A team from the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), technical advisor to UNESCO, visited Ramappa temple, Warangal, recently for reviewing the site’s nomination for the World Heritage Status. This gives us hope that Telangana will get its first-ever Unesco World Heritage Site.  If the Indian government prioritizes and submits Ramappa at the earliest and the nomination passes through the World Heritage Committee scrutiny the possibility of getting recognition becomes stronger.  It is indeed a long and tedious procedure to get any heritage site inscribed on the WH list. The State and Central Governments have to play a pro-active role in this regard.

As in 2019, 1121 sites from 167 Countries across the world are listed as World Heritage. 

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If sites in a few States are inscribed and a few other States have missed out, the reasons are more procedural and even political, that certain sites are prioritized for nomination at the State and Central government level.  It is regrettable that Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have not fought enough for getting through to the WH list in all these years. And also, within Telangana, the State government preferred to send the nominations of Ramappa and Warangal, shelving Golconda and Hyderabad, which have been queued in the Tentative List for a long time.

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