The historic Red Fort has been allotted to the Dalmia Bharat Ltd beneath the project.
In a considerable improvement associated to the “Adopt a Heritage: Apni Dharohar, Apni Pehchaan” project, the Union Minister of Tourism Prahlad Singh Patel headed the assessment meeting on Monday to take stock of the scheme’s progress and its future plans. Patel who had referred to as the meeting of the prime brass of the ministry was provided a detailed presentation on the progress produced by the scheme at a variety of historical monuments which have been incorporated as aspect of the project like Delhi’s Red Fort, Qutub Minar, Safdarjung Tomb, Jantar Mantar amongst a lot of other people. The minister emphasised that the projects initiated at the heritage monuments as aspect of the project be completed at the earliest.
The “Adopt a Heritage: Apni Dharohar, Apni Pehchaan” project was launched by the Modi government in its initial term beneath which public as effectively as private firms are invited to come to be the “monument mitras” of the heritage internet sites in the nation and provide simple amenities such as cleanliness, drinking water, sound and lightning amongst other people at the internet sites. The scheme had received massive criticism from the opposition parties at the time of its launch in the year 2017 as the operational and upkeep responsibilities of the heritage monuments had been also rested with the firms related with the heritage internet sites.
According to the release issued by the Ministry of Tourism, the government has clinched a total of 27 Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) with a total of 12 public/private entities for a total of 25 main heritage internet sites in the nation. The government also informed that a total of 2 MoUs have also been signed to facilitate technological interventions at a couple of heritage internet sites beneath the project.
The main monuments which have been handed more than to the “Monument Mitras” include things like the historic Red Fort which has been allotted to the Dalmia Bharat Ltd, Qutub Minar (allotted to Yatra.Com), Safdarjung Tomb(allotted to Travel Corporation of India), and Jantar Mantar(allotted to SBI Foundation) amongst other people. The Ministry of Tourism at the starting of this year had intended to revive the about 4 year old project but the sudden occurence of the pandemic posed a hurdle in creating progress in the project. With many Coronavirus vaccine candidates in the fray to get the emergency use approval along with constant dip in the tally of Coronavirus circumstances, the government seems to have picked the threads of the project once more.