Indira Gandhi Rahtriya Manav Sangrahalaya in collaboration with Directorate of Public Instructions, School Education Department, Madhya Pradesh is organising children’s grand cultural festival Balarang 2013-14 from January 15 to January 17, 2014.
Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav will inaugurate the programme on Thursday at 10.30 am at the Manav Sangrahalaya. The programme will be chaired by School Education Minister, Madhya Pradesh Government Paras Jain. The special guests of inaugural function will be Tribal Welfare Minister, Madhya Pradesh Government Gyan Singh and State minister, School and Higher Education, State Government Depak Joshi.
The participating children will present the glimpse of their respective States by presenting folk songs, group songs dance, debate competitions etc. in the programme.
The State-level competitions had been held on Wednesday, January 15, 2014. The competitions were inaugurated by Prashant Dolas (Joint Director, DPI), Rakesh Bhatt (Assistant Keeper, IGRMS), HBS Parihar (section officer-in-charge, Cine-video) and Ashok Sharma, PRO.
The State-level competitions were divided seven parts - Patriotic poetry, literary (Essays, self composed poetry, Ghazal, poetry, folklore), Cultural (Soft music, classical dance, folk dance), Sanskrit (Dance theater, stage questions, scripture readings, speeches, essays), Madrasa (Self composed Ghazal, Qawwali, essay and debate), Special competitions for disabled children (music, playing instruments, skit and extempore), Yoga (asana, Pranayama and surya namaskara).
More than 1,000 students from 10 divisions of 50 districts participated State-level competitions. All seven competitions were held at various stages and open air auditoriums of Manav Sangrahalaya. Along with that school students also presented three pillars of democracy in form of defense (school students portrayed a police station and sending the cases to court), Judiciary (moot court presented by schools children and law students) and Journalism-where young reporters and photojournalist published a newspaper Bal Patra on Wednesday January 15.