UNESCO’s Asia Pacific Cultural Heritage award

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.

Key facts about 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.

Q1) What is heritage?

Heritage refers to the cultural, historical, natural, and tangible or intangible assets that are inherited from past generations and preserved for future generations. It encompasses the sum of all the knowledge, traditions, beliefs, customs, practices, artifacts that have shaped the identity and values of a particular civilization.

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