National heritage sites panel proposed
02 Mar 2006
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The government has decided to set up a National Heritage Sites Commission since the present legal and institutional framework is inadequate to address the documentation, inventory preparation and conservation of built heritage in its broadest outlines. The commission would lay down broad policy guidelines and take steps to ensure that such guidelines are observed.
The composition is expected to:
- tender advice to the government on heritage matters.
- frame guidelines in the matter of conservation of heritage monuments and sites.
- study or cause to study important matters regarding conservation of heritage and submit reports to the government.
- suggest appropriate amendments to the existing heritage legislations, with specific terms of references for stocktaking and studying the present heritage laws and regulations, the practices followed in the leading European countries and suggest the ways of setting up a heritage site.
The commission could be set up after the enactment of an appropriate legislation, on which work is ongoing.
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