PANAJI
In good news for the State, the Central government has selected 421 villages from Goa for cultural mapping.
In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on Friday, it said 202 villages in South Goa district and 219 villages in North Goa district have been selected for cultural mapping.
Under the initiative a barcoded Unique Identification Code (UID) will be created for artists and crafts persons from the villages.
Tourism will be linked with culture by providing blueprints for developing kala grams, art hubs, community resource centres and cultural tourist hubs as part of the initiative.
The Centre has initiated the project to culturally map artists and art practices of diverse communities of India to create a national data bank of artists, crafts people & art and craft practices prevalent in the country.
The project also aims to fit together various welfare schemes of the Ministry of Culture for the artists.
