To commemorate the platinum jubilee Year of South Point School and High School, India Post (Govt. of India), Philatelic Department, Kolkata has designed a special postal stamp under their “My Stamp” programme and the same was unveiled in the school premises on Tuesday.
India Post (Govt. of India), Philatelic Department, Kolkata has designed a special postal stamp under their “My Stamp” programme
South Point was founded in 1954 and shall complete seven decades on April 1, 2024.
Sudarshana Sen, deputy director PO, business development & marketing, Kolkata GPO and Dulal Das, asst. Dy director PO, Philatelic Bureau, Kolkata were present on the occasion along with SK Daga, trustee & vice-president and Krishna Damani, trustee & secretary of South Point Education Society and other senior teachers of the School and students.
On this occasion, the School has also undertaken a unique educational exercise, whereby all its nearly 12,000 pupils will use the newly unveiled stamp of their school and special stationery and envelopes being supplied by the school, to write and post letters to their parents and guardians at home. For this, India Post has set up a temporary post office in the school.
India Post has set up a temporary post office in the schoo
Madhu Kohli, director of South Point School, while welcoming the gathering, thanked India Post for giving the children an opportunity to experience first-hand the process of penning a letter and posting it themselves as well as to see them get delivered back at home. This will also allow them to preserve the commemorative stamp. The letters will draw smiles and invoke memories of the school, even decades into the future.