UNESCO award for Nizam's palace

Wednesday March 16, 2011 08:21:45 PM, PTI

Hyderabad: The Chowmahalla Palace, seat of power of Nizams, has been given the prestigious UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Merit Award for Culture Heritage Conservation.

At a ceremony organised at the palace premises yesterday, UNESCO representative Takahiko Makino handed over the plaque and certificate to Princess Esra Jah, former wife of Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur.

Bahadur is the grandson of the seventh Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan.

The palace has undergone massive restoration after Princess Esra initiated a project for the royal palaces in August 2000.

It involved various tasks, from stabilising the existing structural components to reconstitution of collapsed and dilapidated sections of the complex, restoration of external and internal spaces and of decorative elements and finishes, palace director G Kishan Rao told reporters.

"The restoration of Chowmahalla Palace has rescued an extraordinary complex from years of abandonment.

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