Nearly 60 properties on tentative list of Unesco's heritage list: Govt

There are nearly 60 properties in India which find a place in the Tentative List for further inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List, according to information shared by the government in Parliament on Monday.

A Tentative List is an inventory of those properties which each State Party intends to consider for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The 46th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) is being held in New Delhi from July 21 to July 31.

India is hosting the key event of UNESCO for the first time.

The mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam -- 'Moidams' -- was on July 26 inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, making it the first cultural property from the Northeast to get the coveted tag.

'Moidams' was submitted as India's nomination for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List for the year 2023-24. The site was put in the Tentative List of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2014.

In a written response to a query in Lok Sabha, Union Culture