NEW DELHI: The organisations working to preserve and promote artistic activities under the administrative supervision of the Ministry of Culture have been operating with limited workforce. According to a parliamentary panel report, three Akademis — Sangeet Natak Akademi, Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, and Lalit Kala Akademi — are functioning with less than 40 per cent of their sanctioned strength.The National School of Drama has approximately 48 percent and Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts has around 36 per cent vacancies against their sanctioned strengths respectively, stated the government’s action-taken-report on the recommendations or observations of the committee regarding the functioning of national Akademis and other cultural institutions.In its report tabled in the House earlier this week, the standing committee on transport, tourism and culture chaired by Rajya Sabha MP of Janata Dal (United) Sanjay Kumar Jha also sought to know the reason for huge vacancies. “The committee may be apprised of the reasons for such meager working strength in the Akademis and urges the ministry to make concentrated efforts to streamline the processes and initiate the recruitment process at the earliest,” the report read.The committee earlier observed that the institutions in questions are affected by vacancies and a lack of trained manpower. It said that lack of manpower not only affects the working of these organisations but also hinders their efficiency. It had recommended the ministry to take up measures to fill up those vacancies within a fixed period.
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