Tribal Cultural Festival 2018 has been inaugurated in Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal on Friday. Prof Satya Narayan Munda, Vice Chancellor, Syama Prasad Mukherji University, Ranchi was chief guest in the inaugural session.
The programme was started with the introductory speech by coordinator Arun Kiro. Prof Sarit K Chaudhuri, Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal has briefed this programme and its relevance with IGRMS. Prof Chaudhuri said that the IGRMS officer has visited different parts of the country for collection of specimen and related information. They are also trying to preserve the identity of tribal literature. He added that the tribal literature festival is a best medium to express the view and ideas of the tribal communities.
While delivering the keynote address, noted author Laxman Gaikwad said that the tribals are facing many problems of social exploitation. They were deprived from the government facilities because they were treated as criminal mind people. The tribals were always trying to preserve the traditional art and culture of India. Their dance, songs, art material, literature may be called as special world of cultures. But their traditional things have been used by some persons and making a huge money of it. It’s a high time when we should try to collect this rare information and publicize for next generation.
The programme was also addressed by different resources persons from all over India such as. Tamsang (Chairman of Mayel Lyang Lepcha Development Board, West Bengal and a famous writer and philologer of Lepcha community). Chief Guest of the function Prof SN Munda, discussed the development and bad impact of competition and other related issues of tribals with special reference to Jharkhand. The Vote of thanks was presented by Dilip Singh, Joint Director, IGRMS.
This three days tribal festival has three major components ie Ethnic food festival, Books and Handicraft exhibition and special performing art presentations from Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland.