Cultural commission gets K1mil

THE National Cultural Commission (NCC) has received K1 million funding from the Department of National Planning and Monitoring under the public investment programme (PIP), commission’s executive director Steven Kilanda says. Kilanda said the funding was long overdue and thanked the Department of National Planning and Monitoring.
He said the Tourism Promotion Authority (TPA) had received a lot of funding for marketing tourism and little support was given to the commission.
“TPA do advertising but the very people that manufacture the tourism product is National Cultural Commission,” he said.
He said the funding was not enough and was hoping to receive K50 million next year.
The K1 million would be used to renovate three of the National Cultural Commission’s agencies in the country: the National Film Institute and National Performing Arts Troup in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, and the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies in Port Moresby.
The Institute of PNG Studies received a K100,000 cheque yesterday from NCC.