Port Blair, July 27: Samhita Veda Acharya, Secretary of the Naach Academy of Performing Arts and Andaman Film Society has been appointed as the 3rd Convenor of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands Chapter of INTACH.
INTACH was founded in 1984 in New Delhi with the vision to create a membership organization to stimulate and spearhead heritage awareness and conservation in India.
Since 1984, INTACH has pioneered the conservation and protection of India’s natural and cultural heritage and is today the largest membership organization in the country dedicated to conservation.
Today it has Chapters in 170 Indian cities, as well as Chapters in Belgium, and the United Kingdom.
Among the tasks undertaken by INTACH are restoration of monuments and their management; advocacy for heritage property conservation; public awareness through heritage walks and buses; establishment of heritage clubs in schools; and holding of awareness workshop for teachers of schools and colleges and heritage walks to various unportected sites.
The INTACH Andaman Chapter was established in 1984 at the instance of Late Shri Rajeev Gandhi who was the Chairman of INTACH then. The First Convenor was Shri. Romulus Whitaker subsequently passing on the responsibility to Shri. Samir Acharya, Secretary of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology.
