 Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: Jammu and Kashmir Centre for Creative Arts (JKCCA) today held executive committee meeting here to constitute new body of advisors for JKCCA.
Pt. Kewal K Sharma, President, D P Abrol, Vive- President, Sahil Bhardwaj, Secretary, Anita Sharma, Master Jaswant Singh, Atish Bhardwaj (members) and O P Sharma, Director, JKCCA attended the meeting.
The appointed twenty advisors will give their recommendations in organizing literary, visual and performing art activities of Jammu & Kashmir Centre for Creative Arts (Regd.), Jammu.
It was told that Jammu and Kashmir Centre for Creative Arts (JKCCA), Jammu was established way back in 1999 to promote, preserve and propagate the splendid art heritage of Jammu & Kashmir and stimulate and rejuvenate it into a blossoming art movement. Its three pronged strategy is adopted to unleash the progress of languages, literature and other fine arts. It is a matter of satisfaction that the NGO has so far organized hundreds of such activities in and outside the state.
According to OP Sharma, Director, JKCCA, the new advisors of JKCCA will be Mssrs. Triloke Kaul, Veteran Artist & Former Director, School of Design, J&K; V S Rahi, Veteran Artist & Former Vice- President All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi; Padamshree M Y Taing, Former Director General Culture, J&K; Zafar Iqbal Manhas, Former Secretary, J&K Academy of Art, Culture & Languages; Padamshree N D Jamwal, Veteran Artist & Writer; Chandana Khan, Former Chief Secretary, Tourism & Culture,Andhra Pradesh; Akhilesh Nigam, Veteran Artist & Former Regional Secretary, Regional Centre Lalit Kala Aakdemi, Lucknow; T S Batra, Veteran Artist & Former Principal, Institute of Music & Fine Arts, Jammu; Nathu Lal Verma, Veteran Artist & Former HoD Faculty of Fine Arts, University f Rajsthan, Jaipur; Harshvardhan Sharma, Senior Artist & Chairman, Advisory Committee, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Ramesh Bhosale, Veteran Artist & Former HoD College of Fine Arts, Pune; B R Bodade, Senior Artist, Indore; Sohail Kazmi, Senior Journalist and Social & Cultural Activist; Mushtaque Ali Khan, Consultant, North Zone Cultural Centre, Film Maker, Director & Artist, J&K; Dr. Mamta Singh, Senior Artist & HoD Painting Deptt. MKP PG College, Dehradun; K S Gill, Senior Artist, Amritsar (Pb.); Dr. A K Dixit, Senior Artist, New Delhi; Radhey Shyam, Social & Cultural Activist; Bimal Magotra, Social & Cultural Activist and Amit Magotra, Social & Cultural Activist. |
