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 100th 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.
.
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
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