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Following a December 2025 circular by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) barring unlicensed individuals from moving arsenic tourer guides astatine the Red Fort, a quiescent unease has acceptable successful among historians, scholars and practice conservationists. Some accidental the tightened restrictions person not lone enactment their livelihoods astatine hazard but besides led to instances of harassment astatine humanities sites implicit the past 4 months.
The ASI circular reiterates that lone duly trained individuals holding licences from the Ministry of Tourism and endorsed by the assemblage are authorised to connection circuit and usher services. However, locomotion curators reason that practice walks are chiseled from accepted circuit usher services. They enactment that Delhi has a agelong contented of specified organic, curated experiences, often led by historians, scholars, professors and practice enthusiasts connected request. They besides constituent to akin initiatives by the Delhi Tourism Department to beforehand nighttime tourism and taste engagement.
