Soon,monument Acts in 12 languages

In an effort to create awareness among the masses,the National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA) will soon come out with translated copies of the Acts for conservation and protection of monuments and antiquities in 12 regional languages. The Mission,which is working towards creating a national register of all monuments and antiquities,will distribute the translated copies across the country so that people are able to identify monuments and antiquities in their locality and thereby report to the Mission about unlisted heritage properties.

The two major Acts for conservation and protection of monuments and antiquities — Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act,1958 and Rules,1959 and the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act,1972 — are at present available only in English. To begin with,around 2000 copies of each Act will be printed in each of the 12 languages,including Assamese,Bengali,Tamil,Telugu,Malayalam,Kannada,Oriya,Gujarati,Punjabi and Hindi.