Bhubaneswar, If the districts do not submit investment letters, the districts will be deprived of financial grants from the Oriya Language, Literature and Culture Department going forward. All district governors and district culture officials were informed about this in a video conference held today. Minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, in his address to the district magistrates, said that it was regrettable that no certificates of investment had been submitted from 2016-17 to various districts. The state government has decided to hold a series of celebrations to mark the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Bose this year and to mark the 100th anniversary of Gandhi's first visit to Odisha.
District governors and district culture officials have been asked to prepare a schedule for organizing similar programs at the district level. Despite instructions from the department to register and create a database of members of the federation of artists in the district, steps have not been taken in many districts. It is a key part of the government's program to provide livelihoods to artists, and district commissioners are urged to use the IEC funds available in various departments to engage them in public awareness programs. In some districts, there is a lack of district culture, and efforts are being made to ensure that work is not disrupted.
Work will be done to improve the overall village by selecting the ideal village going forward. The districts that received the garbage funds have been asked to do various things with the interest money of that fund. In addition, folk art villages in the districts are limited to announcements. Emphasis was placed on accelerating development in all those villages, making the artist self-sufficient and making plans to make it truly a folk art village. There are 7,200 Bhagwat Tungi in the state. It was decided to supply them with bass and mic. Some districts have implemented it, while others have not.
Therefore, the Chief Secretary of the Department, Shri Vishnupad Sethi, asked the District Magistrates to ensure that all the Tungis were functioning properly. He also pointed out that the Chief Minister's Artist Assistance Scheme had about Rs 15,000 left to meet the target of providing a monthly allowance of Rs 1,200 to senior artists. "It simply came to our notice then. The secretary suggested that there be district museums in 12 districts of the state and that efforts should be made to maintain them at the district level.
In addition, district culture officials are urged to take the initiative to collect unique and artistic artifacts from both locations, both electronically and in print. The district culture councils have not been restructured in the district for a long time. So they have been asked to restructure and report to the department. The department is scheduled to hold a meeting tomorrow with all district culture officials. So all the work that is left or the report, the data that has to be submitted in the department is asked to be brought along.
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