Question: Which Indian city has recently joined the network of UNESCO Creative Cities Network 2021 under crafts, folk arts category?
(a) Varanasi
(b) Srinagar
(c) Shilong
(d) None of the above
Ans: b
Recent Context
- On 8th November 2021 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated Srinagar as a part of UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN).
- Related Facts
- After Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Varanasi and Jaipur, Srinagar is the sixth Indian city to achieve this distinction.
- Srinagar is now part of the club of 295 creative cities network across the world.
- About UNESCO Creative City Network
- It is a project launched by UNESCO in 2004 to “promote cooperation among cities which recognized creativity as a strategic factor in their urban development”.
- The cities designated as creative cities work together towards a common objective of “placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the international level”.
- UNESCO designates the creative cities in seven fields — Craft, Folk Art, Media Arts, Film Design, Gastronomy, Literature and Music.
- The Srinagar city has been designated the creative city in the field of Crafts and Folk Arts — only second city in India in this category after Jaipur.
By Kameshwar Shukla
Reference:
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/srinagar-unesco-creative-city-explained-7614289/