{"id":718,"date":"2014-11-09T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T05:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:07:27","slug":"bidar-run-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/bidar-run-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Report – Go Heritage Run – Bidar 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bidar is an under-appreciated heritage destination in the erstwhile Deccan and current Hyderabad-Karnataka region. Due to historic reasons and its geographic location, Bidar fort was one of the rare forts which were never attacked by an external kingdom. Bidar is also famous for its unique Bidri silver, alloy metal handicraft which has a GI (geographic indication) tag \u2013 meaning Bidri cannot be made anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

Although Bidar is only a couple of hours drive from the Hyderabad city, the city sees very few tourists. Through our run at Bidar, we were able to encourage more than 150 tourists from Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai cities to visit Bidar. In addition, we were able to organize an exploratory tour of the 13th century Persian influenced Karez Aqueduct System for the participants. The tour was led by Prof. V. Govindan, the researcher who re-discovered, researched this aqueduct system and wrote an authoritative report of the same.<\/p>\n

Here is a run report of all that went into the run.<\/p>\n

Preparation<\/h2>\n

The preparation for the run began after a conversation with Mr. Kishore Raykar, Executive Director, IHCN (Indian Heritage Cities Network, an organization and network of heritage cities in India started by UNESCO) and ex commissioner, Mysuru. Bidar is currently on the World Monuments Fund Watch List due to the efforts by IHCN and district administration. Mr. Raykar connected us to Mr. P.C. Jaffar, Deputy Commissioner, Bidar District who gave his enthusiastic support to the event right from the start. We were then connected to Mr. Rishikesh Desai, President, Rotary Club Bidar. In addition, we spoke to Ms. Lisa Ackerman, CEO of World Monuments Fund and discussed ways to promote Bidar (which is on the WMF Watch List) together on international platforms as well.<\/p>\n

With excellent support from these organizations, we were ready to start with our next step in the preparation.<\/p>\n

Route reconnaissance<\/h3>\n