National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities

The Minister for Culture and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA) was approved for the period 2007 – 2012 in the XI five year plan to prepare a National database on built heritage, sites and antiquities. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today she said, the initial years (i.e. 2007 – 2010) were spent in the establishment of office & infrastructure, hiring of contractual staffs, formation of State Level Implementation Committee (SLIC), data assessment and devising proper funding mechanism. The continuation of the NMMA in the XII plan has also been proposed.

The Minister said, NMMA was launched with the objective to prepare a National database on built heritage and sites through secondary sources only. Preservation and protection of the monuments and sites is beyond its given mandate, she added.

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