Spotlight on safeguarding heritage

  • 25/03/2006

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

After existing only on paper for three long years, the proposed official missions to safeguard heritage are likely to see the light of day this coming April. Having taken a somewhat circuitous route to get approved, they might be set to take off finally but in a "diluted form", say experts. Far from what they were envisaged, the missions to protect tangible heritage have been clubbed into one -- National Mission for Antiquities and Monuments under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The third mission that was to protect India's vast invisible heritage being threatened by globalisation seems to have also lost its "mission"-like approach, claim sources.