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.
