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Government of India
Ministry of Culture
06-April-2011 11:32 IST
Setting up of Regional Cultural Centres

The Government has set up seven ‘Zonal Cultural Centres’ (ZCCs) across the country, having headquarters at Patiala, Udaipur, Allahabad, Kolkata, Dimapur, Nagpur and Thanjavur. The main objective of these Centres is the development, preservation, promotion and dissemination of the traditional arts of the country.   The States covered by each of these Centres have been detailed in the Annexure, and some states are served by two ZCCs.

 

Funds provided to the Zonal Cultural Centres in the previous four years are as under: 

                                                                                               (Rupees in Lakhs)

Financial Year

Amount Released

 

2007-08

1674.13

2008-09

2616.19

2009-10

2116.40

2010-11

 

2195.16

 (as on 22nd February 2011)

 

 

Details of member States of Zonal Cultural Centres

Sl. No.

Name of the centre

Headquarter

Member States

 

1.

North Zone Cultural Centre

Patiala

Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana,  Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Union Territory of Chandigarh

2.

West Zone Cultural Centre

Udaipur

Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Union Territory of Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli

3.

South Zone Cultural Centre

Thanjavur

Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Union Territories of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Puducherry.

4.

South Central Zone Cultural centre

Nagpur

Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra

5.

Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre

Kolkata

Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Orissa, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal and Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

6.

North Central Zone Cultural Centre

Allahabad

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and NCT of Delhi.

7.

North East Zone Cultural centre

Dimapur

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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