SCERT Nagaland released twelve heritage-based films today with K T Sukhalu, IAS (Rtd), Advisor for School Education & SCERT, doing the honours. The programme was held at the Capital Convention Centre here in Kohima.

The Advisor also conferred degrees to 38 trainees from the 3rd batch of Diploma in School Counselling course and administered the oath-taking.

Speaking about the films, Sukhalu encouraged SCERT to document more heritage-based films for children in order to make them aware of their culture and traditions. He said that such films will infuse the feeling of pride in one’s identity.

Kevileno Angami, Commissioner & Secretary, School Education & SCERT, said that a person who does not know one’s culture is ‘ignorant’. She said that the Nagaland Heritage-based films would supplement the Nagaland Heritage textbook whose objective is to teach children dialects and languages, cultural practices, and poems of different tribes.

N Chumchanbeni Kikon, Director SCERT, said that Nagaland’s rich cultural heritage can be successfully preserved if only it is valued, documented and transmitted to the next generation.

She added that SCERT Nagaland has documented a total of 15 Naga heritage-based short films, out of which three were released in the year 2020. The short films are based on customs, practices, values, and different aspects of Naga culture which are drawn from the school subject Nagaland Heritage Studies.

Kikon also said that SCERT Nagaland was the first SCERT in the country to introduce the course for Diploma in School Counselling on 2 April 2018.

A total of 38 trainees from the 3rd batch were conferred the Diploma degree at the function, while 31 candidates were also inducted into the course as the 4th batch.