 Good morning everyone. Our Honorable Special Guests, Sri Dr. Tokchun Radisham, President of the Northeast Sports Association and MLA of Manipur, respected members from the Manipur team for the Northeast Olympics, Honorary Secretary of the Magland Freakings Association, our staff and the Ditto College Student Acute Community. Today is a beautiful day and we thank God for giving us this day to celebrate and commence with the Strife for Excellence Youth Festival 2024. And so I extend a very warm welcome to everyone who is here to witness the opening ceremony of the Strife for Excellence Youth Festival. It is a significant day for Ditto College and for Nagaland. As today marks the commencement of two events, not only the Strife for Excellence Ditto Youth Festival, but also the Northeast Olympics of which Nagaland is playing host to. So we are extremely honored and very privileged to have with us our special guests for this ceremony, the President of the Northeast Sports Association, Dr. Radisham and also MLA of Manipur, here to address the Ditto College Student Community as we commence with our youth fest. Thank you, sir, for taking your time out to be with us here this morning and to address the Ditto community. We look very forward to hearing from you. The Ditto Strife for Excellence Youth Festival is a festival of sports, rhetoric, that is the art of writing and public speaking, and an expression of creativity. The objective of this fest is three-fold. The first objective is to, number one, discover talent. The organizers of this fest today are sporting talent to help us decide and look out for students who can best represent Ditto College in external events and programs. This is a platform for all of you to showcase your talent and your skills. The second objective is to provide a platform for everyone to be recognized. Students, please use this platform to make yourselves proud. When you're playing on the field or competing here on stage, give your best so that you can make yourself proud, because there is no better time than now to do this. Sports and competitions has no boundaries. It is not conscious of your background or your ethnicity, but it is a competition of character. It is a competition of stamina and it is a competition of skill. So use this platform to develop yourself and dream of yourself one day competing at the state level or at the national level and one day at the international level too. The third objective is to learn to live as a community. We need more cheerleaders here in our midst and in our society. As we compete, we should be there for one another, supporting one another and cheering each other on. Let us avoid making fun of one another. Let us avoid pointing fingers at one another or trying to find fault. Let us stop trolling each other even on social media. Let us stop trying to hurt or damage one's reputation, whether it is the departments or the institutions, because all of you students sitting here this morning are Tetsuo College students and Tetsuo College is your identity. What you speak of Tetsuo is what you are. It is who you are. Love your community. Embrace your community because inevitably you are all going to be an alumni of Tetsuo College one day after you graduate. You're all studying here for a reason, whether it was intentional or by chance. This is the place where your most memorable moments will be created, whether it was happy, sad or inspirational. In the same manner, this works for the larger society that we are all a part of. We all need to stick together. We all need to support one another. To progress, we need to be supportive of each other and stick together through thick and thin. Let us all remember this as educated individuals. Let's all broaden our mindset, broaden our perspectives and be more open-minded. So that we can all have a growth mindset. As we engage ourselves in this one week of festivities, I conclude wishing all of you, all the very best, may the spirit of goodwill, positive energy and the quality of sportsmanship prevail. And as our college model says, let's all continue to strive for excellence. Thank you.