Introducing the country’s classic music and culture to school students of the state, Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) will launch a series of cultural events in the state’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools in the state from April.
Speaking about the series, founder of SPIC MACAY Kiran Seth who was in the city on Thursday said, “Through the Right to Education Act we are pitching for the introduction of heritage to school curriculums. We have convinced the Kendriya Vidyala Sangathan for a programme with a big series of events specially designed for CBSE schools.”
Seth said that the intention of the programme is to introduce classical music and culture to the youth at an even younger age and will also cover all the CBSE schools in the state. Apart from getting various eminent artists, the initiative will also have orientation programmes, yoga and meditation, workshops and so on.
When asked if the initiative would also be spreading to the state government schools, Seth said that they have made several proposals to the concerned authorities however there had not been any response. tnn
Seth said, “Other states like Kerala, Karnataka, Punjab, Rajasthan and others have returned very good response. However the Government of Gujarat has not yet extended us such a support.”
While SPIC MACAY conducts around 2,000 events in over 150 cities in India and 50 cities abroad every year, Seth said very few have been in Gujarat. He said, “While we conducted 280 events in Rajasthan and 368 in Delhi last year, only around 31 events were conducted in Gujarat.”
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