Cultural Mapping Begins

VARANASI: The dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Kashi has started taking shape as the exercise for ‘mapping the intangible cultural heritage of Varanasi’ under the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojna (HRIDAY) and National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spatial Augmentation Drive (PRASAD) has begun. The Union cultural ministry has assigned the responsibility of preparing a vision statement and conceptual framework for Varanasi to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), which comes under the Union culture ministry…READ MORE