Q. Where is the headquarters of Sangeeth Natak Academy, the country’s premier institution for performing arts.
Solution:
- The Sangeet Natak Akademi – India’s national academy for music, dance and drama – is the first National Academy of the arts set-up by the Republic of India.
- It was created by a resolution of the (then) Ministry of Education,
- Government of India, dated 31 May 1952 notified in the Gazette of India of June 1952.
- The Akademi became functional the following year, with the appointment of its first Chairman, Dr P.V. Rajamannar, and the formation of its all-India council of representatives, the General Council.
- The Sangeet Natak Akademi is presently an Autonomous Body of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India and is fully funded by the Government for implementation of its schemes and programmes.
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