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संस्कृति विभाग का कार्य प्रदेश की संस्कृति, साहित्य एवं पुरातत्व का संवर्धन करना है तथा उसके उत्तरोत्तर विकास के लिये कार्य करते रहना है। विभाग के क्रियाकलाप मुखयतः निम्नानुसार है-

संस्कृति से संबंधित नीतिगत मामले व नीति निर्धारण कार्य।

साहित्य एवं कला का विकास।

सांस्कृतिक परम्परा का संरक्षण।

ललित कला तथा लोक कला को प्रोत्साहन।

छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य की कला, संस्कृति, परम्पराओं एवं जनभाषाओं का संरक्षण, संवर्धन, प्रोत्साहन एवं देश विदेश में उसका प्रचार-प्रसार।

अर्थाभावग्रस्त कलाकारों / साहित्यकारों को पेंशन व आर्थिक सहायता।

अशासकीय सांस्कृतिक संस्थाओं को प्रोत्साहन व आर्थिक सहायता।

चयनित कलाकारों/ साहित्यकारों /विद्वानों को सम्मानित करने का कार्य।

कला, संस्कृति एवं ऐतिहासिक विषयों के दुर्लभ एवं प्रामाणिक ग्रंथों, दस्तावेजों, स्मृति चिन्हों का संग्रह, प्रकाशन, प्रदर्शन तथा संबंधित व्याखयान, संगोष्ठियों आदि का आयोजन।

पुराने अभिलेखों का संरक्षण, संवर्धन।

ऐतिहासिक महत्व के स्मारकों का संरक्षण तथा संग्रहालयों का विकास।

ऐतिहासिक स्मारकों को पर्यटन स्थल के रूप में विकसित करना।

सिनेमा अधिनियम के तहत नये सिनेमागृहों को लायसेंस।

शासकीय कार्यो में हिन्दी एवं छत्तीसगढ़ी राजभाषा का प्रयोग तथा उसके विकास संबंधी कार्य।

शैक्षणिक संस्थाओं में हिन्दी के साथ-साथ राजभाषा के प्रयोग तथा उसके विकास संबंधी कार्य।

The Policy of the State of Chhattisgarh for promotion and encouragement of cultural activities
1 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.

2 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.

3 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.

4 The State will try to work around existing cultural landscapes, festivals and institutions, rather than create new ones to replace them.

5 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.

6 Cultural impact assessments will be embedded as a component in the formulation and implementation of mega developmental projects.

7 The State will further cross disciplinary dialogues, inter institutional networking and decentralized field activity to replenish community identities.

8 The unique identity and polyvalence of the culture of Chhattisgarh will be promoted alongside its relationships and exchanges with cultural provinces and neighbourhoods of adjacent states of Chhattisgarh. The community cultural identity and landscape of Chhattisgarh will be presented in the national and global perspective.

9 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.

10 Application and accumulation of knowledge will be treated as simultaneous rather than as isolated processes in culture.

11 The cultural programmes will be implemented through co-directed initiatives with local communities.

12 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 caliber, drawn from different arts and disciplines. This center will promote community specific cultural programmes with cross-disciplinary content, in hills and forests, in urban, suburban and rural areas.

13 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.

14 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.

15 Tourism will be developed as a non-invasive instrument of biological, ecological and cultural conservation, and not as a bread and circus affair.

16 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.

17 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.

18 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 contemporarily of tradition will be examined in the context of modernity and progress.

19. Culture will neither be treated as a commodity nor as a product, but as a living ongoing process. Encouragement will be given to cultural research and literacy, appreciation and research, therapy and training, publication, counselling and advocacy. The linkages, connecting cultural strategies with poverty alleviation, livelihood security, inter group harmony and coexistence; will form planks for policies and programs.

	MONUMENTS Chhattisgarh culture in itself is very rich and interesting. This God’s won Garh is famous for its priceless heritage.The important monuments like Sirpur, Tala, Dipadih, Mallhar, Bhoramdeo, Rajim, Seorinarayan, etc create a unique place in the entire globe for their unique contributions. There are fifty eight (58) state protected monuments in Chhattisgarh.
	EXCAVATIONS An archaeological excavation is usually complicated and painstaking process.Excavation is the scientific way and method of removing objects and uncovering stationary features that have been concealed by later deposits. The excavation methods can be placed under two heads namely horizontal and vertical excavation.
	MUSEUMS Museums cover the knowledge of history and its relevance to the present and future. Some cover specialized curatorial aspects of history or a particular locality; others are more general. Such museums contain a wide range of objects, including documents, artifacts of all kinds, art, archaeological objects. Antiquities museums specialize in more archaeological findings. Entry: 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Gazetted Holiday including Monday Closed Entry Fee : Indian Citizens or others - Rs. 1 each. Cameras (Still/Video) After Permission from Commissioner/Curator.
	PUBLICATIONS The Directorate of Culture and brings out a variety of publications special with subject matters ranging from archaeological researches in excavations, explorations, conservation, In addition to these, the Directorate brings out popular literature in the form of Guide Books, folder/brochures.
	MODELLINGS This unit has been casting beautiful replicas of the select masterpieces housed in the museum with dedication. Produced in the scale sizes and original colours as well as in scale models, covering a period from ancient to 12/13th century A.D.
	ARCHIVE An archive is a collection of historical records, as well as the place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime. Archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value.
	CULTURE Chhattisgarh is rich in its performing arts. Being in the heart of the country this region has been influenced by the folk arts and performing arts of various forms of other provinces. There are many art forms in existence amongst the tribal societies. Chhattisgarh has many tribal groups. Some of them are primitive. All these tribal communities have various dances of their own.
	ART GALLERY Art Gallery collection of paintings by artists of abstract art, realistic art, surrealistic art space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. The gallery has been continuously involved in the recognition and promotion of emerging talent, creating an awareness of art amongst old and new collectors by showcasing good quality art works and providing a platform for interaction between artists and collectors.
	SELL COUNTER Sell Art, Plaster Cast Sculpture, Books, artwork featuring paintings, photography, drawings, digital art, mixed media, glass, etc.
	LIBRARY A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. The Mahant Sarveswar Das Granthlaya is the only Govt. library in Raipur, C.G. It stores the books from all levels and the all mediums. This library opens from 1 pm to 7 pm and it remains closed during the Gazetted Holiday including Monday.
	MUKTAKASH THEATRE Open Air Theatre or Muktakash Theatre for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances.
	AUDITORIUM An auditorium is where the audience is located to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.
	OPEAN AIR MUSEUM / PURKHOUTI MUKTANGAN The Muktangan is being developed to explain the close nexus between cultural and developmental strategies, forms and functions, life and the arts of the communities; to demonstrate the contribution the communities can make towards the bounty and well being of the state, using its biocultural and natural wealth.
	PHOTOGRAPHY CELL This photography archives housed the marvelous and melodious audio/video and still photos of excavation,exploration and cultural events of this directorate. It contains the photography evidences from pre-historic to modern days activities.
	OPEN AIR MUSICAL THREATRE Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called simply, "musicals". Musicals are performed all around the world. They may be presented in large venues.
	MUSIC LIBRARY Music Library allows you to catalog and deal with any music both on and off your computer. It can scan your hard drives and automatically list and catalog all available music files such as MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, APE, FLAC, MP4 and MPC etc.. Composing MP3 playlists is a snap, there are so many ways to locate and play your favorite tunes, a internal MP3 player/Winamp/ foobar2000 front end control is included. Insert a CD, it reads the disc and then queries CDDB database to retrieve detailed album information. Very Shortly it is sifted from Directorate culture to Sahid Smarak Bhawan.
Before After	CONSERVATION The Conservation Science is the study of Conservation of cultural materials. The conservation may incorporate pure and applied sciences like chemistry; i.e. Chemical and analytical techniques etc. The action taken to prevent the deterioration (damage) to cultural properties by controlling their environment and making them stable and preserving the true nature of objects is called as conservation. Cultural properties are classified as movable arts and immovable arts.
	RESTORATION Restoring means bringing back to life those works that have been damaged or semi-destroyed through time, and this is not an easy activity at all. Restoring an architectural or artistic work, especially when it is very ancient, does not only mean to clean and repair it, as you would do with any item or building, it also implies studying its history and consider it as something which is alive, and which is still telling us about its and our past.
Before After	CHEMICAL TREATMENT Chemically treated stormwater discharged from construction sites must be non-toxic to aquatic organisms. The following protocol should be used to evaluate chemicals proposed for stormwater treatment at construction sites. Authorization to use a chemical in the field based on this protocol does not relieve the applicant from responsibility for meeting all discharge and receiving water criteria applicable to a site.

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