SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 13 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 14 of 99

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Which of the following is India’s national academy of dance?

(a)Lalit Kala Akademi
(b)Centre for Indian Classical Dances
(c)Centre for Cultural Resources and Training
(d)Sangeet Natak Akademi

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Sangeet Natak Akademi is India's national academy for music, dance and drama. The three performing arts sit under one body, so there is no separate national akademi for dance to look for.

It is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture and confers the annual Sangeet Natak Akademi Award on performers in all three fields.

The remit is what the stem asks about: option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Lalit Kala Akademi — Lalit Kala Akademi is the national academy of fine arts — painting, sculpture and graphic art. Its subject is the visual arts, not the performing ones.
(b)
Centre for Indian Classical Dances — Not one of India's national akademis. The three are Sangeet Natak, Lalit Kala and Sahitya, and dance belongs to the first of them; the name here is built to sound official.
(c)
Centre for Cultural Resources and Training — The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training links education with culture, training teachers to use India's cultural resources in the classroom. It is not an academy of dance.

Concept

India's three national akademis, all set up in the early 1950s, divide the arts between them.

Sangeet Natak Akademi takes the performing arts — music, dance and drama. Lalit Kala Akademi takes the visual arts. Sahitya Akademi takes letters.

All three are autonomous bodies funded through the Ministry of Culture, and each gives an annual award in its own field. The split is easiest to hold through the Sangeet Natak name: music and theatre are in the title, and dance travels with them.

The stem asks for a 'national academy of dance', and no body carries that exact name.

SSC wants the akademi whose mandate covers dance, which is why the answer is the performing-arts akademi rather than a dance institution.

Key facts

Sangeet Natak Akademi is India's national academy for music, dance and drama.
It was created by a Government of India resolution in 1952 and inaugurated in January 1953.
Lalit Kala Akademi is the national academy of fine arts.
Sahitya Akademi is the national academy of letters.

Study next

The three national akademis and the field each coversSangeet Natak Akademi Award and Fellowship, and who has received themCultural bodies under the Ministry of Culture, such as CCRT and the National School of Drama

Common traps

Reading 'Sangeet Natak' as music and theatre only, then hunting for a separate dance body.
Swapping Lalit Kala Akademi (fine arts) with Sangeet Natak Akademi (performing arts).

SSC asks this akademi from two sides — the institution and its award. The registered office is asked at 25 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.23 (New Delhi), and the award itself at 23 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.16 (Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, 1986) and 19 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.7 (Tarun Bhattacharya, 2018).

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