Four Indian Sites Won UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards For Cultural Heritage Conservation

• 22 Dec 2020

• India won UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation towards its four sites.

Award Category & Sites

• Award of Excellence/Special Recognition for Sustainable Development: Sunder Nursery, the sprawling park set amid historical structures at Nizamuddin, has become Delhi’s first heritage complex to receive two Unesco Asia-Pacific awards for Cultural Heritage Conversation, bagging the Award of Excellence and the newly announced Special Recognition for Sustainable Development.
• Award of Distinction: Koothambalam at Guruvayoor Temple in Thrissur. Koothambalam or Kuttampalam meaning temple theatre is a closed hall for staging Koothu, Nangiarkoothu and Koodiyattam, the ancient ritualistic art forms of Kerala.
• Award of Merit: Amar Singh College, Srinagar; and Malabari Hall Building, Mumbai(A multipurpose hall that formed part of the SevaSadan Society - one of the earliest of such spaces that catered to the emerging middle-class community, where women began to be recognised for their contribution towards the society).

Since 2000, the Unesco Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation Programme have been lauding the efforts of private individuals and organisations in successfully restoring, conserving and transforming structures and buildings of heritage value in the region.