Music festival for tribals at Tribal Museum
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum is organising activities centred on tribal music at its premises from October 24 to 31. The activities include dances, songs and recitals. It has also been noticed that the instruments and percussions been used by tribals are natural in their types. Tribal communities are basically attached to forest and sound of dhol, nagada, timki, maandal jointly give the feeling of forest or jungle. In the eight-day long programme, artistes from Gond, Baiga, Bhel tribes of Madhya Pradesh will give musical presentation of traditional musical instruments like ‘maandal’, ‘timki’, ‘duff’, ‘dhol’, ‘mori’, ‘nagada’ etc at the Museum from October 24- 31. Timings of the activities are between 12 noon to 8 pm and visitors will be given free entry.
Free eye care camp conducted
Bhopal: With the blessings of Paramhansa Sant Hirdaram Sahibji and inspiration and able guidance of Rev Siddh Bhau ji, Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital organised a free eye diagnostic and treatment camp in Itarsi District for the economically weaker sections of the society. Ophthalmologist Dr Archna Bansal and his team of paramedical staff diagnosed 395 eye patients in the camp. Of these 210 patients were admitted for Cataract operation. While rest of the 185 patients were treated and sent back to their homes. later106 patients who were fit for cataract operations brought to Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital, Sant Hirdaram Nagar. Where the operations of these patients will be performed by ophthalmologist Dr. Prerna Upadhyaya and team from October 22 to 26, 2013. Sewa Sadan Hospital is regularly organizing free eye camps for the poor persons. They are provided hospital, Food, Pathology, Medicines, treatment facilities for the entire procedure of surgery and to and fro transport facility free of cost.
Workshop on ‘Anthropology and Museums’
Bhopal: The national workshop on ‘Anthropology and Museums’ organised at the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya was concluded on Wednesday. During the workshop many students had visited Himalayan village, Rock Art Shelter, Mythological Trail, Vethi Sankul, Tribal Habitat, Avriti Bhawan, coastal village and learned about the details of anthropology. To give a better insight of the subject students were taken to Bheembetka for understanding anthropological aspects of the rock arts. Speaking on the concluding ceremony, SB Ota, Director, IGRMS said, “lots of the students requested us to increase the number of days. Rather we will dedicate a workshop to train students how to collect specimen and conserve. An ‘e-group’ will also be started where students from the workshops will post the queries and anthropologists from IGRMS will clear the doubts”. The young anthropologists were awarded certificates of national workshop and group photographs by renowned anthropologist, Prof Ajit K Danda, Secretary, INCAA.
UN Day to be celebrated today
Bhopal: United Nations Day will be observed in the State on Thursday. On this day the UN flag will also be hoisted along with national flag. It will be hoisted on all Government buildings at Bhopal where National Flag is hoisted regularly. If United Nations Flags are available in districts, they can be hoisted on important government buildings there also. The UN flag will not be hoisted on Raj Bhavan, Vidhan Sabha and building of High Court. General Administration department has intimated this to all government departments, heads of departments, divisional commissioners and district collectors.