Date:11/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/11/stories/2008081158600200.htm

Other States - Orissa

Mission heritage conservation

Correspondent

INTACH to create awareness in villages

INTACH silver jubilee to be celebrated in
January next
Dalai Lama to inaugurate the celebrations in
New Delhi

BHUBANESWAR: National Chairperson of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) S.K. Mishra has called upon members of its Orissa chapter to work towards awareness generation among the community regarding heritage conservation. He has further suggested each chapter to adopt a village to train the community leaders in heritage conservation.

Mr. Mishra, who addressed the members of the Orissa chapter here on Sunday, assured that INTACH would provide the requisite resources to carry on the training and awareness programme for the village leaders. Appreciating the activities being undertaken by the State chapter and opening of the new chapter for Mayurbhanj district, he further urged the members to make school and college students aware of the importance of heritage conservation and the mission of the INTACH.

INTACH would have its silver jubilee celebrations in New Delhi in January which would be inaugurated by the Dalai Lama, informed Mr. Mishra. Besides, Prince Charles would deliver the first Pupul Jaykar Memorial lecture next year, he added.

Latest activities

Elaborating the latest activities of the Orissa chapter, its functionaries informed that a seminar on the cultural heritage of Ganjam was hosted at Berhampur in association with the local Citizen’s Forum while workshops and seminars on heritage awareness and conservation were organised at Cuttack and Baripada. The State government entrusted INTACH the task of executing two rural tourism projects at Padmanabhapur in Ganjam and Deulajhari in Angul while the Old Jobra Workshop at Cuttack is being converted into a marine museum by the INTACH, they added.

Among others, INTACH’s member-secretary Yogendra Narayan, Heritage Division advisor Arun Gupta, Orissa chapter advisor Anant Mohapatra, State chapter convener A.B. Tripathy and State chapter coordinator S.K.B. Narayan, representatives of the Cuttack and Baripada chapters were present. A newsletter on the forthcoming activities of the State chapter was released on the occasion.