Jammu, 03-03-2024 : Vivek Chauhan, Principal Oriental Academy Sr. Secondary School, Jammu and a veteran member of Tawi Trekkers J&K was nominated as Hon’ble Patron of District Mountaineering Association, Jammu, at Press Club of Jammu. The honour was conferred on Vivek Chauhan as a mark of gratitude, respect and recognition of his selfless service and the contribution made by him and his prestigious institution for the sustained promotion of adventure activities in Jammu.
The Chief Guest Ashwani Sharma, former MLA, greeted the Patron Vivek Chauhan by galanding him on the occasion. Prominent among others who garlanded the Patron included the Presiding Guest Rahul Sharma,Chairman, Sprawling Buds ICSE School, Jammu and Patron of Tawi Trekkers J&K; Rameshwar Mengi, Chairman, Shiksha Niketan Group of Schools; Sanjeev Gupta, Chairman, The Shri Ram Universal School, Jakh and Patron District Mountaineering Association, Samba; Gaurav Charak, Principal, Humanity Public School, Bari Brahmana; Rasheek Mengi, Director, Pushap Vatika, Kunwani; Valvinder Singh, Manager, DB N group of Schools and President District Mountaineering Association, Doda besides Ram Khajuria, Sumit Khajuria and Shawetica Khajuria, President, Vice President and General Secretary of Mountaineering Association of J&K.
Rakesh Goswami, President; Sonam Sidharth, General Secretary,Navneet Gupta, Vice President, Shilpa Charak, Joint Secretary and Shashi Kant Sharma, Treasurer of District Mountaineering Association, Jammu and Anu Sharma, an executive member also greeted Vivek Chauhan by presenting him flowers.
While reading the Citation of Vivek Chauhan, Shawetica Khajuria mentioned that Oriental Academy was the first institution which joined Tawi Trekkers J&K 40 years back in 1983 and participated in the first short trek from Mansar to Jammu in 1983. The prestigious institution also has the unique distiction of deputing its students for the first rock climbing camp conducted by the club at Circular road, Jammu in 1984. Since then the institution has not looked back and has been regularly contributing towards the progress of the club in one way or the other by participating and patronising innumerable activities of the club.
Sh Vivek Chauhan has personaly sponsored many coaching camps for budding as well as senior climbers at Jammu and at Indian Mountaineering Foundation, New Delhi with the sole vision to produce international sport climbers and medalists from Jammu, she added.
Shawetica further said that these contributions by Sh.Vivek Chauhan and his prestigious institution have paid rich dividends as Jammu has the proudict Associationrivilege of producing top ranked national climbers led by Shivani Charak who has the distinction of being the first ever female athlete of J&K to participate in the Asian Games.
Concluding the citation Shawetica expressed her deep appreciation of Vivek Chauhan’s passion, dedication and commitment to promotion of adventure activities and said that the district association is honoured to have him as Patron.
In the end Vivek Chauhan expressed his gratitude to the District Association for bestowing him with the honour and promised his continued support for the promotion of adventure activities.