Lok Sabha Question No. 309 (STARRED), answered on 2015-12-21
Subject: Cultural Exchange Programmes
Ministry: CULTURE
Asked by: P. KUMAR

## MINISTRY OF CULTURE LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO,* 309

## TO BE ANSWERD ON 21+12. 2015

## CULTURE EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES

## *309: SHRI P KUMAR:

will the Minister of CULTURE be pleased state:

- (a) the mechanism in place to showcase India's rich culture and heritage in foreign countries;
- (b) the number of cultural centres  established so far in various states/UTs;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to set up new cultural centres in various countries including the SAARC countries under the cultural exchange programmes and if s0, the details thereof along with the funds allocated for setting up such centres during the last three years and the current year; year and country-wise; and
- (d) whether the Government has received any proposal from various State Governments for setting up of new cultural centres abroad and if so, the details thereof along with the action taken by Government thereon?

MINISTER OF STATE, CULTURE AND TOURISM (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) AND MINISTER OF STATE, CIVIL AVIATION

(DR: MAHESH SHARMA)

STATEMENT REFFERED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) to (d) OF THE LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO\_ *309 FOR 21,12.2015 REGARDING CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES.

- a) The Festivals of India (Fol) are conducted abroad for spreading Indian culture abroad and enhancing people to people contact through dance, performance, food festival, exhibition, literary festival, film festival, Yoga, Mehandi art etc.

Ministry of Culture aims at disseminating Indian culture in new territories and develops the cultural relations between India and various countries of the world through Cultural Agreements and Cultural Exchange Programmes (CEPs)  The CEPs signed between Ministry of Culture and Cultural Ministries of various countries are circulated to implementing ' agencies for its   implementation: As per  provision of CEPs cultural delegationslgroups are sent on reciprocal basis.

Indian Council also  actively  implements CEPs through its programmes on receiving and sending cultural delegationslgroups to and from foreign countries. Indian Missions and ICCR are jointly involved in promotion of culture through their Culture wings and Culture Centres respectively abroad.

- b) Ministry of Culture have set up seven Zonal Cultural Centres (ZCCs) with headquarters at Patiala, Nagpur; Udaipur; Allahabad, Kolkata; Dimapur and Thanjavur to preserve, promote the culture including folk dance, music and literature of different regions and these ZCCs conduct folk festivals/ events at nationall internationals level through various schemes:

as at Annexure1, for organizing cultural events of the cultural groupslartists received from abroad.

- C) At present ICCR is running 36 Culture Centres abroad including in the SAARC countries as enumerated in Annexure- Il. It is in the process of establishing eight new Culture Centres in Washington, Paris, Buenos Aires, Lagos, Toronto, Sydney, Hanoi and Singapore:

Rs. 5.5 Crores has been allocated under ICCR budget for financial year 20152016 for meeting recurring expenditure on new Indian Culture Centres.

- d) No, Madam:

## ANNEXRURE L

## Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 309 for 21.12.2015)

## List o ICCR Regionai Centres in various States

|    | State                      | City               |
|----|----------------------------|--------------------|
| 1  | Andhra Pradesh & Telangana | Hyderabad          |
| 2  | Assam                      | Guwahati           |
| 3  | Bihar                      | Patna              |
|    | Gujarat                    | Ahmadabad          |
|    | Haryana & Punjab_          | Chandigarh         |
|    | Karnataka                  | Bangalore          |
|    | Jammu & Kashmir            | Srinagar           |
|    |                            | Jammu              |
| 9  | Kerala                     | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 10 | Madhya Pradesh             | Bhopal             |
| 11 | Maharashtra                | Mumbai             |
| 12 | Maharashtra                | Pune               |
| 13 | Meghalaya                  | Shillong           |
| 14 | Odisha                     | Bhubaneswar        |
|    | Goa                        | Madgaon            |
| 16 | Rajasthan                  | Jaipur             |
| 17 | Tamil Nadu                 | Chennai            |
| 18 | Uttar Pradesh              | Lucknow            |
| 19 |                            | Varanasi           |
| 20 | West Bengal                | Kolkata            |

## (Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 309 for 21.12.2015)

## List of Indian Culture Centres abroad

| SNo   | Name_of Centre_               |   Year of opening |
|-------|-------------------------------|-------------------|
|       | ICC_Georgetown Guyana         |              1972 |
| 2     | ICC_Paramaribo,Suriname_      |              1978 |
| 3     | IGCIC,Port Louis,Mauritius    |              1988 |
| 4     |                               |              1988 |
| 5     | ICC sub centre,Bali_Indonesia |              2004 |
| 6     | JNCC,Moscow                   |              1989 |
| 7     | Tagore Centre_Berlin,_Germany |              1990 |
| 8     | MACIC,_Cairo_Egypt            |              1992 |
| 9     | TNC; London                   |              1992 |
| 10    |                               |              1994 |
| 11    | ICC, Astana, Kazakhstan       |              1994 |
| 12    |                               |              1993 |
| 13    | ICC,Durban,_South Africa_     |              1993 |
| 14    | MGIcc, Port of Spain T &T     |              1996 |
| 15    | ICC_Colombo                   |              1998 |
| 16    | ICC _Dushanbe_Tajkistan       |              2002 |
|       | ICC__Suva_Fij                 |              2005 |
| 18    | ICC_Kathmandu_Nepal           |              2007 |
| 19    | ICC,Kabul_Afghanistan         |              2007 |
| 20    | ICC_Beijing_China             |              2008 |
| 21    | ICC_Bangkok_Thailand_         |              2009 |
| 22    | ICC_Tokyo_Japan               |              2009 |
| 23    | ICC_Kuala Lumpur_Malaysia     |              2009 |
| 24    |                               |              2010 |
| 25    | NWCC,_Thimphu;Bhutan          |              2010 |
| 26    | GTICC_Mexico City             |              2010 |
| 27    | ICC_Budapest_Hungary          |              2010 |
| 28    | ICC_Prague                    |              2010 |
| 29    | ICC_Yangon,Myanmar            |              2010 |
| 30    | ICC , Male,Maldives           |              2011 |
| 31    |                               |              2011 |
| 32    | ICC_Dar-e-Salaam_Tanzania     |              2011 |
| 33    |                               |              2011 |
| 34    | ICC_Sao Paulo_Brazil          |              2011 |
| 35    | ICC,Tehran_Iran               |              2013 |
| 36    | ICC_Sydney_Australia          |              2015 |

## ANNEXURE LL