INTACH to host school quiz to encourage love for heritage

The INTACH will host a thematic quiz for school students here on September 4 in a bid to inculcate love and care for the country's built and intangible heritage.
Over 60 schools from Delhi and other cities in the National Capital Region are slated to participate in the event.
Officials of city-based Indian National Trust for Art and Culture (INTACH) said the event will be a culmination of a series of regional rounds of quizzing which took place across the country in the last several months, spanning nearly 120 cities.
"We will first have the Delhi-NCR round in which 65 schools from the capital, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Greater Noida will participate. After that, we will have the northern zonal final, winners of which will progress to the grand finale scheduled later this year," they said.

Students of classes VII-X are eligible to take part in the event that will be held at the India International Centre, an iconic modern building designed by famed American architect Joseph Allen Stein.
"The INTACH Heritage Quiz, an annual event, was first held in 2014. We initially began with English and then made it bilingual, i.E English and Hindi. And, this year, the quizzes were conducted in several vernacular, representing the diversity of the country," the official said.

The event is being organised by INTACH's Heritage Education and Communication Service (HECS) department and "nearly 1,200 schools have been covered so far".

Some of the cities covered so far include Srinagar, Kanyakumari, Jamnagar, Itanagar, Port Blair etc.
"Besides English and Hindi, the quizzes have been conducted in Bengali, Tamil, Odiya, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Assamese and Telugu," he said.
Principal Director, HECS, Purnima Datt said, "Education is at the heart of INTACH's endeavours to preserve national heritage. The event aims at helping students understand India's unique and diverse heritage. In addition to fostering and supporting peer-to-peer learning, as well as, providing a platform to explore the varied multi-cultural dimensions of the country's heritage."
"We hope the initiative inspires a generation of heritage sensitive students who will adopt, appreciate and protect their city's heritage," she said.

Established in 1984, INTACH, besides the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), works on protection, conservation and promotion of tangible and intangible heritage, through its nearly 190 chapters spread across the country in various cities.