If any children are allowed to an innovative environment, wonderful creations can happen and its can lead to their positive exposure.
This is amply experienced in the three-day annual State-level tribal children’s festival, Sargifula, organised at the Adivasi Grounds here by the SC and ST Development Department. The event has turned out to be a platform for budding talents of the State’s far-flung areas.
The fourth edition of Sargifula kicked off on Saturday with over 1,000 children participating in the event and depicting their talents.
The festival was inaugurated by Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Upendra Nath Behera. SC and ST Development Department Commissioner-cum-Secretary Sanjeeb Kumar Mishra also spoke on the occasion.
Director of Tribal Affairs Dr AB Ota informed that around 750 students accompanied by 150 teachers from ashram schools, sevashrams, residential sevashrams, SC/ST Development high schools and Ekalavya modern residential schools of all districts are participating in the event. They are from Classes V to X selected at the district-level competitions.
A State-level science exhibition has been organised by the students selected through a rigorous process. The theme of the exhibition is Renewable Energy and Environment Protection. A total of 26 stalls, designed to resemble forests, have been set up at the exhibition.
Workshops on 18 subjects like Odishi dance, theatre, science game, creative game, best of waste, creative writing, painting, mathematics, terracotta, paper craft, clay modelling, animation, photo editing, filmmaking, instrumental music, communication skills, magic and child reporting would be conducted by resource persons each day from 9 am to 12.30 pm.