On world heritage day, Ahmedabad gets Centre for Heritage Management

Ahmedabad, 18 April 2012

On UNESCO’s World Heritage Day, the city of Ahmedabad got Centre for Heritage Management (CHM). The launching function of the Centre for Heritage Management was held at Ahmedabad University campus today morning. Thus a decade and a half old leadership of Ahmedabad city in the area of heritage conservation has been institutionalized now.

The centre plans to offer academic programmes including executive training programmes for practitioners and policymakers and a Master’s programme designed to promote talent that will provide leadership to committed professionals of public and private sector organizations that promote and conserve heritage. The idea is to promote conservation and management of cultural assets based on participatory research in heritage practices and by offering training and degree programmes.

With the launching of CHM, a three-day-long symposium on heritage management ‘Asmita samvad – a dialogue on heritage and identity’ kicked off.

Through video conferencing, the CHM jointly celebrated World Heritage Day with Indonesian Heritage Trust Borobudur.