CM visits State Tribal Museum, releases encyclopaedia on tribes in Odisha

The Encyclopaedia, termed by the CM as a rich repository of knowledge on the Odisha tribal community has been published by Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute and Odisha State Tribal Museum in the Museum complex.

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today released five edited volumes of ‘Encyclopaedia of Tribes in Odisha’ during his visit to the State Tribal Museum today

The Encyclopaedia, termed by the CM as a rich repository of knowledge on the Odisha tribal community has been published by Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute and Odisha State Tribal Museum in the Museum complex.

“The book will certainly be a great treasure and repository for all the academicians, researchers, policy makers and those interested to know about the tribal communities of the State,” the CM said, expressing happiness over such a rare and impressive publication and praising the work of the Institute.

The Encyclopaedia has 418 articles, which have been published in Adivasi journal and other publications over last six decades and is the product of painstaking efforts in the last four years by Director, SCSTRTI Professor A.B. Ota and his consultant S.C.Mohanty.

The Chief Minister also visited the galleries of the museum and appreciated the newly added Projection Mapping Unit in the PVTG Museum.

It may be mentioned here that the tribal museum, which houses a rare collection of exquisite arts and crafts of tribal communities, is regarded as one of the best interactive ethnographic museums of the world. The interactive technologies used in this museum are outstanding. The Chief Minister had inaugurated the Tribal Museum in 2001, and the second Museum in 2009, which is exclusively devoted to the PVTGs. The Museum was accorded Odisha State Tribal Museum status in 2018 by the Chief Minister.

Among others, ST & SC Development Minister Jagannath Saraka, Chief Advisor to CMO  Balakrishnan, Principal Secretary Saswat Mishra and Director SCSTRTI & Odisha State Tribal Museum Professor A.B.Ota were present on the occasion.

Odisha is the only State till now to publish an Encyclopaedia of all Tribes. All the five edited volumes contain 3800 pages and 418 research articles covering all the 62 Scheduled Tribe Communities and 13 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups.

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