Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 23: Master Sansar Chand Baru Memorial Charitable Trust today organised an art workshop for the disabled children of Sahara Special, School, Trikuta Nagar here today.
The art camp was held in collaboration with CRPF Ban Talab Jammu. In the event school children from different backgrounds came together on one platform for the participation. The motive of holding this event was to promote art among the disabled children and motivate them to express themselves through the medium of art and culture.
Minister of State for Education, Priya Sethi who was chief guest on the occasion inaugurated the Art workshop. She appreciated the efforts of the Trust and CRPF to include disabled children in the art workshop and develop such skills among them.
Senior artists from Delhi, Abhijit Kumar Pathak and Ganesh Das and another one from Jammu – Richa Gupta gave live demonstration of painting and interacted with the children. Some students from Institute of Music and Fine Art Jammu also assisted the workshop.
Anuradha Rishi, chairperson of the Trust extended gratitude to the chief guest and other special invitees for the encouragement. She also thanked former Member PSC K B Jandial, DIG CRPF Pareevn Sharma and Poonam Choudhary, Principal of Institute of Music and Fine Art, Jammu.
DIG CRPF, Parveen Sharma and the Principal of the Sahara Special School, Father Philips extended good wishes to the children for the Christmas and New Year 2016.