Tag: Culture Ministry

  • Greece To Let Other people Convey Pets Into Extra Than 120 Archaeological Websites

    ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Pets will quickly be allowed into greater than 120 archaeological websites throughout Greece, the rustic’s Tradition Ministry introduced Thursday, even if now not within the Acropolis or one of the crucial different most sensible vacationer attracts.

    The transfer, unanimously licensed via the rustic’s tough Central Archaeological Council, will calm down present laws which most effective permit information canine for disabled guests into archaeological websites. The ministry didn’t specify when the brand new rules can be carried out.

    The verdict is “a primary, however essential, step towards harmonizing the framework of accessibility to monuments and archaeological websites with the factors of alternative Eu international locations, the place access laws for pets already practice,” Tradition Minister Lina Mendoni stated in a ministry press liberate.

    The council licensed the access of pets supplied they’re stored on a leash no multiple meter (3 toes) lengthy, or carried via their homeowners in a pouch or a puppy sporting case. House owners may even want to display their puppy’s well being certificates and elevate the important equipment to select up their animal’s droppings in an effort to be allowed access, the ministry stated. Greater canine must be muzzled.

    However one of the crucial most well liked archaeological websites, such because the Acropolis of Athens, Knossos in Crete, Historic Olympia or Delphi, which generally tend to get very crowded, will nonetheless stay pet-free, as will historic theaters, temples, graves and monuments with mosaic flooring.

    Cages will likely be put in on the entrances of greater than 110 different archaeological websites, the ministry stated, so homeowners can park their pets throughout their discuss with.

    Tourism is one in all Greece’s major industries, producing billions of euros in income every 12 months.

  • Parliamentary panel moots development statues of ancient figures in all states   

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    NEW DELHI: A committee of parliamentarians has urged the tradition ministry discover probabilities of setting up statues of famous regional personalities in states at the line of Kevadia’s ‘Statue of Harmony’ in Gujarat. The committee is of the realization the sculptures is not going to simplest spice up the tourism financial system but additionally create consciousness about individuals and their function within the transformation of the rustic. 

    The 31-member panel additionally needs the world across the statue web page to be evolved as a vacationer hub that may lend a hand to boost up tourism actions.

    “The (tradition) ministry would possibly make joint efforts along side the ministry of tourism to investigate the viability of the development of statues of necessary regional ancient figures in different states. The committee feels that if discovered viable, the improvement of vacationer hubs round such statues would serve the twin goal of boosting tourism in addition to instructing the guests concerning the important function performed through necessary ancient figures in shaping India’s future,” the status committee on delivery, tourism and culture– chaired through V Vijayasai Reddy of YSR Congress Birthday party, famous in its 340th document — Calls for for Grants (2023-24) of Ministry of Tradition.

    The document was once introduced to the Rajya Sabha on March 13.

    The panel has additionally really helpful the tradition ministry assess the quantity of people that visited the 182-metre tall ‘Statue of Harmony’, carving of first deputy high minister of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, alongside the financial institution of Narmada River in Kevadia. Designed through Indian sculptor Ram V Sutar, it was once constructed at a price of Rs 2,989 crore. High Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the monument in October 2018.

    Some of the important suggestions made through the panel is the advent of a Nationwide Tradition College with affiliated faculties in each and every of the states and union territories (UTs).

    “Every state and each and every village (in India) has its personal distinct and distinctive id. The Committee feels that so as to give protection to the original tradition of each and every village in each and every State, it’s crucial and vital to have one nationwide college, with all States having affiliated faculties of nationwide significance. Such tutorial establishments might also carry out analysis paintings on Vedas, Upanishads and different ancient texts and languages,” reads the document.

    NEW DELHI: A committee of parliamentarians has urged the tradition ministry discover probabilities of setting up statues of famous regional personalities in states at the line of Kevadia’s ‘Statue of Harmony’ in Gujarat. The committee is of the realization the sculptures is not going to simplest spice up the tourism financial system but additionally create consciousness about individuals and their function within the transformation of the rustic. 

    The 31-member panel additionally needs the world across the statue web page to be evolved as a vacationer hub that may lend a hand to boost up tourism actions.

    “The (tradition) ministry would possibly make joint efforts along side the ministry of tourism to investigate the viability of the development of statues of necessary regional ancient figures in different states. The committee feels that if discovered viable, the improvement of vacationer hubs round such statues would serve the twin goal of boosting tourism in addition to instructing the guests concerning the important function performed through necessary ancient figures in shaping India’s future,” the status committee on delivery, tourism and culture– chaired through V Vijayasai Reddy of YSR Congress Birthday party, famous in its 340th document — Calls for for Grants (2023-24) of Ministry of Tradition.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The document was once introduced to the Rajya Sabha on March 13.

    The panel has additionally really helpful the tradition ministry assess the quantity of people that visited the 182-metre tall ‘Statue of Harmony’, carving of first deputy high minister of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, alongside the financial institution of Narmada River in Kevadia. Designed through Indian sculptor Ram V Sutar, it was once constructed at a price of Rs 2,989 crore. High Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the monument in October 2018.

    Some of the important suggestions made through the panel is the advent of a Nationwide Tradition College with affiliated faculties in each and every of the states and union territories (UTs).

    “Every state and each and every village (in India) has its personal distinct and distinctive id. The Committee feels that so as to give protection to the original tradition of each and every village in each and every State, it’s crucial and vital to have one nationwide college, with all States having affiliated faculties of nationwide significance. Such tutorial establishments might also carry out analysis paintings on Vedas, Upanishads and different ancient texts and languages,” reads the document.