SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
(i) The scheme shall be called “Financial Assistance to Revive, Preserve and Protect Goan Maand Culture”
(ii) The scheme shall come into force from the date of its publication of Notification in the Official Gazette and shall remain in force upto 31st March, 2024.
INTRODUCTION
The scheme “Financial Assistance for preservation of Goan Maand Culture” have been designed with an objective to encourage Goan folk artists and to revive , preserve and protect the Goan Maand culture consisting of folk forms viz. Zagor, Ranmalle, Kallo, Perni zagor, Talgadi, Tonyamell, shigmo, Challe, Naman, Jatigayan, Goff, Dhallo- Fugadi and folklore and folk music Viz. Suvari vadan, Ghumatvadan, Shamelvadan and Dholvadan and any other folk forms, folklore and folk music as selected by the committee of experts which are basically originated from Goan Maand.