vadodara chances of gujarats famed garba getting the coveted intangible cultural heritage of humanity ich tag bestowed by the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization unesco have brightenedefforts to get the nineday long traditional folk revelry of gujarat inscribed on unescos representative list have picked upsources said the government of indias ministry of culture is preparing a dossier that will be submitted to unesco by this monthend the ministry through the implementing agency of sangeet natak akademi has assigned the task to a project team of ms university ministry officials were in gujarats garba capital vadodara last week where the process was discussed with the team at lengththe team from delhi was here for three days the modalities of approaching unesco preparing a thorough dossier along with recommendation letters were discussed at length with teachers researchers scholars at ms universitys faculty of performing arts a source close to the development said on the condition of anonymityon december 15 2021 unesco had accorded ich status to kolkatas durga puja festivities making it asias first festival to receive the recognitionas part of the exercise letters of consent for nomination of garba of gujarat for the possible inscription are being collected from all stakeholders from across the stateif inscribed garba the colourful festivities in which lakhs of revellers swirl to the tunes of dhols music and folk songs in colourful chaniya cholis ghagras and kediyas during the navratri will become the first intangible cultural heritage of gujarat to be listed by unescosince 2008 14 intangible cultural heritages from india have been listed by unesco these include koodiyattam a sanskrit theatre of kerala mudiyett a ritual theatre and dance drama of kerala vedic chanting ramlila ramman a religious festival and ritual theatre of garhwal uttarakhand kalbelia folk songs and dances of rajasthan chhau dance a classical dance form of west bengal and odisha buddhist chanting of ladakh sankirtana a ritual singing drumming and dancing of manipur traditional brass and copper craft of utensil making among the thatheras of jandiala guru punjab and yoga