The Hindu Business Line : Rs 50 lakh earmarked for Nathula museum

The Sikkim Chief Minister, Mr Pawan Chamling, has earmarked a Rs 50-lakh fund for starting a museum at Nathula. This was recommended by the Nathula Trade Route Study Team in 2005, Mr Chamling said in his Budget speech in the Assembly recently.

The report of the team had stated that the places used by the Younghusband Mission to Tibet in 1903, located in and around Nathula, could themselves be declared as memorials and national heritage sites. They could serve as major tourist attractions.

This memorial could also have a museum that would house all the artefacts, archival materials, memoirs and other objects related to various missions, agreements, and physical exchanges regarding Nathula trade. All these would help in making Nathula a major tourist attraction, besides being the nodal point of the proposed trade corridor, the Chief Minister said.

The good offices of the India Office Library in London, vis-À-vis the Nathula and Jelepla trade routes, could be used to enrich the museum, the report has said.

Mr Chamling also said the State Government “may seek the support of experts and professionals from UNESCO for the museum.”

The State Department of Culture and Heritage will operationalise the Nathula Trade Route Museum project..

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