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North Zone Cultural Centre – an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India – was inaugurated in November 1985 by the then Prime Minister of India. Its chief objective is to preserve, safeguard, document and promote  folk  and tribal arts & craft of people residing in the Zone comprising the States of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Union Territories of Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh and also of people of any other contiguous State/Union Territory that fall under the broad disciplines of Sangeet, Nritya, Natak, Lalit kala and Sahitya and to develop and expand a Zonal Centre of excellence in creative arts, with special emphasis on performing arts.

This Centre is registered as a society under the Registration of Societies Act 1860. Ministry of Culture, Government of India is the nodal Ministry which co-ordinates and regulates working of the Centre. Hon’ble Governor of Punjab is the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the Centre.