ICCR office in BBSR to be closed

| | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar

An office of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) located here is going to be closed and shifted to Kolkata soon.

The move came at a meeting of the ICCR statutory bodies held on April 12 triggering sharp reactions among culture researchers in Odisha.

With the decision taken at the high level meeting, the ICCR offices at Bhubaneswar and Patna will be shifted to Kolkata and the States of West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand will come under the Kolkata office.

Similarly, the ICCR Jaipur office will be shifted to Ahmeadabad and the office at Thiruvananthapuram will be merged with that in Chennai, The Lucknow office will be shifted to Varanasi, the Mumbai and Goa offices will be relocated to Pune and the Guwahati office will be shifted to Shillong.

The ICCR office in Odisha was first set up at the Ravenshaw University before being shifted to Palaspalli in Bhubaneswar in 2015.