The Ministry of Culture on Monday announced to set up the ‘Indian Institute of Heritage’ at Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar.
“This will impact higher education and research in the fields related to rich Indian heritage and its conservation. Indian Institute of Heritage would offer Masters and Ph.D courses in History of Arts, Conservation, Museology, Archival Studies, Archaeology, Preventives Conservation, Epigraphy and Numismatics, Manuscriptology etc. as well as conservation training facilities to in-service employees and the students of the Indian Institute of Heritage,” informed the official ministry release.
The Institute is being set up as Deemed to be University by integrating Institute of Archaeology (Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Archaeology), School of Archival Studies under National Archives of India, New Delhi, the National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC), Lucknow, National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology (NMICHM) and Academic Wing of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, according to an ANI report.
The Union Minister of Culture and Tourism, while informing about the Institute of Heritage, also mentioned that it will be a stand-alone institution of its kind in the country. However, no budget allocation has been made for the project in the current fiscal.
The world-class university will focus on the conservation and research in India’s rich tangible heritage, along with offering the development, research, and dissemination of knowledge, excellence in the education of its students, and activities that are associated with a heritage that contributes to the scientific, cultural, and economic life of India.
