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2016

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who has been appointed as the president of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) Trust
A
Chinmaya Gharekhan
B
Chandraprakash Dwivedi
C
Prasoon Joshi
D
Ram Bahadur Rai
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -NEW DELHI: Government today reconstituted the board of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), appointing senior journalist Ram Bahadur Rai as the president of the trust.

Detailed explanation-2: -Panaji: Dattaguru Amonkar has been appointed as the regional director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Goa regional centre.

Detailed explanation-3: -The founder trustees of IGNCA were Rajiv Gandhi, R. Venkataraman, P.V. Narasimha Rao, Pupul Jayakar, H. Y. Sharada Prasad and Kapila Vatsyayan.

Detailed explanation-4: -IGNCA is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture. Its headquarters is at New Delhi.

Detailed explanation-5: -An international jury, including British architect James Sterling and Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, along with India’s AP Kanvinde and BV Doshi, chose American architect Ralph Lerner’s design, out of 190 entries from 37 countries.

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