Delhis Nizamuddin Basti Project Won Two UNESCO Heritage Awards

Highlights:

• The Nizamuddin Basti Project just received two UNESCO Heritage Awards. 
• The project was recognized for its environmental efforts. 
• It received the Special Recognition for Sustainable Award as well as the Award of Excellence.
• More than 20 historic sites in the area of 14th century Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya were repaired as part of the project.
• The Humayun and Batashewala tombs, as well as the tomb of a 16th-century poet Rahim, is located in the Nizamuddin region (Khan I Khanan). 
• These areas were divided and damaged. 
• The Nizamuddin Basti Project also renewed them.
• The Nizamuddin Basti Project is a restoration project in the city of Nizamuddin. 
• It successfully unified the divided zones of the Nizamuddin Basti's seven-century-old village and its surrounding 70 acres.
• In these places, it linked socio-economic development, conservation, and environmental development goals.
• Sundar Nursery, Nizamuddin Basti, and Humayun Tomb were all merged into one.
• The Aga Kahn Trust for Culture, the Archaeological Survey of India, the Delhi Urban Heritage Foundation, and the Delhi Municipal Corporation began working on the project in 2007.