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- ↑ West Zone Culture Center, West Zone Culture Centre, retrieved 15 December 2010,
... West Zone Cultural Centre (WZCC) with its headquarters at Udaipur is one of the seven Zonal Cultural Centres set up during 1986-87, under the direct initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India ...
- ↑ "About WZCC". wzccindia.com. West Zone Culture Centre. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
