Dec 03: Respect the past and wishes to learn from it, says PM Manmohan Singh while inaugurating the 12 th International Conference of National Trusts here in Delhi on Monday. The conference is schedule to take place from Dec 03 to Dec 05 inviting large number of delegates from different parts of country and across the world.
On the occasion of the 12th International Conference of National Trusts the Prime Minister did make a point in protecting and promoting world’s cultural and natural heritage by saying that development and preservation of natural and cultural sites can go side by side and hence awareness should be increased for development in this larger issue.
Dr Singh mentioned India’s past citing the inhumanity in destroying large number of human heritage by invaders, conquerors, and colonial rule along with the present, the attack from fundamentalists and terrorists who are doing the same in the name of religion and others.
Referring the destruction of the Bamiyan Budddha in Afghanistan the Prime Minister said “It is only one sad and stark example of such threats to heritage preservation.” Hence urging international delegates to send a message around the world that no one has the right to destroy what humanity has inherited from the past.
He also advocates the participation of local community in cultural and natural heritage preservation with strategic policies that can develop a mindset and a value system among individuals in ancient heritage preservation.
Keeping in mind the pace of globalisation, increasing regional conflict, rise of fundamentalist forces and furthermore various natural disasters like earthquake, tsunami, flood, cyclone; it becomes the apt need to save our cultural and natural heritage for our future generation so that they can learn and cherish. Such conference looks forward to meet global challenges to practice the heritage protection.
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