Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal is organising a workshop ‘Sehchar’ on Bhil and Gond Tribal art from April 25 to 29, 2017 at Tribal Habitat Interpretation Centre. The theme of this workshop is ‘Relationship of animals and human in Gond and Bhil tribal communities’. In this workshop, 25 traditional Bhil and Gond tribal artisans will give live demonstration of traditional tribal painting.
Besides, the Sangrahalaya is organising an exhibition ‘The Future of the Food: Pulses’ at Veethi Sankul indoor exhibition building from April 27, 2017. The exhibition will be inaugurated by Kumar Sanjay Krishna, IAS (Finance Advisor, Union Ministry of Culture) with AS Manekar (DG, NCSM, Kolkata) and SM Khened (Director, Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai) as special guests at Veethi Sankul indoor exhibition building on April 27, 2017 at 11.30 am. This exhibition is organised in collaboration with National Council of Science Museum, Kolkata, Nehru Science centre, Mumbai and Regional Science Centre, Bhopal.
This exhibition focuses on why are Pulses important food cropsIJ, and how they offer significant nutritional and health advantages due to their high protein and essential amino acid content as well as being a source of complex carbohydrates, and several vitamins and minerals. Pulses are very suitable crops for Indian climate and also have potential to feed water stress region in the country due to its less water requirement. Adequate attention needs to be given for increasing production and productivity of pulses to ensure that supply demand gap does not impact prices adversely, making pulses inaccessible to the poor and undernourished.