National Mission for Mapping Culture

  • April 8, 2023
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National Mission for Mapping Culture

Subject :Schemes

Concept :

  • National Mission for Cultural Mapping with the mandate to map rural India’s cultural assets has covered over one lakh villages.

Details

  • The entire exercise has been carried out under the Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar (My Village My Heritage) programme of the National Mission for Cultural Mapping (NMCM).

About the NMCM Mission

  • The NMCM aims to develop a comprehensive database of art forms, artists and other resources across the country.
  • The Culture Ministry had approved the mission in 2017 with a ₹469 crore budget from 2017-2018 to 2019-2020.

Objectives of the Mission

  • Under this Mission, at broad-level, there are three important objectives as follows:
  • National Cultural Awareness Abhiyan: Hamari Sanskriti Hamari Pahchan Abhiyan (Our Culture Our Identity)
  • Nationwide Artist Talent Hunt/Scouting Programme: Sanskritik Pratibha Khoj Abhiyan
  • National Cultural Workplace: Centralised Transactional Web Portal with database and demography of cultural assets and resources including all art forms and artists.

Implementation

  • In this cultural asset mapping, villages have been broadly divided into seven-eight categories based on whether they are important ecologically, developmentally or scholastically, if they produce a famous textile or product, and if they are connected to some historical or mythological events such as the Independence struggle or epics like the Mahabharata.
  • The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) has undertaken the cultural asset mapping of these villages through field surveys.
  • The survey documents the cultural identity of the villages by involving citizens to share what makes their village, Block or district unique.
  • The survey process involves a CSC Village Level Entrepreneur (VLE) conducting meetings with locals and then uploading interesting facts about their village, its places of interest, customs and traditions, famous personalities, festivals and beliefs, art and culture, etc., on to a special application.
  • The IGNCA plans to cover all the 6.5 lakh villages in the country.
National Mission for Mapping Culture Schemes