patna altogether 75 students of classes iv and v from st karens primary school and kanya madhyavidyalaya amlatola t raza high school and kendriyavidyalaya kankarbagh along with their teachers participated in a heritage walk organized by the bihar heritage development society bhds at buddha smriti park on friday the walk was organised with the aim of celebrating world heritage week to create awareness among the students about the significance of patnas heritage bandana preyashi art culture and youth affairs department secretarycumchief executive officer ceo bhds said the initiative to organize heritage walks for young children has been taken to sensitize the young minds to our historical heritage addressing the young children on the occasion she motivated them by calling them the future custodians of heritage the walk was planned keeping in mind the simplicity of the language which would be easily comprehensible for children activities such as painting and enactment of buddhas postures and gestures were included the children also painted the monuments sculptures present in the park in order to encourage the students prizes were given to the quality enactment and paintings in addition each child got a token gift at the onset the students were oriented by the bhdss executive director bijoy kumar choudhary about the meaning of heritage walk and the significance of the patliputra karuna stupa subsequently the students were divided into three groups one led by bijoy choudhary the second byarun kumar and oishi roy and the third group by amit ranjan the students were shown the monuments and the bodhi tree and different sculptures and paintings located in the park at the end of the event every student took a pledge to ensure the cleanliness of monuments and archaeological sites as a small token of appreciation certificates of participation were also distributed to acknowledge the presence of all students