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‘Be partners in protecting world heritage sites’

HAMPI: The four-day international workshop on management of world heritage sites in India concluded here today. It stressed on the need for better coordination and creating awareness among the people.

Nicole Bolomey, programme specialist of UNESCO, said that the workshop dwelt on the need for the constitution of a coordinating body for better management of world heritage sites in the country. As of now there are multiple agencies of the government involved in the management of world heritage sites. To ensure effectiveness, it was best to bring all agencies under one umbrella.

She said the workshop also underlined the need to create awareness among site managers by keeping them abreast of the happenings in other world heritage sites. People could also be made aware that they are partners in the process of conserving and protecting world heritage sites. Having a legal framework for managing the site was another important point.

Ms. Nicole said there was a need to prepare a tourism plan, specifying the kind of tourism activities to be promoted around world heritage sites. “It was felt necessary to get the tourism plan prepared after making a study of the world heritage area, socio-economic conditions of the people, kind of economic generating activities to be promoted to help the local people and to implement it,” she said. She said the purpose of the workshop, organised jointly by the Archaeological Survey of India, Government of Karnataka and UNESCO, with support from Kannada University, was successful as 120 participants, mostly site managers from India and experts from France, Nepal and Sri Lanka had exchanged their challenges in managing world heritage sites.

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