Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

SINGTAM , DECEMBER 21: Riverine Elementary School , Rongli ,  celebrated its annual function on December 18  at Community Hall , Melatar , Rongli with grand style. Shri Kunzang Gyatso Bhutia , Everester - 2008 , State awardee and Sikkim Khel Samman awardee was the chief guest on the occasion. The Principal, Shri Bikki Rai presented the Annual Day Report which highlighted the activities of the various departments and societies in the school as well as the individual achievements of faculty members.  Students who had achieved laurels in several areas of academics and extracurricular activities were presented awards. Members of the administrative, school management committee and non-teaching staff were also felicitated for their contribution to the school. Students and teachers performed various cultural programmes and it was appreciated by all the audiences present on the occasion.   The most memorable moments of the function were marked by the prec...

PRESS RELEASE Sikkim Women ’s team is currently playing Senior Women’s One Day League 2018-19 in the Plate Division, where they will be competing with Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, and Uttarakhand. After 6 years Sikkim Senior Women ’s Cricket team is participating in the Indian Domestic League. They will be playing the 8 league matches in Bhubaneshwar and Cuttack. The team is accompanied by 12 local players of Sikkim and 3 guest players, who have been playing professional cricket from their respective States and also have represented the Indian team in past. The recruitment is done as per the norms of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), in which 3 guest players are allowed. Purnima Rau, former India Women’s Cricket team captain and also the coach of the Indian Women’s team, has been appointed as the coach of team Sikkim by the BCCI. So far Sikkim has played 2 matches, against Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh and gave ...

Rangpo is the border town between Sikkim and West Bengal on the Siliguri Gangtok Highway. It is the Gateway to Sikkim. At the border check post, foreign tourists are required to verify their documents on their stay at Sikkim. The town is a meeting place for two rivers - River Teesta and River Rongli chu

Temple of Sikkim : Seti Singha Devi Mandir, Bardang Seti Singha Devi Mandir, Bardang ,  is a roadside Hindu temple near  Singtam . It is 3 km from  Singtam  on the Rangpo-Singtam Highway, adjacent to the  Bardang  motorable tunnel. The temple was established in 1996. The mandir committee regularly holds religious programs  at this temple.

Meet Smt. Puspa Chettri (Gurung) was Sikkim's first women's international player. She had represented Sikkim and the country in many International football tournaments.  She was felicitated by the Sikkim Football Association (SFA) along with many other prominent football players by His Excellency the Governor of Sikkim on the occasion of the 38th All India Governor's Gold Cup International Tournament. She is a legend of Sikkim football .  (Source: Barap Namgyal Bhutia)

3 October 3018, Gangtok : Bansi Das Limboo, Aitey Raj Subba, Chandan Chettri, Yam Parsad Subba, Pravin Chettri and Amrit Sharma, representatives of Chalamthang Eco-village Tourism Development Society, call on Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), Shri P.D. Rai after completion of the training course on Primary Bamboo Processing Machine Operation & Maintenance at the Cane and Bamboo Technology Park, Burnihat, Assam. They thanked the MP for urging the Union Agriculture Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh, to expand the National Bamboo Mission (NBM) under National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) to Sikkim, following which the programme was extended to the state. Prior to the launch of this Mission, Shri P.D. Rai was the first parliamentarian to bring a Private Member’s Bill to amend the Indian Forest Act 1927, wherein Bamboo is redefined as a ‘grass’ from a ‘tree’ which would open a lot of possibilities for business and processing. Under the NBM, the first instalment ...

PRESS RELEASE Sikkim wins their first ever Ranji Trophy Match against Manipur in Kolkata today by an innings and 27 runs. The match was played in JU Second Campus, Salt Lake, Kolkata. Sikkim with 8 other teams is playing their first Ranji Trophy in a Plate Division. It was Milind Kumar’s 261 runs that helped Sikkim reach 372 in the first innings and brilliant bowling by Sikkim bowlers restricted the opponent on 79 runs, in which Ishwar Chaudhary took 4 wickets, Bipul Sharma 3 wickets, Lee Yong Lepcha 2 wickets and Palzor Tamang 1 wicket. Sikkim decided on a follow-on to Manipur and in the second innings they scored 266 runs, Yashpal Singh’s 132 and Lakhan Arjun Rawant’s 70 runs helped them reach this score. In the second innings too Sikkim showed a magnificent game temperament and sweep-out Manipur with a shortfall of 27 runs on the board. Bipul took 4 wickets, Ishwar 3 wickets, Palzor, Milind and Padam 1 wickets each and helped Sikkim to this win. It is a historic win by S...