Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya under the celebrations of World Environment Day organised various programmes and activities at its premises on Friday. The day began with a bicycle rally organised in collaboration with Green Planet Bicycle Riders Association. The rally was attended by Prof Sarit Kumar Choudhuri, Director, along with other senior officials of IGRMS and Chairman, Green Planet Bicycle Riders Association, Satya Prakash. The bicycle rally commenced from Shyama Prasad Mukerji Park and reached Veethi Sankul of Manav Sangrahalaya, where participants presented bike stunt show. The participants of bicycle rally were awarded T-shirts and caps.
After the rally, a special plantation drive was carried out in collaboration with MP Bamboo Mission at museum’s Rock Art shelter area, where all present members planted Bamboo saplings. On the auspicious occasion of World Environment Day, IGRMS recommenced the bicycle riding facility in the museum campus. The facility was inaugurated by Prof Sarit Kumar Choudhuri and AK Bhattacharya (APCCF & Mission Director, MP State Bamboo Mission) by riding bicycle themselves.
A painting competition for students of third to fifth standard was organised on subject ‘Environment’, where more than 50 students from various schools participated in the painting competition. The winners of the competition were awarded with cash prizes of Rs 3000, Rs 2500 and Rs 2000 respectively. The results of the competition were- Shreshtha Singh of Kendriya Vidyalaya No; 2 (First), Arpit Singh of Nalanda High School (Second), Mehek Dubey of St Xavier's School (Third), Abeer Shukla of International Public School (Consolation prize).