Students to interact with eminent personalities

The Children’s Academy, Dharwad, will be organising interaction programmes with eminent personalities in two schools of Dharwad city on August 1 and 4.The Children’s Academy president and paediatrician Rajan Deshpande told reporters that the children seldom got the opportunity to interact closely with inspiring role models and the academy was facilitating the same.Dr. Deshpande said that such interactions would help the young minds in understanding the values of hard work, discipline, perseverance, integrity and leadership.He said that in the first programme to be held at Shri Manjunateshwar CBSE School Dharwad on August 1 at 10 a.m., Director of IIT-Dharwad Venkappayya Desai would interact with the students.In the second programme to be held at Pavan English Medium School in Dhawad on August 4 at 10 a.m., Police Comissioner N. Shashi Kumar would interact with the students, Dr. Deshpande said. Published - July 30, 2026 07:26 pm IST