Kathmandu: The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), is set to launch a project to list intangible cultural heritage in all seven provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is said that under the project, at least 20 intangible cultural heritage elements will be listed, focusing on the cultural traditions of 17 communities across the seven provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This information was shared at a programme held in the federal capital on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the programme, Ministry Secretary Mukunda Prasad Niraula described Nepal as a country rich in cultural traditions and underlined the need to preserve intangible heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUnique cultural beliefs exist among various communities, which believe that the worship of nature and the smashing of earthenware can bring rain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that the preservation of such heritage is possible only if the concerned communities actively work towards it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Secretary Niraula also pledged to introduce necessary policies and laws to support this effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UNESCO Nepal representative Jaco d Toit hoped the project would help in the recognition and listing of intangible cultural heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It may be noted that in a call previously announced by the government, a total of 105 applications were received, and Yamari (a traditional homemade confectionery of the Newar community) was listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Ministry’s Culture Division Chief and Joint Secretary Dr Suresh Sarash Shrestha, the remaining 104 applicants were awaiting completion of the required procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that this year, the Division is facilitating them in meeting the requirements. RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathmandu: The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), is set to launch a project to list intangible cultural heritage in all seven provinces. It is said that under the project, at least 20 intangible cultural heritage elements will be listed, focusing on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":362826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-428323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428324,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428323\/revisions\/428324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428323"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=428323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}