Culture Ministry receives 68 per cent extra grant for ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Maotsav’

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Centre made a threefold enhance within the tradition ministry’s allocations for ‘Centenary and Anniversary: Celebrations and Schemes’, beneath which ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Maotsav’ (AKAM) programmes are being organised throughout states and overseas.

In the 2022-23 funds outlay, Rs 110 crore have been put aside for the AKAM, commemoration and celebration of 75 years of India’s independence and different commemorative features.

However, within the revised estimate, the allocation was elevated to Rs 353.82 crore in view of the anticipated expenditure for the occasions associated to the diamond jubilee of the nation’s independence, mentioned the ministry.

Special provision has been made once more on this 12 months’s funds with a few 68 per cent enhance in allocation for the ‘Centenary and Anniversary: Celebrations and Schemes’.

The Centre has made a provision of Rs 185.00 crore to commemorate the centenaries or start anniversaries of eminent individuals together with AKAM, the flagship initiative of the Narendra Modi Government.

AKAM is being led by the ministry of tradition and has been organising a number of occasions in affiliation with different ministries and departments. The 75-week-long celebration started in March with Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging off the Dandi March. The programme will proceed until 15 August 2023.

With the grand celebrations of 75 years of independence coming into the following part, the ministry shall be holding a sequence of theme-based cultural occasions in affiliation with colleges, faculties, resident welfare associations (RWAs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and different establishments in districts throughout states.

The checklist of activists proposed beneath AKAM 2.0 are flash mobs, theatrical performs, contests, summits, conclaves, fests in faculties and colleges and live shows at widespread websites similar to malls and metro stations.

The outlay for the ministry has additionally elevated by about 13 per cent this 12 months. It has been given Rs 3,399.65 crore as towards the outlay of Rs 3,009.05 crore accepted in 2022-2023.

Among numerous initiatives introduced by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her funds speech, she mentioned introduced that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), a physique accountable safety and restoration of three,693 heritage websites in India, would arrange Bharat Shared Repository of Inscriptions (BharatSHRI), a digital epigraphy museum, in Hyderabad.

It will digitise one lakh historical inscriptions within the first stage, the minister mentioned.

In the annual funds, the ASI was granted Rs 1,102.83 crore. 

NEW DELHI: The Centre made a threefold enhance within the tradition ministry’s allocations for ‘Centenary and Anniversary: Celebrations and Schemes’, beneath which ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Maotsav’ (AKAM) programmes are being organised throughout states and overseas.

In the 2022-23 funds outlay, Rs 110 crore have been put aside for the AKAM, commemoration and celebration of 75 years of India’s independence and different commemorative features.

However, within the revised estimate, the allocation was elevated to Rs 353.82 crore in view of the anticipated expenditure for the occasions associated to the diamond jubilee of the nation’s independence, mentioned the ministry.

Special provision has been made once more on this 12 months’s funds with a few 68 per cent enhance in allocation for the ‘Centenary and Anniversary: Celebrations and Schemes’.

The Centre has made a provision of Rs 185.00 crore to commemorate the centenaries or start anniversaries of eminent individuals together with AKAM, the flagship initiative of the Narendra Modi Government.

AKAM is being led by the ministry of tradition and has been organising a number of occasions in affiliation with different ministries and departments. The 75-week-long celebration started in March with Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging off the Dandi March. The programme will proceed until 15 August 2023.

With the grand celebrations of 75 years of independence coming into the following part, the ministry shall be holding a sequence of theme-based cultural occasions in affiliation with colleges, faculties, resident welfare associations (RWAs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and different establishments in districts throughout states.

The checklist of activists proposed beneath AKAM 2.0 are flash mobs, theatrical performs, contests, summits, conclaves, fests in faculties and colleges and live shows at widespread websites similar to malls and metro stations.

The outlay for the ministry has additionally elevated by about 13 per cent this 12 months. It has been given Rs 3,399.65 crore as towards the outlay of Rs 3,009.05 crore accepted in 2022-2023.

Among numerous initiatives introduced by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her funds speech, she mentioned introduced that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), a physique accountable safety and restoration of three,693 heritage websites in India, would arrange Bharat Shared Repository of Inscriptions (BharatSHRI), a digital epigraphy museum, in Hyderabad.

It will digitise one lakh historical inscriptions within the first stage, the minister mentioned.

In the annual funds, the ASI was granted Rs 1,102.83 crore.