Question- On June 8, 2017, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee on Global heritages recognized which city as India’s first global heritage?
(a) Rajkot
(b) Ahmedabad
(c) Jodhpur
(d) Varanasi
Ans: (b)
Related facts:-
- 3 New World Destinations were included in UNESCO’s ‘World Heritage List’ in the 41st meeting of ‘World Heritage Committee’ of UNESCO, held in Krakow, Poland from 9-12 July, 2017.
- Ahmedabad city was recognized as the first global heritage city of India in cultural category.
- Ahmedabad has become the first Indian city and third from Asia to join this list.
- Significantly, UNESCO has declared many historical buildings of India as a World Heritage Site, but this is the first time that any Indian city has been declared as World Heritage.
- Ahmedabad was chosen unanimously considering it symbol of secular co-existence of Hindu, Islamic and Jain communities for hundreds of years.
- The Walled City Ahmedabad was established in the 15th century by the Sultan Ahmad Shah on the eastern coast of Sabarmati river.
- Importantly, Nalanda Mahabihar archaeological site (Nalanda University), Capital Complex in Chandigarh and National Forest Reserve of Sikkim were included in World Heritage List in the 40th meeting of UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
- Presently, 36 sites in India have been included in the World Heritage List, 28 of them are Cultural Classes, 7 in Natural Category and 1 got the place in mixed category.
- India is at second place after China and at seventh place in the world in terms of world heritage properties.
Related Links:-
https://twitter.com/RuchiraKamboj/status/883717079572115456
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1551
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1688/
http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/in
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ahmedabad-gujarat-declared-world-heritage-city-unesco/1/997859.html