Under Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar (MGMD) Programme, a key component of the National Mission on Cultural Mapping (NMCM), 6.23 lakh villages have been culturally mapped so far. This data is available on MGMD Portal (https://mgmd.gov.in/).

The State/UT-wise details of villages covered are placed at Annexure-I. In Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, 2542 villages have been covered.

MCM primarily undertakes documentation of cultural assets and traditions at the village level and does not have any provision for establishing e-commerce integration for traditional artists and cultural practitioners.

 

ANNEXURE-I

State/UT-wise Distribution of Number of Villages Uploaded on MGMD

State/UT	Number of Uploaded Villages
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	176
Andhra Pradesh	17142
Arunachal Pradesh	4613
Assam	26074
Bihar	39563
Chandigarh	12
Chhattisgarh	19571
Delhi	252
Goa	431
Gujarat	19271
Haryana	7579
Himachal Pradesh	18735
Jammu & Kashmir	6926
Jharkhand	29908
Karnataka	29569
Kerala	1275
Ladakh	238
Lakshadweep Islands	13
Madhya Pradesh	56429
Maharashtra	40042
Manipur	306
Meghalaya	7012
Mizoram	1026
Nagaland	1498
Odisha	47209
Puducherry	127
Punjab	12084
Rajasthan	46696
Sikkim	464
Tamil Nadu	19219
Telangana	9824
The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	107
Tripura	899
Uttar Pradesh	103003
Uttarakhand	15727
West Bengal	40429

 

This information was given by Union Minister for Culture and Tourism Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in a written reply in Lok Sabha today

 

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