SRINAGAR, Nov 28: A 3-day philatelic exhibition, the place about 50,000 postage stamps and different philatelic objects are on show, started right here on Tuesday, officers mentioned.
The three-day ‘KASHPEX 2023’ was inaugurated by Brig Okay Bhardwaj, together with Chief Postmaster Normal, J&Okay Circle, Col Vinod Kumar, at Kashmir Worldwide Conference Centre, the officers mentioned.
Roughly 50,000 postage stamps and different philatelic objects are on show on the exhibition, they mentioned.
The exhibition will spotlight India’s historical past, tradition, artwork and heritage throughout the years by way of stamps and pictorial collections. Moreover some uncommon and outdated stamps relationship again to the 1800s and 1900s, the officers mentioned.
The exhibition is a uncommon alternative to see a few of the greatest stamps, first day covers, miniature sheets, and stamp playing cards from India and different nations, they added.
The exhibition additionally goals to be a platform to introduce a complete new technology about philately and its pleasant charms. As a part of selling philately as a pastime amongst faculty kids, philatelic kits have been distributed amongst faculty kids moreover holding seminars and workshops on Philately by famend philatelists of the nation and state, they mentioned.
A particular cowl on the well-known ‘Ghanta Ghar’ (clock tower) on the Lal Chowk metropolis centre right here was additionally launched. The particular cowl was launched in acknowledgment of Srinagar being developed and acknowledged as a wise metropolis and the enduring significance of Ghanta Ghar within the historical past and tradition of Kashmir.
Talking on the event, the Chief Postmaster Normal, J&Okay Circle, highlighted the position of India Put up within the lives of widespread folks and the huge community of India Put up.
Kumar urged the viewers, predominantly faculty kids, to take philately as a pastime having twin advantages of enhancement of data and financial worth. (AGENCIES)
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