Bhavans gets grant for facelift

LONDON, JULY 11. Britain's Millennium Commission has granted £ 522,000 to the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, U.K., as part of its £ 1.35 million project to have a `millennium plus building' including a new art gallery, archives, classrooms and better all-round facilities.

The Bhavans is the largest Indian cultural institute in the U.K. and is dedicated to the furtherance of knowledge and awareness concern in Indian arts and culture. Mr. Maneck Dalal, chairman of the U.K. centre of the Bhavans, told reporters here yesterday that in addition, the arts council has granted £ 150,000 for refurbishment of the Bhavans' Mountbatten Hall.

- PTI

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