UNESCO DECLARED "SHANTI NIKETAN" AS WORLD HERITAGE SITE ON 17 SEPTEMBER 2023

UNESCO DECLARED "SHANTI NIKETAN" AS WORLD HERITAGE SITE:

Declaration Venue: 

In 45th session of world Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 17 September 2023

Shanti Niketan:

41st UNESCO World Heritage site in India and 3rd in West Bengal.

Establishment: 

It stablished by Ravindra Nath Tagore

Year: 1901

Venue: Birbhumi district in West Bengal

''Vishwa Bharti" a World University was stablished in 1921 in Shanti Niketan.

Other two UNESCO World Heritage sites in West Bengal:

(1) Sunderbans National Park

(2) Darjeeling Mountain Railways