NEW DELHI: Ministry of culture has identified 17 monuments that it has proposed to remove from the list of monuments of national importance.
The list has been placed in public domain till May 8 for public objections and suggestions. Spread across several states, these range from Barakhamba cemetery in Delhi to a copper temple in Arunachal Pradesh's Lakhimpur.
The list of monuments include Inchla Wali Gumti in Delhi; a Kos Minar in Mujessar village in Gurugram and another one in Shahabad in Karnal; inscription in the fort of Bachhaun in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district; a 12th century temple in Baran locality of Kota district of Rajasthan; inscription in a fort in Nagar locality of Jaipur and Dwarahat Kutumbari in Almora district of Uttarakhand.
A cluster of eight monuments that are proposed to be removed from the list are from Uttar Pradesh. They include a banyan grove that was cited to be of great antiquity containing traces of ancient buildings in Ghazipur, Gunner Burkill's Tomb at Rangoon in Jhansi, cemeteries and tombs in Lucknow and Telia Nala Buddhist ruins that form part of a deserted village in Varanasi among others..
In Jan, economic advisory council to the PM in a working paper highlighted the urgent need to rationalise list of monuments of national importance and sought that Archaeological Survey of India evolve a "substantive criteria and a detailed procedure for declaring monuments to be of national importance."