Indian Express 17.03.2010
Civic body-ASI to ink MoU for upkeep of heritage
Express News Service Tags : corporation, heritage Posted: Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010 at 0151 hrs
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will shortly sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Archaeological Survey of India for the upkeep, preservation and revival of 50 Centrally-protected monuments in the city.
The JNNURM secretariat has already given its approval for the revival of the Bhadra fort area and the development of its surroundings, an AMC release said on Tuesday.
As part of this exercise as also to get Ahmedabad approved as a world heritage city, AMC will hand over the necessary documents to the ASI director general during an international conference to be hosted between April 18 and 20 on the occasion of World Heritage Day.
The meeting has been named “Asian World Heritage Cities – Indian Citizen Looking Towards World Heritage”.
AMC will jointly organise with the Indian Heritage City Network, the Delhi and Paris offices of UNESCO, National Institute of Urban Affairs, and ASI, the release said.
The participants include representatives from Japan, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Nepal and officials from the Indian Heritage City Network.
AMC Vendor Scheme: HC asks SEWA to appoint members
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday asked the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) to appoint four representatives to give suggestions to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to modify the Draft Vendors’ Scheme for the city. SEWA has filed a petition in the HC demanding a vendors’ scheme in the city. The petitioner has said that in the absence of such a scheme, the vendors are facing harassment from the authorities. Following the HC direction, the AMC has now submitted a draft of the scheme before a Division Bench. On Tuesday, the SEWA counsel stated before the Bench that the draft scheme does not contain certain vital ingredients of the Central Vendors Policy and so needs modification. “Following this, the court has asked us to appoint four representatives who will give suggestions to the Municipal Commissioner to modify the scheme,” said SEWA Counsel Bhushan Oza.
He added: “As per the court’s order, the Commissioner will consider the suggestions. If he does not agree to the same, then he will have to give the reasons in writing before the High Court,” he added. The next hearing is on April 19.
