Mangaluru, Jul 25: Karnataka’s cultural policy will be placed before the Cabinet after clarifying financial implications, according to Umashree, Minister of State for Kannada and Culture.
Inaugurating Sangama Sambhrama, a two-day literary and cultural convention by 16 State government authorities academies including Konkani, Tulu, Beary Sahithya Academies at Dr. Shivaram Karanth Pilikula Nisargadhama here, Ms. Umashree said the policy, which gives a broad framework of activities that the department has to take up, was ready.
“There are some queries regarding financial implications. We are clarifying it” she said.
Later, speaking to reporters, Ms. Umashree said they needed clearance from the Finance Department, before placing it before the Cabinet.
Earlier, the Minister said she was taking measures to streamline the functioning of the Department of Kannada and Culture. She said artistes taking part in programmes of the department were now receiving honorarium in their bank accounts. She said three days ago orders were issued to Assistant Directors at the districts to release grants to bank accounts of various cultural organisations. “We are delegating the work and preventing these organisations from coming all the way to Bengaluru for grants,” she said.
She said they had introduced online booking for shows at the Ravindra Kalashetra. If anybody who has booked the show does not turn up, the amount deposited by he or she would be credited back to his or her bank account. “We are working on having uniform rates for use of district auditoriums and make it accessible to various theatre and cultural troupes,” she said.
Lauding the initiative of the 16 academies and authorities coming together to hold a cultural event, Ms. Umashree asked the academies to have different activities and avoid overlapping of programmes.
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