The national level competitions of three-day long children’s grand cultural festival ‘National Balrang 2016’ began on Tuesday with great fervor and enthusiasm at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya. The programme has been jointly organised by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya and Directorate of Public Instructions of Madhya Pradesh.
The Balrang-2016 was inaugurated by Kunwar Vijay Shah, Minister, School Education and Surjit Singh Cauhan (Chairman, BMC). In his address Shah compared child artisans with saplings who will make nation’s future great.
He said like the saplings on growing up as trees provide shelter to birds, fruits and shed similarly these young students will provide for society and country like trees. He congratulated the organisers Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya and Directorate of Public Instructions, Madhya Pradesh for the grand festival of and for children.
Director of IGRMS, Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri in his welcome address highlighted the way Manav Sangrahalaya is working towards conserving the Tribal and folk culture.
The Balrang festival is organised for the children of the country to see it in collective level. On this occasion, Deepti Gaud Mukharji (Principal Secretary, School Education, MP) said on seeing Balrang it reminds me of my school days. Balrang is presenting the culture of the whole nation.
After formal inauguration, folk dance competition begins with Hojagiri dance presented by students from Tripura. The participating states performed Kashmir team presented Gatka dance, Gujarat presented Garba dance, Madhya Pradesh presented Gangaur dance.
Maharashtra team presented Banjara dance, Bihar presented Jat Jartan dance, Drums dance by Dadra Nagar Haveli, Arunachal Pradesh by Singfo, Badhawa by Haryana, Janpda dance by Karnataka, Maruni dance by Sikkim, patriotic by Aandhr Pradesh, Bagarumba by Assam, Mao dance by Manipur, Himachal Pradesh presented Himanchali folk dance, Panthi dance by Chhattisgarh, Gusadhi by Telangana, Bhangra by Chandigarh, Kolmali by Kerala, and finally Mixedfolk dance by Tamil Nadu.
In this programme school students from about 50 districts from 25 different States and union territories of the country participating. In addition to this, various education institutions are displaying the celebrations, festivals and cultures of various States through the exhibition of ‘Mini India’ at the Sangrahalaya premises.