Heritage map of Srinagar launched

  • 20/12/2004

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

This 1,600-year-old city of Kashmir achieved a milestone on Tuesday, when its first heritage map compiled by the Centre for Heritage and Environment Kashmir (CHEK) was launched by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. The five-volume cultural resource mapping, completed in collaboration with Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), gives Srinagar the distinction of being the second city in India after Delhi with a documented map on heritage structures. "But this is much improvised in the sense of latest technology used in it," said M. Saleem Beg, convener of CHEK. According to him, this resource mapping has a different dimension.