LALIT KALA AKADEMI

Lalit Kala Akademi Scholarship 2008-09

LALIT KALA AKADEMI
Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi-11001.

Scholarships for 2008-2009.

Applications are invited form the Artists, Art-Critics and Art-Historians below 3 years of age as on 1st January, 2008 for the grant of Scholarship(2008-2009) of Rs.3000/- per month for a period of twelve months in the field of Visual Arts.

Application forms can be obtained from:
1. Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, 35 Feroxeshah Road, New Delhi-11001.
2. Lalit Kala Akademi, Regional Centre, 111/4, Kharvela Nagar Unit-3, Bhubaneshwar-75000/Ph:0674-2391884.
3. Lalit Kala Akademi, Regional Centre, 361, Keyatala Lane, Kolkata-700029/Ph: 033-24641719
4. Lalit Kala Akademi, Regional Centre, 4, Greams Road, Chennai-600006/Phone:044-28291692.
5. Lalit Kala Akademi, Regional Centre, 1, Ekta Vihar, Aliganj, Lucknow-226024/Ph:0522-2324067
6. Lalit Kala Akademi's Studios/Workshops(Regional Centre, Garhi), Artists' Corner. Near East of Kailash, Kalka Devi Marg, New Delhi-110065/Ph: 011-26431849

Application forms can be downloaded form Akademi's Website: www.lalitkala.gov.in

Note: Those, who applied for the scholarship in the year 2007 -2008 may also apply afresh.

Filled in applications mut reach in the office of the Lait Kala Akademi, New Delhi by 21st March, 2008.

For further inforamtion, please contact "Scholarship Cell" on phone: 011-23384634/23387241/42/43.

Lalit Kala Akademi Scholarship 2008-09

General Conditions
Objectives
The objective of awarding scholarships to young and budding artists is mainly to provide them work place to improve their skills/innovative ideas in their respective field of visual arts.

General Conditions
Selection
The selection for award of Scholarships will be made by a Jury comprising of senior artists. The photographs of exhibits or published article will be the main basis, but not the only basis for selection.

Number of Scholarships
A maximum number of 80 scholarships will be given during the year 2008-09 subject to availability of funds and work space.

Value of Scholarship
The Scholarship is having a value of Rs. 3000/- p.m. for a period of one year.

Entry Fee
There will be an Entry Fee of Rs. 100/- to be submitted along with the Application Form in the form of Postal Order/ Bank Draft payable to Secretary, Lalit Kala Akademi drawn on New Delhi branch.


General Rules
1. The selected scholars will be required to work in one of the Regional Centres of the Akademi specified above. He/ She will have to submit at least two works’ photographs considered suitable by the Head of the Regional Centre/ Institution in every month duly certified. With regard to the allotment of centre (work place), the decision of the Lalit Kala Akademi will be final and binding.
2. The State or Union Territory in which the applicant has been residing for at least 3 years in the recent past will be the State or Union Territory from which he would be deemed to be applying
3. No request for change of centre will be entertained under any circumstances.
4. The selected scholars will be required to submit an undertaking on Stamp Paper of Rs. 50/- duly attested by Notary Public that they will not abandon the scholarship before its completion.
5. The scholarship will be disbursed monthly by a/c payee cheques and no claim for any other payment to the selected scholars will be entertained by the Akademi.
6. Artists who have already received any awards in National/International Exhibitions and or received Research Grant/Scholarship of the Lalit Kala Akademi in the past are not eligible to apply.
7. Applicants sending published articles in language other than Hindi or English must send translation in Hindi or English.
8. The Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi may formulate any other Rule/Condition, which is necessary for the effective implementation of the Scholarship scheme.

Applications are invited from Visual Artists, Art Critics and Art Historians for the grant of scholarship @ Rs. 3000/- per month for a period of 12 months subject to fulfillment of the conditions. Filled in application forms must be sent to Akademi at New Delhi at the following address to reach latest by 21st March 2008.
SECRETARY
LALIT KALA AKADEMI
RABINDRA BHAVAN
35, FEROZE SHAH ROAD
NEW DELHI-110001.

The cover bearing the application must have a superscription “Scholarship Application 2008-09”