Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri, Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, and Neeraj Dubey, IAS (Commissioner, School Education Department of MP) inaugurated the State-level dance competitions on Monday at Avriti Bhawan premises of Manav Sangrahalaya.
On the occasion, Anju Bhadoriya (Director, DPI), DS Kushwaha (Additional Director, DPI), DS Rao (Head of Office, IGRMS), Rakesh Bhatt (Programme Coordinator, Balrang) and huge audience including students, teachers, guardians were present. The national dance competition will be inaugurated at 10 am on Tuesday.
Students from five North-Eastern States, who are participating in Balrang- 2016, brought plants of their regions and gifted it to Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri as a memento from their States.
later the students from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Manipur, and Tripura visited Himalayan Village, Rock Art Shelter, Mythological Trail, Vethi Sankul, Tribal Habitat, Traditional Technology Park, Avriti Bhawan, Coastal village Open air exhibition of Manav Sangrahalaya. Students were accompanied by Rakesh Bhatt (Assistant Keeper), Rajesh Gautam and others, they answered all the queries of the students. The Sangrahalaya is organising the next chapter of its popular series, Museum Popular lecture on Tuesday at Rock Art conference hall from 4pm. In this lecture Roma Chatterjee (Professor, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University) will speak on ‘Myths, Similes and Memory Traces: Imageries of Abduction in the Ramayana Universe’.