The Administrative Wing looks after all administrative functions including holding of meetings of General Body and Executive Board of the Kendra besides maintaining the Accounts, placement of Budget and Audited Statement of Income & Expenditure before the Executive Board and General Body of the Kendra for approval. It also provides administrative support to the other wings of the Kendra for implementing their programmes on the lines laid down by the Executive Board and General Body of the Pracheen Kala Kendra.
Training Wing
Before the Pracheen Kala Kendra came into being, it was felt that adequate facilities were lacking in the country for the students and others aspiring to take up regular courses for diplomas and certificates in Music, Dance & Fine Arts to build a career or to adopt a vocation. With this object in view, it was considered expedient to set up an independent well-equipped training wing to provide necessary facilities in Music, Dance and Fine Arts and to provide the students with the best guidance under experienced and qualified teachers who are meticulously selected from all over the country.
The training covers well-defined categories, such as, Classical Music (Vocal and Instrumental) and Classical Dances, Fine Arts and Folk Music and Folk dances. Tutorial facilities are also provided to students individually and collectively. Covering a span of 9 years, the training involves successful completion of various grades of examinations by the students starting from the Prarambhik (elementary) to Bhaskar (post-graduate) levels. To supplement the training, there is a regular provision for inviting Visiting Professors of great eminence for holding classes and providing authentic guidance to the trainees, a facility rarely available to the students in such institutions of the country.
The other distinguishing feature of the training programme of the Kendra is the refresher courses under which teachers working in the affiliated centres of the Kendra are acquainted with the latest research and advanced teaching techniques so that they can in their turn educated their pupils with greater professional competence.
The Examination Wing of the Kendra which is well-equipped with computerized data processing looks after the entire examination arrangement including processing of admission forms received from more than 3500 affiliated centres of the Kendra located all over the country, holding of Theory & Practical Examinations, compilation of marks and preparation of results besides holding of Annual convocations at which the successful candidates are awarded diplomas and certificates of the Pracheen Kala Kendra. The Examination Wing also maintains close liaison with the affiliated centres all over the country to provide efficient service to approximately two lakh students appearing in the examinations of the kendra annually. MORE>>>
The Performance Wing of the Pracheen Kala Kendra regularly organizes performances by the renowned as well as the up-coming artistes of the country with the object of promoting and popularising the Indian Classical Music and Dance. With this objective, the Kendra has been holding, since 1969, the prestigious All-India Bhaskar Rao Nritya & Sangeet Sammelan in memory of the great music wizard, Bhaskar Rao Bakhle, who had dedicated his life to the cause of Classical Music. The popularity and success of this prestigious Sammelan can be gauged from the fact that almost all the leading exponents of music and dance of the country have at one time or the other performed here during the last three decades. With a view to providing a platform to the talented and budding (including established) artists, the Kendra started organising the Baithak Programmes at Chandigarh in 1996. Over the years, the Baithak Programmes/Special Programmes of the Kendra have attained great popularity and received applause both from the general public as well the art connoisseurs. The students of the Kendra have also been to give public performances before an invited audience. The newcomers are particularly benefitted for having exposure to a discerning audience. In addition, the Kendra organizes regular workshops on Music, Dance and Painting for the benefit of school children to give them an insight into these classical arts and the rich cultural heritage of the country.
In an age characterised by the dominance of science and technology, research has obviously become a necessary pre-condition for every human endeavour to achieve higher standards of excellence. Keeping in view the depressing situation of classical arts, the Kendra has set up a Research Wing which is engaged in collecting the rare compositions of the old masters. Ustads and pundits and preserving them in their original form and re-casting them, where necessary, to keep in tune with the contemporary world. The Research Wing also provides guidelines to the students doing advanced study to expedite their progress. Furthermore, it undertakes research projects on folk music and fold dances of different regions, territories and States of the country highlighting the rich diversity and wealth of Indian folk arts and culture. The Kendra has already completed some research projects, including the one on the Folk Music and Dances of Kulu and Kangra Valleys of Himachal Pradesh at the instance of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi , which has won unstinted appreciation. In 1991, the Kendra organized with the assistance of the Department of Culture, Govt. Of India , a weeklong Punjab Folk & Tribal Arts Festival with the object of reviewing and promoting the folk arts of Punjab . Act, in 1994, the Kendra held a series of All-India Kathak Seminar-cum-Dance Festivals at seven State capitals of the country to focus attention on the state of three Kathak Gharanas of Jaipur, Lucknow & Banaras.
This was a unique event held for the first time at the All-India level at which the most eminent exponents academics and scholars of Kathak dance from all over the country got together to take stock of the present state and future development of this classical dance form of North India. Discussions at the seminars were supplemented by demonstrations by the leading Kathak dancers of the three Gharanas. The Kathak Seminar-cum-Dance Festival was well-received by the public and the press and the Kendra has decided to publish the papers read at the Seminars in a book form for the benefit of students and scholars of Kathak Dance. The Kendra plans to initiate more such research project sin future, especially in those areas and territories of the country which has a rich tradition of folk and tribal arts. The Kendra undertakes such projects in collaboration with the Central or State Governments or other cultural institutions. The Kendra employs a trained workforce including investigators and researchers to undertake data processing, statistical analysis, consolidation and compilation of reports which are made available to the concerned State & Central Governments for drawing up plans of action for further development of art and culture in the related areas.
The Administrative Wing looks after all administrative functions including holding of meetings of General Body and Executive Board of the Kendra besides maintaining the Accounts, placement of Budget and Audited Statement of Income & Expenditure before the Executive Board and General Body of the Kendra for approval. It also provides administrative support to the other wings of the Kendra for implementing their programmes on the lines laid down by the Executive Board and General Body of the Pracheen Kala Kendra. 
