The Zonal Cultural Centres were conceived and set up as cultural distribution networks between 1985 to 1987 in order to promote, develop and link the various art from with people living in urban, rural and tribal areas of India. These Centres are intended to become cultural organizations not limited to performances in closed auditoria for limited audiences, but to outgrow into centers with people of India as audience and thousands of folk artists, craftsmen at grass root level as performers.


West Zone Cultural Centre (WZCC) was the first centre to set up the Shilpgram - a Craft Village, in Udaipur. There are 31 huts representing architecture, traditional arts and culture depicting the enormous diversity and aesthetic sense of the state of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa which comprise the Western Zone of India.


Apart from organizing a chain of cultural programmes in urban as well as remote rural areas of west zone, "Shilpgram Utsav" is organized in Shilpgram, Udaipur in th