A parliamentary panel has really useful to the Centre to discover the potential for allowing worship at ASI-protected monuments having “non secular significance” if it may be established that this could not have a detrimental impact on their conservation.
The department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Tradition has stated this in its ‘Three Hundred Sixty Third Report on the Motion Taken by the Authorities on the suggestions/observations of the Committee contained in its Three Hundred Twenty-Fourth Report’ on ‘Points referring to Untraceable Monuments and Safety of Monuments in India’, which was offered in each Homes on Friday.
“The Committee feels that a number of historic monuments throughout the nation maintain immense non secular significance to numerous individuals and permitting pujas/worship/ sure non secular actions at such monuments can fulfil respectable aspirations of the individuals,” the panel stated in its observations within the report.
“The Committee, due to this fact, recommends that ASI might discover the potential for allowing pujas/worship/sure non secular actions at historic Centrally Protected Monuments of spiritual significance, topic to the situation that it may be established that such actions wouldn’t have any detrimental impact on the state of conservation and preservation of the monument,” it stated.
The Ministry of Tradition in its response to the observations of the panel has stated that it has famous them for “exploring feasibility”.
“On this regard, it’s to submit that as per the coverage resolution revival of worship just isn’t allowed the place it was not in vogue on the time of safety or deserted since lengthy,” the ministry has instructed the panel.
A senior official of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) stated, in accordance with the AMSAR (Historical Monuments and Archaeological Websites and Stays) Act, if a web site was not a spiritual one or any non secular exercise was not being carried out on the time ASI took it into its custody, then worshipping or another non secular exercise can’t be allowed there.
Nonetheless, if that was the norm on the time of its taking on by the ASI, such non secular practices are permitted.
An instance is the Taj Mahal, the place Friday prayers are permitted because it was performed when the ASI introduced it underneath its ambit, sources stated.
Lingaraja Temple in Odisha is maintained by the ASI and a temple belief, so puja is allowed there, because it has been carried out for a really very long time. Worshipping is permitted at a temple within the Khajuraho temple advanced additionally equally, the sources stated.
Nonetheless, when ASI took over the ruins of the traditional Martand Solar Temple in Jammu and Kashmir, it was already in a state of ruins the place worshipping had stopped way back, and due to this fact, cannot be permitted in accordance with the prevailing norms, they stated.
The department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Tradition in its report has additionally expressed a “deep concern and disappointment at this obvious lack of seriousness,” on the a part of the ministry in responding to the panel’s suggestions addressing vital points.
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