North East Zone Cultural Centre notifies on Young Talent Artistes Award

DIMAPUR — The North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC), Dimapur, has invited applications for Young Talent Artistes Award for the year 2023-24, 2024- 25 and 2025-26 from outstanding candidates in the categories of folk and tribal music/song and dance, theatre, dance, drama, mime, painting, wood, cane and bamboo crafts, traditional handloom and handicrafts, pottery etc.

Young artistes/artisans in the age group of 18 to 30 years (as on 31st March, 2023) are eligible to apply for the award. The award consists of INR 20,000, citation and memento, a DIPR report stated.

Candidates should be an Indian citizen and indigenous to the eight north-eastern states i.e., Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura. Candidates who have received any such awards (state/national) earlier in the same field are not eligible for the scheme.

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Deserving artistes/artisans are to collect the application form from the office of the Directorate of Art & Culture/Cultural Affairs (concerned State) or Shilpgram, Panjabari, Guwahati, and NEZCC office, Dimapur.

Forms are also available on NEZCC website https://nezccdimapur.org.in.

Screening of the applications will be done by the respective state department. Applications of the shortlisted candidates are to reach the office of the NEZCC latest by August 15, 2025. No application will be entertained thereafter, it added.