One of the most senior officials of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Pratibha Som, (Assistant library and Information Officer and I/C Official language Officer) retired on Thursday.
Pratibha joined Manav Sangrahalaya in 1980 on the designation of Assistant librarian. Mrs Som is credited to be the pioneer leader in development of library of Manav Sangrahalaya with one of the largest collection of books, journals, periodicals on Anthropology in the country and for the better understanding of Anthropology she attained a master’s degree in Social Anthropology.
Beside library, she had worked in official language implementation and training and as an active member of ‘Nagar Rajbhasha Samiti’.
She is credited for giving excellent training to junior officials, which was mentioned by several officers in their speeches.
It is in her leadership that IGRMS was awarded prize for best implementation of official language Hindi in the year 2014-15 of Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar, which was received by Director from President of India.
Due to her constant efforts, Sangrahalaya had received ‘Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha’ Award in the same category for the year 2009-10 (first prize), 2011-12 & 2013-14 (second prize) as well.
On the occasion of her retirement ceremony, Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri (Director, IGRMS) honoured Pratibha Som by gifting her Shawl, Quince etc. On this occasion, Som said, “I am confident that the development work of this research library will be continued by my successors”.
All employees shared their experiences and various incidents happened while working with Pratibha Som. The programme was coordinated by Kiranbala Sharma, Office Superintendent.