A team from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), including an expert from the International Commission on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), is set to visit the Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram district for world heritage tag.

• Gingee Fort was nominated by the Central government, alongside 11 other forts that make up the Maratha Military Landscapes, for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site tag for the year 2024-25.
• The Maratha Military Landscapes of India includes 12 components distributed across diverse geographic regions, and of them, 11 sites are in Maharashtra.
• The Gingee Fort in Villupuram is the lone aspirant from Tamil Nadu for the World Heritage Site tag.