Bhubaneswar: June 06: The Unicef will provide all possible helps to Odisha Folk Artistes in order to promote folk art forms of the State, informed Culture and Tourism Minister Ashok Chandra Panda.
Unicef will provide technical support to different groups/associations relating to art and culture of the state with an objective to empower them. Participating in a high level meeting held at state secretariat, Culture and Tourisn Minister Ashok Chandra Panda said, training programme involving district culture officers will be held to train them on the functioning of the centres the officers would be taught how to interact with the artistes and make them aware about the available Government schemes. They will also have to take initiatives so that more artistes enrol themselves with the organisation.
The training programme will be held through videoconferencing. Notably, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik opened Nagar Kala Sanskruti Sangha in 2011. Official data revealed that till date, 314 Block Kala Sanskruti Sangha (BKSS) and 30 ZKSS have been formed in the State.
There are over three lakh folk artistes in the State and around 7,500 folk art groups.
