Govt dissolves Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts

April 14, 2016 12:11

The Government of India has reconstituted the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) Trust with immediate effect, which will now be headed by senior journalist Ram Bahadur Rai, a former editor of Jansatta. He replaces Chinmaya Ghare Khan. This is the new list of the 20-member team of trustees.

IGNCA was founded in 1985 in the memory of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and inaugurated by the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

IGNCA, primarily serves as a resource centre for the arts and undertakes research and publication programmes.

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