National Monuments Authority (NMA) announced that the heritage by-laws, drafted for Purana Qila and the Khair-ul-Manazil mosque, will be out in the public domain “within a week”.
About:
Established in: 2010.
Parent Legislation: The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2010 (AMASR Act, 2010).
Parent ministry: Union Ministry of Culture.
Composition: The Act provides for NMA to be constituted with a Chairperson and up to 5 Whole Time and 5 Part Time Members each and a Member Secretary. Director-General of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an ex officio Member.
HQ: New Delhi.
Mandate: Several functions have been assigned to the NMA for the preservation of centrally protected monuments through management of the prohibited and regulated area around these monuments. Some of the responsibilities are –
to consider grant of permissions to applicants for construction related activity in the prohibited and regulated area.
To formulate heritage by-laws for protected monuments in the country to determine nature of new construction activity in regulated areas.
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