India Elected To UNESCO World Heritage Committee For 4-Year Term

New Delhi: India has been elected to the World Heritage Committee of the United Nation’s (UN) cultural organisation for a four-year term, a week after the country was re-elected to the UNESCO Executive Board.

“Happy to announce that India has won the seat on World Heritage Committee from the Asia Pacific region. I thank all our supporters for leading us to this historic win,” Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakashi Lekhi tweeted on Thursday.

India to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) tweeted that India gets elected to the World Heritage Committee with 142 votes for a four-year term from 2021-25! On Nov 17, India won the re-election to the executive board of the UNESCO for the 2021-25 term.”

What does the committee do?

• Implements the World Heritage Convention
• Defines the use of the World Heritage Fund
• Allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties
• It has the final say on whether a property is inscribed on the World Heritage List
• It examines reports on the state of conservation of inscribed properties and asks States Parties to take action when properties are not being properly managed
• It decides on the inscription or deletion of properties on the List of World Heritage in Danger
• The World Heritage Committee meets once a year, and consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention elected by their General Assembly.

Last week, India won re-election to the Executive Board of the UN cultural organisation for the 2021-25 term with 164 votes.