Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday wrote a letter to Union Tourism and Culture Minister Pralhad Singh Patel for his help for a detailed scientific excavation of Bhubaneswar’s heritage area Ekamra Kshetra.
Pradhan urged Patel to ensure that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) despatches an expert team to conduct a thorough exploration to dig out heritage structures likely to have been buried under encroachments.
Notably, the ASI Bhubaneswar Circle has recently unearthed the remains of a 10th or 11th centuries’ Somavanshi period temple floor at the north-west corner of the Suka-Sari Temple.
