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Ministry of Culture (India)
Government ministry of India
Government ministry of India
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| agency_name | Ministry of Culture (India) |
| seal | Government of India logo.svg |
| seal_width | 100px |
| seal_caption | Branch of Government of India |
| logo_caption | Ministry of Culture |
| jurisdiction | Government of India |
| headquarters | C-wing |
| Shastri Bhawan | |
| New Delhi | |
| budget | (2023-24 est.) |
| minister1_name | Gajendra Singh Shekhawat |
| minister1_pfo | Cabinet Minister |
| minister2_name | Rao Inderjit Singh |
| minister2_pfo | Minister of State |
| website | |
| logo | Ministry of Culture India.svg |
| logo_size | 250px |
Shastri Bhawan New Delhi The Ministry of Culture is the Indian government ministry charged with preservation and promotion of art and culture of India.
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is the current Minister of Culture. Recently the government has established the National Mission on Libraries India under this ministry.
History
The body now known as the Ministry of Culture was originally established as the Department of Culture in 1971.
For its first 14 years, it was administered as a department under the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare (later the Ministry of Education and Culture).
In 1985, as part of a government-wide administrative re-organisation, the Department of Culture was moved and placed under the newly created Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD).
This arrangement continued until 1999, when the department was separated from the HRD Ministry and briefly merged with another portfolio to form the Ministry of Tourism and Culture.
This combined ministry was bifurcated on 27 May 2006, leading to the creation of a standalone, cabinet-level Ministry of Culture and a separate Ministry of Tourism. Since 2006, the Ministry of Culture has functioned as an independent ministry within the Government of India.
Characteristics
The restoration of ancient idols smuggled out of India comes under the Ministry of Culture.
As of 1 October 2021, the Government of India has recovered 211 idols. Till 2014 only 13 idols were recovered. 198 idols have been restored since 2014.
In June 2022, more than 10 idols were recovered and handed over to the Tamil Nadu Idol Rescue Unit. 228 idols have been recovered till 2022.
Organisation
- Attached offices
- Archaeological Survey of India
- Central Secretariat Library
- National Archives of India
- Subordinate offices
- Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata
- Central Reference Library, Kolkata
- National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property, Lucknow
- National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
- National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
- National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru
- National Library of India, Kolkata
- National Museum, New Delhi
- Autonomous organisations
- National Mission for Manuscripts, Delhi
- Allahabad Museum, Prayagraj
- Asiatic Society, Kolkata
- Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Jammu and Kashmir
- Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS)
- Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, New Delhi
- Delhi Public Library, Delhi
- Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi
- Indian Museum, Kolkata
- Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi
- Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manava Sangrahalaya, Bhopal
- Kalakshetra Foundation, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai
- Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Patna
- Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata
- National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata
- National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology (NMIHACM), Delhi
- National School of Drama, New Delhi
- Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, Nalanda, Bihar
- Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi (Teen Murti Bhavan)
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata, registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961
- Raza Library, Rampur
- Sahitya Akademi (SA), New Delhi
- Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad
- Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA), New Delhi
- Saraswathi Mahal Library, Tanjore
- Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
- Zonal Cultural Centers (based on Cultural Zones of India)
- , Kolkata
- North Central Zone Cultural Centre, Allahabad
- North East Zone Cultural Centre
- North Zone Cultural Centre
- South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur
- South Zone Culture Centre, Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu
- West Zone Cultural Centre
- Public Sector Undertakings
- National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation
List of ministers
Cabinet Ministers
| Portrait | Minister | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Birth-Death) | ||||||||
| Constituency | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | From | To | Period | **** |
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:The Leader of Opposition, BThe Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Shri Ananthkumar, in New Delhi on January 08, 2015 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Ananth Kumar | |||||
| (19592018) | ||||||||
| MP for Bangalore South | 13 October | |||||||
| 1999 | 1 September | |||||||
| 2001 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee III | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:Maneka-Gandhi.jpg | 70px]] | Maneka Gandhi | |||||
| (born 1956) | ||||||||
| MP for Pilibhit | ||||||||
| (MoS, I/C) | 1 September | |||||||
| 2001 | 18 November | |||||||
| 2001 | ||||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:Jagmohan.jpg | 70px]] | Jagmohan | |||||
| (19272021) | ||||||||
| MP for New Delhi | 18 November | |||||||
| 2001 | 22 May | |||||||
| 2004 | ||||||||
| Indian National Congress}}" | [[File:Jaipal Sudini Reddy - Kolkata 2004-11-10 03212 Cropped.jpg | 70px]] | Jaipal Reddy | |||||
| (19422018) | ||||||||
| MP for Miryalguda | 23 May | |||||||
| 2004 | 29 January | |||||||
| 2006 | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | |||||
| Indian National Congress}}" | [[File:Ambika Soni.jpg | 70px]] | Ambika Soni | |||||
| (born 1942) | ||||||||
| MP for Punjab (Rajya Sabha) | 29 January | |||||||
| 2006 | 22 May | |||||||
| 2009 | ||||||||
| Indian National Congress}}" | [[File:Manmohan Singh in 2009.jpg | 70px]] | Manmohan Singh | |||||
| (19322024) | ||||||||
| MP for Assam (Rajya Sabha) | ||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 22 May | |||||||
| 2009 | 19 January | |||||||
| 2011 | Manmohan II | |||||||
| Indian National Congress}}" | [[File:Kumari Selja.jpg | 70px]] | Selja Kumari | |||||
| (born 1962) | ||||||||
| MP for Ambala | 19 January | |||||||
| 2011 | 28 October | |||||||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| Indian National Congress}}" | [[File:Chandresh Kumari Katoch assuming office in 2012 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Chandresh Kumari Katoch | |||||
| (born 1944) | ||||||||
| MP for Jodhpur | 28 October | |||||||
| 2012 | 26 May | |||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:Shripad Yasso Naik - Kolkata 2014-10-12 7755.JPG | 70px]] | Shripad Naik | |||||
| (born 1952) | ||||||||
| MP for North Goa | ||||||||
| (MoS, I/C) | 26 May | |||||||
| 2014 | 9 November | |||||||
| 2014 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:Mahesh Sharma January 2015.jpg | 70px]] | Mahesh Sharma | |||||
| (born 1959) | ||||||||
| MP for Gautam Buddh Nagar | ||||||||
| (MoS, I/C) | 9 November | |||||||
| 2014 | 30 May | |||||||
| 2019 | ||||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:Prahlad Singh Patel.jpg | 70px]] | Prahlad Singh Patel | |||||
| (born 1960) | ||||||||
| MP for Damoh | ||||||||
| (MoS, I/C) | 31 May | |||||||
| 2019 | 7 July | |||||||
| 2021 | Modi II | |||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:G. Kishan Reddy in 2025.jpg | 70px]] | G. Kishan Reddy | |||||
| (born 1964) | ||||||||
| MP for Secunderabad | 7 July | |||||||
| 2021 | 11 June | |||||||
| 2024 | ||||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in June 2019 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | |||||
| (born 1967) | ||||||||
| MP for Jodhpur | 11 June | |||||||
| 2024 | Incumbent | Modi III |
Ministers of State
| Portrait | Minister | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Birth-Death) | |||||||
| Constituency | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | From | To | Period |
| Rashtriya Janata Dal}}" | [[File:Kanti Singh in 2008 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Kanti Singh | ||||
| (born 1957) | |||||||
| MP for Arrah | 6 April | ||||||
| 2008 | 22 May | ||||||
| 2009 | Rashtriya Janata Dal | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:Arjun Ram Meghwal 2017 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Arjun Ram Meghwal | ||||
| (born 1953) | |||||||
| MP for Bikaner | 7 July | ||||||
| 2021 | 11 June | ||||||
| 2024 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi II | Narendra Modi | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:Meenakshi Lekhi with PM Modi (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Meenakshi Lekhi | ||||
| (born 1967) | |||||||
| MP for New Delhi | |||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | [[File:Rao Inderjit Singh taking over as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Planning in May 2014 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Rao Inderjit Singh | ||||
| (born 1951) | |||||||
| MP for Gurgaon | 11 June | ||||||
| 2024 | Incumbent | Modi III |
References
References
- "The annual outlay for Ministry of Culture in FY 2023-24 increased by 12.97% to Rs. 3,399.65 Crore".
- "About : NML".
- (October 2021). "In 7 years, Modi govt brought back 198 ancient artefacts from abroad".
- "Year End Review 2022: Ministry of Culture".
- "About RRRLF".
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