
Sikyong accorded a warm reception.
Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration attended and addressed the closing ceremony of the two-day annual meeting of Sambhota school heads yesterday at the Administrative Training and Welfare Society.
He had just arrived from Delhi, where he had addressed the 7th conference of the India-Tibet support groups to preside over the closing ceremony of the Sambhota annual meeting of heads.
In his address to the gathering, he highlighted Kashag’s endeavour to appoint as many women to leadership roles as possible noting the excellent strength of female participants at the meeting and recommended the organisers share it in the report to the donors.
Sikyong reiterated the 16th Kashag’s endeavour of consolidating small-strength schools to overcome the sustenance concerns of these schools because of the declining number of Tibetan children.
“We endeavour to merge small-strength schools and render quality assurance to school development,” Sikyong said. He further emphasised the maintenance of an updated database for the administration to smoothly facilitate the implementation of major initiatives.
He shared the example of Tenzingang school which has around 205 students, the majority of which are the children of the Monpa community and asserted that it is a matter of pride that the CTA is able to facilitate the education of the local Himalayan community.
While the CTA is pragmatic about merging small schools with larger schools, the administration believes that some support from the state government of the respective school would extensively help sustain the school.
Furthermore, Sikyong reminded the gathering about the profound gratitude of His Holiness the Dalai Lama without whom the exiled Tibetan community would not exist and similarly, the older generations for their hard work paving the way for future generations.

Sikyong greets the participants of the annual meeting of school heads.

With Sambhota Director and Deputy director.

Sikyong addresses the gathering.