The four-day Museum Week celebration termed as ‘Navrang’ concluded at State Museum on Sunday wherein competitions on painting, speech, collage, singing, dancing, craft and essay were held on this occasion for both school and college goers in junior and senior levels respectively.
Former Ranchi University (RU) Pro Vice-Chancellor (Pro V-C) Prof VP Sharan quoted youth as need of the society during his speech at the valedictory session of this week. He felt the necessity of organising regular cultural programmes at State Museum.
Expressing joy over this large participation of students, State Art, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs Director Dadan Chaubey said, “Earlier, there were rare opportunities wherein children and youngsters could showcase their talents in one common platform. This theme based programme for marking museum week has given one such scope to our budding talents.”
Delhi Public School students Ankit Kumar and Pramod Priya bagged first positions in collage making. Sachidanand Gyan Bharti Model School student Sehar and DAV Public School Gandhinagar student Yash got first prizes in Crafts. Soni Kumari of Sachidanand Gyan Bharti Model School and DAV Public School Hehal student Navya Naweli were awarded first prizes in essay writing. Soham Ghosh of St Thomas School and Ritesh Kumar Sharma of ITI were given first prizes for their paintings. Vishal Tirkey and Moumita Mahapatra bagged first positions in speech competition.
On this occasion, artists associated with Dr Ram Dayal Munda Kala Bhawan like Vinod Ranjan were present. Noted Folk artist Vipul Nayak was also present besides scholars from Ranchi University. The programme was concluded with the vote of thanks words said by Museum Curator Md Sarfuddin.