Dimapur, Dec. 30 (EMN): The 61st annual session of the Pongidong Village Students’ Union (PVSU) was held during Dec. 28-29 in the community hall of Pongidong village, in Wokha district. Updates on Sunday stated that the programme was conducted with the theme “live and let live.” M Athungo Lotha, subdivision education officer of Atoizu, was the special guest; and Rev. Dr. L Tsanso, pastor of Pongidong Baptist Church was the speaker who spoke on the event’s theme, the updates stated.
“Tomorrow’s world belongs to the students,” M Athungo Lotha was said to have told the gathering during his address at the programme. He encouraged the students to put more effort into their studies, which he said was indispensable in this competitive world. “To be a good competitor in this competitive world one needs to invest ones best,” he said and urged the gathering to stay away from what the updates described as “famine of truth,” which had ‘engulfed today’s world.’ He briefly highlighted the economy, polity and religion of Pongidong village too, the updates stated.
Rev. Dr. L Tsanso, the speaker of the event’s theme, talked to the gathering about truths viewed from five different perspectives viz. Faith - the first essence as it determine a person’s destination; direction, which guides a person’s journey in the world; relationships - man cannot live in isolation, because it is by nature that man is a social being; love - without which survival is unimaginable; connection with God, which is the key to “live and let live,” the updates stated.
The session also raised the tenure of the PVSU’s office bearers to three years from the existing two years’ tenure, the updates added. Senchanthung Humtsoe is president and Santsuthung Humtsoe, the general secretary of the new team, the updates stated.
The 61st annual session concluded with a thanksgiving service and prayers for the newly selected office bearers, at the Christian Revival Church in Pongidong, it was informed.
