Santiniketan to be listed as world heritage site?

A UNESCO team will is expected here on October five to assess whether Santiniketan, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's abode of peace, could be listed as a world heritage site.

Director of Rabindra Bhavan, U N Singh, said, "We expect a Unesco delegation to arrive soon. But we are not yet sure when or how many members will arrive." 

A highly placed official of Visva Bharati, however, said the delegation might arrive in Santiniketan on October 5.

The Archaeological Survey of India had submitted a formal request to UNESCO for inclusion of parts of Santiniketan on the world heritage site list on January 20 this year.

If accepted, the places that would get the world heritage tag under the 'culture' category were the ashram complex, Uttarayan complex and the institutes of Visva-Bharati and Sriniketan. 

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