To mark the World Environment Day, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya organised several programmes and activities at its premises on Thursday. The day began with a bicycle rally organised in collaboration with Green Planet Bicycle Riders Association.
The rally was attended by Arun Kiro, Assistant Curator, along with other senior officials of IGRMS and Chairman of Green Planet Bicycle Riders Association, Satya Prakash. The bicycle rally started from Shyama Prasad Mukerji Park and reached Veethi Sankul of Manav Sangrahalaya, where participants presented bike stunt show.
The rally was followed by a painting competition on “Our Environment-Our Heritage” for school students. More than 250 students from various schools participated in the painting competition. The winners of the competition were awarded with cash prizes of Rs3000, Rs2500 and Rs1500 respectively.
In category ‘A’ (Standard 9th to 12th), winners were- Prasoon Jain of Anand Vihar School (First), Arusi Kothari of Carmel Convent (Second) and Mitali Mirud of St Xavier’s School (Third). In category- ‘B’ (Standard 6th to 8th)- Vidhushi Bar of Carmel Convent (First), Arthat Bhavalkar of St Paul’s School (Second) and Arusi Saxena of KV No; 2 (Third).
In category C (Standard 3rd to 5th)- Priynjan Gotiwale of KV No; 2 (First), Arnav Gupta of Anand Vihar (Second) and Vedic Jain of St Joseph School (Third).
later, at Avritti Bhawan of IGRMS, a 10 days long workshop of ‘Traditional doll making art of Manipur’ was inaugurated. Shyam Yumnam and Oiram Nilkamal from Manipur are training students traditional doll making. On the first day 30 participants registered, the registrations will continue on Friday too.
The local people from Tamil community performed rituals of sacred groves. In the sacred groves they worship lord Ayynar, who is the deity of the rural and forest areas. Arun Kiro, Assistant Curator and SK Pandey and other senior officials participated along with 50 local people of Tamil community. After the rituals prasad was distributed.
A puppet show ‘Taming of the Wild’ was presented by Kolkata’s renowned Dolls theatre at indoor auditorium, Veethi Sankul. The play consisting in four episodes- The World Withen, Floral Tribute, Movement In Wilderness and Call Of The Wild. The script, design and direction were carried out by Sudip Gupta.