Sangeet Natak Akademi

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President Droupadi Murmu will confer the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) and Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for 2024 and 2025 on 115 artists at a special investiture ceremony at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.

About Sangeet Natak Akademi

• It is India’s national academy for music, dance, and drama.
• It is the first national academy of the arts set up by the Republic of India.
• History:
  • It was set up by the Indian education ministry on 31 May 1952 and became functional the following year, with the appointment of its first chairman, Dr. P. V. Rajamannar. 
  • Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, inaugurated it on 28 January 1953.     
• Currently, it is an autonomous body of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.  
• Headquarters: New Delhi
• Functions:
  • The academy functions as the apex body of the performing arts in the country to preserve and promote the vast cultural heritage of India expressed in music, dance, and drama. 
  • It also works with governments and art academies in states and territories of the country. 
• In addition, the Akademi
  • Subsidizes the work of institutions engaged in teaching, performing, or promoting music, dance, or theatre.
  • Gives grants to aid research, documentation, and publishing in the performing arts.
  • Organises and subsidises seminars and conferences of subject specialists.
  • Documents and records the performing arts for its audio-visual archive.
  • Renders advice and assistance to the government of India in the task of formulating and implementing policies and programmes in the field.
  • Carries a part of the responsibilities of the state for fostering cultural contacts between regions in the country, as well as between India and the world.
  • Organises its annual festival of music, dance, and theatre in NCT Delhi.
• The Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards are the highest national recognition conferred on practising artists. 
• The Akademi also confers Fellowships on eminent artists and scholars of music, dance, and drama; and in 2006 instituted annual awards to young artists – the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar. 
• The Akademi’s archive, comprising audio and video tapes, photographs, and films, is one of the largest in the country and is extensively drawn upon for research in the performing arts. 
• Management: 
  • The management of the Akademi vests in its General Council. 
  • The Chairman of the Akademi is appointed by the President of India for a term of five years. 

News: DDN

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