The Hindu : UNESCO team to visit Hampi

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Friday, May 02, 2003

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UNESCO team to visit Hampi

By Our Staff Correspondent

BELLARY MAY 1. A two-member team of Unesco's World Heritage Committee, headed by its Deputy Director, Manja Yang, will visit Hampi and Anegundi for three days from Saturday.

Ms. Yang, along with the architect, Paul Trowload, will arrive in Bangalore on Friday and hold discussions with the Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, M.Y.Ghorpade, who is the Chairman of the State-level Advisory Committee on managing the World Heritage Site, Rani Satish, Minister of State for Kannada and Culture, D.B.Inamdar, Minister of State for Tourism, and senior officials regarding preserving the Hampi World Heritage Site.

The team will reach Hospet on Saturday and go round Hampi. It will visit Virupaksha Temple, the monolith "Kadlekalu" and "Sasivekalu'' Ganesh idols, Krishna Temple, Ugra Narasimha and other important monuments. Later, the team members will discuss with the officials of the Union and the State Archaeological departments.

The same evening, the team will visit the tollgate near Talwarghatta, Vijaya Vittala Temple and some of the excavated places besides the museum of ASI at Kamlapur and release a document on Hampi Shilpakala Vaibhav.

The next day, the team will visit Anegundi, which is called the "Cradle of the Vijayanagar Empire'' on the other side of the Tungabhadra, and inspect the monuments there and hold a meeting with officials of Koppal District.

The team will meet the Chairman and members of the Hampi World Heritage Site Management Authority and discuss the management and development of the world heritage site.

On Monday, the team will meet the Koppal MP, Hospet and Gangavati MLAs, presidents and members of the zilla panchayats, Anegundi and Hampi gram panchayats and Kamalapur Town Panchayat and discuss the world heritage monuments and their management.

Later, the team will visit the Kannada University and hold a discussion with the Vice-Chancellorwith regard to development of Hampi. The team will leave for Bangalore in the evening.

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