• Name of the scheme: HRIDAY
• Hriday scheme full form: National Heritage City Development And Augmentation Yojana.
• Government: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
• Date of launch: 21st January 2015.

Background

Our nation is endowed with diverse and rich natural, cultural and historic resources. It is a palette of various traditions, religions, cultures, home of different forms of art and handicrafts, literature and music, architectural styles etc. However, it is yet to discover the full capacity of such resources to its complete advantages.

The Ministry of Urban Development, Gov. of India, establish the (HRIDAY) yojana, with a concentration on holistic development of heritage cities. The yojana aims to revitalise and preserve the soul of the heritage city to highlight the city’s unique character by enhancing aesthetically secured, informative, accessible and appealing environment.

Issues in maintenance of heritage sites

Heritage zones are ignored, overcrowded with inadequate key infrastructure and services, such as roads, water supply, and sanitation, etc. Basic amenities like washrooms, street lights are missing. Unclear regulatory framework and Multiple institutions for financing and managing urban heritage landscapes, along with weak potential of Urban Local Bodies have develop major challenges for controlling these heritage cities.

Scheme Statement

Revitalise and Preserve soul of the heritage city to highlight the city’s unique character by enhancing aesthetically accessible, appealing, secured and informative environment. To undertake planned and strategic development of heritage cities directed at development in overall quality of life with specific concentration on tourism, heritage revitalization, sanitation, livelihoods and security employing the city’s cultural identity.

Objective:  To revitalize and preserve the soul character of the heritage cities in the nation.

Scheme:

• It main purpose to bring heritage conservation, urban planning, and economic progress together for heritage cities.
• It seeks beautification in an integrated and inclusive way with focus on accessibility, safety, security, livelihoods, skills, cleanliness and faster service delivery of heritage cities.
• Yojana will be fully funded by the Central Gov. to develop infrastructure and offer facilities around the heritage sites to captivate more visitors.
• Development initiatives covered involves improvement of drainage, waste management, water supply, tourist conveniences, landscaping, approach roads, footpaths, electricity wiring, sanitation, street lights and such citizen services.

HRIDAY Scheme Objectives

• Designing, Implementing, and planning the heritage sites.
• Deliver every significant service in the historic infrastructures and zones.
• Rejuvenate and protect the popular tourist spots for good involvement of the individuals.
• Document and progress the heritage assets register of the places for living, ethnic, natural and construct infrastructure for delivering, planning, and improving services in the sites.
• Enhance the necessary services like washrooms, street lights, clean water taps, with latest technologies for nice convenience of the travellors. 
• Increasing and Implementing local capacity of the heritage-based world.
• Conserve the natural, construct heritage and connect links between the travellors and facilities.
• Do changes in technologies for historical sites and maintain urban cultural spots.
• Creating and Managing public-private links through urban analysis.
• Promote economic activities and Increasing revenue among the stakeholders
• Making cultural spaces reachable.
• Securing the tourist spots and cities by modern devices as CCTV etc.
• Including digital support by updating routes for travellors and GPS mapping.
• Funding and Duration
• This yojana is by the central gov., and the Gov. of India entirely does the funding. The whole budget was INR 500 Crore. The yojana duration was four years from its execution date.                                
• Integrating, Planning, and constructing infrastructure, involving service delivery and infrastructure construction in historic city core zones, while keeping heritage sensitivities in brain.
• renovate and Preserve heritage so that travellors do interact with the unique aroma of each heritage city.
• Develop a city-wide heritage benefit registry that documents natural heritage, living, cultural, and constructed as a foundation for delivery, development, service planning, and urban development.
• provement of social services highlight sanitation, such as public washrooms and water faucets, travellors facilities, protection, and street lights.
• Create connection between tourism and cultural facilities and heritage restoration.
• Adaptive conservation of urban heritage, involving retrofitting existing pattern with new conveniences utilizing suitable technologies. This aim also involves the development of public-private partnerships for the maintenance and conservation of heritage structures.
• Promotion of industrial ventures to enhance job opportunities for individuals living in and near heritage zones. This includes developing their skills and making cultural and public environments more accessible to them.
• Utilize modern ICT devices to make cities quite informative, and modern observation tools such as CCTV to make cities pretty safer.
• develop a digital archive, GIS mapping of historical places, follow uniform architecture, and Establish routes of the heritage, among other matters, to refine access to heritage sites.

HRIDAY cities

• Ajmer 
• Amravati 
• Amritsar 
• Badami 
• Dwarka 
• Gaya 
• Kanchipuram 
• Mathura 
• Puri 
• Varanasi 
• Velankanni
• Warangal

• The HRIDAY Yojana seeks to enhance sustainable growth of heritage cities, concentrate on maintenance of temples and monuments, etc. The yojana will also concentrate on progress of the complete ecosystem. The major purpose of the yojana is to bring back the soul of heritage cities. It must reflect every city’s unique character by enhancing aesthetically reachable, attractive, protected and informative atmosphere. The Yojana focus will be on progress of road, public transport, sanitation, security and retain up the city’s cultural identity.
• As The HRIDAY yojana is being executed in 12 heritage cities. These cities will be revitalised and developed. The scheme will be funded entirely by the Indian gov., with the basic objective to develop infrastructure and offer facilities around heritage sites to attract more and more travellers. The yojana will be executed in a mission mode. Based on the size and population, each heritage city has been permitted a some amount of funds.

HRIDAY Scheme: Expected Outcomes

• To have a sanitary and clean atmosphere with refined sanitization class that also offers the visitors’ and residents convenience and protection.
• To increase urban connectivity by offering at least minimal services at subsisting and new tourism attractions.
• Museums and Heritage sites should be revitalized and preserved.
• And see a more important number of locals take part in encouraging tourism and the employment chances that comes with it.
• To enhance or promote tourism by providing exceptional service, which will increase the number of travellers staying for more extended time period.
• To certain civic stability and lessen violence in tourism destinations.
• To improve the residents’ and local economy overall quality of living.

HRIDAY Scheme significant Aspect :

• The yojana will be focus on the development and augmentation of the heritage cities in the country. There are 12 cities which will be noted for the augmentation at the initial phase. The cities are Kanchipuram, Amritsar, Kashi, Ajmer, Dwarka, Puri, Mathura, Gaya, Amravati, Badami, Warangal and finally Velenkani.
• The development will be held on various issues like staying, security, infrastructure, roads, water supply, electricity, food and various other amenities. All these matters should be better in their own manner so that the visitors do enjoy their stay during any event or holiday.
• The entire project or plan will be funded simply by the central gov. The complete span of time for the scheme to be finished is 27 months from the time of beginning of the development method.

HRIDAY Scheme Advantages  

• The heritage cities are one of the many reasons why every year human from all over India visit the nation. Under this plan, the cities will get more uncovering and good quality of tourism.
• The development of architecture and other amenities of 12 cities will increase the quality of life of the occupant of the cities. Not only the visitors but also the citizens of the cities will get a nice life.
• The augmentation plan will bring about more and more global travellers in India and that will lead to a great tourism pattern in India.

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