Adi RangaTheatre School(ARTS), which has received financial support to the tune of Rs 95 lakh under CSR funds fromTamil NadubasedNLC India Ltd, a Navratna company, is now ready to mesmerise audiences, and to train enthusiasts in various performing arts.

Yashavant Sirdeshpande, president, Guru Institute, under which ARTS has come up, told TOI that the ARTS premises is constructed on 36 guntas in the outskirts of Lohia Nagar, Hubballi. We had got the land from Huda in 2013, but the work on the school started in 2017.
The state-of-the-art premises has come up by utilising locally available and low-cost Resources. Apart from the contribution of Rs 95 lakh from NLC India, Hubballi basedVRLcompany gave Rs 20 lakh under its CSR funds. Many more well-wishers have donated towards this project, and we have also spent from our own earnings. We have spent about Rs 1.7 crore on thetheatre school so far. As better ideas are pitched, we update the in the premises, he said.