National Capacity Building Workshop on Preservation of Sikh Heritage in Pakistan

Amid this Coronavirus Pandemic Outbreak, a two-day National Workshop was held in Lahore,Pakistan which discussed various aspects to preserve the Sikh Cultural heritage.

This National Capacity Building Workshop for the PTEGP-UNESCO-WB, a funded project was implemented by The Institute for Art and Culture (IAC) under the main project ‘Development of an Integrated Site Management Plan and Capacity Building for Sustainable Tourism Management of Selected Sikh Sites in Punjab’.

The workshop is part of the collaboration between the IAC and Unesco which focuses on creating an Integrated Site Management Plan for Sustainable Tourism Management of Gurdwara Rohri Sahib, Eminabad, Gujranwala, and Gurdwara Sacha Sauda Sahib, Farooqabad, Shiekhupura.

It proposes to provide foundations in cultural heritage protection and management through local development and the community exercise of bringing together expertise to identify gaps in protection and preservation of Sikh heritage sites.

The project was jointly awarded to the IAC, Lahore, Pakistan and Fondazione Satagta for the Economics of Culture, Turin, Italy.

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Dr. Gurdeep Kaur
Associate Professor
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
University of Delhi