19/04/2019 - Art and Culture

KEY POINTS

·        The Notre Dame, one of the many symbols of France,   French take their cultural heritage very seriously.

·        French billionaires, corporate, local authorities and even the average French man/woman on the street have committed donations totalling 750 million Euros to restore the monument.

·        Adopt a heritage scheme, resembles this pattern, but in a different way.

·        The Adopt a Heritage scheme is a collaborative effort by Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Culture and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), State/UTs Governments and envisages development and maintenance of tourist amenities at heritage sites and making them tourist friendly.

·        To enhance tourism potential and cultural importance in a planned and phased manner. The project primarily focuses on providing basic amenities that include cleanliness, public conveniences, safe drinking water, and ease of access for tourists, signages, illumination, Wi-fi. (Preventive measures to protect the monuments).

·        The Adopt a Heritage’ is essentially a non-revenue generating project. It is part of responsible tourism where the ‘Monument Mitra’ essentially spends his CSR funds for upkeep and maintenance etc, and gets limited visibility. 

·        The monument mitras comprises of Private industries, public industries, individuals who essentially take part and participate in protecting the monument.

·        The scheme not only promotes cultural and heritage value of the country to generate livelihoods in the identified regions, but also creates employment through active involvement of local communities.

·        The scheme is essentially to protect and preserve monuments, cultural heritage of our country. The Notre dame fire showed the national unity of French in protecting their cultural heritage which needs to replicate in India via this scheme.

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