Action Plan for Ancient Culture, Folk Art, Folk Music

Govt has set up seven Zonal Cultural Centres (ZCCs) having their headquarters at Patiala, Udaipur, Allahabad, Kolkata, Dimapur, Nagpur and Thanjavur with the objectives to preserve, promote and disseminate the traditional folk and tribal arts and culture of all the States/ Union Territories.

The ZCCs have been carrying out various activities and organizing programmes at the national, zonal and local levels in accordance with their aims and objectives, implemented through various schemes.  The Government provides regular plan support for implementation of various schemes.  The regular plan support earmarked for all ZCCs for implementation of their Action Plan in the current financial year 2015-2016 is ` 59.91 crores.  The Government will continue to preserve and promote the folk and tribal arts and culture of all the States/ Union Territories by carrying out various activities and organizing programmes at national, zonal and local levels through ZCCs.  This information was given by The Minister of State for Tourism (Independent Charge), Culture (Independent Charge) and Civil Aviation, Dr. Mahesh Sharma in reply to an unstarred question in the Rajya Sabha.  Source : http://www.ddinews.gov.in