College of Agriculture annual meet at Jorhat

GUWAHATI, Jan 2 – The four-day annual meet of the College of Agriculture organised by the AAU Students’ Society at the Assam Agricultural University’s Jorhat campus concluded recently, a press release said.

The vice chancellor of AAU, Dr BC Bhowmick, who attended the function as chief guest took the guard of honour at the march past. Dr LK Hazarika, dean, Faculty of Agriculture formally declared the meet open. A minute’s silence was observed during the inaugural ceremony in memory of the victims of terrorist violence at Mumbai and Assam.

NSS volunteers Arup Gohain and Neethi Baruah along with the college football team were felicitated on the occasion for bringing laurels to the AAU. During the four-day talent hunt, the students participated in various events starting from field and track, debating, study circle to indoor games.

Bokato Asami and Sofia Yanglem of second year were declared best athletes of the year, while Kumar Saurabh and Vijay Kumar own the best debating team award. The play titled, Unmador Deshot directed by Dinku Bora won the best play award and Bidyut Bikash Bora and Rinumoni Buragohain were adjudged best actor and best actress respectively. N Nonglen bagged the ‘Mr Agrian’ title, while Rajib Das clinched the ‘Strongman’ award.

On the final day of the college meet, the students took part in a cultural procession attired in their traditional best. Rangoli-making, tug-off-war, wall magazine and cooking drew maximum attention of the students, followed by modelling and body-building. An exhibition football match between the Students’ Society XI and Deans’ XI saw the latter win 2-1.

Director of research Dr NN Sharma lighted the ceremonial lamp during the cultural function, where prizes were presented to the winners of different events. Ankur Sharma of Jorhat attended the cultural night as guest artiste. At the end of a tough contest, Hostel No 12 wrested the title of ‘Best Hostel’ from Hostel No 8 after beating the latter by just one point.

The outgoing fourth year batch was adjudged ‘Best Year’ during the annual college meet, the release added.