The latest nomination will be considered for the next year cycle, a top official said on Saturday.

Secretary of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Tim Curtis had shared details on it during a presentation made at an event held at the National Museum here to mark the UNESCO tag awarded to Kolkata’s Durga Puja festival last December.

The Intergovernmental Committee of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage had added Durga Puja in Kolkata to its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity last December.

“The latest nomination will be considered for the next year cycle. The nomination files will be examined by the evaluation body mid-2023 and the inscription will be decided at the 2023 session of the committee by the end of next year,” Curtis had said.

In one of his slides, which carried an image of Garba performers, and captioned ‘Garba of Gujarat — India’s next element’, mentioned that the “file was currently undergoing technical treatment by the Secretariat”.

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