Question: Who has launched the Indian Culture Portal which will showcase the rich cultural heritage of India?
(a) Prahlad Singh Patel
(b) Ravi Shankar Prasad
(c) Prakash Javadekar
(d) Shripad Yesso Naik
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- On 10 December 2019, Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (IC), Prahlad Singh Patel launched the Indian Culture web portal in New Delhi.
- Indian culture portal is the first government authorized portal where knowledge and cultural resources of various organizations of Ministry of Culture are now available in public domain on a single platform.
- As a part of the Prime Minister’s Digital India initiative, the portal will showcase information about the rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage of India both at home and abroad.
- The portal is culmination of the mélange of Indian cultures that has co-existed and thrived for more than five thousand years.
- On this portal information about more than 90 lakhs items are currently available. The content on the portal is available in English and Hindi language in an interactive, user-friendly interface.
- The Indian Culture portal was envisioned by the Ministry of Culture and was developed by a team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay while the curation of the data has been done by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
Links:
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1595757
http://www.indiaculture.nic.in/