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SUGGEST THE 10 MEASURES TO BE ADOPTED BY THE INDIAN CITIZENS TO CONSERVE AND PRESERVE THEIR CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE SITE

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India’s built heritage—rich and diverse, an amalgamation of the country’s multi-millennial interactions with different cultures—is managed by governmental agencies at the national, state and local levels. These bodies have their respective mandates in protecting and preserving the country’s ancient monuments and other structures of historical value. At the same time, India faces a host of natural disasters that pose a multitude of hazards to these structures. This brief argues for the incorporation of heritage conservation in the country’s disaster management framework. It calls for innovative mechanisms to fund both, heritage protection and post-disaster rehabilitation.