Railways to nominate Oak Grove School for World Heritage Site
New Delhi (PTI), 21 Sep 2008
After successfully putting Kalka-Shimla Railway on the map of World Heritage Sites, railways is now planning to bring the same status for the prestigious Oak Grove School situated at Musoorie hills near Dehradun.
In a first of its kind initiative by railways, a school complex is being proposed for getting recognition from the UNESCO as World Heritage Site (WHS).
“We are preparing documents to be submitted to the UNESCO proposing the century old Oak Grove School at Jharipani in Uttaranchal as WHS,” said a senior Railways Ministry official.
Started by East India Railway in 1888 with an endowment fund of Rs 2 lakhs on the recommendation of the School Committee, it was set up to help their European and Anglo- Indian employees provide public school education as prevalent in Europe those days.
However, it will not be nominated as an old school.
“The documentation will describe how industrialisation process brought about by railways in India led to the need for a such school to be established by a Western nation for their requirement in a colonised country and which has now emerged as an outstanding example of our cultural heritage conserving country’s traditional values,” said the official.
“We would give details to the UNESCO as to why the Oak Grove School should be declared as a world heritage site, he said.
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