Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

My outlook towards the Heritage Management Seminar-2 Singtam’s Heritage One of the interesting topics of the day (at Two Days Seminar on Strategy for Heritage Management for Sikkim organised by the Cultural Department at Denzong Residency) I really enjoyed was about the talk on Cultural Resource Mapping of Sikkim beautifully presented before the listeners. To be serious I never knew much about this till that day. The objectives of cultural resource management are the preservation, conservation and enhancement of cultural resources. Since being a student of Sikkim History, the topic of preservation and conservation too holds an important terms in my dictionary. While going through the presentation I was talking within myself did it featured the four historical landmark of Singtam. Here I am talking about the four monuments I wish the State Government could take interest on. These includes the Old Iron Bridge (1929), Toppakhani Tunnel (late 1920s), Pre-merger Sikkim Milepost and Old H...

I am sharing those comments from the topic i had in Face book " Should STNM Hospital be shifted ?" Penzang Dorjee Lepcha hospitals should b easily accessible, but looking at the fact that the amount n the type of patients this hospital caters, i feel that it should be shifted.this hospi was built long time back keeping in view the number of public its going to serve then.   Sudip Pradhan i think the hospital shouldnt be shifted to Sabji Mandi (it was made for sabji and not human), rather it should have had to be renovated or properly built, proper medical equipment and good doctors had to be made available in the same place as it was the gift of our Choygal. Now we think this STNM will also sonner or later be (shopping centre/ ... See More hotel/disco/pub/private nursing home etc) or in the hands of some business people in partnership with our Sikkim seller. Real Sikkimese well wisher should stop it from being permanently shifted to Sabji Mandi...... Sikkim...

The gate is the only thing that's left of that Old Hospital out at Shantinagar, Singtam. It is said that the king of Sikkim, the late Chogyal Tashi Namgyal had visited this place to inaugurate the hospital. Today the hospital had been shifted to another place and over the years this lone gate stands against all odds. I have heard people talking to dismantle it since their loads on the truck do not pass beyond this gate but I ask if is it worth removing the pillar of the past. I say how many such heritage structures are there in Sikkim related to its great past.