<h1 class="ql-align-center">Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA)</h1> <h2>Context:</h2> <ul><li>Recently IGNCA conducted cultural mapping of 80 villages associated with noted personalities in history, in particular the freedom movement, unique crafts, and festivals have been started as a pilot project.</li></ul> <h2>About:</h2> <ul><li>Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) was established in 1987 as an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture, as a centre for research, academic pursuit, and dissemination in the field of the arts.</li></ul> <ul><li>IGNCA has a trust (i.e. Board of Trustees), which meets regularly to give general direction about the Centre’s work.</li></ul> <ul><li>The Executive Committee, drawn from among the Trustees, functions under a Chairman.</li></ul> <ul><li>IGNCA is a research unit under Project Mausam. </li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-1">Project ‘Mausam’ is a Ministry of Culture project with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), New Delhi as the nodal agency.</li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-1">The central themes that hold Project ‘Mausam’ together are those of cultural routes and maritime landscapes that not only linked different parts of the Indian Ocean littoral but also connected the coastal centres to their hinterlands</li></ul> <ul><li>Important projects under IGNCA are:</li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-1">Vedic Heritage Portal: </li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-2">A project on the design and development of a Vedic Heritage Portal was initiated at IGNCA, under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.</li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-2">The portal aims to communicate messages enshrined in the Vedas</li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-1">National Mission on Cultural Mapping: </li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-2">National Mission on cultural mapping (NMCM) mission started in 2017 but now handed over to Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA)</li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-2">NMCM was set up to compile data of artists, art forms &amp; geo-location with inputs from Central Ministries, State Governments &amp; art and culture bodies</li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-2">Three important objectives of NMCM are:</li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-3">National Cultural Awareness Abhiyan</li><li class="ql-indent-3">Nationwide Artist Talent Hunt/Scouting Programme</li><li class="ql-indent-3">National Cultural Workplace</li></ul>