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AnnuAl RepoRt 2013-14 This scheme also supports training in form of dance, music, theatre, and visual arts in schools of the country. The scheme

provides Rs. 5000/- as financial assistance to the school to run the CCRT’s Cultural Club.
During 2013-14, 105 new Cultural Clubs were opened in addition to the existing 129 Cultural Clubs. At present, 234 Cultural
Clubs are operative in 26 states/UTs in different schools.

Seminars

The CCRT organizes Seminars stressing the continuing need to train personnel in all areas of cultural and educational development
and advocating the existence of culturally well trained personnel for encouraging the participation of the people at large in
cultural sphere. The participants of the Seminars are mainly District Education Officers/CCRT’s Nodal Officers/Principals and
Headmasters.

Aims of the Seminars

• Provide participants with an understanding of CCRT’s aims and objectives.
• Create an understanding of the need for cultural education.
• Discuss and develop methodologies for implementation of CCRT programmes.
• Involve Administrators at the State level in the process of improving school education.
• Create an awareness of the importance of cultural education for all round development of the student’s personality.
• To get feedback regarding implementation of the training in the schools.

During the year 2013-14, the CCRT organized a Seminar on "Strengthening Cultural Education in Schools" for CCRT’s Nodal
Officers and District Education Officers at Mt. Abu, Rajasthan from February 08-10, 2014. 19 Officers from six States UT’s par-
ticipated in the Seminar, of which one each was from Andaman & Nicobar Island and Bihar, eight from Maharashtra, four from
Puducherry, four from Rajasthan and one from Uttarakhand.

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