Port Blair, Aug. 16: The Department of Art & Culture, A & N Administration invites application from the local cultural institutions to seek financial assistance for the year 2012-13. As per the notified Grant-in-aid rules all registered organizations having its registered office in Andaman and Nicobar Islands with its objective of propagation of art, culture, national integration and communal harmony and are active in such work for a period of not less than one year shall be considered eligible under these rules. Socio-Cultural Organization shall send application in a plain paper enclosing (i) Utilization Certificate in GFR-19 A for the GIA released earlier (ii) the receipt & payment statement of accounts (iii) the income & expenditure statement of accounts (iv) the balance sheet (v) statement in the prescribed form (GFR-19) on assets created (vi) performance-cum-achievement report for the year 2011-12. Incomplete application shall not be entertained.

A Committee shall scrutinize the application. The Committee shall draw up a list of Cultural Institutions found eligible for the financial assistance and recommend the same to the Administration for release of Grant-in-aid. All the applications should reach the Directorate of Art & Culture A & N Administration, Cellular Jail Complex, Atlanta Point, Port Blair on or before 20.09.2012. Details in this regard can be obtained over phone No: 230117.