What is Indian Council for Cultural Relations?
{{Infobox organization | name = Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) | image = | image_border = | size = <!-- default 200 --> | alt = <!-- alt text; see [[WP:ALT]] --> | caption = | map = <!-- optional --> | msize = <!-- map size, optional, default 200px --> | malt = <!-- map alt text --> | mcaption = <!-- optional --> | abbreviation = ICCR | motto = | formation = {{Start date and years ago|df=yes|1950|04|09}} | extinction = <!-- date of extinction, optional --> | type = Governmental organization | status = Autonomous body of the Indian government | purpose = To promote India's external cultural relations or cultural diplomacy, through cultural exchange with other countries and their people. | headquarters = Azad Bhawan, I. P Estate, New Delhi - 110001 | location = | coords = <!-- Coordinates of location using a coordinates template --> | region_served = Worldwide | membership = | language = <!-- official languages --> | leader_title = President | leader_name = | leader_title2 = Director General | leader_name2 = Kumar Tuhin | main_organ = Governing Body and General Assembly | parent_organisation = Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India | affiliations = <!-- if any --> | num_staff = | num_volunteers = | budget = | website = {{url|iccr.gov.in}} }} The '''Indian Council for Cultural Relations''' ('''ICCR'''), is an autonomous body working under the aegis of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), [[Government of India]], was founded in the year 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India’s first Education Minister. [https://www.iccr.gov.in/about-us/history '''History'''] One of the aims of India's freedom struggle was to revive and strengthen the country's cultural ties with the outside world. This was reflected in the historic Asian Relations Conference held in New Delhi in 1946 wherein it was resolved to set up an Indian Council for Cultural Cooperation to revive and promote closer cultural ties with the other Asian Countries and to project the Indian personality and its r