Under the aegis of Corporate Social Responsibility & Community Development (CSR-CD), to sensitise and making aware the students of rural schools about traditional dance form India, NTPC-Sipat organised a puppet dance show here at the community centre of Sipat Super Thermal Power Station.
The programme was directed by eminent personality, Padma Shree, Suresh Dutta, on behalf of Spic Mackay, who has directed two puppet film, Banging Mouse and lavkush for Children Film Society.
The programme was inaugurated by YV Rao, Executive Director, NTPC Sipat. The show was planned to sensitise the school going children of nearby project affected and peripheral villages about traditional and cultural Indian dance forms which are rarely performed or seen in day to day life.
About 450 students along with their teachers of nearby schools and 250 children of Bal Bharati public School enjoyed the show “Allddin Ka Chirag” puppet dance show. Under CSR-CD activities NTPC-Sipat under take various activities related to development of Education, Health and Infrastructure.
Dance is also a mode of communication, by this way various messages are conveyed to the targeted audience. On this occasion NTPC-Sipat tried to familiarize the school children about puppet dance which is on verge of extinction in the modern society. Now a day it rarely performed in villages. Before the advent of this cinema and multiplex, Puppet dance was a mode of recreation for the people. In that days puppet dances were performed in schools to teach the students about certain lesson on visual mode.