Jaipur Heritage International Festival (JHIF) 2010 Started

Jaipur Heritage International Festival (JHIF) 2010 is relaunched from Makar Sankranti this year, and it will be held annually on the same dates (January 14-24 ) for the next four years. Jaipur Heritage International Festival (JHIF), India's leading community-based arts festival, will return to venues across the city in January 2010 as part of a four-year heritage-based development strategy being led by the Government of Rajasthan. This ground-breaking partnership is an initiative of the Rajasthan Heritage Authority, recently created by the Government of Rajasthan to promote heritage-based regional and urban development (Vikas) by conserving the state's tangible and intangible heritage (Virasat). JHIF will play a key role in this 'Vikas and Virasat' strategy by showcasing and disseminating its outcomes.

One of the key aims of the revived JHIF will be to bring people together to support conservation and better management of Rajasthans and Jaipurs heritage, said Vinod Joshi, regional director of Jaipur Virasat Foundation (JVF). Addressing the press conference, the chairman of the festival committee Rajiv Arora said, There is no real development without the growth of our rural economy. We, in Rajasthan, have rich traditions of arts and crafts practice in rural areas. But most of their practitioners are poor and often marginalised. Our intention is to provide a boost to them and the rural economy through the Vikas and Virasat (V&V ) programme. Development through heritage can be a real and inclusive development that helps the most needy to meet their needs.
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