Meet to review work on Unesco heritage sites on September 7

Jaisalmer: A meet to review the progress of works being carried out on the six hill forts, including Sonar Fort, which have got the Unesco World Heritage Site tag, will be held in Jaipur on September 7. The final report on the works will be handed over to Unesco in January 2021.

The meeting will be chaired by chief secretary Rajeeva Swarup. ASI joint director, conservation, Jhanavi Sharma, Jaisalmer collector Ashish Modi and collectors of Udaipur, Sawai Madhopur, Ajmer, Jaipur and Rajsamand will join the meeting along with project coordinator Shikha Jain.

To prepare for this meeting and to review the present problems, a meeting on fort conservation has held here on Wednesday under the chairmanship of district collector Ashish Modi. The meeting decided to resubmit the site management plan for the Sonar Fort with some changes.

Official sources said the consolidated report of conservation and other works being carried out as per the Unesco guidelines will be handed over to the Director, Unesco, in January next year. The Jaipur meet will focus on site management plan, visitor management sub-plan, works of sewerage line done by RUIDP and progress of conservation works of Sonar Fort along with illegal constructions and removing encroachment.

Sources the meeting will also discuss the site management plan approved in 2018 and submitted to Unesco, which could not be implemented till now. The Sonar Fort could go in danger zone of Unesco because of not implementing the site management plan.

Sources said the Jaipur meeting will discuss progress of works at Kumbhalgarh fort, Chittorgarh fort, Ranthambore fort, Gagron fort and Amber fort.

Modi said in view of the meeting in Jaipur, a review meeting of fort conservation committee was held on Wednesday at the collector’s office in which progress of works has been reviewed.