{"id":23212,"date":"2017-08-03T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=23212"},"modified":"2017-08-03T17:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:19:34","slug":"kejriwal-government-renew-effort-inclusion-delhis-imperial-capital-cities-unesco-world-heritage-city-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/kejriwal-government-renew-effort-inclusion-delhis-imperial-capital-cities-unesco-world-heritage-city-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Kejriwal government to renew effort for inclusion of \u2018Delhi\u2019s Imperial Capital Cities\u2019 in Unesco World Heritage City list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>Ahmedabad had recently become the first Indian city to get the UN body\u2019s World Heritage tag stunning heritage activists, history buffs and the common people alike <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Weeks after it lost out to Ahmedabad in its long struggle to get the Unesco World Heritage City tag, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government is now planning to renew its efforts to get the national capital bestowed with the honour. A revised dossier \u2013 Imperial Capital Cities \u2013 will once again be sent to the Union government with the request of pushing for the Heritage City tag for Delhi\u2019s walled city of Shahjahanabad and the Lutyen\u2019s zone.<\/p>\n<p>Atishi Marlena, adviser to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia who also holds the portfolio of tourism, confirmed that the \u201cDelhi government will write to the Union tourism minister (Mahesh Sharma), urging him that the Centre must push for Delhi\u2019s nomination for a World Heritage City tag by the Unesco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will apply to get the prestigious tag for the Imperial Capital Cities of Shahjahanabad and Lutyen\u2019s Delhi. There are 218 designated heritage sites in Delhi and the city-state has an important role in the history and heritage of India,\u201d she added, while alleging that Delhi&#8217;s proposal for nomination to the list was withdrawn by the Narendra Modi-led Union government in 2015 because of their \u201cpolitical agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi&#8217;s dossier for the heritage city status, which was prepared by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) in 2008 had been submitted to UNESCO in 2014, but in 2015, apparently just days before the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/unesco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNESCO<\/a> was about to make its final announcement, the Centre withdrew the proposal and submitted a fresh bid for Ahmedabad\u2019s Walled City.<\/p>\n<p>Union minister for tourism and culture, Mahesh Sharma, had then said that that the reason to withdraw Delhi\u2019s nomination was that the tag of a Unesco World Heritage City would bring with it certain restrictions on urbanisation and development in order to conserve heritage structures in the national capital.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, last month Ahmedabad became the first World Heritage City from India after the Unesco World Heritage Committee accepted it as India\u2019s official entry at a meeting in Poland. Citing Ahmedabad\u2019s architecture and syncretic traditions evidenced in the co-existence of Jain, Hindu and Muslim communities, 20 nations had supported the city\u2019s entry to the select list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no problem with Ahmedabad being given the tag ahead of Delhi but withdrawal of Delhi&#8217;s nomination due to the Centre\u2019s political agenda was not fair,\u201d Marlena said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/aam-aadmi-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kejriwal\u2019s Aam Aadmi Party government <\/a>and a large section of heritage enthusiasts in the national capital believe that the Union government moved the proposal for granting Ahmedabad the heritage city tag instead of Delhi because it is the largest and politically most significant city in Gujarat \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/narendra-modi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a>\u2019s home state \u2013 and the BJP could capitalise on the honour for political gains during the Assembly polls due in the western state towards the end of this year.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ahmedabad had recently become the first Indian city to get the UN body\u2019s World Heritage tag stunning heritage activists, history buffs and the common people alike Weeks after it lost out to Ahmedabad in its long struggle to get the Unesco World Heritage City tag, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government is now planning to renew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[1252,36,1399,3843],"yst_prominent_words":[14904,4792,14900,14902,14901,12093,14897,14903,14899,14906,10293,14907,12087,12085,12091,14726,14905,12086,12092,14898],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delhi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23212"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23212"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=23212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->