Centre sets up Gandhi Heritage Site Mission to identify, collate and assess info & material about Mahatma Gandhi, and ensure their conservation and management.
In a significant move to preserve the artefacts and instances that were witness to the man that was Mahatma Gandhi, Government of India (GoI) set up ‘Gandhi Heritage Site Mission’ on Monday.
The mission aims to identify, collate and assess the information and material relevant to Gandhi, and ensure their conservation and management.
PM Manmohan Singh has approved of the mission, which will be chaired by historian and litterateur Shailesh Bandhopadhyay and seven Indian scholars on Gandhi.
They include Prof Tridip Suhrud (environmentalist and trustee of Sabarmati Ashram Preservation & Memorial Trust), Ranesh Ray (heritage and conservation architect), Sudarshan Iyengar (vice-chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith), Shahid Amin (historian and professor with Delhi University), Anupam Mishra (editor of Gandhian journal ‘Gandhi Marg’) and Prof Venu Madhav Govindu (computers and electronics scientist with Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru).
The mission has been set up on recommendation of chairman of Panel of Gandhi Heritage Site, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who has identified sites across the country and abroad that are, in any way, related to the Father of the Nation.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, in his 78 years of life, had travelled extensively across India and abroad. Gopalkrishna, who is his grandson, has identified 39 core sites in India, South Africa and England, where Gandhi had spent a significant part of his life. There are 2,000 other sites, which were simply visited by Gandhi. The mission, through its activities aims to preserve these locations.
A web portal of authentic information about Gandhi, his life and thoughts, is also in the offing. Any noteworthy written word, audio-visuals and writings on and about Gandhi will be identified, collected, authenticated and preserved for dissemination to the junta. The mission, in short, is working on a database about Gandhi.
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