A Parliamentary Committee slammed the Union Ministry of Tradition over its “lack of seriousness” in taking motion on the suggestions the panel had despatched final 12 months. The ministry offered action-taken notes on solely 21 out of the 35 suggestions made in a Parliamentary panel regarding “untraceable monuments”. Following this, the committee in a report expressed ‘deep concern and disappointment at this obvious “lack of seriousness” on the ministry’s half in responding to its suggestions. The committee report was forwarded to the Ministry of Tradition for essential motion on June 15 final 12 months, reported information company PTI.
PTI quoted the committee as saying in a press release: “The ministry not solely did not ship an interim reply inside the stipulated interval of three months but in addition failed to reply to the a number of reminders issued by the Secretariat all through 2022 and 2023. The Ministry might handle to offer Motion Taken Notes (ATNs), on solely 21 out of the whole of 35 suggestions as contained within the 324th Report, by 4th October, 2023, i.e., after a interval of 1 12 months and 19 days.”
The committee added that ‘disregarding or trivialising’ its views not solely undermines the belief but in addition the credibility and seriousness of the ministry, PTI reported.
The report titled, ‘Points regarding Untraceable Monuments and Safety of Monuments in India’, was introduced in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Friday, in line with a press release issued by the Rajya Sabha secretariat. The committee in a press release reiterated that the Ministry and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) should ‘conduct the survey for figuring out monuments on precedence, in a time-bound method’. The committee added that the small print and standards for the classification of monuments might also be furnished, PTI reported.
The committee recommends that the outcomes of the survey ‘should be positioned within the public area’ and it ought to embody the info regarding expenditure incurred on them together with the issues associated to the monuments.
The panel famous that because the stated monuments come beneath the jurisdiction of the state authorities, the ministry ought to work in coordination with state governments to take the required motion on this case instantly, as reported by PTI.