Re: heritage: national Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (IHT)

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video: http://pib.nic.in/release/tmedia-clip.asp?clipid=299



DELHI: The announcement by the Indian Culture Ministry this week of a 
new drive to count up all of the nation's monuments and sites of 
archaeological interest hints that the government's previous approach 
had a certain cavalier complacency.

Explaining the need for the government's first census of historic 
buildings and antiquities, Culture Minister Ambika Soni warned that the 
country risked losing a number of these sites if swift action was not taken.

Last year, amid considerable embarrassment, she was forced to admit that 
35 theoretically protected monuments had already disappeared because of 
rapid urbanization and development - 12 of them in Delhi, not far from 
her own office.

Her proposed creation of both a National Mission on Monuments and 
Antiquities and a National Heritage Site Commission, outlined on New 
Year's Eve, has, however, dismayed some campaigners for the preservation 
of the nation's heritage, raising as it does the prospect of yet more 
panels and committees to address an increasingly urgent problem.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/03/asia/letter.php