Exhibition of handicrafts organized by Umang at Shiv Niwas Palace

Umang is an organisation working with people whose lives are affected by disability. They provide various services for people inflicted by cerebral palsy, autism and other disabilities including vocational training for full time trainees and pre-vocational groups in a number of trades. They provide tuition in cooking, sewing and embroidery as well as other handicrafts including block printing, handmade paper and handicrafts. On the 14th and 15th March they organized an exhibition at Shiv Niwas Palace Hotel displaying and selling handicrafts
Umang is recognised and registered with the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, accredited by National Institute of Open Schooling, New Delhi, registered with National Trust.

Members of the press and curators of the Victoria and Albert museum visit Udaipur

The Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation is to be the leading contributor at an important exhibition taking place at the Victoria and Albert Museum in October 2009. They are lending a number of objects including several key pieces of the lawajama, some important pieces of crystal, animal regalia, and seven highly important paintings including Maharana Sarup Singh Playing Holi in the Chaugan and Maharana Ari Singh at the Jagmandir to a major exhibition to be staged at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in October 2009.

Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur with journalists from UK

The exhibition that opens on the 10th October and runs through until the 17 January 2010, Maharaja: The splendor of India's royal Courts, will explore the rich material culture of Indian royal life within the context of the political and social changes of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Thakur Sahib Bhupendra Singh Auwa, Deputy Secretory,
Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation - Administration showing journalists around Eternal Mewar Gallery