Databank on cultural heritage on the anvil
Faced with increasing incidents of smuggling of invaluable cultural property from the country, the government is planning to create a databank of India's heritage.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Faced with increasing incidents of smuggling of invaluable cultural property from the country, the government is planning to create a databank of India's heritage.
The Mission for Antiquities and Monuments of the Culture Ministry has been asked to create a databank on the country's heritage in the wake of thefts of properties which have cultural significance, sources said.
"Nobody knows how much smuggling of cultural property has taken place. So many pieces of great importance and value are smuggled out," they said.
This has prompted the government to prepare a databank of cultural property, they added.
According to latest government figures, there has been an increase of 29.2 per cent in the number of cases of theft of cultural property in the country.
While there were 1,012 cases of theft of cultural property in 2005, the next year witnessed 1,307 such incidents.
In 2006, cultural properties worth Rs 7.8 crore were stolen while properties worth Rs 2.65 were recovered. The figures for 2005 were Rs 4.18 crore and Rs 3.10 crore respectively.
The north-eastern states of Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura did not record a single case of theft of cultural property.
The maximum incidents of loss of cultural property were reported from Karnataka (404) followed by West Bengal (182). The highest value of loss (Rs 2.59 crore) was reported from Assam followed by Karnataka (Rs 1.64 crore).
The Mission for Antiquities and Monuments of the Culture Ministry has been asked to create a databank on the country's heritage in the wake of thefts of properties which have cultural significance, sources said.
"Nobody knows how much smuggling of cultural property has taken place. So many pieces of great importance and value are smuggled out," they said.
This has prompted the government to prepare a databank of cultural property, they added.
According to latest government figures, there has been an increase of 29.2 per cent in the number of cases of theft of cultural property in the country.
While there were 1,012 cases of theft of cultural property in 2005, the next year witnessed 1,307 such incidents.
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In 2006, cultural properties worth Rs 7.8 crore were stolen while properties worth Rs 2.65 were recovered. The figures for 2005 were Rs 4.18 crore and Rs 3.10 crore respectively.
The north-eastern states of Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura did not record a single case of theft of cultural property.
The maximum incidents of loss of cultural property were reported from Karnataka (404) followed by West Bengal (182). The highest value of loss (Rs 2.59 crore) was reported from Assam followed by Karnataka (Rs 1.64 crore).
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