The UNESCO has designated Srinagar as a part of UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) in the field of Crafts and Folk Arts
- With this, it has entered the club of 295 creative cities network across the world. After Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Varanasi and Jaipur, Srinagar is the sixth Indian city to achieve this distinction.
- Srinagar city is only second city in India designated in the Crafts and Folk Arts category after Jaipur. While Mumbai has been honoured in the film category, Chennai and Varanasi have been made part of UCCN for their music. Hyderabad is a UCCN city in the gastronomy category.
About UNESCO Creative Cities Network
- The UNESCO Creative Cities Network is a project launched by UNESCO in 2004 to “promote cooperation among cities which recognized creativity as a strategic factor in their urban development”.
- The cities designated as creative cities work together towards a common objective of placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the international level.
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