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Staff crunch in Lalit Kala, Sangeet Natak Academy

The New Indian Express Kochi

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February 07, 2025

Manpower Shortage

- PARVEZ SULTAN @ New Delhi

THE organisations working to preserve and promote artistic activities under the administrative supervision of the Ministry of Culture have been operating with limited workforce.

According to a parliamentary panel report, three Akademis — Sangeet Natak Akademi, Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, and Lalit Kala Akademi — are functioning with less than 40 per cent of their sanctioned strength.

The National School of Drama has approximately 48 per cent and Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts has around 36 per cent vacancies against their sanctioned strengths respectively, stated the government's action-taken-report on the recommendations or observations of the committee regarding the functioning of national Akademis and other cultural institutions.

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