The national-level competitions of three-day long children’s grand cultural festival ‘National Baalrang 2015’ began here on Saturday with great fervor and enthusiasm at the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya. The programme has been jointly organized by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya and the Directorate of Public Instructions, MP Govt.
The chief guest of the inaugural ceremony was Deepka Josh, State Minister, School Education and Higher Education. In his address the State minister welcomed students present from all over the country and gave a detailed information about Madhya Pradesh like monuments, Sihasth-2016 and ladli lakshmi Yojana etc. He congratulated the organizers Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya and Directorate of Public Instructions, Madhya Pradesh government for the grand festival of and for children. The programme was chaired by DD Agarwal (Commissioner, Directorate of Public Instructions).
Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri Director of IGRMS in his welcome address highlighted the features of the programme where the children from various States through various performances and making the programme at the International level.
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.
After formal inauguration, folk dance competition begins with Santhali dance presented by students from BIhar. The participating states performed traditional dance of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh folk dance, Chhattisgarh - tribal dance, Meghalaya - Nongkrem, Jammu and Kashmir - mountain dance, Gujarat - Kutch folk dance, Bihu Assam, Nagaland-come Naga traditional dance, Dadar and Nagar Haveli - folk dance, Karnataka - traditional folk dance, Gantu Sikkim, Mizoram - Bamboo Dance, Tripura - Hojagiri, Maharashtra saline dance, Chandigarh - Bhangda, Madhya Pradesh - Bundelkhandi, Manipur - Maibi dance, Uttarakhand - Baromasi dance, Haryana – Ghumaar, Arunachal Pradesh ‘Aadi’ traditional dance and Madhya Pradesh performed folk dances.