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UNESCO Suggest Nepal To Improve World Heritage Sites
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 1, 2013: UNESCO has suggested Nepal to improve the physical condition of several world heritage sites including the Pashupati area in the Kathmandu Valley, according to the news on ‘gorkhapatraonline.com’.
The 36th conference of UNESCO held from 17 to 27 June in Cambodia suggested Nepal to close the road passing through the world heritage site: the Pashupat area.
At its meeting in Moscow Last year, UNESCO had threatened to remove the famous religion site from the world heritage list if the physical condition of Pashupati were not improved
Recently taking part in the 36th conference of UNECO, Director of General of Department of Archeology (DoA) Bhesh Naryan Dahal said that UNESCO had given some time to Nepal to improve the physical condition of the heritage site and therefore it had not put many of such sites of Nepal as threatened sites.
“We are able to safeguard our heritage sites from getting into the endangered list,” he said. The open track passing thought the Sleshmantak from Tilganga will be closed after coordinating with Pashupati Area Development Trust, said Dahal.
He informed that the Department of Roads needed to play a vital role in closing the road. “We are pressing the department to close the track. However, the road is still in operation”. He further stated that in 2003 UNESCO had put the world heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley under the endangered list and it lifted the endangered tag in 2007.
About five years ago, the then Bagmati and Sewage Project opened the track despite the objections from UNESCO and DoA.
After the strong warning from the UNESCO, the concerned government bodies have bowed to the pressure stopping big vehicles plying in the route, but movement of light vehicles is still continuing on this track.
Member of PADT board of directors Prabesh Ram Bhandari said that the decision had been taken to shut down the road during the tenure of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Gopal Kirati but the decision could not be implemented effectively.
