The government on September 2, 2010 decided to constitute a Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission with the mandate to develop, conserve and preserve places and locations associated with Mahatma Gandhi.
Sites: The Mission will work on the 39 sites identified by the panel to be closely related with Gandhi‘s life and integral to his philosophy. These include Rajkot and Porbandar in Gujarat, Tilak Ghat in Chennai, Mani Bhavan in Mumbai, Beliaghat in Kolkata, Yervada jail in Pune and the place in Madurai where Gandhi adopted loin-cloth as his only clothing. It would also include some foreign locations in South Africa, United Kingdom, Mauritius, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The government has decided to make an allocation of Rs 42 crore to the Mission for this purpose over the next five years.
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