NEW DELHI: The mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam received the UNESCO tag during the World Heritage Committee session that India hosted for the first time in 2024 while a key agreement was signed towards the end of the year to transform the British-era North Block and South Block into a grand museum.
It was a calendar full of events for the culture ministry which has now set its sight on the upcoming Mahakumbh in Prayagraj where it has planned to build and run a thematic village — ‘Kalagram’ — to showcase the country’s rich, spiritual and cultural heritage in early 2025.
The year also saw some major changes in the top leadership of the ministry with senior BJP leader Gajendra Singh Shekhawat taking charge as the Union Culture Minister after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections succeeding G Kishan Reddy who was allotted the portfolio of coal.
