A two-day ‘Kala Utsav’ aimed at promoting local, tribal and traditional arts and organised by the State Government started in the provisional State Capital on Thursday.
The programme started in the auditorium of Prantiya Rakshak Dal (PRD) located on Tapovan road which was virtually turned into a showcase of rich cultural heritage of Uttarakhand by enthusiastic government school students.
The festival was jointly inaugurated by the director of education, R K Kunwar and additional project director, integrated scheme of education, Mukul Kumar Sati.
The director R K Kunwar said that art and culture are integral part of our society and objective of the festival is to promote local art.
As per the guideline issues by the government of India, the ‘Kala Utsav’ would showcase the disciplines of Solo music instrumental, solo music vocal, solo dance and painting. In every discipline separate categories have been made for boys and girls.
On the first day contestants showed their skills in solo music instrumental and solo music vocal disciplines.
On second day, on November 16 events of solo dance and painting would be organised.
One of the highlight of the first day was electrifying dance performance of Akash Thapa, who was runners up of the Sony TVs ‘Super Dance’ programme.
The students of different schools of all the districts of the state are participating in the two day event.
The winners of each category would participate in the national level programme to be held in the month of December – 2018 at New Delhi.
The programme was coordinated by administrative officer integrated scheme of education Bhagwati Prasad Maindoli .