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Patiala Heritage Walk organized at Baradari Gardens
Babusahi Bureau
Patiala, February 4, 2024: As part of celebrations of Patiala Heritage Festival 2024, Patiala Foundation under its iHERITAGE project in collaboration with District Administration, Patiala conducted a Heritage walk at Baradari Gardens today at Patiala.
The walk was attended by more than 500 people from all walks of life. This Heritage Walk showcased variety of exotic trees, shrubs, the fern house and many more relevant things about the Baradari Garden.
Navreet Kaur, ADC (U) flagged off the walk. She was the Chief guest at the event which was succeeded by the Heritage Food Festival.
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The walk was led by Mr Ravee Singh Ahluwalia who led the participants through the trail within the Garden narrating the history and relevance of tree and monuments. He emphasized the need of protecting the biodiverse treasure housed in the Baradari Gardens.
The Food fiesta had over twelve stalls of vegetarian and non vegetarian food exhibiting the traditional taste of Patiala City. The Heritage Food Festival gathered the generational culinary experts of the city under one roof. The handicrafts prepared by the Self Help Groups of the city were also displayed for attendees to buy.
The Chief Guest for the event was Ms Navreet Kaur, ADC (U). The Chief Guest applauded the efforts of the Officers of District Administration of Patiala and Patiala Foundation for the constructive efforts towards smooth conduct of Heritage Walk and Food Festival.
She presented encouraged the citizens to come forward and interact with nature more. She awarded the certificates to the participants and also inaugurated the Heritage Food Festival. The Baradari Gardens was covered under the heritage walk for the first time in October 2023 by Patiala Foundation under its project, iHERITAGE.
The organisation had highlighted many relevant and important facts about the plantations found in the Garden in the walk.
The Heritage Walk witnessed an encouraged response from the students of Meritorious School, Patiala and the the young adults of Thapar University ,Punjabi University and Physical College of Education who participated enthusiastically in the walk.
The Walk outlined not only the history, medicinal value and relevance of the trees there but also of the fact the and preservation of our Heritage is our own responsibility.
The event was conducted under the guidance of Sh Shawkat Ahmad Parrey, Deputy Commissioner, Patiala and was attended by Sh. Naman Markan, PCS, Mr. Tarsem Chand, SDM Nabha, Sh Sukhdev Singh, DSP (HQ), Ms Ravinder Kaur, DFSC, Patiala, Mr Rakesh Garg, Mr Shivraj Singh, SHO, Sh. Ravee Singh Ahluwalia, CEO, Patiala Foundation , Sh RK Sharma, Chairman Patiala Foundation, Sh HS Ahluwalia, Dr. Nidhi Sharma, Sh SP Chand, Sh Pawan Goyal, Sh Anmoljit Singh, Dr. Abhinandan Bassi assisted by the Patiala Foundation volunteers- Bharpur Singh, Satnam Singh, Mohit Gupta, Aditya, Ravaldeep Singh, Shubhangini Sharma, Parul Garg, Sara, Eakisha Ahluwalia , Nimer, Sanyam, Garima, Charanjot, Harsh, Gunjot, Nidash, Ritwik, Hritik and Gurmandar as Volunteers.
About Patiala Foundation iHERITAGE project
Patiala Foundation is working on various Social welfare projects since 2009. Patiala Foundation has been accorded with Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (UN-ECOSOC) since 2018.
We had initiated our iHERITAGE Project (UN-SDG 15 &16) under which we are working towards the recognition of Heritage sites in the state of PUNJAB. iHERITAGE is an initiative to motivate people to engage with their Heritage.
Under this initiative, various engaging events have been conducted to create awareness about Heritage and culture.We have also signed a MOU with PHTPB for promoting the tourism and Heritage walk routes in the state of Punjab.
Events organised by Patiala Foundation under iHERITAGE Project
Till date, we have organised 130 Heritage walks and taken about 15000 people directly to the Heritage sites. We had organized our 1st Heritage Walk from Shahi Samadhan to Qila Mubarak on 25th September 2016 in which more than 500 residents of the city had participated. The Heritage Walk was led by the then Hon’ble Deputy Commissioner Patiala and other dignitaries of the City and was well received by the citizens of Patiala, Punjab.
We had organized our 2nd Heritage Walk at Bhadurgarh Fort on 25th March, 2018 which was led by Hon’ble IG Range Patiala. We had organized our 3rd Heritage Walk at Village Ghuram on 30th September, 2018 which was led by Hon’ble Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Punjab. We have organized our 4th Heritage Walk on 22nd Sept. 2019 at Dargah (Panj Peer), Samana which was led by Hon’ble Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Punjab and more than 1000 participants including School and College Students took part in this Walk.
We have organised our 5th Heritage Walk on 3rd November, 2019 at Sultanpur Lodhi on account of 550th Birth celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev ji. In addition to the above Heritage walks we have conducted Heritage walks for 1200 students under our iHERITAGE “Know your City” project. We have organised our 6th Heritage Walk at Qila Androon, Patiala which was graced by S. Mandeep Singh Sidhu ji, SSP (Vigilance) and Heritage Walk at Baradari Gardens Patiala on 8th October, 2023 which was attended by more than 500 participants and was led by Dr. Balbir Singh, Minister of Health and Family Welfare.