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OVERVIEW KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
The vision of the Arts and Culture portfolio is to work with • The publication of the three-part volume,
multiplicity, excellence, and marginalised communities, entitled, “Specifications Manual for Built
focussing on three main areas: Conservation (built Heritage Conservation and the Associated
heritage, film preservation, and art conservation); Art
Schedule of Rates and Analysis of Rates,” has
Education at the tertiary level; and Performing Arts
been completed in collaboration with the Aga
(music, dance, and theatre).
Khan Trust for Culture. The three volumes have
To preserve and nurture the country’s heritage—both past been published and are available online on the Tata
and present, and to lay down a solid foundation for the Trusts website.
future—is to support them in all their myriad forms.
• The fellowship programme for the 1947 Partition
Securing sustained support for the arts is challenging in
the backdrop of high-intensity developmental challenges Archives has been completed, with 26 month-long
faced by a country like India, and further exacerbated by fellowships awarded to faculty and student
events like the Covid-19 pandemic. The portfolio therefore researchers to access over 10,000 oral histories
works towards providing incremental and layered relating to peoples’ experiences of the Partition. Each
support, helping organisations and programmes achieve
fellow submitted their research reports spanning
long-term sustainability.
themes of gender, violence, memory, identity, and
displacement related to the Partition.
• Fifteen conservators engaged in the Art Conservation
Initiative have continued their training through weekly
online review sessions with an academic consultant. As
on-ground conditions became more amenable for
travel, conservators from the five partner institutes
involved in the Art Conservation Initiative undertook 18
field surveys across India during the year, during which
time 88 persons were trained in the best practices
employed for preventive conservation methods.
• Conservation labs were upgraded at the institutes
through the purchase of requisite equipment and
conservation materials. Ten conservators underwent
training at two three-month long courses focused on
the conservation of oil paintings, and of stone.
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