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National treasures disappear due to red tapeism

Posted On Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 03:37:50 AM



Reports indicate that red tapeism is threatening India’s archaeological treasures, with an audit finding that 34 monuments, including a cave temple, have “disappeared” recently. 

According to a report in The Times, questions tabled in the Rajya Sabha recently showed that several protected heritage sites had been buried under illegally constructed buildings. 

Others had been submerged by reservoirs or looted by art thieves. 

Officials admitted that the whereabouts of some had simply been forgotten because of poor record keeping. 

“Most of these sites were declared protected under the British,” said Ashok Kumar Sinha, the head archaeologist of the Archaeological Society of India (ASI), the body responsible for protecting monuments. 

“But the original notifications did not detail their exact locations. Many are missing,” he added.

The monuments that the Indian Ministry of Tourism and Culture admitted were untraceable included several sites from the days of the British rule, including a tomb in Kishanganj in Delhi that housed the remains of Britons killed in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. 

In Assam, weapons belonging to 16th-century Afghan conqueror Emperor Sher Shah are missing. 

In Arunachal Pradesh, the ruins of an ancient copper-plated temple dedicated to the Hindu god Lord Shiva could not be accounted for.    


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