ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTIONS IN THE PROMOTION OF ART AND CULTURE 7 (. Indira Gandhi national centre for Arts)

7. Indira Gandhi national centre for Arts

In keeping with the global vision of late Smt. Indira Gandhi, the conceptual plan of the Indira Gandhi national Centre for arts (IGNACA), with Headquarter in New Delhi, was drawn up to encompass all arts, specially in their dimension of mutual interdependence and inter-relationship. The IGNCA is being looked after by the Department of Arts, which is one of the five Departments of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The conceptual plan envisages four main divisions of the institution namely:

1.                The indira Gandhi Kala Nidhi: that is a national information system and a Data bank of the arts,     humanities, cultural heritage and a fully supported reference library of multi – media collections.

2.       The indira Gandhi kala kosha: the research and Publication division.

This division conducts a four – fold programme of the following lines:

a)      Compilation and publication of inner-disciplinary glossaries / dictionaries of technical terms in arts and crates.

b)      Publication of a long – term series of fundamental texts relating to arts.

c)       Multi –volume Encyclopedia of Arts.

3.       The indira Gandhi janapada Sampada: The division of Tribal and Folk Arts. This Division carries out programmes under the following heads:

a)      Institute multi – disciplinary field studies with a view to evolve alternate models for comprehending Indian cultural phenomenon in its dimension of inter-webbing of agricultural patterns, societal structures, economies tutus life function, world views and artistic manifestations.

b)      Compile classified bibliographies on tribes and groups and class with a view to facilitating access to primary data by researchers.

c) Collect material documentation on the folk and tribal arts, audio-visual, printed, both from India and abroad.

d)      Establish an international folk and Tribal Art museum drawing upon the cultures of other countries of Asia, Pacific, Africa and Latin America.

4.       The indira Gandhi kala darshana: That is the Division of literary visual and performing arts. This division will collect, present material relating to the arts, again with a cross cultural, inter-disciplinary holistic approach.

           Cumulatively through the porogrammes of the four divisions of the Indira Gandhi National centre for Arts, new beginning has been made of providing a freshness of approach and fusing the most traditional and the most modern high technology.