The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO) may soon give the world heritage tag to monuments
in Bijapur, Gulbarga and Bidar in Karnataka, and Golkonda in Hyderabad.
The
State government and the Advisory Committee for World Heritage Matters
have included monuments in these four places in the list to be submitted
to the UNESCO, officials of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
said. The committee met recently in Chennai.
Proposal
“During
the meeting, a proposal was made to include monuments built by Adil
Shahis of Bijapur, Barid Shahi of Bidar, Bahmanis of Gulbarga and Qutub
Shahi of Hyderabad in the list.
It
will be a major step towards their preservation,” J. Ranganath,
Assistant Superintending Archaeologist Engineer of the Dharwad Circle of
the ASI, said.
He told
The Hindu
that a list of a cluster of monuments had been made as the new norms of
the UNESCO did not allow recommendation of a single monument for the
world heritage site tag. While Bidar had 40 protected monuments,
Gulbarga had 12 and Bijapur 80.
Initially, the ASI
prepared a tentative list of monuments and submitted it to the advisory
committee, which would be forwarded to the UNESCO.
If
the approval was granted, a complete dossier of monuments, city map and
other details would be submitted to the UNESCO. Mr. Ranganath said that
within a year, a list of monuments and basic documentation work would
be submitted to the committee for further action.
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