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JAMMU: Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) is going to create a database of all the artists, writers, poets, scholars and performers of Jammu region.
Giving details, the Regional Director of ICCR Jammu, Balwant Thakur told media persons that through this major initiative the information regarding our artists, writers, poets, scholars and performers will now be available globally and thus they will not only be recognised world over but public will also have the facility to know the who is who of the entire intellectual fraternity of this region.
“Unfortunately, we hardly have any data about artists, writers, poets, scholars and performers available anywhere with any institution and this document being created through ICCR will go a long way in reaching out to a larger network of this fraternity of the region,” he said.
Balwant made an appeal to all the artists, writers, poets, scholars and performers of Jammu region to send their latest biodatas to ICCR, 46 Garden Avenue, Near Circuit House, Talab Tillo, Jammu or mail at [email protected] along-with their latest coloured photographs.
After having received the information, he said, ICCR Jammu will catalogue and categorize them in accordance to their field of activity.
In case of folk performers, he said, provisions will also be kept in place to reach-out to them and be insured of their inclusion in this important data base.
In deserving cases, efforts will also be made to provide them the forms of empanelment with ICCR, he said adding that ICCR Jammu will also seek help of Jammu Doordarshan, Radio Kashmir, Jammu and J and K Cultural Academy in the collection of information and required data and after having compiled, this data will be shared with all the concerned organisations and departments.
ICCR Jammu through yet another initiative is also in the process of creating an e-invite network through which all the interested will now be getting invitations of all ICCR programmes through e-mails.
For this the ICCR officials will visit majority of the public and private institutions to collect contact details of the individuals interested in watching ICCR programmes and activities. Balwant Thakur concluded by saying that we are living in a digital world and it’s the high time that we shift from the traditional methodologies of reaching out to the audiences to the modern innovations of technology.
