A traditional, Pung cholom performer.Odissi performerA Manipuri performer strikes an evocative pose.
History
The EZCC was founded in 1985 and since, has been playing a significant role in promoting the numerous ethnic cultural centres and groups of excellence of the eastern parts of the India, with the objective of projection and dissemination of the traditional culture of Eastern India.
Composition
The EZCC is composed of the following members:
Director, Cultural Affairs Department, Government of Assam
Director, Arts, Culture & Youth Affairs Department, Government of Bihar
Director, Department of Art, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of Jharkhand
Commissioner (Art & Culture), Government of Manipur
Director of Culture, Government of Odisha
OSD, Cultural Affairs & Heritage Department, Government of Sikkim
Secretary & Director, ICAT, Government of Tripura
Joint Secretary & Ex-Officio, Director of Culture, Government of West Bengal
Director, Department of Art and Culture, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Administration.
Schemes
There are various schemes sponsored by The Ministry of Culture, Government of India gives grants to the Zonal Cultural Centers. These schemes are National Cultural Exchange Programme, Theatre rejuvenation scheme, North East Programme, Guru Shishya Parampara and young talent search.
To promote the culture in youth there are many competition organise by EZCC in following fields :
Folk Music
Folk Dance
Classical Music
Classical Dance
To preserve this Indian tradition, the EZCC organises various Guru Shishya Parampara schemes, which include:
An exhibition of painting and sculpture is going on at the Academy of Fine Arts, in the city of joy Kolkata.The Mohiniyattam is being performed to commemorate of 150th birth anniversary of Tagore. It was an Indo-Bangladesh joint celebration in 2011 in Kolkata.
West Bengal's capital Kolkata is the largest city of this region. The states of Odisha and West Bengal share a lot cultural and linguistic characteristics with Bangladesh and with the state of Assam. Together with Bangladesh, West Bengal forms the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal, which was also a unified administrative region until 1947.
Odissi is the oldest surviving classical dance, Pattachitra the most influential ancient classical painting, classical Odishian unique ancient architecture Kalinga architecture like Konark, Lingraja, lalitgiri etc. Odia is the only modern Indo-Aryan language accorded the status of a Classical Language in India, and Odissi music is claimed to be the classical Music among Karnatik and Hindustani Music.
^West Zone Culture Centre, West Zone Culture Centre, retrieved 15 December 2010, ... West Zone Cultural Centre (WZCC) with its headquarters at Udaipur is one of the seven Zonal Cultural Centres set up during 1986–87, under the direct initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India ...
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