Bhubaneswar: Odisha government is coming up with its first ever Odisha Culture and Heritage Policy 2019 soon.
The State culture secretary, Manoranjan Panigrahi, said that the Odisha government is soon going to declare a Cultural & Heritage Policy for the State. According to him, the Policy would aimed at preservation of rich culture and heritage of the State with a view to spread it in the world. The Policy would define the vision, aims and objectives of the culture and heritage besides promoting study and research on art, culture, music, language and tourism. Welfare schemes for artists, promotion of traditional folk arts and establishment of Regional Cultural Centres and libraries would be incorporated in the Policy, he added.
The frame work of the cultural policy was discussed at a high-level meeting, chaired by culture secretary Panigrahi, here on Friday.
The policy frame work was discussed at a high-level meeting, chaired by Odisha culture secretary Manoranjan Panigrahi, here on Friday. The culture director Bijaya Kumar Nayak, State museum superintend Jayanti Rath, Odia Bhasa Partisthan director Tamasarani Das Mohapatra, State Archives superintend Suchismita Mantri, deputy secretary BB Patra, scholar Raj Kishore Mishra, Sanjya Acharya, Mahes Prasad Das and Aditya Mohapatra.
