The prestigious Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, packed with celebrities from the cultural world, is a cesspool of corruption and gross mismanagement. Close networking between the trustees and select others involved in what is fast becoming New Delhi’s prime business of arts and culture has ensured gross delays and enormous losses to the exchequer. Over 15 years after its conception, the IGNCA is yet to become fully functional.
Detailed documentation available with The Asian Age reveals a sordid picture, running into crores of rupees in losses, where personalities like Congress president Sonia Gandhi and now Mr L.M. Singhvi, who now heads the influential board of trustees, were unable to prevent the IGNCA from turning into a white elephant dogged by allegations of corruption.