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The
policy of the state of Chhattisgarh is to have a statement of cultural
intent rather than impose a cultural policy. The statement will include
the following principles:
The
State of Chhattisgarh will not announce or impose any cultural policy.
It will identify, recognize, document, revitalize, present and disseminate
the continuing cultural traditions of local communities.
The State will not set up artificial boundaries between classical, folk,
tribal, visual and performing metropolitan and rural arts. It will recognize
and respect the transitions and bridges among these.
The State will promote textual as well as non textual traditions, collection
and documentation of tangible objects as well as recollection of intangible
traditions, their ex situ display as well as in situ revitalization.
The State will try to work around existing cultural landscapes, festivals
and institutions, rather than create new ones to replace them.
The State will be a catalytic agent, to support and advance the traditional
connection among communities, between their life and their arts, and between
forms and functions of these arts. It will respect and nourish culture
as essential to eco-specific development strategies of communities, geared
to resource management and subsistence. It will recognize culture as an
essential ingredient in development. Effort will be made to recognize,
embed and develop the cultural component in the programs of all Govt.
departments, as culture is a component of all departments of life. Culture
will not be reduced to a mere song and dance act, or to an exclusive concern
of the Department of Culture.
Cultural impact assessment will be embedded as a component in the formulation
and implementation of mega developmental projects.
The State will further cross disciplinary dialogues, inter institutional
networking and decentralized field activity to replenish community identities.
The unique identity and polyvalence of the culture of Chhattisgarh will
be promoted alongside its relationships and exchanges with cultural provinces
and neighborhoods of adjacent states of Chhattisgarh. The community cultural
identity and landscape of Chhattisgarh will be presented in the national
and global perspective.
Bridges will be developed among dialects, and scripts will be developed
for unscripted dialects. Relations will be promoted with hill and forest
based communities from the newly formed states, and from other states
of the country, and with indigenous tribal and analogous communities from
other parts of the world.
Application and accumulation of knowledge will be treated as simultaneous
rather than as isolated processes in culture.
The cultural programmes will be implemented through co-directed initiatives
with local communities.
There
will be a multi dimensioned cultural council with an interdisciplinary
committee of advisers of eminence and it will be manned by people of high
calibre, drawn from different arts and disciplines. This centre will promote
community specific cultural programmes with cross-disciplinary content,
in hills and forests, in urban, suburban and rural areas.
Protection will be offered not only to monuments but also to important
cultural and physical landscapes, and attempt will be made to promote
recognition of relict and associated landscapes as World Heritage sites.
Work will be undertaken on the mapping of bio-cultural habitat and socio-economic
and intellectual background of the communities, and their relationships
with other organic and inorganic communities, peopling the surrounding
landscape. Efforts will be made to salvage and encourage unique and vanishing
oral and textual traditions of life- enhancing and elements of knowledge,
skills and technologies, in their own habitats. A Directory of resource
persons, who are repositories of such traditions, will be made. The resource
persons will be assisted to train their peers, pursue their avocations,
and market their products and services.
Tourism will be developed as a non-invasive instrument of biological,
ecological and cultural conservation, and not as a bread and circus affair.
Chhattisgarh itself being treated as a living museum space, the in-situ
and ex-situ exhibition and dissemination initiatives, will be designed
as exercises in problem assessment and resolution, and not as passive
displays.
Role of women in cultural resource development will be explored; children
will be provided with cultural space and elbowroom; and cultural access
will be promoted for the physically and mentally challenged.
The cultural programme will treat past, present and future as a dynamic
continuum and not in isolation. Attempt will be made to get the communities
to write their own, community, specially tribal history, in the background
of environmental history, to provide a backdrop to the state's efforts
to promote community well being and bounty. The relevance and contemporaneity
of tradition will be examined in the context of modernity and progress.
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