A team from UNESCO will be visiting the national capital during September to examine the city’s heritage sites, which are part of a dossier sent by India to the world body in pursuance of Delhi’s bid for a World Heritage tag.
Delhi Chapter of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) had prepared the “voluminous” dossier on behalf of the Delhi government, which was eventually submitted to UNESCO by the Union Culture Ministry in January.
The two areas listed in the nomination dossier are — Shahjahanabad in old Delhi which has the Mughal-ra heritage and Lutyens’ Bungalow Zone (LBZ) in New Delhi, part of the new imperial capital designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker after the 1911 Delhi Durbar.
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After evaluation of the sites here, the UNESCO will then eventually decide on “inscribing” the city in the World Heritage List, the announcement for which would be made in June 2015.