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- POSTED ON: 26 Jul, 2019
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- POSTED BY: Madhumitha Srinivasan | Video: Jagadish Kumar TPM | Voice Over: Archana Subramanian
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Jaipur was recently included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. It is India’s first planned city and it was an “interchange of ancient Hindu, Mughal and contemporary Western ideas” that has shaped it. Watch the video to learn more…
What is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. In keeping with its mission, UNESCO regularly identifies places of historical, cultural and environmental significance and assigns the World Heritage status. To qualify for it, a site must “be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria”.