Four-day PU youth festival concludes

Lovleen Bains

Doraha, November 13

The four-day Panjab University Zonal Youth and Heritage Festival concluded at Mata Ganga Khalsa College Manji Sahib, Kottan, here today. Cultural rehabilitation and preservation of Punjab’s lost heritage was the main highlight of the culmination.

Vice-Chancellor Jagat Guru Nanak Dev Punjab State Open University Prof Karamjeet Singh, the chief guest, said the youth festivals provided an opportunity to the students to emerge as dancers, actors, poets and writers. Deputy Director (School) SGPC Bibi Satwant Kaur graced the occasion.

Director youth welfare Nirmal Jaura said, “Pop modernity needs to be strictly checked if we as Punjabis are serious in thinking about the preservation of our lost cultural heritage and dances. It is for this reason that a complete day is dedicated to the cause of cultural promotion. The students, who have never known the richness of our proud culture, get acquainted with it.”

Principal of the host college, Kuldip Kaur Dhaliwal, said, “The basic motive of organising the heritage festivals, apart from talent exposition, is an effort to revive the elapsed cultural heritage especially in the youngsters who are regarded to be the befitting guardians of our prosperous cultural past.” Pammi Bai, an Indian singer, song writer and bhangra dancer from Patiala, entertained the audience with his beautiful singing.