Photo contest to gauge condition of city’s heritage sites
Anjaya Anparthi | tnn | Feb 7, 2019, 05:46 ISTNagpur: To know the condition of 155 heritage structures and precincts in city, the heritage conservation committee, in association with Smt Manoramabai Mundle College of Architecture (SMMCA), has organized a photography contest titled “Snap The Past”. It will be an an inter-college architecture students’ photography competition.
The committee finalized the competition in its meeting on Wednesday at Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). Architect Ashok Mokha told TOI the participants as individuals or teams will have to click photographs of one or multiple sites out of total 155 heritage sites and submit.
“Committee is not having sufficient staff or system to know the condition of heritage sites. It is very necessary to avoid any damage to these sites. This contest will help us do so. Also, the architecture students will visit and see the heritage sites because of the competition,” he said.
Documentation Cell at Women’s Education Society’s SMMCA is nodal agency in the field of architectural documentation and conservation for Heritage Conservation Committee. The cell will organize the contest. It has made available list of 155 heritage sites on website (http://smmca.edu.in/snap-the-past). The interested will have to register and also post photographs on the website. All details about the contest have been also posted on the website.
The registration has begun from January 31 and will end on February 18. All photographs will be exhibited and winners will be given with cash prizes in a programme to be organized on International Women’s Day on March 8 at SMMCA.
The committee also approved applications of Gurudwara Shri Gurusingh Sabha and the office of Labour Commissioner for conducting their events at Kasturchand Park.
Gurudwara Shri Gurusingh Sabha has organized a religious programme on April 14. The office of Labour Commissioner, in association with the Maharashtra Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (MBOCWWB), have planned a convention of construction workers between February 12 and 17.
The committee approved the programmes with a condition to not affect ongoing works at KP and conservation of heritage monuments like Band Stand.
The committee finalized the competition in its meeting on Wednesday at Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). Architect Ashok Mokha told TOI the participants as individuals or teams will have to click photographs of one or multiple sites out of total 155 heritage sites and submit.
“Committee is not having sufficient staff or system to know the condition of heritage sites. It is very necessary to avoid any damage to these sites. This contest will help us do so. Also, the architecture students will visit and see the heritage sites because of the competition,” he said.
Documentation Cell at Women’s Education Society’s SMMCA is nodal agency in the field of architectural documentation and conservation for Heritage Conservation Committee. The cell will organize the contest. It has made available list of 155 heritage sites on website (http://smmca.edu.in/snap-the-past). The interested will have to register and also post photographs on the website. All details about the contest have been also posted on the website.
The registration has begun from January 31 and will end on February 18. All photographs will be exhibited and winners will be given with cash prizes in a programme to be organized on International Women’s Day on March 8 at SMMCA.
The committee also approved applications of Gurudwara Shri Gurusingh Sabha and the office of Labour Commissioner for conducting their events at Kasturchand Park.
Gurudwara Shri Gurusingh Sabha has organized a religious programme on April 14. The office of Labour Commissioner, in association with the Maharashtra Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (MBOCWWB), have planned a convention of construction workers between February 12 and 17.
The committee approved the programmes with a condition to not affect ongoing works at KP and conservation of heritage monuments like Band Stand.
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