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WORKSHOP AT DARJEELING HIMALAYAN RAILWAY (INDIA)
11-18 JANUARY 2002
[11.7.2001 | ]
Stakeholders Workshop for Capacity Building for Sustainable Development of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR), Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, 11th to 18th January, 2002 (workshop sessions at Darjeeling from 14th 18th) Contact: Director, National Rail Museum, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi1 10021, India Invitation to Darjeeling & its Toy Train UNESCO inscribed DHR as a World Heritage Site on 2nd December 1999 based on a proposal of National Rail Museum (NRM). The Hon ble Minister for Railways performed the dedication ceremony at Darjeeling in November 2000.
A Stakeholders workshop for capacity Building for sustainable development of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railways (DHR) (accredited by UNESCO s World Heritage center and it s advisory bodies such as ICOMOS & ICCROM) is being organized by the National Rail Museum, Ministry of Railways through the North Frontier Railway with involvement of cultural heritage professionals vide details at http://www.geocities.com/dhrworkshop
The Workshop will focus on skills development for the promotion of conservation values among stakeholder communities, capacity building for maximising on the potential of heritage tourism and community mobilization for the sustainable management of World Heritage Areas in non-western contexts. After the larger plenary session participants will break up into smaller working groups focussing on specific areas of sustainable development.
Dr. Amareswar Galla, Chairperson, Asia Pacific Organisation of the International Council of Museums (ASPAC-ICOM) is the Principal Technical Advisor and international facilitator with experience of dealing with the respective issues in developing countries and with language competency will lead the workshop. UNESCO, Heritage bodies and Professional Agencies from India &
Abroad will participate. The participants would be employees and stakeholder community leaders of Darjeeling Himalayan Railways and delegates from other World Heritage Areas of South Asian countries.
The theme is Towards living heritage - The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) (A non-western context). This will provide an excellent opportunity for interaction to benefit the DHR and the cause of World heritage as well as to deliberate on the perspectives of DHR for capacity building for sustainable development of a unique & outstanding example which is so dynamically linked with society & culture for over 100 years and what is appropriate to save for posterity.
Key-Resource areas of the DHR: - Architecture, Artefacts, Surroundings, Community & Intangibles
Keynote Address: People and their Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) Dr. Robert Lee, (Univ of Western Sydney, McArthur & Specialist of Heritage Railways)
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