UNESCO declares Jaipur City a World Heritage Site.

UNESCO, Jaipur

Photos: Jaipur City. Images Credit: Patrick Rasenberg, Louise Goggin, Subhabrata Majumdar.

New Delhi, July 06, 2019 — In yet another landmark achievement, India’s nomination, Jaipur City, Rajasthan, got inscribed today on the World Heritage List of UNESCO during the 43rd Session of the World Heritage Committee held at Baku, Azerbaijan. Jaipur City was successfully nominated complying with the various UNESCO guidelines of 2017. With the inscription of Jaipur City, India has 38 world heritage sites, that include 30 Cultural properties, 7 Natural properties, and one mixed.

India’s nomination was initially recommended by the ICOMOS (advisory body of World Heritage (WH) Centre for cultural sites) as Deferral, but the 21 nation World Heritage Committee debated it and after discussion decided to inscribe it on the World Heritage list.

India’s Minister for Culture, Prahlad Singh Patel, expressed his happiness for the inclusion of Pink City Jaipur in world heritage list and congratulated people of Jaipur for this prestigious tag. The Minister thanked the global community for recognizing the historical and cultural importance of Jaipur.

Here are excerpts from the statement presented by India before the World Heritage Committee, outlining Jaipur’s Outstanding Universal Value (OUV):

“The City of Jaipur is an exceptional urban example in indigenous city planning and construction in South Asia. Unlike other medieval cities of the region, Jaipur was deliberately planned as a new city on the plains open for trade as opposed to hilly terrain and military cities of past, though its planning still ensured a response to the surrounding hilltops in all directions. The site selected within the valley that lay to the south of Amber hills was comparatively flat and unmarred by any previous construction. Besides exemplary planning, its iconic monuments such as the Govind Dev temple, City Palace, Jantar Mantar, and Hawa Mahal excel in artistic and architectural craftsmanship of the period. Jaipur is an expression of the astronomical skills, living traditions, unique urban form, and exemplary foresighted city planning of the 18th-century city from India. Jaipur is an exemplary development in town planning and architecture that demonstrates amalgamation and important interchange of several ideas over the late medieval period.”

The countries that supported India’s nomination are as follows:

Brazil, Bahrain, Cuba, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Zimbabwe, China, Guatemala, Uganda, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Angola, St. Kitts and Nevis. Australia and Norway initially proposed referral, but after the debate, they agreed for Inscription of Jaipur city.

With this, India now has 38 World Heritage Sites, that include 30 Cultural properties, 7 Natural properties, and one mixed site.

Source: Ministry of Culture, Government of India

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Glad that this city has been inscribed as a World Heritage Site by @UNESCO. https://t.co/1PIX4YjAC4
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 6, 2019

Congratulations #India!
Just inscribed as @UNESCO #WorldHeritage Site: Jaipur City in Rajasthan, #India ðŸ‡®ðŸ‡³. Bravo ðŸ‘ #Watch the congratulatory message from @UNESCO_NDL Director Eric Falt.@UNinIndia @IndiaatUNESCO @PMOIndia @UNESCO @UNDP_India @my_rajasthan pic.twitter.com/gSsdHibRKq
— UNESCO New Delhi (@UNESCO_NDL) July 6, 2019

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