{"id":10894,"date":"2023-05-15T04:13:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T22:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10894"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:49:35","slug":"about-adopt-a-heritage-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-adopt-a-heritage-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"About Adopt a Heritage Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Adopt a Heritage Scheme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>initiative of the Ministry of Tourism<\/strong> in <strong>collaboration<\/strong> with the <strong>Ministry of Culture and the Archaeological Survey of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>launched in September 2017 on World Tourism Day.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Under it, the <strong>government invites entities<\/strong>, including <strong>public sector companies<\/strong>, <strong>private sector firms<\/strong>, <strong>as well as individuals<\/strong>, to <strong>develop selected monuments<\/strong> and heritage and tourist sites <strong>across India<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The project aims to <strong>encourage these entities to become \u2018Monument Mitras\u2019<\/strong> and take up the responsibility of <strong>developing and upgrading <\/strong>the basic and advanced tourist <strong>amenities at these sites.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Monument Mitras are <strong>selected by the \u2018oversight and vision committee,\u2019 co-chaired by the Tourism Secretary and the Culture Secretary<\/strong>, on the basis of the bidder\u2019s \u2018vision\u2019 for the development of all amenities at the heritage site.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The oversight committee <strong>also has the power to terminate a memorandum of understanding i<\/strong>n case of non-compliance or non-performance.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>corporate sector is expected to use corporate social responsibility (CSR)<\/strong> <strong>funds<\/strong> for the upkeep of the site.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Monument Mitras, in turn, will get limited visibility on the site premises<\/strong> and on the Incredible India website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), under the Ministry of Culture, was established in the year 1861 as the premier organisation for the archaeological research and protection of the cultural heritage of the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/odisha\/2023\/may\/15\/adopt-a-heritage-scheme-by-next-month-gk-reddy-2575211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Adopt a Heritage\u2019 scheme by next month: GK Reddy<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adopt a Heritage Scheme is an initiative of the Ministry of Tourism in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the Archaeological Survey of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}