SIKKIMPEX 2019, Sikkim Philatelic Exhibition, Gangtok

Two day Philatelic Exhibition  SIKKIMPEX 2019 (Feb 21-22) was held at Modern Senior Secondary School, Gangtok. Two Special Covers were released on the occasion. The event was organised by Sikkim Postal Department.

Special Cover on Pakyong Airport that was the 100^th Operational Airport of India was released on the inaugural day by Ramtanu Shah, Airport Director, Pakyong. Royal Coronation throne of Norbugang, Yuksom was featured on a special cover was released on the next day by Dr. Anira Phipon Lepcha, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Sikkim University. Both the covers were designed by Singtam based philatelist Roshan Prasad.

Philatelic exhibition was held at Sikkim after ten years. Twenty one philatelists from different parts of Sikkim, Darjeeling and Siliguri had participated at the exhibition. Those philatelists were members of Sikkim Philatelic and Numismatic Society.  Souvik Roy and Eeshita Basu Roy from Kolkata were among the invited philatelist.

Eighty Six frames of philatelic materials were displayed that included rare postage stamps and other postal stationeries. Also displayed on the philatelic frames was International award winning exhibits on Cricket, National award winning exhibits on Music, a rare 14 frame exhibits on Buddhism of Souvik Roy and other popular exhibits.

List of participants included Ganesh Pradhan, CP Raya, Shital Pradhan, Deepen Pradhan, Vivek Yonzone, Padam Parajuli, Sushil Karthak, Sunita Gurung, Sishir Pradhan, Sheila Rai, Sanskriti Sharma, Tejeswani Neopane and others.

The other major highlight of the two day event was a book released on dictionary of stamps. ‘The Stamp Collectors' Dictionary’ written by Roshan Prasad and published by Sikkim Postal Department was released on the first day. Vivek Yonzone from Darjeeling conducted philatelic workshop that was appreciated by students and crowds present. There were Quiz competition, Letter writing competitions and drawing competitions was organised for the school students.

The list of participating schools included Holy Cross School, St. Xavier’s School, Deorali Girls Senior Secondary School, Tashi Namgyal Senior Secondary School, West Point Sr. Secondary School, Tathangchen School, Modern Senior Secondary School, Rongneyk Jr. High School, Enchey Senior Secondary School and Manjushree School.

- Shital Pradhan

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News from Jaipur Philatelic Society

Jaipur Philatelic Society, Jaipur

Registered office:”Saket”HouseNo.1282, Sector 1 Malviya Nagar, Jaipur 302017.

Meeting of the Jaipur Philatelic Society, Jaipur was held on 17th February 2019 at the residence of Mr. Arun Mehta and chaired by President Shri Jatan Mal Dhor.

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Patrons

1. Mr.  Jatan mal Dhor.

2 Mr. Shanti Prashad Jain.

President : Mr. Kailash Narain Mathur.

Vice Presidents

1.       Mr. A.K. Gupta.

2.       Mr.Arun Mehta

3.       Dr. Rakesh Thapar.

General Secretary :  Mr. K.K. Bhatia.

Secretary  Mr. Ajay Mathur.

Treasurer Mr. Brij Behari Sharma

Executive Members

Mr Kedar Nath Soni.

Mr. Madhav Ramchandani

Mr. Narendra Bairathi.

Mr. Nawal Kishore Tatiwala.

Mr. R.K. Agarwal.

Mr. S.R. Bafna

Mr. Vikas Sharma

Regional Co-coordinators

Ajmer

Mr. Vikas Jain

Bhilwara

Mr. Arvind Jain

Fatehpur Shekhwati

Mr. Pramod Kumar Jain.

Udaipur

Mr. M.R. Bhandari

After this charge was handed over to new Executive team.

Out Going President Mr. J.M. Dhor thanked all the members for their cooperation extended in his 10 years tenure. He also wished new executive team every success and assured his full support.

Newly elected President Mr. K.N.Mathur gave vote of thanks to all the members for their support. He assured new team will take Philately to new heights and add some new members and to promote philately in other parts of Rajasthan.

To promote Philately new student members will be added and Rs.100 /- per annum will be charged.

For new members Rs. 300/- per Anum will be charged. And it will be made available for only one year.

 Life Membership will be Rs.1500/- It will be one time charge.

Society will be issuing Life Members card on Payment and it will be processed in coming months.

- Ajay Mathur

Secretary

Jaipur Philatelic Society , Jaipur