ICCR administers various programs under which it hosts eminent personalities from abroad for a specified period. These programs promote India’s cultural relations with other countries through various initiatives that encourage people-to-people contact.

These programs also include a variety of sessions such as lectures, round-table discussions, meetings with Ministers, senior government officials, NGOs, and intellectuals, as well as visits to places of cultural and educational significance.

• List of Distinguished Visitors Programme

• 2025-26
• 2024-25
• 2023-24
• 2022-23
• 2021-22
• 2020-21
• 2019-20