Written by: Express News Service
2 min readMar 15, 2010 12:36 AM IST
First published on: Mar 15, 2010 at 12:36 AM IST
With more and more heritage structures getting notified,the Capital’s long-ignored monuments are finally being accorded protection. Newsline takes a look
* Almost 10 years after the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) came out with a public notice for 775 heritage structures,the Delhi government last week notified 767 structures in the Delhi Gazette under Section 23 of the Delhi Building Bylaws,1983
* The MCD now plans to include more havelis in the notification as most of them have architectural and historical significance. For this purpose,the civic body has identified around 400 havelis in the Shahjahanabad area
* Late last year,the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) managed to get 141 heritage buildings in its area notified by the Delhi government
* The state department of archaeology is in the process of notifying 250 heritage structures,which will be under its jurisdiction
* In 1999,the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) came out with a list of 1,208 prominent heritage structures in the Capital. Of these,only 173 are protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
* Last year,the Union Ministry of Culture accepted that due to rapid urbanisation,35 monuments out of the 3,675 Centrally-protected monuments or sites across the country have gone missing. This included 12 monuments in the national capital
* In 1984,the R N Mirdha Committee recommended a minimum of 9,000 monument attendants to provide security to the structures across the country. By 2008,however,the ASI has been able to deploy merely 4,000 attendants
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