About Us

Our Story

Kashmir Cultural Trust is a charitable trust created to work for promotion, preservation and dissemination of National Cultural Heritage and specially so for the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Registered

2nd December, 2000

By the Sub-Registrar Jammu, under registration number 659

NGO Code

JK / 2015 / 0089650

Unique code under ngo.india.gov.in

Our Purpose

Objectives

To promote performing arts, languages and literature

To work for documentation, research and promotion of cultural areas including tribal and folk art

To setup libraries, museums, documentation centres, recording studios

To organise lectures, seminars, conferences, workshops, festivals, training camps

Publish periodicals, bulletins, books and monographs

To prepare and collect audio and video materials

To inculcate moral values amongst younger generation and promote literacy

To give awards, fellowships and scholarships to deserving persons

To collaborate with external stakeholders in these areas

Leadership

Our Trustees

Late Prof. Omkar N. Koul

Patron

Late Prof. Omkar N. Koul

Former Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. Distinguished career spanning over forty years. Author of over fifty books. Associated with several UNESCO programmes.

Dr. Roop Krishen Bhat

Managing Trustee

Dr. Roop Krishen Bhat

Writer, Linguist, former Professor at CIIL Mysore and Director Adult Education, MHRD Govt. of India. Author of more than forty-five books. Sahitya Academy Translation Awardee.

Smt. Kundan Bhat

Author Trustee

Smt. Kundan Bhat

Former Teacher, Government of NCT, Delhi.

Sh. Avtar Tickoo

Trustee

Sh. Avtar Tickoo

Vice President in Private Sector.

Sh. Ravinder Bhat

Trustee

Sh. Ravinder Bhat

Civil Engineer and Social Activist.

Shri Jawahar Lal Tickoo

Trustee

Shri Jawahar Lal Tickoo

Poet, writer and former Teacher, Government of J&K.

Advisory

Advisory Committee

Arvind Shah

Author and Social Activist

Arvind Shah

Smt. Sunita Raina Pandit

Kashmiri & Hindi Poet

Smt. Sunita Raina Pandit

Aryan Ramesh

Community Activist and Businessman

Aryan Ramesh

Rinku Koul

Proprietor IILS DTP Center & Writer

Rinku Koul

Promilla Koul

Teacher & Social Activist

Promilla Koul

Rohit Bhat

Theatre Director & Social Activist

Rohit Bhat

Dr. Gauri Shankar Raina

Former Controller, Media Centre IGNCA

Dr. Gauri Shankar Raina