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Here’s the winner of the silver award for Sustainability Champions: Pathfinders: Amitava Bhattacharya

With over two decades of experience as a social entrepreneur focused on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of our country, founder and director of Banglanatak, Amitava Bhattacharya, has worked extensively in Rajasthan, Goa, West Bengal and the North East. He has helped in transforming fringe cultural activities to mainstream sources of income for several communities across the country.

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00:00 Hi, I am Amitabh Bhattacharya, Bangalornatec.com.
00:12 We specialize in culture and development.
00:14 Our methodology is called Art for Life.
00:17 Building capacity, linking the artists directly to the market and doing a lot of exchange
00:21 collaboration are the three pillars of it.
00:24 We also plant village mellas so that the villages become attractive to the visitors, they are
00:30 aware of it.
00:31 As a result, Piriya, Patachitra village, Godhanga, Fakiri village, whole district of Purulia
00:37 which used to have a political identity, now enjoys a cultural identity based on chowdhans,
00:43 really worked.
00:44 Many places across Bengal.
00:46 Similarly, Rajasthan, many of the villages have excellent artists, not known.
00:51 Now slowly started getting visitors.
00:54 So that is the model which is working and is community led and is responsible, ethical,
01:01 ICH based tourism.
01:02 Thank you.
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