India identifies 20 heritage sites for 'national importance' tag

India identifies 20 heritage sites for 'national importance' tag

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Category : National Published on: August 04 2022

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India has identified 20 heritage sites, including two ancient mounds at Haryana's Rakhigarhi and the age-old Anangtal in Delhi, for the national importance tag.
The other sites include rock painting at Chintakunta, Andhra Pradesh; rock art site Murgi at Rdanag, Leh; Kaleshwar Mahadev Temple, Kalesar (Manyala Panchayat), Himachal Pradesh.
The Rakhigarhi site is one of the “five iconic sites” declared by the Central government in the Union budget 2020-21.
Also, 55 monuments, sites are declared protected under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 in Assam.
Three monuments have been identified to be declared as monuments of national importance in Mizoram in the last five years.

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