National Mission on Cultural Mapping

The Ministry of Culture was working on the cultural mapping mission to build a comprehensive database of artists, art forms and other resources from organisations under the Ministry.
Launched in 2017, it is aimed at creating a database for folk arts and mapping the heritage of villages.
Teams of volunteers from the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sanghathan, the National Service Scheme and students of sociology and social work would be deputed to visit villages and collect data on the art forms and heritage of the areas.

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.

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.

Having made little progress since its launch in 2017, the National Mission on Cultural Mapping has now been handed over to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Culture.

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