Further, in Chandigarh Circle, only 10 per cent work of the vision plan was followed. In this respect, the Chandigarh Circle intimated (May 2021) that the deviation was due to following of other important conservation schemes instructed by ASI Headquarters. Ministry/ASI while agreeing with the...
as the same was originally drafted in 2009. In this respect, ASI had intimated (December 2020 and December 2021) that this exercise was under process. As such, there have been considerable delay in updation and finalisation/notification of National Policy on Archaeological Exploration and...
17.53 lakh 11562 12.64 lakh *Period counted upto/from October Note: For 2019-20 and 2020-21, status reported by NMMA (in October 2020 and December 2021) was upto October 2020 and from November 2020 to 1 December 2021. It would be seen from the Table 6.1that since 2017, the process for...
lakh artefacts, NM had digitised records of 1.73 lakh objects, of which photography/digitisation of only 0.81 lakh art objects was completed (January 2021). ¾The YechuryCommittee, while pointing out absence of physical verification (since 2003) of artefacts in NM, had felt that when the...
India has 40 WHS (32 cultural, seven natural and one mixed) of which 24 were under the jurisdiction of ASI (June 2021). In the previous Report, after joint physical inspection, it was reported that WHS faced many issues related to security, public amenities, encroachment, etc. A similar...
The budgetary allocation of ASI had been reduced from `1246.75 crore in 2020-21 to `1042.63 crore in 2021-22. As pointed out in previous Report,ASI was not maintaining specific budget for activities related to awareness, interpretation and creation of public amenities at its monuments....
amounting to `11.29 lakh obtained in June 2019 had deteriorated (not useful for the work) due to non-finalisation of labour related tender (June 2021). 9Despite being pointed out in the earlier report, chemical worth `3.66 lakh purchased during 2005-09 was not utilised, of which chemical...
39 (April 2016) and 118 (December 2018). This Report of the CAG for the year ended March 2021 is a follow-up of the previous Performance Audit Report (No. 18 of 2013). The Report contain the results of examination of the action taken by the Ministry of Culture/ASI on the areas of concern...
report containing audit findings, results of joint physical inspection and replies to audit questionnaires was submitted to the Ministry in September 2021. Response furnished by all the stakeholders have been considered and appropriately included in this Report. 2.5 Structure of the Report The...
In this regard, against the primary corpus of ` 19.50 crore, endowment available with NCF rose to `76 crore by March 2021. Less than 14 per cent utilisation towards the objectives of NCF indicate absence of its coordination with ASI. In this regard, ASI intimated that it had prepared a...
10 of 2022 75 Last excavation done in November 2019 During follow-up audit in January 2021 Protection of Archaeological Sites The Excavation Policy of ASI identifies over 500 archaeological sites in India as important for excavation/exploration. From the list, two sites in Delhi region viz....