Young filmmaker Mahesh Majhi on Saturday said that the Government, bank and other private associations must come forward with funds and other facilities for the budding filmmakers aspiring to make a film on the State culture.
“The State Art, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs department is working for namesake. We get no support from them,” informed Majhi. Similar to Mahesh, Folk Music composer Tej Mundu expressed the Government‘s inefficiency in establishing an accomplished training centre where folk music of this region can be taught.
He said, “Most of the people of Jharkhand are unaware about the folk music culture. There is a need to explore and present it then only we can imagine of developing our culture world wide.” These Vocational achievers along with Sociologist Sharique Mashhadi and St Xavier’s College lecturer Sumana Ghosh were felicitated for marking a unique identity in their own field by Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) Vice Chancellor (VC) DT Khating on Saturday.
The awards were basically given to promote the Jharkhand State youth. Students from St Xavier’s College, Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi and CUJ were briefed about the leadership skills molding today’s youth as a successful person by Khating, XISS Deputy Director Father Ranjit P Toppo, Eminent Journalist Balbir Dutt and Ranchi Rhinos team Co-Owner Pradip Chopra.
Chopra explained on the presentations wherein one can be a student for life and continue to upgrade knowledge and skills through free online courses like Coursera provided by top ten universities of the world. “Coursera is just 14 to 15 months old with around three million users enrolled as students from 200 countries. Infact, India ranks the second largest country to include students in this category.”
Khating appreciated Pradip’s presentation and said that internet has become mandatory for the teachers so as to gain analytical approach in their teaching method.
Balbir Dutt shared information on how new media is transforming the traditional media. He also highlighted on the budding career opportunities in both print and electronic media in parallel to the management stream. “Telegram had a vital use in print media once upon a time. Due to its rare usage now, it is being winded up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on July 15,” said Dutt.