To revive and encourage literary activities in Shimla by literary and cultural organisations, the conference hall of the historic Gaiety Theatre Shimla would be used for this purpose and the seminar hall would be given free of cost to the empanelled organisations for twelve days in a year for each organisation carrying literary and cultural activities including discussions, seminars, book reading, book release, storytelling, poetry sessions, meet the author and other such events.
The Director of Language and Cultural Department would do the empanelment of such organisations, a spokesperson said on Thursday, adding that such organisations would have to intimate the purpose with details of programme or activities to be done by them two weeks in advance.
The hall would be made available on a first come first serve basis and incase of any clash of dates, the concerned organisations would have to mutually adjust the dates.
The Department of HAACL or Gaiety Dramatic Society (GDS) would continue to have the first right of use of the seminar hall and the Department of Language and Culture/HAACL and all other Government organisations, departments and other private organisations would have to pay the usual charges.