Constitution Day was observed at the museum on Thursday. On the occasion, a colloquium was organised. On the same day in 1949, the Constitution of India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly.
The programme commenced with ‘Preamble’ reading by Administrative Officer, BK Chatterji and later he gave brief information about various article of constitution. Speaking on this occasion, Director, IGRMS, Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri said, “We all are skilled in our respective field of work along with that we should have ample information of Constitution to perform our duties towards nation.”
The in-charge of Security Unit of IGRMS, lt Col Nitinraj Deshpandey informed, “The Constitution of India originally contained eight schedules and 395 articles. Today, Constitution of India has 12 schedules and 448 articles. As many as 284 members of the Constituent Assembly (which included 15 women) signed the hand-written documents to pass the Constitution.
Besides, the Sangrahalaya started a new series entitled as ‘Anthropological Gaze’. In the inaugural chapter, a
colloquium on ‘Anthropology, Ethnographic Museums and Tribal representation’ was organised.
In the colloquium, the inclusion of exhibits of contemporary lifestyle should be included along with exhibits of tribal life. The suggestions by subject experts were accepted and solutions were discussed.
In an official statement, the museum informed that the IGRMS is organising the next chapter of its popular series, Curatorial Talk Show on Friday. In this Curatorial Talk, Museum Associate of Manav Sangrahalaya, Rashmi Shukla will speak on ‘Gonda: A Socio-cultural Analysis’ at Rock art Heritage conference Hall from 4 pm.