Vice President\u00a0Venkaiah\u00a0Naidu\u00a0on Wednesday said Hinduism is not a religion but a cultural concept of\u00a0India.<\/p>\n
It is more than\u00a0just a reliogion. It is a broader cultural concept of India,” he said at the inauguration of the Sunder Nursery — a new 90 acre city park — near\u00a0Humayun’s Tomb\u00a0here.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Aga Khan Trust\u00a0for Culture (AKTC) commenced conservation and landscape works at Sunder Nursery in 2007, following an MoU with the\u00a0Central Public Works Department\u00a0and the Archaeological Survey of\u00a0India.<\/p>\n
The development of this city park is in line with other similar initiatives by The\u00a0Aga Khan Trust\u00a0in Kabul, Mali, Zanzibar, Cairo, Hyderabad, Chantilly, amongst others.<\/p>\n
Naidu\u00a0said that private-public partnership became a success in this project that “combines together nature, culture and future”.<\/p>\n
He said because The Aga Khan, current Imam of Ismailis, a denomination within Shia Islam, “believes in serving the mankind, he is serving God”.<\/p>\n
He also said the development works undertaken by AKTC reflected\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi’s campaign Swachh Bharat.<\/p>\n
The conservation works draw attention to a unique ensemble of 16th century garden tomb.<\/p>\n
In 2016, UNESCO extended World Heritage designation to twelve structures conserved by AKTC, including six standing within the Sunder Nursery.<\/p>\n
Landscape architect\u00a0M Shaheer designed this new city park along a central axial spine around which gardens were designed – both formal and informal settings for families to enjoy picnics.<\/p>\n
The landscaping of the park includes Delhi’s first arboretum, an amphitheatre, ponds and lakes, nursery beds, a flower showcase, rose gardens and orchards.<\/p>\n
Sunder Nursery houses almost 300 tree species, drawing 80 species of birds and 60 species of butterflies.<\/p>\n
It continues to have 20 acres of nursery beds managed by the CPWD.<\/p>\n
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Vice President\u00a0Venkaiah\u00a0Naidu\u00a0on Wednesday said Hinduism is not a religion but a cultural concept of\u00a0India. It is more than\u00a0just a reliogion. It is a broader cultural concept of India,” he said at the inauguration of the Sunder Nursery — a new 90 acre city park — near\u00a0Humayun’s Tomb\u00a0here. The\u00a0Aga Khan Trust\u00a0for Culture (AKTC) commenced conservation and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}