक है ? धीरज रखें महानुभाव।

यह साधारण सा चहबच्चा होली के आस पास बहुत महत्त्वपूर्ण स्थल बन जाता है। होली के पहले विशेष ध्यान देकर इसकी सफाई की जाती है और खासकर ध्यान दिया जाता है की शीशा और धातु इत्यादि की वस्तुएं इसमें न रहे। इस सफाई के बाद इस चहबच्चे में छात्र एक दूसरे को डुबोते हैं। उस बालक को ज्यादा डुबाया जाता है जो ज्यादा मना करता है। और इस डुबाने की क्रिया एक विशेष अंदाज़ में की जाती है।

चार छात्र उस छात्र को जिसे डूबाना है, उसे पकड़ लेते हैं, दो हाथ और दो पैर, फिर एक झूले की तरह उसे तीन बार दायें से बाएँ और बाएँ से दायें ले जाकर छोड़ा जाता है और बेचारा बालक पानी में सरोबार हो जाता है। फिर अगले बालक को चहबच्चे में डालने के लिए एक और स्वयंसेवक मिल जाता है।

हाँ, डूबाना शब्द का उपयोग करने से एक बात याद आई। नेतरहाट के सन्दर्भ में डूबाना एक विशेष क्रिया है, जो आपको फिर कभी बताई जायेगी।

Athletics competition at Netarhat

The athletics competition, held every year during the month of march, is one of the main events held at Netarhat school. This was held for three days and school remains closed during this period. During the build up of the competition, extensive preparations take place.

Lots of track and field events were held at winner of an event also contributed points to his team(set). This competition was a dual competition whereby first six positions obtained in an event also contributed to their set's cause.

Pic. - Main playground (The Oval). School's main building is in the background.

Teachers don the role of referees and students, who were not participating (after all, every one cannot be an athlete and competition was tough to represent a set) served as volunteers in organising the events. The main playground (The Oval) has also got tents available where supporters and athletes used to stay during the competition.

The best day is the last day of the competition, where events like 100m, 200m, relays are held. This is the day when overall winner, best athlete are announced. Though it has been close to two decades, but memories of this event still brings smiles.

See you until next time. I am encouraged to write these posts on my school as my schoolmates are reading my posts. Hope they will enjoy this.

Netarhat - Antyakshari Pratiyogita

Every year, in Netarhat school, hindi Antyakshari competition is organized and this competition show cases the best literary works of renowned hindi poets. All kind of poems of Shringar ras, Bhakti ras, Veer ras, etc. are recited during these competitions creating a lively atmosphere. This event becomes very enjoyable and we students, always looked up and eagerly waited for these events.

Some of the famous songs which I can remember are:

1. Madhushala - Shri Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

2. Rashmirathi - Dinkar.

3. Urvashi - Nirala.

4. Kabir ke dohe.

and many more. The list is long and I will be adding to the list slowly and surely. One thing I would like to say that the overall presentation has always been of top quality. Perhaps this event is one of the reason why a Hatian is well informed about Hindi Sahitya.

Vande he sundar mam sakha

This is the school song or Vidyalaya Gaan of my school, Netarhat. This has been written by our shriman jee, Mr. Saxena. This surely will evoke nostalgic moments to any NOBA who stops by this blog.

वन्दे! वन्दे हे सुन्दर मम सखा नेतरहाट सदा,
वन्दे हे सुन्दर मम सखा नेतरहाट।

धन्य महाप्रांगण यह विंध्य प्रकृति क्रीड़ा का;
वन मे वनपशुओं का विचरण स्वच्छन्द यहाँ;
विहगों से कंठ मिला गाते नवगान सदा,
वन्दे! वन्दे हे सुन्दर मम सखा नेतरहाट सदा।

उषा के साथ जगें,प्रतिदिन मंगलमय हो;
कार्य पूर्ण प्रतिपल हो,ज्ञान वृद्धि जनहित हो;
अंतरतर का मधुमय गाये संगीत सदा,
वन्दे! वन्दे हे सुन्दर मम सखा नेतरहाट सदा।

तन मन जन प्राण मिला,नवयुग से नवगति ले,
संग पवन मेघ गगन,संग सूर्य चाँद संग;
तारे ग्रह चरण मिला,चलते नवचाल सदा,
वन्दे! वन्दे हे सुन्दर मम सखा नेतरहाट सदा।

साधक हैं समता के,सत्य न्याय करुणा के,
हिन्द प्रेम सम्बल है,विश्व प्रेम साध्य बना;
जन-जन मे ज्योति जगे,सत चित् आनन्द सदा,
वन्दे! वन्दे हे सुन्दर मम सखा नेतरहाट सदा।

पायें वरदान कि हों अंकुर तरु मे परिणत,
रस ले फल-फूलों से,स्वस्थ बने मानवता;
'शिव'हो कल्याण सखा,गूँजे जयकार सदा,
वन्दे! वन्दे हे सुन्दर मम सखा नेतरहाट सदा।
वन्दे हे सुन्दर मम सखा नेतरहाट।

Netarhat - सर्वांगीण विकास

Netarhat School promoted every aspect of personality and equal importance was given to all aspects of a student's life, be it sports, be it fine arts, music, drama or athletics. We were not only taught the prescribed syllabus, but much more. Every festival was celebrated in grand style and school curriculum was full of different activities over a year. Students eagerly awaited for these such as

1. Antyakshari

2. Natak

3. Athletics

4. School day or Vidyalaya Diwas (15 Nov.)

5. Mid Term Break

A detailed description will be given on these events later.

Netarhat - Ashram Vyavastha

in Netarhat School, pupil's residence are called Ashrams. There are twenty one ashrams in total and they are grouped in sets, every set containing three ashrams. Each ashram has a capactiy of around 20 - 30 students and students are responsible for upkeep of the ashrams. all activities, cleaning, serving, etc were performed by students only. Each day starts when a bell is rung in the morning, 4.40 in summer and a bit late in winters. Students get up and assemble on main playground for doing physical training.

More to come...

नेतरहाट

This will be a huge disapointment if do not mention about my school in my blog. Netarhat School, but we students know our school more as नेतरहाट विद्यालय or simply "hat". And the students, us can be referred as "hatians".

Netarhat is a place, about 3671 ft. above sea level, 153 Kms from capital of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. Here started a school in 1954, which later became a household name in the state of Bihar. The school's admission process was a rigourous procedure of three tests, which lasts about eight months and every year 100 students were selected from all over bihar (now jharkhand).

Once selected, students join the school and were not allowed to leave the premises save for rainy season vacation and winter vacation. First lasted for 69 days and second for 34 days. Students reside in the school premises which were called ashrams.

To be continued......

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