Students of RPS Girls’ School perform at the 34th Inter-School Folk Song and Dance Competition organised by Rotary Patliputra at SK Memorial Hall in Patna on Friday. As many as 650 students from at least 16 schools, including Gyan Niketan and St Joseph’s Convent High School, took part in the event. Awadhesh Narayan Singh, the chairman of the Legislative Council, was the chief guest. NK Agrawal, secretary, Rotary Patliputra, said: “We are organising this competition for years because we don’t want the folk culture to fade away among the youths.” Text by Shuchismita Chakraborty, picture by Ashok Sinha