Workshop on rock art of Orissa commences

?PRESENT CENTURY is a century of destruction and especially varied botanical, geographical and anthropological environs in India are getting destroyed.

“PRESENT CENTURY is a century of destruction and especially varied botanical, geographical and anthropological environs in India are getting destroyed.

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Thus, our primary objective should be to save this varied ecology,’’ Secretary, Government of India and Member Secretary of the Indira Gandhi National Art Centre (IGNAC), New Delhi, K K Chakravarty said here today.

Chakravarty, who is former director of the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, was speaking at the inaugural function of the two-day national workshop on ‘Rock Art in Orissa: Interdisciplinary Perspective.’

IGRMS, IGNAC and Utkal University, Orissa are jointly organising the workshop to prepare an interdisciplinary report on the results of a documentation project on rock art of Orissa.

Earlier, Prof Sadashiv Pradhan of Utkal University introduced the theme of workshop and said that though there is a long history of research on rock art, comprehensive and interdisciplinary documentation of the natural and local environs and communities have not been attended to all that much.

IGRMS Director K K Basa welcomed the guests including special guest and Joint Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India Dr R C Agrawal.