Current Affairs - Miscellaneous - Discussion

Ministry of Tourism along with Ministry of Culture and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has launched "Adopt a Heritage Project". Adopt a Heritage Project aims to provide world class tourist facilities at the natural/cultural heritage sites. Main focus of the project will be to provide basic facilities like cleanliness, public convenience, drinking water, ease of access for tourists, signage etc. and advanced facilities like Souvenir shop, Cafeteria etc. The project envisions that selected public sector companies, private sector companies and individuals will create tourist facilities at heritage sites. Those entities will be named 'Monument Mitra'. They will adopt the sites under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme. They will manage operations and maintenance of the adopted site initially for 5 years. The work will be reviewed at any time. The project was launched by the President on 27th September 2017 (World Tourism Day).