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28/07/23 07:05 AM IST

UNESCO’s Asia Pacific Cultural Heritage award

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  • Mumbai’s Byculla Railway Station received UNESCO’s Asia Pacific Cultural Heritage Award recently.
About UNESCO’s Asia Pacific Cultural Heritage award
  • The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation is supported by a partnership between UNESCO and Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation since 2021.
  • UNESCO introduced the new category, ‘Special Recognition for Sustainable Development’, in 2020, together with an updated set of Awards Criteria.
  • It is to acknowledge the role and contribution of cultural heritage to sustainable development within the broader framework of the UN 2030 Agenda.
  • Since 2000, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation have been recognizing the achievement of the private sector and public-private initiatives in successfully conserving or restoring structures, places and properties of heritage value in the region.
Byculla Railway station
  • It was originally built in 1853.
  • The first train of the country passed through Byculla station almost one-and-a-half centuries ago.
  • It has been restored to its original Gothic, heritage, architectural glory.
Source- Indian Express

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