Jingkieng Jri or Living Root bridges Cultural Landscapes of Meghalaya’ has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site tentative list.
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Jingkieng Jri or Living Root bridges, found in over 70 villages in Meghalaya highlighting the socio-cultural, social and botanical links among people and nature, have been included in the tentative list of World Heritage Sites of the UNESCO. At present, there are about 100 known living root bridges spread across 72 villages in the state. Villagers grow the living root-bridges by training the Indian rubber fig tree (ficus elastica) on both sides of water bodies over a period of about 10 to 15 years where the roots form the bridge. Apart from the living root bridge, the Geoglyphs of Konkan region, Sri Veerabhadra Temple and Monolithic Bull (Nandi), Lepakshi have also made it to the Tentative list of UNESCO world heritage sites this year.
UNESCO Founded- November 1945
Director-General- Audrey Azoulay
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