<p>A Parliamentary Standing Committee has asked the government to consider raising a special force on the lines of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Border Security Force (BSF) for protection of heritage sites and monuments. <br /><br />The panel recommended establishment of a special Central force for protection of heritage sites and monuments in its report, tabled in Parliament recently, saying it could be utilised for sites protected by the Centre and states.<br /><br /> “The committee would like the ministry to consider the idea of having a Central force specially for protecting or guarding our cultural heritage sites and monuments on the lines of the CISF and BSF,” it stated.</p>.<p>The committee, headed by Trinamool Congress’s MP in the Rajya Sabha Kanwar Deep Singh, also suggested that the government should set up a special task force in states to remove encroachment from protected monuments in “communally sensitive areas”.<br /><br />“The committee is unhappy to note that though the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) issued 1,950 demolition orders during the last 4 years, only 32 orders were executed,” it noted.</p>.<p>The panel also stressed on the need to develop greater co-ordination between the ASI, state governments and the local authorities in prevention and removal of encroachments at protected monuments.<br /><br />The field offices of the ASI should pursue such cases of encroachment “persistently” with the district authorities on an “urgent basis” and chalk a way out in such cases, it added<br /></p>
<p>A Parliamentary Standing Committee has asked the government to consider raising a special force on the lines of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Border Security Force (BSF) for protection of heritage sites and monuments. <br /><br />The panel recommended establishment of a special Central force for protection of heritage sites and monuments in its report, tabled in Parliament recently, saying it could be utilised for sites protected by the Centre and states.<br /><br /> “The committee would like the ministry to consider the idea of having a Central force specially for protecting or guarding our cultural heritage sites and monuments on the lines of the CISF and BSF,” it stated.</p>.<p>The committee, headed by Trinamool Congress’s MP in the Rajya Sabha Kanwar Deep Singh, also suggested that the government should set up a special task force in states to remove encroachment from protected monuments in “communally sensitive areas”.<br /><br />“The committee is unhappy to note that though the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) issued 1,950 demolition orders during the last 4 years, only 32 orders were executed,” it noted.</p>.<p>The panel also stressed on the need to develop greater co-ordination between the ASI, state governments and the local authorities in prevention and removal of encroachments at protected monuments.<br /><br />The field offices of the ASI should pursue such cases of encroachment “persistently” with the district authorities on an “urgent basis” and chalk a way out in such cases, it added<br /></p>
