Name of the Property: Group of Monuments at Hampi (India) (C 241) State of Conservation report regarding progress so far made with regard to the recommendations of the World Heritage Committee in Decision 37COMB.61. 1. Response from the State Party to the World Heritage Committee’s Decision, 37 COM 7B.61 , paragraph by paragraph A. Removal of debris of the collapsed bridge and the relocation of the vehicular bridge outside of the property; The Public Works Department of Government of Karnataka, has resumed the work of removing the remaining part of the collapsed bridge viz., debris, columns and carriageway, without disturbing the nearby cultural resources, by adopting state of the art technology and the work is almost complete. As regards the relocation of the vehicular bridge, cultural impact assessment study has been completed and location of the vehicular bridge as recommended in the impact assessment study has been identified. B. Completed Integrated Management Plan together with a synthesis and a prioritisation of existing recommendations and intentions, for review by the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies - The Integrated Management Plan (draft already submitted to the WHC in 2006) gives an overall framework for the Management & protection of Hampi World Heritage Site. It is reiterated that as per the draft IMP recommendations the following actions have been implemented since January 2006 by Government of Karnataka and Archaeological Survey of India. Sno IMP recommendation Agency 1 Preparing a official Base Map HWHAMA 2 Geo prospecting of the entire site ASI IIMC, 3 Preparation of map showing the HWHAMA Jurisdiction HWHAMA HWHAMA, 4 List of Protected Monuments/ Cultural resources SDAM, ASI List of all the cultural resources of site other than those 5 protected HWHAMA HWHAMA, 6 Map showing Protection zones SDAM, ASI 7 Spatial Protection of Hampi World Heritage Site HWHAMA 8 Protection zones HWHAMA HWHAMA, 9 Strengthening of HWHAMA Act GOK 10 Protection to the unprotected cultural resources of the HWHS HWHAMA HWHAMA, ASI, 11 JHPM of the cultural resources of HWHS SDAM 12 Guidelines HWHAMA ASI, HWHAMA, 13 Regulations SDAM Management of Archaeological Remains of 16th century ASI, HWHAMA, 14 Vijayanagara Metropolis SDAM ASI, HWHAMA, 15 Rectification of Master Plan SDAM 16 Environment plan for protection and management 17 Village regeneration plan HWHAMA HWHAMA, line 18 Traditional & New housing plan department HWHAMA, line 19 Water Resource Management Plan (Traditional & Modern) department HWHAMA, line 20 Agriculture Plan department HWHAMA, line 21 General Management - Physical Infrastructure Plan department HWHAMA, line 22 General Management - Social Infrastructure Plan department HWHAMA, line 23 Transport & Network Plan department HWHAMA, line 24 Tourism sector plan processing visitor management plan department HWHAMA, line 25 Small scale & Cottage Industries plan department HWHAMA, line 26 Finance Plan department HWHAMA, line 27 Risk Preparedness & Management Plan department HWHAMA, line 28 Preparation of a Hampi National Heritage Region Plan department Preparation of regional development plan (Koppal & Bellary HWHAMA, line 29 districts) department 30 ASI site office for management of Hampi World Heritage Area ASI 31 Integrated Information Management Centre ASI Joint committee of Adhyakshas and Upadhyakshas of all Gram 32 & Nagar Panchayats HWHAMA 33 Technical Committee HWHAMA 34 Monitoring Committee HWHAMA Developing an interactive & local dissemination platform at 35 every village HWHAMA Change of name of the inscribed property from "Group of 36 monuments" to "Hampi World Heritage Site" HWHAMA HWHAMA, ASI, 37 Re-nomination of the property as a Cultural Landscape SDAM 38 International training programme HWHAMA, ASI, 39 Training for base map SDAM HWHAMA, ASI, 40 Education programme SDAM HWHAMA, ASI, 41 Awareness and communication programme SDAM Workshops for capacity building of officials & Non technical HWHAMA, ASI, 42 staff working for/ on the Hampi World Heritage Site SDAM Monitoring IMP various plan, joint programme & protecting HWHAMA, ASI, 43 zones SDAM HWHAMA, ASI, 44 Monitoring Archaeological Park SDAM Monitoring of Archaeological remains, buried archaeological HWHAMA, ASI, 45 areas beyond archaeological park SDAM Monitoring of protection & ownershop status of newly excavated areas and the archaeological resources beyond HWHAMA, ASI, 46 archaeological park SDAM Monitoring of protected monuments beyod archaeological HWHAMA, ASI, 47 park SDAM Monitoring status of unprotected heritage beyond HWHAMA, ASI, 48 Archaeological Park SDAM HWHAMA, ASI, 49 Monitoring for monuments SDAM HWHAMA, ASI, 50 Monitoring for Visitor management SDAM - To synthesize the IMP & sectoral plan recommendations, a Workshop on ‘Site Management for Cultural World Heritage Sites – South Zone: Integrated Management Plan, Hampi’ organised by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Bangalore Circle and Department of Culture, Government of Karanataka in consultation with Advisory Committee on World Heritage Matters (ACWHM) under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture was held on 7th to 8th June, 2013 at Bangalore. The main decision of the workshop is to formulate an action plan and prioritization of the recommendations in the action. The state level advisory body chaired by the Honourable chief minister, Government of Karnataka has approved the decisions taken in the workshop and commissioned the road map decided in the workshop on priority basis in the following sequence a. Step 1: Constitution of expert group to scrutiny the action plans b. Step 2: Identify & appoint the professional team for the preparation of Action Plans for IMP & Sectoral plans c. Step 3: Preparation of the Draft action plans & Manuals d. Step 4: Circulation of the Draft action plans & manuals for seeking written inputs (before step 5) from the expert group and stakeholders e. Step 5: Presentation, scrutiny of the draft action plans & manuals to the Expert group & stakeholders through a workshop f. Step 6: Presentation of the draft action plans & manuals to the community living within the world heritage site seeking inputs g. Step 7: Finalization of the action plans & Manuals by team of professionals h. Step 8: Printing, Circulation & implementation by all the stakeholders i. Step9: Identification of Fund required for the Implementation of the Projects. The above mentioned steps are being followed to implement the decision of the World Heritage Committee as mentioned in Decision: 37 COM 7B.61. To accomplish the above steps a series of consultative meetings were held under the Chairmanship of Principal Secretary to the Government, Department of Kannada & Culture, Government of Karnataka comprising of members from the expert committee and various departments responsible for the protection, management & development of Hampi World Heritage Site. It may be further mentioned that the action plan prepared for each sectoral plan with prioritized item of works will be shared with stakeholders at the local, regional, national level as part of the consultative process. After completion of the consultative process, the synthesis of prioritized recommendations and intentions will be submitted, for review to the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies C. Demolition works in the Hampi bazaar area following a decision of the High Court of Karnataka and the compensation scheme for affected families; Following the decision of the High Court of Karnataka all encroachments in the immediate vicinity of the Bazaar to east & Pushkarini to the north of Virupaksha temple have been totally removed. The effected families have been rehabilitated suitably at a new location with proper infrastructure which has enhanced the living conditions of the effected families. D. To elaborate, in close cooperation with the local community, a strategy and action plan for the bazaar area to: a. Develop within the IMP necessary legal and planning tools to prevent any further encroachments at the Hampi bazaar, As of now, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has completely taken over the responsibility of protection of Hampi bazaar and its surroundings through the following actions i. Removal of all the encroachments from the Bazaar ii. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between all the key stakeholders mentioned below for protection management & development of Virupaksha bazaar area is being drafted 1. Archaeological Survey of India 2. Endowments Department 3. Revenue Department 4. HWHAMA iii. The basic amenities required for the visitors and other activities related to the temple are accommodated at the entrance of the bazaar by the District administration iv. Necessary legal provisions for prevention of further encroachments already exists in the Ancient Monuments Archaeological Sites & Remains Act 2010 and the rules of National Monuments Authority established by the Government of India recently v. Further, for close monitoring of various activities relating to management, conservation and protection of the World Heritage site at Hampi, Archaeological Survey of India has established a separate mini circle with senior technical staff, under the orders of Ministry of Culture, Govt. Of India vi. Any new additions or alterations to the existing modern structures adjacent to the historic mandapas have to follow a process for obtaining building construction licence as per the regulations of AMASR Act & Master Plan of HWHAMA. b. Develop a conservation strategy for the protection of the historic mandapas