National Mission on Cultural Mapping (NMCM) and Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar (MGMD)
National Mission on Cultural Mapping (NMCM) and Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar (MGMD)
Under Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar (MGMD) Programme, a key component of the National Mission on Cultural Mapping (NMCM), 6.23 lakh villages have been culturally mapped so far. This data is available on MGMD Portal (https://mgmd.gov.in/).
The State/UT-wise details of villages covered are placed at Annexure-I. In Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, 2542 villages have been covered.
MCM primarily undertakes documentation of cultural assets and traditions at the village level and does not have any provision for establishing e-commerce integration for traditional artists and cultural practitioners.
ANNEXURE-I
State/UT-wise Distribution of Number of Villages Uploaded on MGMD
State/UT
Number of Uploaded Villages
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
176
Andhra Pradesh
17142
Arunachal Pradesh
4613
Assam
26074
Bihar
39563
Chandigarh
12
Chhattisgarh
19571
Delhi
252
Goa
431
Gujarat
19271
Haryana
7579
Himachal Pradesh
18735
Jammu & Kashmir
6926
Jharkhand
29908
Karnataka
29569
Kerala
1275
Ladakh
238
Lakshadweep Islands
13
Madhya Pradesh
56429
Maharashtra
40042
Manipur
306
Meghalaya
7012
Mizoram
1026
Nagaland
1498
Odisha
47209
Puducherry
127
Punjab
12084
Rajasthan
46696
Sikkim
464
Tamil Nadu
19219
Telangana
9824
The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
107
Tripura
899
Uttar Pradesh
103003
Uttarakhand
15727
West Bengal
40429
This information was given by Union Minister for Culture and Tourism Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in a written reply in Lok Sabha today