Articles tagged under: ASI

Yadubir Singh Rawat appointed as DG of ASI ; Dholavira, Vadnagar among his excavations

December 08, 2023
Yadubir Singh Rawat appointed as DG of ASI ; Dholavira, Vadnagar among his excavations

New Delhi: Former Director of the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Gujarat, Shri Yadubir Singh Rawat, a senior archaeologist, has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Shri Rawat who hails from Uttarakhand has been living in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He has worked at the excavation of Dholavira in Kutch, Vadnagar in North Gujarat, and other important sites. He is especially known for his excavations at Vadodara under then Chi...Read More

ASI files FIR against 19 property owners for constructions near Mahatma Gandhi’s birthplace

April 16, 2023
ASI files FIR against 19 property owners for constructions near Mahatma Gandhi’s birthplace

Porbandar: A police complaint has been filed against 19 owners of various properties located within the 200-meter limit of Mahatma Gandhi's birthplace Kirti Mandir here. Harish Jivanlal Dasre, a conservation assistant of Junagadh sub circle of the Archaeology Department of India (ASI) has filed a complaint under the Archaeology Department's rule 1959 and amended rule 2010 under which no new construction can be done without permission of the Archaeological Department within 100 meters and 200...Read More

Ancient Galteshwar Mahadev Mandir gets Shikhar through Central govt arm ASI efforts

September 07, 2021
Ancient Galteshwar Mahadev Mandir gets Shikhar through Central govt arm ASI efforts

Gandhinagar, Japan K Pathak: Religious Hindu flag was hoisted atop an ancient Galteshwar Mahadev mandir for the first time yesterday probably after centuries. This could become possible due to construction of Shikhar of this mandir by the efforts of Government of India. A 52 gajj size flag atop a 75 ft high Shikhar was hoisted on auspicious occasion of Somvati Amas on the last day of Shravan as Shikhar construction was over. Galteshwar Mahadev is located in a small village Sarnal, near Da...Read More

Archaeological excavation in progress at Vihar village near Gandhinagar

January 19, 2021
Archaeological excavation in progress at Vihar village near Gandhinagar

Gandhinagar: Archaeological excavation has been launched by a team of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) last week at Vihar village near Mansa in North Gujarat in Gauchar land near Vihariya Hanuman mandir and it is in progress. In the outskirts of Vihar village, there are two small mounds and it be presumed that there are Buddhist structured, most likely to be monasteries (Vihar in Sanskrit) buried there. DeshGujarat Read More

YS Rawat appointed Trustee of Ahmedabad World Heritage City Trust

January 13, 2021
YS Rawat appointed Trustee of Ahmedabad World Heritage City Trust

Ahmedabad: Shri YS Rawat, Retired Director of Archaeology and Museum, Government of Gujarat has been added to the Ahmedabad World Heritage City Trust (AWHCT) as a Trustee. The Trut meeting has also decided to take services of Utpal Padiya and RJ Vasavada as Officer on Special Duty and Mentor. Read More

Ministry of Culture announces 7 new circles of Archaeological Survey of India including Rajkot

August 26, 2020
Ministry of Culture announces 7 new circles of Archaeological Survey of India including Rajkot

New Delhi: The Ministry of Culture has announced 7 new circles of Archaeological Survey of India. This information was shared by the Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (IC), Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a video message tweeted by him today. Shri Patel said that the Ministry of Culture has taken this step in accordance with the Prime Minister’s call to facilitate and strengthen the process of preservation and registration of archaeological monuments along with registration of ar...Read More

After PM’s remark, ASI allows photography inside all protected monuments barring three

July 13, 2018
After PM’s remark, ASI allows photography inside all protected monuments barring three

New Delhi: Photography will be allowed in all of the monuments and archeological sites administered by the ASI, except the mausoleum at Taj Mahal, the Ajanta Caves and the Leh Palace, says the order issued by Archaeological Survey of India(ASI) after Prime Minister Narendra Modi questioned the logic behind the photography restrictions at an event to inaugurate a new headquarters of ASI earlier today. ASI administers and manages 3,686 protected monuments and archaeological sites. The PM...Read More

Twelfth century statue stolen from Patan in Gujarat returns from London

January 10, 2018
Twelfth century statue stolen from Patan in Gujarat returns from London

Patan: An twelfth century sandstone marble Brahma - Brahmani statue which was stolen from historic town Patan in North Gujarat in 2001 has been retrieved from London after 16 years. The statue arrived at Delhi based Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) last year on 22 December. It has been at present kept at the Purana Qila museum temporarily. It will be eventually taken back to Patan after Baroda Circle of ASI makes proper security arrangements. An individual in London had released advertisemen...Read More

Nalanda University enters UNESCO’s World Heritage List

July 15, 2016
Nalanda University enters UNESCO’s World Heritage List

New Delhi: The archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara (Nalanda University) in Bihar has been included in the UNESCO's World Heritage List, which also featured three new sites from China, Iran and Micronesia. The inclusion of the four new sites was announced at the 40th session of The World Heritage Committee meeting in Istanbul in Turkey. "Congrats...! Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara is now a #WorldHeritageSite. Thank you @UNESCO @IrinaBokova," India's Culture Ministry tweete...Read More

13 ASI protected monuments are encroached in Gujarat

July 25, 2015

New Delhi/Ahmedabad Instances of encroachments have been reported at 278 centrally protected monuments across India, 13 of which are in Gujarat, a list of which is presented below: - Malik Alam''s Mosque Ahmedabad, - Saiyed Usman Mosque Ahmedabad Usmanpura/Ahmedabad - Small Stone Mosque, Ahmedabad Paldi/Ahmedabad - Dariyakhan Tomb, Ahmedabad Back of Dudheshwar/Ahmedabad - Achyut Bibi''s Mosque, Ahmedabad Dudheshwar/Ahmedabad - Khawaja Dana Saheb Dargah Surat - Ancient Site Gohilw...Read More