Lok Sabha Question No. 212 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-06-24
Subject: Promotion of Performing Visual Arts
Ministry: CULTURE
Asked by: Bhagwanth Khuba

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CULTURE

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 212 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.06.2019

## PROMOTION OF PERFORMING VISUAL ARTS

## 212: SHRI BHAGWANTH KHUBA;

Will the Minister of CULTURE be pleased to state:

- (a)   whether the Government has any institutes and agencies engaged in the promotion of performing visual arts;
- (b)   if so, the details thereof;
- (c)   whether the Government allocated any funds for setting up of such institutes:
- (d)   whether the Government plans to set up of cultural institutions in the field of performing visual arts; and
- (e)   if so, give details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (I/C) FOR CULTURE & TOURISM (SHRI PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL)

- (a)  to  (e):    Yes,  Sir.  Government  of  India  has  set  up  seven  Zonal  Cultural  Centres  (ZCCs)  with headquarters at Patiala, Nagpur, Udaipur, Prayagraj, Kolkata, Dimapur and Thajavur.  These ZCCs organise  various  cultural  activities  and  programmes  on  regular  basis  throughout  the  country  for which annual grant-in-aid is given to them by the Government of India.  The objective of one of the schemes  viz.  Research  and  Documentation  Scheme  is  to  preserve,  promote  and  propagate vanishing visual and performing art forms. In addition various autonomous organisations under this Ministry like Kalakshetra Foundation (KF), Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA), Lalit Kala Akademi (LKA), Centre  for  Cultural  Resources  and  Training  (CCRT),  National  School  of  Drama  (NSD)  and  Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) engaged in the promotion of performing visual arts.

Kalakshetra  Foundation,  Chennai,  founded  in  the  year  1936  by  the  doyen  of  Indian  Classical Dance - Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale, is an Institute for the preservation and promotion of Indian Classical  Arts  especially  for  Bharatnatyam.  It  conducts  four-year  Diploma  courses  and  two-year Post Diploma courses in Bhartnatyam, Carnatic Music and Visual Arts.  It runs part time evening courses  in  Music  for  young  children.    The  Foundation  conducts  various  art  festivals,  monthly concerts, workshops, lecture demonstrations, seminars in connection with Dance, Music and Visual Arts.    It  produces  new  dance dramas, revives old dance dramas, publishes journals on art and culture,  conducts  outreach  programmes.    Art  performances  are  regularly  staged  in  its  multiple performance spaces.

Sangeet  Natak  Akademi,  an  autonomous  organisation  under  the  Ministry  through  its  own documentation section is doing audio /video documentation of performing arts for the Akademi. Sangeet Natak Akademi has total holding of approximately 11,900 hours of video recording. The Akademi has produced two video documentaries also, namely Zikr Us Parivash Ka-documentary on Begum Akhtar and Akhtar Raas Leela of Manipur. Akademi has also released 30 video DVDs on Music, Dance, Theatre, Puppet and Folk/Traditional Arts.

Centre  for  Cultural  Resources  and  Training  (CCRT)  established  in  1979  and  pioneered  by  Smt. Kamaladevi  Chattopadhyay and Dr. Kapila  Vatsyayan,  functions as  an  autonomous organization under  the  aegis  of  Ministry  of  Culture.  CCRT  organizes  theoretical  and  theme  based  academic programmes on Indian art and culture for teachers and students. CCRT conducts Workshops to provide practical training and knowledge in crafts to be incorporated in school curriculum. Various art activities like drama, music, narrative art forms, classical dances, etc. are organized to create an awareness of the regional variations and richness of cultural expressions of our country.

CCRT also implements Cultural Talent Search Scholarship Scheme for providing facilities to young talented children in the 10-14 age group to learn any of the performing, visual & literary art forms, which  continues  upto  20  years  of  age  subject  to  satisfactory  progress,  as  well  as  implements partially  the  Scheme  for  Award  of  Scholarships  to  Young  Artist  in  Different  Cultural  Fields  for advance training in performing & visual arts for the age group of 18-25 years. Also awards Junior & Senior Fellowships for undertaking Research in the field of Indian Art & Culture for the age group of 25 to 40 years and above 40 years respectively.

Lalit Kala Akademi set up by the Govt. of India on 05.08.1954 is an apex cultural body in the field of  visual  arts  in  India.  Central  to  the  Akademi's  mission  is  the  encouragement  of  a  deeper understanding and enjoyment of modern and contemporary visual art by a diverse local, national and  international  audience  that  it  serves.  The  National  Exhibition  of  Art  and  the  International Triennale  India  are  examples  of  such  endeavours.  The  Akademi's  sincere  commitment  to  the development of art is evident through the strong national and international programmes organised by the headquarters in New Delhi, and by the centres situated at Bhubneshwar, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Garhi (New Delhi) and sub- centres at Shimla and Patna.

National  School  of  Drama,  a  premier  theatre  teaching  and  training  institute  in  the  country, organizes various festivals including Bharat Rang  Mahotsav, Jashnebachpan, Bal Sangam, Poorvottar Natya Samaroh, National Tribal Festival etc in different parts of the country mainly for the purpose of promotion of performing (Theatre) arts.

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture is visualized as a centre encompassing the study and experience of all the arts. The arts are here understood to comprise the fields of creative and critical literature, written and oral, the visual arts, ranging from Architecture, Sculpture, Painting and Graphics to general material culture, Photography  and  Film,  the  Performing  Arts  of  Music,  Dance  and  the  theatre  in  their  broadest connotation; and all else in fairs, festivals and lifestyles that has an artistic dimension.

All organisations are funded by Government of India.

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