Youths should play a pivotal role in the nation building process, Culture Minister Chandresh Kumar Katoch said here today.
"You (youths) have to be an important part of the nation building process through your respective capabilities," she said at the 10th Convocation of National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology here.
A total of 185 students - 33 doctoral and 152 Master of Arts - were awarded degrees by the Institute for their work ranging from studies of old Delhi's 'havelis' to the country's modern installation art.
Katoch told the graduates to retain in them "a spirit of trusteeship" while contributing substantially to their roots, the society around, the institutions that brought them up and the nation at large.
"It is this spirit of trusteeship and the desire to support others who were not as fortunate or successful as many of us, would make this world a better place," said Katoch, who the was the chief guest of the ceremony and declared the convocation open in her capacity as the Chancellor of the Institute.
The National Museum Institute, established in 1987 and which later became a Deemed to be University, conducts training and capacity building programmes in museum education and intangible cultural heritage in collaboration with international institutions like UNESCO and globally renowned academic institutions such as the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Leiden-based Kern Institute of the Netherlands.
Works of the research scholars who were awarded include work on Deccani miniature paintings, provincial art and architecture of Kota, folk art of Bhils, Christian art of Goa, comparative study of traditional practices of palm leaf manuscripts in India and conservation of Indo-Islamic carpets.
