By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : To promote art and culture, Railways are planning to set up film cities and studios across the country to impart training to deserving Railway employees and their wards.
The proposed film cities and studios will be developed through public-private partnership model by the Railways at locations to be identified by a Railway committee headed by noted theatre personality Saonli Mitra.
Besides film cities and studios, Railways will also develop art galleries and handicraft centres at major stations, a senior Railway Ministry official associated with the newly-constituted Railway Committee on Heritage and Culture told PTI.
The basic purpose is to set up professional institutions and cultural centres through PPP model for providing training and promoting these creative art forms, he said and added, “such institutes will impart training to deserving railway employees, their wards and also to outsiders.