Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 23: Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India started a “Cultural Reading Room” in its headquarters at Jammu.
This was informed by Regional Director of ICCR Jammu Balwant Thakur during a press conference held at ICCR Campus, Jammu.
In addition to six quarterly magazines of ICCR in five International languages on Indian culture which includes ‘Papeles De La India’ (Spanish), ‘Rencontre avec L’ Inde’ (French) ‘Thaqafat-ul-Hind’ (Arabic) ‘Indian Horizons’ and ‘Africa Quarterly’ (both in English), and’ Gagananchal’ (Hindi), the reading room will offer the rarest publications of ICCR on Culture in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Hindi and Sanskrit, he added.
He said that the idea behind disseminating this information was to make the public aware of the programmes and initiatives of ICCR.
He desired that interested people and scholars may take benefit of this ICCR’s highly valuable facility.
Ever since the ICCR has come to Jammu, efforts are being made to spread the reach out of its programmes and initiatives to a larger network of its stakeholders, Thakur added.