Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Feb 10: J&K Academy of Art, Cultural and Languages (JKAACL) here today organized a folk music dance festival at Higher Secondary School Ramnagar.
Earlier similar festivals were organized at Govt Degree College, Ramnagar and Gandh Top during annual fair.
Bharat Singh, secretary JKAACL in his welcome address said aim of the Academy is to explore and to provide platform to the budding and talented artists.
Prominent among those present on the occasion were Rafeeq Ahmed Zara, SDM Ramnagar; Sardar Manjit Singh, SDPO Ramnagar; Principal Higher Secondary School Ramnagar; Sohan Singh, SHO Ramnagar;
BDO Ramnagar, Satpal; ZEO Ramnagar, Girdhari Lal; Subash Kudyan, president Citizen Council Ramnagar and Vinod Kumar, former president MCR.
S. Paramjeet Singh, Prin- cipal Higher Secondary School also spoke on this occasion while Rishi Kumar presented vote of thanks.
The folk parties which participated in the programme were Shakuntla Devi (Kalo Devi) and party, Angreju Ram and party, Prakash and party, Tara Chand and party, Babu Ram and party, Ajay Modi and party, Sanjay Kumar Bhagat and party, Ananya Rajput and party, Rysa Khajuria and party, Roshan Lal and party, Rajesh Mathur and party and Radhika Manhas and party.
Budding child artists who mesmerized the audience were Abhiyukta, Siara Modi, Aradhya Modi and Master Shivish.
Vipan Upadhya, prominent Dogri writer and actor and Bandhna Kumari from Ramnagar jointly anchored the programme.
Sham Sunder Gupta and Shradha Devi, private entrepreneurs distributed gifts to all the participants.
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