Vedic Portal

• Home Minister recently inaugurated the Vedic Portal and inaugurated a virtual museum — ‘Kala Vaibhav’ — built by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA).
• Portal aims to communicate message enshrined in the Vedas. It will help common people to have a general understanding about the Vedas.
• Portal will be a one-stop solution for the user, who would like to search any information regarding the Vedic heritage.
• Audio visual recording of four vedas –Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda have been uploaded on the portal.
• The portal has over 18 thousand mantras of the four vedas with a duration of over 550 hours.
  

About Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA)

• Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) was established in 1987 as an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture, as a centre for research, academic pursuit, and dissemination in the field of the arts.
• IGNCA has a trust (i.e. Board of Trustees), which meets regularly to give general direction about the Centre’s work.
• The Executive Committee, drawn from among the Trustees, functions under a Chairman.
• IGNCA is the nodal coordinating agency with support of Archeological Survey of India and National Museum as associate bodies for Project Mausam (Ministry of Culture).