State to notify 500 unprotected heritage monuments: Minister

NT Correspondent

Mysuru: State tourism minister H K Patil on Saturday said that his government has decided to notify 500 unprotected heritage monuments by the end of this year.

His government has also initiated measures for rejuvenation of Nagavi Agrahara, a forgotten university of Rashtrakuta times, near Chittapur taluk of Gulbarga district.

He was speaking after inaugurating a solo art exhibition at Kalanikethan School of Visual Arts at Vijayanagar in the city.

He said the state has more than 25,000 unprotected heritage monuments, which remain neglected from time immemorial.

State has so far notified 837 heritage monuments and protected them, promoting them through archaeology, museums and the heritage department.

As the government was finding it difficult to notify all these heritage monuments at a time due to financial constraints, his government has encouraged private agencies, industries, mutts educational institutions, non government organizations, NRIs to adopt and conserve their monuments in their locality, he said.

As Nagavi University also known as Takshasila of South, which was once an important place of learning thousands of years ago like Nalanda University lies in a state of neglect, his government has now taken up this rejuvenation of this historical site.