Lok Sabha Question No. 4636 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-23
Subject: Conservation of Paintings and Wood Arts of Tribals Folk Life
Ministry: CULTURE
Asked by: Ravneet Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CULTURE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4636 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.03.2020

## Conservation of Paintings and Wood Arts of Tribals Folk Life

## 4636. SHRI RAVNEET SINGH BITTU:

Will the Minister of CULTURE be pleased to state:

- (a)    whether  the  Government is taking any initiative  to conserve songs, musical instruments, costumes, paintings, wood arts etc. associated with tribal folk life:
- (b)   if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise and if not, the reasons therefor:
- (c) whether the Government has any plan to establish museums or memorials depicting  the lives of famous historic personalities among the tribal communities; and
- (d)   if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR CULTURE & TOURISM (IC) (PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL)

(a)  &  (b)      Yes  Sir.    The  Sangeet  Natak  Akademi  (SNA),  an  autonomous  organization  under Ministry of Culture has been functioning as the apex body in the field of performing arts in the country,  preserving  and  promoting  the  vast  intangible  heritage  of  India's  diverse  culture expressed in forms of music, dance, drama and tribal art forms.

Sangeet  Natak  Akademi  organizes  Festivals  at  all  over  the  country,  gives  grants-in-aid  for research,  documentation  and  publishing  in  the  performing  arts;  organizes  and  subsidizes seminars and conferences of subject specialists; documents and records the performing arts for its audio-visual archive.

The scheme 'Festival, Workshop & Exhibition' is designed to established/ support festivals both at  the  regional  and  national  levels  to  present  classical,  traditional,  tribal  and  other  forms  of Indian performing arts under the aegis of the Akademi in order to preserve art tradition in live practice  and  develop  technique  and  creative  process  through  performance  and  workshop,  by holding and supporting music festivals, Seminars & Workshops & Exhibitions etc. The Akademi has brought into limelight  unknown and rare forms and many artistes who are performers of outstanding  merit,  as  also  younger  generation  of  performing  artists.  The  opportunities  and scope for in-depth documentation of various arts and artistes brought together on the occasion of the events are utilized for optimum artistic results.

The Akademi have a scheme 'Training and Preservation of Traditional, Folk & Tribal Performing Arts' with a view to achieving the objectives, various selected forms of music, dance, theatre including  crafts  associated  with  the  performing  arts  and  allied  arts  from  all  over  the  country would  be  given  support  with  special  attention  to  training  in  non-formal  and  personalized atmosphere  in  the  tradition  of  Guru-shishya  parampara.  The  scheme  will  also  support performances,  workshops  and  exhibitions  of  musical  instruments  and  crafts  associated  with traditional  performing  art  forms.  The  scheme  will  also  support  short-term  intensive  training programmes in certain forms.

Sangeet  Natak  Akademi  have  a  scheme  'Survey,  Research,  Documentation,  Dissemination  & Publication' with the objective of preserve recordings of different arts forms for the purpose of research and dissemination. Under the said scheme Akademi provides grant to individuals and arts and cultural institutions for research work and documentation of folk and tribal art forms of the country.

Sangeet Natak Akademi has been engaged for long in the work of mapping, preserving, and promoting  the  traditional  performing  arts  of  India.  Creation  of  a  database  of  the  various performing arts of India has now become an essential requirement for creation of a National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).

(c) & (d)   Yes Sir.   Ministry of Tribal Affairs(MoTA), Government of India has established Tribal Research  Institutes  (TRIs)  in  24  States  and  2  UT.  Within  the  set  of  TRIs,  there  are  cultural museum, library,  training  centre,  research  wing  etc.  14  TRIs  have  cultural  Museum.  Further, Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) has sanctioned projects for setting up tribal freedom fighter's museums in various States where tribals lived, struggled against the Britishers and refused to bow down so that the coming generations may know how our tribals made sacrifices for the pride of mother India. The details of Museums sanction along with estimated cost and funds released by  Ministry of Tribal Affairs is enclosed at   Annexure-I

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The  Details  of  museums  sanctioned  along  with  estimated  cost  and  funds  released  by MoTA are as under:-

(₹. In Crore)

| S. N.   | State          | Location        | Project Cost   | Year of Sanction   |   MoTA's Share |   Release as on 18.3.20 | Status of Completion                      |
|---------|----------------|-----------------|----------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh | Lambasingi      | 35.00          | 2017-18            |             15 |                    7.5  | In progress                               |
| 2       | Chhattisgarh   | Raipur          | 25.66          | 2017-18            |             15 |                    4.65 | In Progress                               |
| 3       | Gujarat        | Rajpipla        | 102.55         | 2017-18            |             50 |                   50    | Likely to be completed by September 2020. |
| 4       | Jharkhand      | Ranchi          | 36.66          | 2017-18            |             25 |                   25    | Likely to be inaugurated by June 2020.    |
| 5       | Kerala         | Kozhikode       | 16.16          | 2017-18            |             15 |                    7.5  | In progress                               |
| 6       | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara      | 38.26          | 2017-18            |             15 |                    6.93 | In progress                               |
| 7       | Telangana      | Hyderabad       | 18.00          | 2018-19            |             15 |                    1    | In progress                               |
| 8       | Manipur        | Senapati        | 51.38          | 2018-19            |             15 |                    1    | In progress                               |
| 9.      | Mizoram        | Mualngo, Kelsih | 15.00          | 2019-20            |             15 |                    1    | In progress                               |
| Total   | Total          | Total           | Total          |                    |            165 |                  104.58 |                                           |

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