{"id":125664,"date":"2021-11-10T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T09:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=125664"},"modified":"2021-11-10T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T09:50:06","slug":"unesco-creative-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/unesco-creative-city\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO Creative City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which Indian city has recently joined the network of UNESCO Creative Cities Network 2021 under crafts, folk arts category?<\/strong><br>(a) Varanasi<br>(b) Srinagar<br>(c) Shilong<br>(d) None of the above<br><strong>Ans: b<br>Recent Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 8th November 2021 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated Srinagar as a part of UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN).<\/li><li>Related Facts<\/li><li>After Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Varanasi and Jaipur, Srinagar is the sixth Indian city to achieve this distinction.<\/li><li>Srinagar is now part of the club of 295 creative cities network across the world.<\/li><li>About UNESCO Creative City Network<\/li><li>It is a project launched by UNESCO in 2004 to \u201cpromote cooperation among cities which recognized creativity as a strategic factor in their urban development\u201d.<\/li><li>The cities designated as creative cities work together towards a common objective of \u201cplacing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the international level\u201d.<\/li><li>UNESCO designates the creative cities in seven fields \u2014 Craft, Folk Art, Media Arts, Film Design, Gastronomy, Literature and Music.<\/li><li>The Srinagar city has been designated the creative city in the field of Crafts and Folk Arts \u2014 only second city in India in this category after Jaipur.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Kameshwar Shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/srinagar-unesco-creative-city-explained-7614289\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/srinagar-unesco-creative-city-explained-7614289\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 aboveAns: bRecent 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-125664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-current-affairs-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125666,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125664\/revisions\/125666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}