Our Administration & Management

Pracheen Kala Kendra is a registered institution with a properly framed democratic constitution to govern its day-to-day affairs. The institution functions on sound professional lines though separate wings, looking after Training, Research, Examinations, Performances and General Administration.

The Kendra has a General Body which elects the members to the Executive Board who in turn guides the day-to-day functions of the Kendra. These members are persons of high social status and unquestionable integrity having deep interest in the promotion of art & culture as well as education of young people in Music, Dance and Fine Arts.

The organisational set-up of the Kendra is no less than or similar to the organisational set-up of a University/School Education Board of the country. There is a Chairman like the Vice-Chancellor of a University/Board of School Education. The Senior Vice-Chairman/ Vice-Chairmen at par with a Pro Vice-Chancellor of a University or Vice-Chairman in a school Education Board. There is a Secretary who is the Principal Executive Officer of the institution, like the Secretary of Education Board, a Registrar on the pattern of the Registrar of a University. There is a Treasurer like the Chief Accounts Officer of a University/Board. At Present Additional Registrar , Controller of Examination, Deputy Registrar, Assistant Registrar, Accounts Officer, Superintendents and other ministerial staff are on the staffing pattern of a University/School Education Board.

Members Of Executive Board

Members of General Body

Administrative Wing

The Administrative Wing headed by the Secretary , looks after all administrative functions including holding of meetings of the General Body and Executive Board of the Kendra besides maintaining the Accounts, placement of Budget and Audited Statement of Income and Expenditure before the Executive Board and General Body for approval. It also provides administrative support to other wings of the Kendra for implementing their programmes on the lines laid down by the Executive Board and General Body of the Kendra towards the fulfillment of Aims and Objects of the Kendra.

Examination Wing

The examination wing headed by Registrar comprises of Additional Registrar , Deputy Registrar , Controller of Examination in association of other supportive staff of the Kendra , is looking after the entire examination arrangement including processing of admission forms of the students received from more than 3800 affiliated centres of the Kendra scattered all over the country and abroad. Appointment of examiners, holding of Theory and Practical examinations, compilation of marks and preparation of results, issuance of certificates and diplomas, holding of Convocations of successful students of Visharad and Bhaskar at different city centres, allocation of examination centres, liaison with affiliated institutions, etc. are some of the prime functions of this wing.

Training Wing

Pracheen Kala Kendra is known for imparting quality training in the field of performing and visual arts. When it came into being there was lack of such facilities for the students and other aspiring to take up regular courses for getting diplomas and certificates in Music, Dance and Fine Arts to build a career or to adopt a vocation. To overcome this lacuna, the Kendra started an autonomous well-equipped training wing to enable the students to have an authentic forum for learning and practicing the classical arts under the able guidance of experienced and highly qualified teachers on regular basis.

Over the years, the training wing of the Kendra has acquired a unique place for itself. Tutorial facilities on sound and scientific lines are also provided to the students to complete their 9 years’ course starting from elementary to post-graduate level. Furthermore authentic guidance to the trainees by inviting visiting Professors of great eminence for delivering lectures has also been given by the Kendra.

Taking cognizance of the quality training imparted at the Kendra, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India has also approved the Kendra as training centre to impart lessons in the subject of Classical Music and Dance to the foreign students on ICCR scholarships. The teachers working with the Kendra are acquainted with the latest research and advanced teaching techniques so that they can educate and train students with greater professional competence.

Performance Wing

The Performance Wing has been entrusted the task of organizing performances of classical Indian music and dance by the renowned as well as up-coming artistes of the country not only in Chandigarh but so also in other parts of the nation with the object of promoting and popularizing the classical arts including Music, Dance and Fine Arts. With this objective, the Kendra has been holding, since 1969, the prestigious All-India Bhaskar Rao Nritya & Sangeet Sammelan in memory of the great music wizard Bhaskar Rao Bakhle. The popularity and success of this prestigious Sammelan can be gauged from the fact that almost all the leading exponents of music and dance of the country have performed at the Sammelan at one time or the other during the last six decades.

With a view to providing a platform to the talented and budding artists including established one, the Kendra started organizing the Baithak Programmes at Chandigarh in 1996 and quarterly baithaks at New Delhi in the year 2013. Over the years, the Baithak Programmes of the Kendra have attained great popularity and received applause both from the general public as well the art connoisseurs. Kendra also started Guru M.L. Koser Festival of Music and Dance in the year 2013 which now become a popular annual feature of the Kendra’s major activities. The students of the Kendra are also encouraged to give public performances before invited audience. The newcomers are particularly benefitted for having exposure to a discerning audience. In addition, the Kendra organizes regular workshops on Music, Dance and Painting for the benefit of school children to give them an insight into these classical arts and the rich cultural heritage of the country.

Research Wing

In an age characterized by the dominance of science and technology, research has obviously become a necessary pre-condition for every human endeavour to achieve higher standards of excellence. Keeping this in, the Kendra has set up a Research Wing which is engaged in collecting the rare compositions of the old masters, Ustads and pandits and preserving them in their original form and re-casting them, where necessary, to keep in tune with the contemporary world.

The Research Wing also provides guidelines to the students doing advanced study to expedite their progress. Furthermore, it undertakes research projects on folk music and folk dances of different regions, territories and states of the country highlighting the rich diversity and wealth of Indian folk arts and culture. The Kendra has already completed some research projects, including the one on the Folk Music and Dances of Kullu and Kangra Valleys of Himachal Pradesh at the instance of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, which has won unstinted appreciation.

In 1991, the Kendra with the assistance of Department of Culture, Government of India, organized a weeklong Punjab Folk & Tribal Arts Festival with the object of reviewing and promoting the folk arts of Punjab which are on the verge of extinction. In 1994, the Kendra held a series of All-India Kathak Seminars-cum-Dance Festivals at seven State capitals of the country including Delhi, Jaipur, Bhopal, Patna, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Chandigarh to focus attention on the state of three Kathak Gharanas i.e. Jaipur, Lucknow & Banaras.

This was a unique event held for the first time at the All-India level at which the most eminent exponents academics and scholars of Kathak dance from all over the country got together to take stock of the present state and future development of this classical dance form of North India. Discussions at the seminars were supplemented by demonstrations by the leading Kathak dancers of the three Gharanas. The Kathak Seminar-cum-Dance Festival was well-received by the public and the press and the Kendra has decided to publish the papers read at the Seminars in a book form for the benefit of students and scholars of Kathak Dance. The Kendra plans to initiate more such research projects in future, especially in those areas and territories of the country which has a rich tradition of folk and tribal arts. The Kendra undertakes such projects independently or in collaboration with the Central or State Governments or other cultural institutions. The Kendra employs a trained workforce including investigators and researchers to undertake data processing, statistical analysis, consolidation and compilation of reports which are made available to the concerned State & Central Governments for drawing up plans of action for further development of art and culture in the related areas.