The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the Indira Gandhi National Centre of the Arts at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan on 19 November, 2012 to coincide with the 95th Birth Anniversary of former Prime Minister Late Smt. Indira Gandhi.

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) is an academic research institution, whose work encompasses music, dance, visual arts, sciences, lifestyles, fairs, festivals, the literature, linguistics, photography, archaeology and any aspect of life that involves aesthetics.

The IGNCA was founded twenty-five years ago, on 19 November 1987 in the memory of late Smt Indira Gandhi.