After Delhi, now City gets NSD

After Delhi, now City gets NSD
Bangalore, dhns:
The Bangalore chapter of National School of Drama was inaugurated on Wednesday.

It is the first NSD chapter to be started outside Delhi. Union Minister of Culture Ambika Soni, after inaugurating the institute at Gurunanak Bhavan, said that the Centre would set up four more chapters of NSD at Kolkata, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra and North Eastern states in the coming days.
Because of interest shown by theatre artistes and officers of Karnataka the first chapter of the NSD had been set up in Karnataka at the earliest. The State government had allocated two acres of land to establish the institute. “I request the Government to allow the school to function in Gurunanak Bhavan till the new establishment is ready completely,” she said.
She said that the Ministry of Culture had submitted a proposal on introduction of theatre activities in higher education through National School of Drama. The ministry felt that involvement of students in theatre activities would help increasing richness of culture.
Chief Secretary Sudhakar Rao said the Government had allocated two acres of land in Bangalore University campus for NSD. In the next three years the institute would come up in the new locality.

Prasanna absent

Theatre personality Prasanna who staged a hunger protest demanding a NSD to nurture Kannada theatre, was absent at the inauguration of its Bangalore chapter.
Union Minister Ambika Soni in her speech asked theatre activists present in the auditorium to convey to Prasanna that she missed him on the occasion.
The Bangalore Chapter of the NSD began functioning by staging of the Hindi play Acharya Tartuffe, written and directed by Prasanna.