Bhubaneswar: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Friday announced to introduce a certificate course in sand art.
Prof Ravindra Kumar, IGNOU vice-chancellor, informed that this would be a one-month online training programme that would be begin from coming academic year.
Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik would teach the students about sand art.
“Happy to inform that #IGNOU is going to introduce Certificate Course in #SandArt for the first time in India/world. I’m grateful to the VC,” tweeted Sudarsan.
IGNOU would finalise the course modalities within three months.