Bhopal, Apr 18: With an aim to involve the general public in conservation of historical monuments, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has launched its ‘Adopt a Heritage’ scheme here on the occasion of World Heritage Day on Friday.
The ASI Bhopal region and various heritage organizations of the capital organized the special function. KK Muhammad ASI (Bhopal Circle) Superintendent, while informing about the imitative, stated that there are over 50 historical monuments in the capital, which need immediate attention. Of them, several structures are neither protected by the ASI nor by the state archaeological department and are thus crumbling away. The idea of the scheme is to involve people in saving these monuments,” he added. The officer added that similar steps taken in Agra and Patna have proved to be a boon for conservation of heritage sites. To begin with, two parts of Bhopal’s Fatehgarh Fort - on the Moti Masjid and the VIP Road sides - will be put up for adoption as part of a pilot project, he said.
On the occasion Bhopal Municipal Corporation Sunil Sood said that such initiatives are required for saving the cultural heritage of the country. He added that BMC would carry forward the conservation work with the technical expertise and the guidance of ASI, Bhopal. Present school kids and the general public took the oath for conservation and safeguarding the monuments by Barkatullah University Vice Chancellor Bhupal Singh. Singh stressed that these kinds of programs are important instead of the routine drawing, heritage race etc for actually being bale to safeguard the heritage. The guests of the function inaugurated the conservation and maintenance works at the Fatehgarh Fort.