India’s Union Home Minister and Cooperation Minister, Amit Shah inaugurated an important initiative named ‘Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar’ (MGMD). The project has been launched by the Ministry of Culture and aims to do a cultural mapping of 6.5 lakh villages of India across all states and union territories.
Key points
- It is a pan India initiative of the Ministry of Culture under the National Mission for Cultural Mapping.
- A virtual platform was launched at the event. This virtual platform https://mgmd.gov.in will connect people to the villages of India.
- The Ministry of Culture in coordination with the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (IGNCA) has launched the project ‘Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar’ (MGMD) under the National Cultural Mapping Mission.
- The main objective of this project is to do cultural mapping of 6.5 lakh villages of India spread across the States and Union Territories of India on a comprehensive virtual platform.
- Through MGMD, people will get an opportunity to connect with the diverse and vibrant cultural heritage of India.
- The main feature of this scheme is to connect people with the culture and traditions of India and pave the way for economic development, social harmony and artistic development in rural communities.
- This comprehensive portal displays essential information about each village, including its geographical location, demographic aspects and details of traditional dress, jewellery, arts and crafts, temples, fairs, festivals and many more.
- It serves as a one-stop destination for exploring, researching and taking a virtual tour of every village in the country.
- Apart from encouraging users to start their digital village journey, it also provides them an opportunity to earn rich experience of village journey digitally.