Katoch refutes CAG report on missing monuments

Contesting the claim made in the recent CAG report that 92 monuments had gone missing,Culture Minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch on Friday said the Archeological Survey of India ASI has looked into the issue and found that no more than 22 monuments are untraceable.

Katoch said the existence of 64 monuments has been physically verified. Of these,38 are physically present,12 submerged and 14 encroached upon. The verification process for six is currently on. The Ministry is now preparing a list of notified monuments under the ASI,which have gone missing,so it can seek their denotification.

We are compiling a list of monuments that have come under roads or bridges or have been submerged in dams. After compiling these,I am going to move the Cabinet to denotify them so we can focus on monuments that are important and have not been notified, Katoch said.