Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghralaya is working for national integration, and promotes research and training for salvage and revitalization of vanishing but valuable cultural and scientific traditions.
In this pursuit, Kumar Sanjay Krishna, (Finance Advisor, Union Ministry of Culture) with SM Khened (Director, Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai) in presence of Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri (Director, IGRMS) inaugurated an exhibition ‘The Future of the Food: Pulses’ by lighting the lamp. After the inauguration, Krishna said “This is a very informative exhibition. The interactive nature of the exhibition made the very interesting. Pulses had been a dietary food source of many human civilisations for thousands of years. Pulses are not only the suitable crops for Indian climate that comparatively requires less water consumption but also constitute an important source of protein for the lower strata of the society.”
Explaining the exhibition, Khened said, “Pulses have been an immensely important cereal for the sect of vegetarians who constitute major population of the country.
In India these pulses mainly constitute chickpea(chana), pigeon pea (arhar/toor), lentil (masoor), Mungbeen (moong), urad bean and field pea , horse gram (kulathi).