Bharatiya Janata Party · Lok Sabha General Election 2024
Last updated 3 Jun 2026
“We will collaborate with countries across the globe to restore and revitalise sites of Bharatiya civilization.”
India actively collaborates on restoring civilizational sites abroad through the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), with funding routed via the Ministry of External Affairs. Ongoing and recent work includes the Ta Prohm temple at Angkor, Cambodia (third restoration phase underway, plus newly taken-up Ramayan murals at the Royal Palace), Cham temples in Vietnam, and projects in Myanmar, Laos, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal and elsewhere, alongside PM Modi’s July 2024 pledge of USD 1 million per year to UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre for Global South heritage. This is an active, continuing programme rather than a one-time completion. Partial.
MEA reaffirms ASI leading restoration of Ta Prohm temple, Cambodia (third phase underway) as part of India-Cambodia civilizational heritage cooperation.
View sourcePM announces an annual USD 1 million contribution to UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre (at the 46th World Heritage Committee, New Delhi) to support heritage conservation in the Global South.
View sourceRamayan is celebrated across the world, particularly in South and South-East Asia. We will launch a global outreach program for documenting and promoting the tangible and intangible legacy of Lord Ram in all countries. We will celebrate Ramayan Utsav with great fervour across the globe to commemorate the Pran Pratishtha of Ram Lalla.
We will relentlessly work towards bringing back Bharatiya idols and artefacts that were taken away illegally from Bharat.
We will establish Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centres across the globe to showcase Bharat’s rich culture and offer training in yoga, ayurveda, Bharatiya languages, classical music etc. We will promote Bharat’s rich democratic traditions going back millennia as the Mother of Democracy.
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