Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi (IGNCA) ( Devanagari: इन्दिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय कला केन्द्र) is the premier government funded arts organization in India, as an autonomous institution under the Union Ministry of Culture. Established in the memory of Indira Gandhi, late Indian Prime Minister, and with Kapila Vatsyayan as its founding director.
The IGNCA was inaugurated on November 19, 1987, in Bangalore, by the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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