Roing, Sep 21: Tai Tagak, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) visited RIWATCH today and expressed his support for the proposed establishment of the University of World's Ancient Traditions, Cultures and Heritage (UWATCH).
During the visit, the MP interacted with ten Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) aspirants attending the coaching classes initiated jointly by RIWATCH and Jnana Prabodhini, Pune. He urged them to remain focused and disciplined in their preparation, and commended the collaborative effort to bring accessible, quality guidance within reach of young aspirants from the region.
Tagak also met the research staff of RIWATCH, who briefed him on the Institute's ongoing work. He expressed his appreciation for its research activities, its community outreach programmes, and the range of research outputs and publications it has produced over the years.
Touring the RIWATCH Museum, the MP was pleased to witness its uniqueness and its steady growth, and lauded the Institute's initiative in documenting and preserving the cultural heritage of Arunachal Pradesh and Northeast India, alongside the tribal heritage of communities across the world.
Speaking on the proposed UWATCH, Tagak underlined the need for a dedicated centre of higher learning devoted to the study, documentation and promotion of indigenous knowledge systems, traditions and cultures. He observed that Arunachal Pradesh and the wider Northeast hold an extraordinary wealth of oral traditions, customary practices, indigenous sciences, languages and belief systems, much of which remains unrecorded and risks being lost with the passing of each older generation. A university of this nature, he said, would create a formal academic framework for their systematic documentation and research, while also opening new avenues of learning and livelihood for the youth of the State by encouraging them to approach their own heritage as a field of serious scholarship rather than as a relic of the past.
He further noted that an institution such as UWATCH, rooted in Arunachal Pradesh yet global in its scope, could serve as a bridge between the tribal and ancient traditions of India and those of communities elsewhere in the world, and place the State on the international map of heritage studies. Commending RIWATCH for conceiving the proposal and for the groundwork already laid through its research, museum and outreach activities, he assured the Institute of his full support in carrying the vision forward.

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