Five More Regional Centers of National School of Drama Coming Up

New Delhi: Minister of Culture and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has announced to open five Regional Schools/Centres of the National School of Drama (NSD) across the nation. The minister has also mentioned that the initiative has been taken on the basis of the recommendations made by the Broad Based Committee of the National School of Drama (NSD).

As per sources, the upcoming five regional NSD Schools/Centres are to be located at Bengaluru (upgradation of existing Regional Resource Centre), Kolkata, Maharashtra/Goa, Jammu & Kashmir and the North East. However, there is no proposal to set up any such centre in Tamil Nadu.

Moreover, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today i.e. on March 1, 2011, she said that the Bengaluru Centre of National School of Drama has already been made operational on an ad hoc basis. The remaining centres can come up only after suitable accommodation for setting up the centres is made available, by the concerned state governments.