National Museum launches exclusive guide prog for children

A programme aimed at engaging young minds for their deployment as volunteers to provide guided tours to school children was today launched at National Museum here.
Launched by Culture Minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch, the programme 'Yuva Saathi' is aimed at engaging young minds in a dialogue with the National Museum. It envisages deployment of volunteer guides to provided guided tours to school children, an official statement said.
The programme intends to make National Museum a place of learning and fun for the young visitors and their teachers. It is for the first time that a guide programme exclusively for children was being launched in an Indian museum, it said.

"30 young volunteers have successfully completed the training programme and will be deployed as volunteer guides. More training programmes are planned, so as to increase the number of volunteer guides for school groups to 100," the statement said.
Katoch later awarded certificates to the volunteers in the 'Pathpardarshak' and 'Yuva Saathi' training programme, it said.