India To Ask UNESCO For World Heritage Site Tag For Assam's Charaideo Maidam
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Himanta Biswa Sarma said that out of 52 tentative sites across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chosen Assam's Charaideo Maidam to recommend for World Heritage Site with UNESCO
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said the centre will send a proposal to UNESCO for nominating Charaideo Maidam of the Ahom Kingdom as a World Heritage Site.
Mr Sarma told reporters that out of 52 tentative sites across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chosen Assam's Charaideo Maidam.
Mr Sarma said they wrote to PM Modi on January 16 regarding the matter.
He said the Assam government has submitted the World Heritage Nomination Dossier of the cultural heritage site of Moidams, or the mound burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Charaideo to the Archaeological Survey of India, for onward submission to UNESCO for evaluation this year.
