Itanagar, Mar 10: A 3-day training for professional culture guides was organised at Namdapha Jungle Camp in Miao.
This is the first time in India that Cultural Guides from within the tribal community have been trained to be tourist guides for culture interested tourists and visitors to the state. The advantage of being tourist guides from within the community is that the same guides would be culture leaders who would help to protect and continue the cultures and traditions in their own areas.
A total of 41 trainees from Tirap, Changlang, Longding, Namsai, Lohit, Lower Dibang Valley of Eastern region completed the 3-day training program, where the process of being professional culture guides was initiated. This is the second batch after similar initiative was taken for Subansiri region at Ziro. 
The training which began on the International Women’s Day at the Noa Dihing Hall of Namdapha Jungle Camp at Miao was inaugurated by Dr.Madhura Dutta, an International ICH expert from Delhi and member of several committees of global organization like UNESCO etc. 
Resource persons included Dr.Moromi Talukdar, Head of the Department of Anthropology at DHSK College at Dibrugarh, Raj Basu, Advisor, Rural Tourism and Homestays with the Tourism Department of Arunachal Pradesh, Dr.Madhura Dutta, Mayur Variya, Field Biologist at Namdapha National Park, Azad Aboh, Tour Guide and above all Bengia Manna Sonam, Deputy Director with Tourism Department of Arunachal Pradesh, who is leading the program on behalf of the Department. 
The theory classes were followed by field visit on the second day to New Yumchum, a village which was adopted by the Tourism Department as a model village for Rural Tourism & Heritage Tea village, where the village elders shared their knowledge with the trainees. The Department would shortly begin with fellowship program with the trainees and also provide them exposure with the tourism industry.

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