{"id":5744,"date":"2022-12-13T06:28:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:09:46","slug":"what-are-zonal-cultural-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-zonal-cultural-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Zonal Cultural Centres?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<strong>About Zonal Cultural Centres (ZCCs):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The centres have been set up at <strong>Patiala, Nagpur, Udaipur, Prayagraj, Kolkata, Dimapur, and Thanjavur.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Government of India has provided annual grant-in-aid to conduct art programmes at these centres.<\/li>\n<li>The ministry also organises Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsavs (RSMs) through these ZCCs where a large number of artistes from all over India are engaged to showcase their talents.<\/li>\n<li>These ZCCs also organise a minimum 42 Regional Festivals for promotion of art and culture every year as per their programme calendar.<\/li>\n<li>For proper storage of the treasure of knowledge for posterity, several art forms including the vanishing ones are being documented by these ZCCs.<\/li>\n<li>Number of arts forms have been documented in digital format (both audio and video formats).<\/li>\n<li>Further, for preservation and promotion of various folk arts &amp; culture of the country, these ZCCs also implement a number of schemes viz. <strong>Award to Young Talented Artists, Guru Shishya Parampara, Theatre Rejuvenation, Research and Documentation, Shilpgram, OCTAVE and National Cultural Exchange Programme.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What is Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav is an annual festival since 2015 that celebrates India&#8217;s vibrant and diverse culture. It is organised by the Ministry of Culture&#8217;s seven zonal cultural centres. Every year, this national cultural festival, which travels to different states and cities across India, attracts many renowned artists and spectators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Culture-Ministry-set-up-seven-Zonal-Cultural-Centres-to-conserve%2c-develop-art%2c-culture-%26-crafts-across-country&amp;id=452207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZCCs have been set up to protect, promote &#038; preserve various forms of folk art &#038; culture across India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}