¤ With this successful nomination, India now enters the Super-40 club for World Heritage Site inscriptions.
¤ Apart from India, Italy, Spain, Germany, China and France have 40 or more World Heritage sites.
¤ India has 40 World Heritage Sites overall, which includes 32 cultural, 7 natural and one mixed property. Ramalingeswara Temple (Telangana) was India's 39th World Heritage Site.
About Dholavira
* It is well known for it's Urban planning and water reservoirs.
* It was discovered in 1968 by archaeologist Jagat Pati Joshi.
* Dholavira is the fifth largest metropolis of Indus Valley Civilization.(after Mohen-jo-Daro, Ganweriwala, Harappa and Rakhigarhi)
* Dholavira's location is on Tropic of Cancer.
* It is located on khadir bet island in the Kachchh Desert Wildlife Sanctuary in the Great Rann of Kachchh.
* In Dholavira we can find 10 large stone inscriptions, carved in Indus Valley script, perhaps the world’s earliest sign board.
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Criteria to be select as World Heritage Site
1) To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;
2) To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design;
3) To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;
4) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history;
5) To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change;
6) To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria);
7) To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance;
8) To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features;
9) To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals;
10) To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation.
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