A three-day national workshop on ‘Anthropology and Museum’ started here on Thursday at the conference hall of Rock Art Exhibition of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya.
The workshop was inaugurated by Director, IGRMS, Prof Sarit Kumar Choudhuri along with Prof Ajit K Danda, former Director, Anthropological Survey of India & Member Secretary, (INCAA). In his inaugural speech Director, Manav Sanghralaya said, “As the faculty of anthropology you are dealing with theory in universities but here you can witness the practical implementation of anthropology.”
The chief guest of the inaugural function Prof Ajit K Danda shared his experience from field research work in Bilaspur region in Chhattisgarh he explained that tribal from these regions have their indigenous techniques of disaster management. Teachers of Anthropology from various universities of India are participating in this National Workshop. The coordinator of this workshop is Arun Kiro, Assistant Curator, IGRMS.
Meanwhile, the Sangrahalaya in collaboration with Directorate of Public Instructions, School Education Department, Madhya Pradesh is organising children’s grand cultural festival Balarang 2014-15 from January 9 to 11. In this programme number of school children from various states of the country is participating. 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 which includes patriotic poetry recitation (stage - Marugaon Chatri), literary (Essay, poetry, gazal, folk news) at lake side open air auditorium, cultural (classical dance, music and folk dance) at Avriti Gallery, Sanskrit (Nritya Natika, Quiz, Ved Pat, speech and essay), Madrasa (kawalli, Bahasmubahisa and quiz), competitions for disabled children and Yoga competitions will be organized on Friday.