INVC,,
Delhi,,
The Bal Shree Awards for the year 2008, 2009 and 2010 were conferred to 147 Awardees at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi by the Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Dr. D. Purandeswari, here last evening. The 147 Awardees comprise 52 awardees for the year 2008, 14 for Creative Performance (including 1 differently abled child) 13 for Creative Art (including 2 differently abled children), 13 for Creative Scientific Innovation and 12 for Creative Writing. 56 Awardees for the year 2009 including 15 for Creative Performance (1 differently abled child) 15 for Creative Art, 15 for Creative Scientific Innovation and 11 for Creative Writing. For the year 2010, 39 children are being conferred the honours: 12 for Creative Performance including, 4 differently abled children , 12 for Creative Art, 8 for Creative Scientific Innovation and 7 for Creative Writing. The honour function was presided over by Secretary (SE&L) and Chairperson, National Bal Bhavan, Smt. Anshu Vaish.
National Bal Bhavan is a creativity resource centre for children within the age group of 5-16 years which has affiliated state Bal Bhavans across the country. It organizes numerous creative and innovative programmes at Local, Zonal, National and sometimes even at International Level to honour and nurture the creativity in children of India irrespective of their socio economic status through National Bal Shree Scheme. The objectives of the scheme are to identify, nurture and honour creativity in children, create awareness about advocating creativity as a personality development trait amongst teachers, parents and the community, provide opportunities for research work on creativity, establish close linkages between state and central Bal Bhavan and strengthen the Bal Bhavan movement. This scheme seeks to identify creative children within the age group of 9-16 years in four identified areas of creativity i.e. Creative Performance, Creative Art, Creative Scientific Innovations and Creative Writing.
