In the year of commemoration of the birth centenary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay, who hailed from Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh, the Ministry of Culture, Government of India has launched the implementation of the ‘‘National Mission on Cultural Mapping of India’ at Goverdhan Block, Mathura District, Uttar Prades.
This Mission is part of the ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ umbrella. Paving the way for the ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ programme led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the mission aims at converting the vast and widespread cultural canvas of India into an objective cultural map, designing a mechanism to fulfil the aspirations of the whole artist community of the nation and preserving the rich cultural heritage of this country in the form of a cultural repository of artists and art forms.
Vision & Mission
To envision and address the necessity of preserving the threads of rich Indian Art
and Cultural Heritage
To Convert vast and widespread cultural canvass of India into an objective Cultural
Mapping
To Design a mechanism to fulfill the aspirations of the whole artist community of the
nation
To Preserve the rich cultural heritage of this country for future generations
To create a strong “Cultural Vibrancy” throughout the nation
This Mission encompasses data mapping, demography building formalising the processes and bringing all the cultural activities under one web based umbrella for better results.
The Mission also seeks to open a direct channel of communication of artists with the Government and peer to peer communication among artists for talent honing and handholding of each other.
The Cultural Mapping of India portal will serve as a repository/consolidated database of information about cultural assets and resources i.e. a cultural inventory at one place for essential planning, sustainable economic development and for preserving the scattered and near extinct art forms.
