{"id":120718,"date":"2021-07-23T19:49:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=120718"},"modified":"2021-07-24T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T05:32:43","slug":"adarsh-smarak-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/adarsh-smarak-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Adarsh Smarak Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/state-monuments-to-get-facelift-under-central-heritage-schemes\/article35479201.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Recently, the fort at Gandikota was identified for development under the Centrally-sponsored <strong>\u2018Adopt a Heritage\u2019 programme. <\/strong>Further, 3 monuments \u2013 Nagarjuna Konda in Guntur district, the Buddhist remains at Salihundam in Srikakulam district and the Veerabhadra temple at Lepakshi in Anantapur district have been identified for development under <strong>\u2018Adarsh Smarak\u2019 scheme<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Adarsh Smarak scheme<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ministry<\/strong>: Ministry of Culture<\/li>\n<li>The scheme was launched in 2014 for providing improved visitor amenities, especially for the physically challenged, besides cleanliness, drinking water, and interpretation centres, cafeteria, souvenir shop, wi-fi, garbage disposal etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>To make the monument<strong>\u00a0accessible<\/strong> to differently-abled.<\/li>\n<li>To make monument\u00a0<strong>visitor friendly.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Furthermore, to implement <strong>Swachh Bharat Abhiyan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Also, to upgrade\/provide washrooms, drinking water, signages, cafeteria, and wi-fi facilities.<\/li>\n<li>To provide\u00a0<strong>interpretation and audio-video centers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To\u00a0streamline <strong>wastewater and garbage disposal<\/strong>\u00a0and a rainwater harvesting system.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, to provide <strong>safety and protection<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About Adopt a Heritage scheme<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>An initiative of the <strong>Ministry of Tourism<\/strong> in collaboration with the <strong>Ministry of Culture<\/strong> and the <strong>Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Under this scheme, the government invites entities, including public sector companies, private sector firms and individuals, to <strong>develop<\/strong> selected monuments and heritage and tourist sites.<\/li>\n<li>Basic amenities like drinking water, ease of access for the differently-abled and senior citizens, standardised signage, cleanliness, public convenience, surveillance system and night-viewing facilities are provided and maintained under the scheme.<\/li>\n<li>Read more about adopt a heritage scheme <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-reviews-adopt-a-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the news? Recently, the fort at Gandikota was identified for development under the Centrally-sponsored \u2018Adopt a Heritage\u2019 programme. Further, 3 monuments \u2013 Nagarjuna Konda in Guntur district, the Buddhist remains at Salihundam in Srikakulam district and the Veerabhadra temple at Lepakshi in Anantapur district have been identified for development under&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/adarsh-smarak-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adarsh Smarak Scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,959],"tags":[8575,357,3953],"class_list":["post-120718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-schemes","tag-adarsh-smarak-scheme","tag-adopt-a-heritage","tag-schemes","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700207752},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}