Pankaj Rag, Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Culture inaugurated ‘Chitrabani,’ a workshop on tribal painting, from March 3 to 7, 2017 at Tribal Habitat Interpretation Centre of the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal.
After the inauguration Rag said, “Before and after arrival of digitalization culture, there is a radical change in the trend of accumulation of knowledge. Our society is gradually entering into the digital culture and civilization.
Hence tribal paintings should be digitalised immediately, hence these pictures can be easily preserved and will remain there for a long time, which these images provide clear information for to help future generations make more efficient.”
The Joint Secretary interacted with all the participating tribal artisans from various tribal communities and asked about the problems faced by them in continuing traditional art programme and congratulated them for keeping these traditional art forms alive.
Earlier, Rag was welcomed with a bouquet by Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri, Director, IGRMS. The Joint Secretary praised Manav Sangrahalaya for organising such workshops in the direction of preserving these rare tribal arts. On this occasion a Bheel painter, Geeta Bariya gifted a Bheeli painting to Rag. In this workshop, 35 traditional tribal artisans from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh they will give live demonstration cum sale of traditional tribal painting.