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MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies  (MAKAIAS) was set up at the joint initiative of the Government of India, Department of culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development  and the Government of West Bengal . Registered as a Society under the West Bengal Registration of Societies' Act of 1961, with Prof. Nurul Hasan, the then Governor of West Bengal, as the President of the Society on the 4th of January 1993. It is funded by the Department of culture, Government of India. Presently, the Governor of West Bengal, is the President of the Society. An acre of land in Bidhannagar (Salt Lake City), Kolkata, was allotted to the Institute by the Government of West Bengal for building the Institutes campus. Its circular emblem has an eight petalled lotus in the centre with a background of the rays of sun. This is encircled by its name written in reverse lettering in a black border. http://makaias.

WEST ZONE CULTURAL CENTRE West Zone Cultural Centre  (WZCC) with its headquarters at Udaipur is one of the seven Zonal Cultural Centres set up during 1986-87, under the direct initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development , Govt. of India. West Zone Cultural Centre is a registered society established during 1986. The Cultural Centre is set up to provide facilities for the creative development of performing arts, visual arts, literary work, folk, traditional and tribal art forms in the Western region of India. It comprises of the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territories of Daman, Diu and Dadra Nagar Haveli and is probably culturally and ethnically most diverse, stretching as it does from the deserts of historic Rajasthan to Goa on the Arabian Sea, with its memories of Portuguese rule. Its logo in orange has 'W' nicely placed to create a pattern, which depicts a stone ‘jaffri’ or windows, which is prevalent in the