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Scheme of Financial Assistance to Professional Groups and Individuals engaged for specified Performing Arts Projects
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A. Preamble
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The scheme will be titled
"Financial Assistance to Professional Groups and Individuals engaged
for specified Performing Arts Projects". Under this scheme
financial assistance will be provided to dramatic groups, theatre
groups, music ensembles, children theatre, solo artists and for all
genres of performing arts activities.
The scheme will have the following major components:
1. Salary Grant.
2. Production Grant.
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B. Eligibility and Criteria
for grant
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(a) Production
Grant
1.
Grants or subsidies to be given for production under
this scheme will be on the basis of approved projects or programmes
and will be ad-hoc in character. The projects selected for financial
assistance under this scheme shall normally be of the duration not
exceeding one year. The amount of grant will be sufficient to cover
all items of expenditure included in the approved projects/programmes
selected for assistance in a particular year. Amongst the items
which may be treated as approved items for purpose of grant will be
salary remuneration to artists including casual artists at prevalent
rates, cost of productions/performance, rental for halls for
rehearsals, cost of costumes, transport contingencies, research
expenditure etc.
2.
The application for seeking Production Grant must
contain detailed cost estimates with proper justification so that
the Expert Committee could consider recommendation of grant based on
actual requirement.
3.
In selecting individual projects for assistance, care
will be taken to ensure that all different art forms and styles from
all parts of the country are represented, giving due preference to
rare and traditional forms.
4.
Special consideration will be given to projects which
are aimed at encouraging experimental and innovative methodologies
emerging out of original writing, original direction,
theatre-research, theatre training programme or training of audience
and those who foster cultural activities at the rural level.
5.
The grantees who are sanctioned Production Grant must
provide their programme details to the Ministry of Culture so that
the same can be uploaded in the websites of the Ministry of Culture.
6.
Organizations/Individuals seeking Production Grant are
eligible to obtain only one grant in a year.
(b) Salary Grant
1. The Group ensembles to be assisted for salary grant will be
expected to have a repertoire of adequate number and quality and
should have given performances on an all India basis.
2. Those grantees who are getting Salary Grant, would be
recommended for renewal of
Salary Grant only when they stage at least two
productions during the financial year. Out of this at least one
production must be a new production i.e. which has not been staged
earlier.
3. The salary grant will be reviewed annually by the Expert
Committee set up for the purpose. |
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C. Advertisement seeking applications under the Scheme
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1.
While an
advertisement will be placed, annually, both on the website of the Ministry
2. The application must be accompanied by documents as specified in Para-F
below. Any application submitted without these documents is liable to be
rejected.
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D. Mode of Selection
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1. Production Grant/Salary Grant will be sanctioned by the Expert
Committee constituted for the purpose. The constitution of the
Expert Committee will be for two years and will be approved by the
Ministry.
2. The scrutiny of applications by the Expert Committee will be
done periodically subject to the availability of funds and
applications for the grant.
3. While Production Grant will be disbursed in two
installments of
75% and 25% respectively,
the Salary Grant to organization/institutions will be
released annually. |
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E. Amount of Grant
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1.
Salary Grant:
Effective from 1/4/2009,
salary grant will be given to a
maximum number of 25 artistes and one guru as decided by the Expert
Committee. Effective
from 1/4/2009,
assistance for each artiste /Guru will be as given below :
(i) Artiste :
Rs. 6000/- per month.
(ii) One Guru/Director : Rs.
10000/- per month.
2.
Production Grant:
Effective from 1/4/2009,
a maximum
of Rs. 5 lakh per year shall be given to the Organisation/Individual
depending upon the project. However, in case of larger Productions,
meeting specific requirements in tune with the scheme, the upper
limit of grant could be relaxed with approval of Hon’ble Minister.
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F. Documents to
be Submitted with the Application
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(i)
Photocopy of the Registration Certificate & Memorandum of
Association.
(ii) Income
Tax Assessment order.
(iii) Last
three year’s receipts and payment account and balance sheet with
auditor’s certificate.
(iv)
Photocopy of Utilization Certificate for previous year’s grant.
(v) Complete
details of artiste’s name, guru/director’s name, cost of rehearsals,
cost of costumes, cost of transportation, cost of research, cost of
scripting, cost of staging, etc.
(vi) Press
reviews, press advertisements, souvenir’s copies of tickets etc. of
the production of the previous years.
(vii) The application should be duly recommended by concerned
State Govts /U.T. Administrations or any of the State Akademies or
National Akademies including National School of Drama (NSD),
Kalakshetra Foundation, Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT),
Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), Zonal Cultural
Centres (ZCCs) and bodies of similar stature. |
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G. Evaluation and Monitoring
of the Scheme |
The Ministry of Culture will evaluate the grantees through
periodical inspections, field visits etc. as may be felt necessary,
particularly for Salary grantees on a periodical basis. |
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Contact Details |
For any queries Shri Arun
Kumar Banerjee,Section Officer
(P.Arts) may be contacted on phone no:011-23389480.
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