Sampravaahi Foundation

Sampravaahi Foundation is a non profit organization based in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It was founded in the memory of Ustad Siddique Manganiar, the wizard of Khartaal playing and the singer whose voice reflected the soul of a faquir and the beauty of his desert land of western Rajasthan.

The organization has been promoting traditional folk,classical and Sufi art forms as well as social development in the region through its association with hundreds of artists. Its founders, Mr. Samandar Manganiar and Ms. Anurag Verma, have been performing artists for the past two decades. 

Sampravaahi Foundation came into being with the following aims and objectives :

To provide appropriate national and international stage for artists and to organize festivals and events on its own or in collaboration with other government or non-government agencies.

To conduct training centers, workshops and seminars for the study and promotion of folk and classical dance and music arts; specially, to provide advanced training in the Jaipur style of Kathak dance all over Rajasthan, so as to create dancers and teachers of high merit.

To conduct training programmes for the conservation of endangered traditional folk music and handicrafts.

To also add new dimensions to the presentation of the arts, while trying to emphasize their purest form and minimize the damage from mindless commercialization.

To encourage documentation, research, creation of literature and publication on traditional and performing arts.

To encourage and promote cultural tourism through establishment of reference centers for national and international tourists; and to participate in activities of social development, tourism and culture by government, non-government or foreign organizations.

To encourage and promote traditional women’s singing of the region through performance opportunities and training programmes for young girls.

To commemorate and honour the memory of great artists through appropriate activities.