The three-day children’s grand cultural festival ‘National Balrang 2015’ concluded here on Sunday at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya. The chief guest of the concluding ceremony was Paras Chandra Jain, Minister, School Education.
The special guests at function were DD Agrawal, Commissioner, DPI and Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri, Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya.
While congratulating the winners, participants and organisers, Minister Jain expressed his happiness and delight over the varied performances in the programme and invited everyone to attend ‘Sihasth-2016’.
He asked the students to put education as the most important agenda of life along with that enjoy extra-curricular activities.
On this occasion, Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri in his speech lauded the efforts for making the programme a grand success and invited everyone present to 11th Balrang scheduled in 2016. After formal inauguration, of the concluding ceremony the top six teams from Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Dadra and Nagar Haveli gave their performances of folk dance.
The school students from 23States and two UTs participated in the national level folk dance competition. Out of which students from Sikkim, Assam and Haryana stood first, second and third respectively.
The winning team students from Sikkim performed Ghantu dance, they were awarded with Rs 51,000 and trophy, students from Assam performed Bihu folk dance, they have been awarded with Rs 31,000 and trophy and students from Haryana performed Ghumar folk dance and were awarded with Rs 21,000 cash and trophy. Students from the Madhya Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Andhra Pradesh were awarded with consolation prize.
During this occasion various officials and staff of IGRMS along with officials of Directorate of public instruction school children and other were also presented.