Special Training in Decorative Design
Nearly three decades after graduating, Basanta Kumari Samanta returned to the Govt. College of Art & Crafts, Khallikote for special training in Decorative Design, undertaken under instructor Rabinarayan Nayak across the summer vacations of 1988 and 1989. The certification letter he issued recalls her as his student during the college's diploma years from 1957 to 1961, underscoring a relationship with the institution that spanned both her student and continuing-education years.



