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Goa's cabinet has approved a comprehensive Heritage Policy designed to safeguard and celebrate the state's cultural, historical and natural treasures. The new framework sets clear rules for maintenance, restoration and promotion across 14 priority areas, covering everything from ancient monuments and churches to festivals, crafts and oral traditions. Key measures include unifying scattered heritage laws, bringing private heritage bungalows into conservation and tourism plans, and aligning Goa&'s efforts with global best practices. The policy promises financial and technical support, plus awards for private owners, and launches a digital documentation programme to record and share heritage assets worldwide, securing them for future generations.
The Goa government has cleared a new Heritage Policy, which lays out a holistic framework for conserving, protecting, and promoting the state's rich cultural, historical, and natural heritage. The new policy, cleared by the state cabinet last week, aims to incorporate heritage conservation as a part of academic curricula and turn heritage tourism into a reality through carefully designed experiences for tourists. Advertisement
The new framework addresses key facets of preservation of heritage, such as systematic maintenance, restoration, planned preservation, and deliberate promotion. It provides detailed guidelines for the achievement of these multi-faceted goals with priority to 14 key areas. They address both tangible resources, including ancient monuments, notable religious sites, and traditional buildings, and intangible heritage, including lively festivals, indigenous handicrafts, and rich oral traditions.
The most significant mandates under the policy include ensuring legislative changes to unify existing heritage legislation, formulating a strategic incorporation of private heritage bungalows into larger conservation and tourism policies, and ensuring a commitment to align Goa's conservation agenda with international best practices and localized implementation strategies.
The policy also makes provisions for finance, technical support, and award schemes directly targeting private heritage property owners. Another notable aspect of this policy is the incorporation of a digital documentation programme, which seeks to document and conserve Goa's vast heritage assets systematically, making them accessible worldwide and protecting them for future generations, and hence making a recognized contribution to the state's unique identity.
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