The project entitled ‘Cultural Mapping of Art & Ethnicity of Assam’ undertaken by the Govt. of Assam with Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra under the Cultural Affairs Department, as the global institution for its implementation is a plausible initiative towards this goal. The project will necessitate to adopt a comprehensive and all-encompassing view of strategy for effecting its implementation. The need of the hour is undertaking a mapping of these Tangible and Intangible expressions with a view to creating a resource pool for all kinds of references.
‘Cultural Mapping of Assam’ aims at exploring, documenting, preserving, disseminating, encouraging the rich cultural heritage of the people of Assam including Caste and communities and it will also take stock of the people who are directly involved with practicing, preserving, disseminating the various items of culture. It is designed to build a comprehensive database in respect of all the cultural resources mentioned above and will undertake necessary steps to make it available in public domain in different mediums like print, electronics, web & digital etc.