Stars of North East India celebrates 6th anniversary with virtual meeting

Significantly, SONEI was also registered as a public welfare trust last week which will enable it to undertake bigger projects for the welfare and empowerment of youth in the coming days. Members expressed their deep gratitude to A SaburTapader who worked relentlessly for the registration of SONEI Trust.

Earlier at the outset of the meeting, a minute's silence was observed to pray for departed souls and for the early recovery of patients in hospitals. Thereafter, SONEI member Aman Wadud was felicitated for bagging the Fulbright-Nehru Masters Fellowship (2021-2022) that will take him to the USA for a postgraduate study of law in an Ivy League Institution. Another member of SONEI, Syeda Farida, was also felicitated on being appointed State President & spokesperson for the International Human Rights Organization, Assam Chapter. One major project of SONEI during the last six years has been the Rural Inter School Debate Competition which has groomed and produced a number of proficient debaters and orators from rural areas of Assam. During the pandemic, the members of SONEI contributed over Rs 1 lakh to provide ration and other essential items to people who had lost their sources of income or had to return home from the cities because of the pandemic. This was stated by Nazia Laskar, in charge of "SONEI Cares Project."

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