The Minister of Culture Smt. Chandresh Kumari Katoch has said that with a view to establishing a synergy between and amongst different disciplines and administrative structures, to create a national awareness on the need for a holistic approach to human development and integrating its various dimensions, the Government has set up a Coordination Committee on the Living and Diverse Cultural Traditions of India.
, an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Culture, has been nominated as the nodal organization for preparing nomination dossiers for submission to UNESCO.Action is taken on regular basis for sending nomination dossiers of new elements to UNESCO as well as to modify the pending nomination dossiers for inscription thereof. At present, UNESCO has listed 9 elements from India in its Representative List, as given below:
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| : recitation of sacred Buddhist texts in the trans-Himalayan region, Jammu and Kashmir, India |