INTACH

Hyderabad has a rich heritage. This heritage is in the form of Monuments, Buildings, Rocks , Gardens, Lakes, Art, Culture, Festivale etc.

The five hundred year old legacy of Golconda-Hyderabad continues to live through its historical buildings, monuments and natural landscapes. These include the ruins at the Golconda fort, palaces, temples, mosques and public buildings surviving from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and also the twentieth century buildings ranging from the Andhra pradesh High Court facing the river Musi, to the small houses in vernacular style along lanes and bylanes of old hyderabad.
According to a sample survey completed by HUDA in 1985 about seventy percent of Hyderabad’s historical buildings are privately owned. Nearly ninety percent or them are in use. The remaining ten percent are arches, gateways or clock towers where the question of conventional use does not arise. Old buildings in use include very well maintained clubs and offices and also buildings in poor condition, due to inability of owners to carry out proper maintenance.
Suitable re-use is the key to maintenance and conservation of old structures. This heritage award is therefore introduced to encourage such adaptive reuse of old structures.

As a part of Heritage awareness Programme , teachers training camps were held . Heritage clubs are being established in schools .