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HERITAGE NEWS

My City My heritage The entries deftly done by children
are a reminder of how rich and
- National essay and diverse our culture is. it was a

Painting Competition culmination of the knowledge on
various aspects of heritage from
in an effort to make school students across the country. it provides
aware of the local heritage of their us with a unique repository of
city/town the ‘My City My heritage’ information.
Competition was organized in
around 100 cities across the Following are the INTaCH
country in collaboration with local Chapters that participated in the
iNTaCh chapters. The competition event: Kadapa Machilipatnam,
required students to document srikakulam, Visakhapatnam,
all types of heritage of their city Trivandrum, Chennai, Kodaikanal,
which could be a monument or Madurai, salem, Thanjavur,
building, place of worship, any Nilgiris, Jharkhand, hazaribagh,
vernacular architecture, flora, bhagalpur, bhubaneshwar,
fauna, biodiversity Park, festival, art Mayurbhanj, sonepur, barmer,
and craft, custom and tradition or Jaipur, udaipur, Karauli, raipur,
even a living legend supported by Datia, Dhar, gwalior, Jabalpur,
a painting, collage or a sketch. Khandwa, shivpuri, gurgaon,
ambala, shimla, Mandi, amritsar,
This idea behind the project was Faridkot, Patiala, allahabad,
to provide the students a better rohilkhand, Orai, Varanasi, Kanpur,
understanding of their city’s brajbhoomi, lalitpur, Dehradun,
heritage, inculcate a sense of bijapur, Dharwad, Darjeeling,
belonging and pride, facilitate a greater Mumbai, wai – Panchgani,
much needed recognition for the unknown aspects of their city’s Chandrapur, solapur ahmedabad, rajpipla, Mizoram, sikkim,
heritage and appreciate success stories of promoting heritage. ladakh, goa, Jammu, alwar, Jamnagar, belgaum, warangal,
This programme saw the participation of around 12000 east godavari, bangalore, Nagercoil, bikaner, Marwar, Jodhpur,
students from across the country, the participating students balasore, ajmer, Jhalawar, burhanpur, Mehsana, Dahanu,
were from classes 6 to 9, both urban and rural schools lucknow, andaman and Nicobar, bilaspur, Kasargod, gulbarga,
participated in the event. The Competition was held in english bagalkot guntur, sawai Madhopur, Jaisalmer, Kota, bhadrak,
as well as regional languages. we received entries in about 12 Patna, Kurukshetra, Yamuna Nagar, Maler Kotla, gorakhpur,
regional languages, namely Hindi, urdu, Punjabi, Nepali, Meerut, Calcutta, Pune, Dibrugarh Kangra, shekawati, Mandla,
Marathi, gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia Panipat, Calicut, Jalandhar, Mahoba, baran, and Delhi.
and assamese.

Barmer Trivandrum New Delhi

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