Overview

• Art, Culture and Language Minister Kapil Mishra chaired a review with the ACL Department and multiple academies to shift from planning to implementation.
• The department signed MoUs with academies to ensure government grants are used only for approved cultural and creative programmes with greater financial transparency.
• Officials committed to weekly public advertisements to boost attendance, with events planned at prominent venues such as Kartavya Path.
• The lineup includes Hindi poetry recitals, an Urdu mushaira, a national painting competition with 75 artists, commemorations for Guru Tegh Bahadur’s 350th martyrdom year, Chhath Puja and a Diwali Fair.
• Additional programmes feature the Sanskrit Academy’s Gurukul Sports Competition, Sahitya Kala Parishad’s Bhakti Utsav, events for Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth centenary, a Delhi Statehood Day observance, and a first-time Bhojpuri Conference inviting participants from Mauritius, Fiji and other countries; library upgrades were also directed.