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INTACH College Heritage Volunteer Training Workshop 2023

The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) was founded in 1984 in New Delhi with the vision to spearhead heritage awareness and conservation in India. Today INTACH is recognized as one of the world’s largest heritage organizations, with over 190 Chapters across the Country. In the past 31 years INTACH has pioneered the conservation and preservation of not just our natural and built heritage but intangible heritage as well. Headquartered in New Delhi, it operates through various divisions such as Architectural Heritage, Natural Heritage, Material Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Heritage Education and Communication Services (HECS), Crafts and Community Cell, Chapters, INTACH Heritage Academy, Heritage Tourism, Listing Cell and Library, Archives and Documentation Centre. The IPCW has been closely associated with the INTACH, which is a regular source for inspiring student internships in fields of conservation and museology.

A College Heritage Volunteer Training Workshop was organised at INTACH, New Delhi on 20 January 2023 as part of the INTACH’s Heritage Education Programme. Supported and endorsed by the Ministry of Culture (Government of India), the Programme endeavours to sensitize college students to protect heritage and train them to become pioneers in leading a nation -wide movement for heritage preservation .

The Workshop was attended by seven students of semester six from the Department of History - Aditi Dubey, Dristi Buzarbaruah, Risti Ghosh, Bhavana Singh, Sumedha Bhowmick, Shiwani Yadav, and Anjali Kumari. Ms. Shailbala Mishra, ssistant Professor at the Department of History escorted the students to the Workshop.

The workshop was conducted over five sessions interspersed with group activities of students. The session was inaugurated with a film on INTACH followed by an introductory talk on the concept and types of heritage by Ms. Purnima Datt, Principal Director of Heritage Education and Communication Service (HECS), INTACH. The resource persons for the session were Dr. Swapna Liddle, eminent historian, author, and Advisor INTACH Delhi Chapter, Mr. Ajay Kumar, Director of Projects, INTACH Delhi Chapter, Mr. T. S. Randhawa (IAS Retd.), Advisor, INTACH and Divisional Head, IKC and the HECS team.