This is the new LKA Regional Centre, inaugurated on January 15 by Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, the Union minister of culture and tourism. It was built for ₹25 crore”, says Rahas Kumar Mahanty, regional secretary, Calcutta Regional Centre, LKA. Calcutta’s first LKA regional centre was established in south Calcutta’s Keyatala Lane. Siddhartha Ghosh, former regional secretary of LKA and printmaker who retired in 2018, says Jyoti Basu had inaugurated the LKA regional centre in 1984. Artist and printmaker Rm Palaniappan, who was regional secretary at the Chennai regional centre and retired from there in 2016, says the Chennai regional centre was inaugurated in 1978 by M.G.

Source: The Telegraph February 05, 2026 17:43 UTC