(a) Whether the performance of the Indian Council for
Cultural Relations pertaining to the last three years in terms of ongoing projects
and targets set and achieved has been recently reviewed;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) the problems being faced by ICCR`s regional offices and the steps taken/proposed to be taken to tide over the same; and
(d) the details of steps proposed to be taken to make the
functioning of ICCR more effective?
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (SHRI AJIT KUMAR PANJA)
(a) & (b) ICCR`s activities are constantly reviewed by its Statutory
Bodies, Expert Committees, the Ministry of External Affairs and
Heads of Missions abroad for more effective functioning. Besides
the work of the ICCR is also regularly reviewed by the Standing Committee
of Parliament on External Affairs.
(c) ICCR`s Regional Offices are functioning normally with no
major problems.
(d) All recommendations to make the functioning of ICCR more
Effectively made by its Governing Body and General Assembly,
as well as the Standing Committee of Parliament on External Affairs,
are being implemented.