Now, dropouts can learn music, dance and other cultural arts — with government aid

• The Union Minister of State for Culture & Tourism (IC), Prahlad Singh Patel on Monday, launched an E-Portal of Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) — ‘Digital Bharat Digital Sanskriti'.
  
• It will enable digital classrooms that can impart cultural education.
  
• The idea is to help dropouts chase careers in cultural areas such as music, painting, theatre and martial arts.
• The e-portal aims to explore unknown aspects of India’s rural and semi-urban culture.

The Indian government is giving a digital push to cultural education across schools in the country.

The Union Minister of State for Culture & Tourism (IC) Prahlad Singh Patel launched an E-Portal of Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) — ‘Digital Bharat Digital Sanskriti'. This enable digital classrooms to impart cultural education. It also launched a YouTube channel.

The CCRT, along with Routes 2 Roots — an NGO promoting art, culture and heritage — is looking to launch a platform for dropout students. The idea is to help them chase careers in areas like music, painting, theatre and martial arts.

“There is a need to identify institutions specializing in providing training in various art forms and encourage the children to join these institutions. In the coming three years, we can send children studying in X – XII standard for well planned tours of North-East,” the government press release said.

The e-portal aims to explore unknown aspects of India's lesser-known places and their rural and semi-urban culture.

In a bid to promote cross-cultural communication in India, the initiative also aims to encourage students to learn regional languages like Punjabis can learn Gujarati and vice-versa. Patel released a film ‘Rahas’ — Raaslila of Chhattisgarh.

The CCRT also started to publish books from a series called ’Untold Tales of India's cities’.

Recently, Indian schools in the UAE also included performing arts as a mandatory subject for students, in order to preserve culture and heritage.

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