ICCR:- INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), is a self-sufficient association of the Government of India, engaged with India’s outer social relations. It was established on 9 April 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the primary Education Minister of free India.
The Council tends to its command of social discretion through a wide scope of exercises. Notwithstanding sorting out social celebrations in India and abroad, the ICCR fiscally underpins various social organizations crosswise over India, and patrons singular entertainers in move, music, photography, theater, and the visual expressions. It additionally controls the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, set up by the Government of India in 1965, whose last honor was in 2009.