Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya in collaboration with the Directorate of Public Instructions, School Education Department, Madhya Pradesh, is organising a children’s grand cultural festival — Balarang 2014-15 - from January 9 to 11.
Prof Sarit Kumar Choudhuri, Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal inaugurated the State-level programme on Friday at Avritti Bhawan premises Manav Sangrahalaya. The programme was chaired by Commissioner, Directorate of Public Instructions DD Agrawal. The State level competitions held on Friday. The competitions were inaugurated by Arun Kumar Shrivastava (Joint Director, IGRMS), Prashant Dolas (Additional Director, DPI), Rakesh Bhatt (Assistant Keeper, IGRMS) and Ashok Sharma, PRO.
The State-level competitions were divided seven parts — Patriotic poetry, literary (Essays, self composed poetry, Gazal, 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 1000 students from 09 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 ‘BalPatra’ on Friday.