Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Educare, Nemilicherry, Chromepet is a CBSE School, offering free education in the pattern of Sri Sathya Sai system of integral value based education. The school adopts digital teaching methods from L.K.G to Tenth standard. It is having hostel facilities for boys from VI to X standard. This school is accredited by SSSNAC for schools at A+ Level.

Inagural function Chief Guest, Smt. Anuradha Suresh Krishna Murthy,
a renowned carnatic singer.

Every year the school has been organizing a seminar on human values, for the schools in and around Chennai. The main objective of the seminar is to provide an occasion for the teachers and the students to contemplate on the importance of values in human life. The Seminar also ventures to encourage team work by the teachers and the students of classes VIII to X and to prescribe new solutions for the modern ills in the light of values of Sanadhana Dharma.

The participating schools form a team of five students from classes VIII, IX and X. The team will work together under the guidance of a teacher and prepare a paper on the prescribed topic and forward it to the school. A maximum of ten papers will be selected for the presentation. Each school will be allotted 30 min out of which 20 min will be for paper presentation using power point, followed by 10 min of question answer session.

So far since 2002, nine seminars have been organized. This is the tenth seminar. The topic for the seminar was “LOVE SEEKS NO REWARD, LOVE IS ITS OWN REWARD – Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba”. The seminar was held on 30th July 2011, Saturday.

An exhibition was also organized to highlight the Human Value “LOVE OR PREMA”.

Exhibition on love by participating students.

The following 8 schools participated in the seminar and gave power point presentations on the above mentioned topic.

1. N.S.N Mat. Hr. Sec. School, Chromepet, Chennai – 44
2. S.C.S. Mat. Hr. Sec. School, Chromepet, Chennai - 44
3. Sri Ramkuwar Devi Fomra Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chromepet, Chennai - 44
4. N.S.N Mat. Hr. Sec. School, Chitlapakkam, Chennai – 64
5. G.K.ShettyVivekananda Vidhyalaya, Ambattur , Chennai – 53
6. Padma Seshadri Balabhavan Sr. Sec. School, Nungambakkam, Chennai -34
7. Sreevatsava Viswanathan Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chitlapakkam, Chennai – 64
8. Shri Natesan Vidyasala Mat. Hr. Sec. School, Mannivakkam, Chennai -48

The progarmme started with the Prashanti flag hoisting ceremony by Shri. Gopinath. Few bhajans were sung by the school students to invoke the presence of Mother Sai.

The seminar was inaugurated by Smt. Anuradha Suresh Krishna Murthy a renowned carnatic singer. In her inaugural address she expressed her views on the importance of Value Education in schools and requested all the institutions to introduce value based system of Education. It is the urgent requirement of the present day’s world. She mentioned that learning during preparation is a wonderful experience. She also shared her personal experiences over winning or losing in various competitions.

Sri P. Kumaraswamy, Correspondent of the school welcomed the gathering.

Smt. K.Saimeera, Principal, SSSIE, Chromepet congratulated the schools whose papers were selected for presentation, shared her overviews and gave a brief description of the methods of evaluation of the seminar.

A panel of eminent judges drawn from various fields evaluated the presentation of papers and exhibition by the different schools. The judges were

Shri. Rangarajan, MBA. Spark Capital
Shri. Sasikanth Gudla, M.Tech, CISCO. Easities D&B
Smt. Jayasri Narayanan M.Sc, M.Phil, B.ED
Shri. Vidhya sagar M.Tech, KLA – Tencor S/W Ind. Ltd.
Shri. Venkat Ramanan, Administrative Officer, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Educare

The review of the seminar was given by Shri. Ganapathy. He expressed his views on “Love” with examples. In his valuable speech he focused his views on the topic with varied illustrations from real life situations.

The valedictory function was presided over by Chief Guest, Honorable Justice Shri. D. Hari Paranthaman, Judge, High Court, Chennai, Government of Tamil Nadu. In his speech, he stressed on teaching Human values in schools and protecting them. He appreciated the institution for taking efforts in implementing Value Education in their system. He also explained the importance of role of youths in National development.

Shri. SaiRaju, the comparer, kept the programme lively by encouraging and giving valuable tips to the participants.

The prizes and certificates for participation were given to eight different schools by Honorable Chief Guest, Justice Shri. D. Hari Paranthaman, Judge and finally Padma Seshadri Balabhavan Sr. Sec. School, Nungambakkam, Chennai -34 was given the Award for Excellence by the Chief Guest.

Rolling shield awarded to Padma Seshadri Balabhavan Sr. Sec. School, Nungambakkam by Chief Guest,
Honorable Justice Shri. D. Hari Paranthaman, Judge High court Chennai.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Smt. Seetha Shanmugam. The function concluded with the Mangala Aarathi.