Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, July 20: A three-day long Craft Demonstration Awareness programme concluded at Bharatiya Vidya Mandir Higher Secondary School, (Nainsu), here today.
Chief guests of the programme were S.S Blowria (Retd) Senior Art teacher APS and State Awardee Basohli painting) Swati Matura, Assistant Director, Ministry of Textiles), Shifali (embroidery), Suresh (Bamboo craft), Sureshta (Jute craft) and Saurav Sawhney (Carpet Training Officer) Krishna Maurya (Handicraft Promotion Officer).
Children of the school participated in the workshop. At the beginning of the programme Swati Matura said that in today’s time art and craft should also come along with education. Suresh teaches children about the different uses of bamboo. He showed the children things made from bamboo and said that all of you also have to learn to make it.
In the three-day long workshop S S Blowria gave the children the art of Basohli painting and put light on its history and rich cultural heritage. The specialty of this art is that bright and dark colours like red, yellow and blue are used in it.
A competition was organized among the children. The aim of organizing the workshop by Handicraft Service Centre Udhampur was to create awareness about handmade products in the society. Principal Renu Sharma of Handicraft Service Centre Udhampur said the programme comes under NEP 2020 in which children have learned hands- on learning/experiential learning.
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