Lok Sabha Question No. 2607 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-14
Subject: Conservation of Monuments
Ministry: CULTURE
Asked by: K. MARAGATHAM

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CULTURE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2607 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.3.2016 PHALGUNA 24, 1937 (SAKA)

## CONSERVATION OF MONUMENTS

## 2607. SHRIMATI  K. MARAGATHAM:

Will the Minister of CULTURE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  conservationists  for  long  have  demanded  that  many  more  ancient monuments may be included in the list of ASI protected monuments;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether  it  is  also  true  that  some  State  Governments  were  not  willing  to handover some of the monuments to ASI; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE, CULTURE AND TOURISM (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) AND MINISTER OF STATE, CIVIL AVIATION

## (DR. MAHESH SHARMA)

- (a)&(b) Though  no  such  demand  has  been  received  in  the  recent  past  from  the Conservationists to include more ancient monuments in the list of Archaeological Survey of India(ASI) protected monuments,  a few proposals have been received from State Governments. List thereof is at Annexure.
- (c)&(d) Monuments  protected  by  State  Government  are  looked  after  by  concerned department of respective Governments.  There is no incidence where a State protected monument is taken up for Central protection.  Therefore, question of handing over of any monument does not arise.

## ANNEXURE

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)&(b)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2607  FOR 14.3.2016

## LIST OF MONUMENTS/SITES IDENTIFIED/PROPOSED BY STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR CENTRAL PROTECTION

|   Sl. No. | Name of Monument/Site                                                                                     | State            |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------|
|         1 | Ancient Buddhist Institute Remains in the locality of Nyarma Thiksay, District Leh                        | Jammu& Kashmir   |
|         2 | Group of Temples at Ranipur Jhariyal, District Bolangir                                                   | Odisha           |
|         3 | Proposal for protection as of national importance in respect of Biranchi Nayarana Temple, buguda, Orissa. | Odisha           |
|         4 | Vimalesvari Temple, Huma, Dist. Sambhalpur                                                                | Odisha           |
|         5 | Nilamadhava Temple, Kantilo, Dist. Nayagarh                                                               | Odisha           |
|         6 | Ganjam Fort, Ganjam                                                                                       | Odisha           |
|         7 | Nrusinghanatha Temple, Paikmal, Dist. Baragarh                                                            | Odisha           |
|         8 | Suku Sari Deula and Bhabanisankara Temple Complex by the side of Sari Deula in Bhubaneswar                | Odisha           |
|         9 | Protection proposal of Jagatjit Palace, Kapurthala, Punjab.                                               | Punjab           |
|        10 | Birth Place of Madan Mohan Malviya, Lucknow                                                               | Uttar Pradesh    |
|        11 | Proposal of Jyotisher, Dist. Kurukshetra, Haryana.                                                        | Haryana          |
|        12 | Submerged temples in Govind Sagar lake in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh.                                     | Himachal Pradesh |
|        13 | Unakoti Rock cut carvings near north Tripura district                                                     | Tripura          |
|        14 | Buddhist Stupa and other Navograha temples excavated at Pilak in south Tripura district                   | Tripura          |
|        15 | Buddhist Stupas at Boxanagar in west Tripura district                                                     | Tripura          |
|        16 | Rock cut Carvings across the bank of Gomti River at Chabimura in south Tripura district                   | Tripura          |
|        17 | Fateh Billas Mahal, Khetri                                                                                | Rajasthan        |
|        18 | Fort of Bajrang Garh                                                                                      | Madhya Pradesh   |
|        19 | Protection of Patna College Building and Jackson hostel.                                                  | Bihar            |
|        20 | Mandar Parvat, Bihar                                                                                      | Bihar            |
|        21 | Birth Place of Dr. Dwarikanath Kotnis Memorial, Solapur                                                   | Maharashtra      |
|        22 | Birth Place of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar at Mhow                                                                 | Madhya Pradesh   |