Mangaluru, Jun 17: A campaign has been launched in the coastal city of Mangaluru to conserve the beauty and glory of its heritage buildings that are often ignored in favour of high-rise buildings cropping up.
Following the directive of Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim, already 65 heritage buildings have been identified and information boards have been put up in 11 places by Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).
According to MUDA commissioner Mohammed Nazeer said that heritage buildings bearing historic significance, old temples, churches, mosques, museums, cemeteries dating back to the Portuguese era and other historic buildings have been identified.
Information boards have already been installed at university college building at Hampankatta, deputy commissioner's bungalow and office, Wenlock hospital and government museum and few other structures, he said.
He said that the citizens can also contribute to the initiative by providing information of old buildings left out in the initial survey conducted to identify the heritage structures.
With the boom in real estate and high rise apartment complexes in Mangaluru, a few historic structures have been all but demolished. Most heritage buildings built with red bricks have been converted to governmental offices, colleges and organisational centres in the city while others are in a state of ruin. Now, most of the heritage buildings and surroundings have remained merely in monochrome photographs taken decades ago.
To reverse this and revive the splendour of the once-magnificent structures, efforts are being made to identify such structures and make known their historic significance, said Mr Ibrahim.
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