Fresh Heritage Precinct Proposal for KMC | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Calcutta Architectural Legacies (Cal) and Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach) That Have Been Nudging The Kolkata Municipal Corporation to Accord Heritage PRECORD PRECOTEGE PRECOTEGE PRECTUSTES Neighborhoods in Kolkata with Significant Built Architecture Have Again Submitted The Proposal on Dalhousie Square and Bow Barracks. In addition, work on a dossier is underway to demarcate two other locals – Lake Temple Road and College Street – as precincts as cell.The proposal on dalhousie square, now know as bbd bag, had earlier ben submitted to kmc in sept 2024. Dhaval jain.The dossier was prepared by architects Partha Ranjan Das and Kamalika Bose to Give Shape to a Demand That Cal Founder and Writer Amit Chaudhuri has been raising to declare heroitage preview Built heritage can be preserved. “We need to Declare zones as heritage precincts to retain the character of these locals instead of focusing just on individual buildings,” said Chaudhuri. Intach that has been promoting heritage conservation in the city for decades has lent its weight to the proposal. Intach and Cal Had Moved Calcutta High Court in 2019 with a Pil on the unilateral delisting of Heritage Buildings and Later Argued for the Declaration of Heritage Precincts. The HC Had in Jan 2025 Issued an order asking the state to approve the draft kmc rules for heritage buildings within 8 weeks. But there has been no headway on the issue. “Since the HC deadline has lapsed, kmc needs to urgently take it up with the state government and act on the matter,” said gm kapur of intach.Several Other Indian Cities, Including Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Pondicherry, have heritage precincts that ensure that aney new development does not alter of the character of the zone.Speaking toi, conservation architect das said the proposal maps the heritage precinct of dalhousie square and bow barracks and spells out bills that will give govern addition and alteration to existing billing to existing of a fresh building in the preachinct.“The proposal is not anti-determined but regulated development so that the inreat character of the neighbourhood or precinct is retained,” Explied das. Cal, which was set up Around a decade ago by a group of like-like-minded in the common goal of work to prevent the disappearance of our right’s distinctive Residential NeighBourts and Outhors Marks of Modernity Unique to Kolkata, Has Been Advocating The Need to Declare Zones as Heritage Precincts to Retain the Character of these localities instead of focusing just on Individual Buildings.

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