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| Karnataka to incorporate heritage regulations |
| BS Reporter / Chennai/ Mysore Sep 05, 2009, 00:19 IST |
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Heritage regulations to protect and maintain the large number of heritage structures and sites spread across Karnataka will be incorporated in the Town and Urban Planning Act shortly, B R Jayaramaraje Urs, state Kannada, culture and information secretary, said in Mysore.
He was inaugurating a one-day workshop/seminar on heritage concept attended by officials from six heritage places of Mysore, Srirangapatna, Gulbarga, Bidar, Kittur and Bijapur.
In order to educate and impress upon the officials who have the responsibility of taking care of these monuments, the department of archaeology, museums and heritage, Bangalore, has initiated training programmes and the workshop was one such effort.
Emphasising the importance of preserving the rich cultural heritage, tangible and intangible, Urs said incorporation of heritage regulations in the Act would help achieve this task.
Apart from helping in preserving heritage structures, the regulations would assist in preserving rich cultural heritage like puppetry, Yakshagana (traditional dance-drama) and other similar arts for posterity.
He called upon the officials to ensure care to protect monuments while undertaking development works, like widening of roads, building bridges and laying drainages.
Hampi’s Conservation Architect Sharat Chandra explained the ongoing conservation work in Hampi, the erstwhile Vijayanagar capital which has a large number of historic monuments spread across in Bellary district. He suggested conservation measures like mapping and reporting in structural monuments.
Mysore’s Regional Conservation Laboratory chief B V Kharbade narrated the difficulties they were facing in protecting historic monuments and buildings and the way the laboratory had initiated ways to tackle them.
The department has planned to educate students and teachers on the importance of historic monuments and records. Two such one-day workshops will be conducted on Sept 7 at Maddur in Mandya district and on Sept 11 at T Narasipur in Mysore district.
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