INTACH grooms school students as ambassadors of heritage

From restoration of built heritage and artwork to films, talks and guided walks at iconic sites, a group of school students learned the ropes about cultural conservation from experts in Delhi.

Seeking to turn them into "ambassadors of heritage preservation", the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) here took 15 national winners, picked out from its outreach campaign 'My City, My Heritage', on a three-day educational tour that began on Wednesday.

The students visited the Humayun's Tomb, a World Heritage Site, and Sanskriti Kendra's Anandagram in Mehrauli, besides attending an interaction with a Dastangoi (medieval storytelling art form) artiste.

"At the Humayun's Tomb, children of Nizamuddin Basti took them on a heritage walk and informed about the restoration work of the monument undertaken by the Aga Khan Foundation," Purnima Datt, principal director, Heritage Education and Communication Service (HECS), INTACH, told

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