Schoolkids perform to drumbeats

Adivasis students dancing to tunes of their traditional songs

Independence Day celebration was a riot of colour with the cultural performance of children and their participation in large numbers unlike Telangana Formation Day celebrations.

There were huge crowds in the police headquarters grounds to watch the celebrations.

Compared to the lesser participation of children in the Telangana Formation Day due to summer vacation, I-Day saw an active participation, the road leading to the police headquarters was jam packed with the school children and police head quarters ground where the main official function was organized was filled with the  hundreds of  students to watch the event.

Traditional drum beats of the Adivasis reverberated in the grounds while Adivasi girls danced to their traditional songs by the girl students of Tribal Ashram school of Umri in Talamadugu mandal.

Girl students of government schools and hostels and private schools of Adilabad town and surrounding mandals in large numbers performed cultural programmes on the occasion.

Private schools competed dancing to selected tunes. A dance troupe comprising 101 students performed a dance on Telangana culture. A teacher said any programme is incomplete without the participation of children who add colour and life.