(Deepshikha Gautam, Intern Journalist) Baghpat: In order to gather evidence of Mahabharata civilization, the Archaeological Survey of India has taken a major decision and declared 28.6 hectares of land in Sinauli of Baghpat (Uttar Pradesh) as an area of national importance. Farmers will continue to cultivate this land, but will not be able to build on this land. Deep digging will also require permission from ASI. ASI will be able to carve the farmers whenever they want by paying money for their crops. Simultaneously, the ASI has given instructions to put barbed wire around it to surround the notified land, so that this land can be identified. This work is to be completed in the next six months, but due to Corona, this work may take some more time.
The purpose of ASI to declare this area as a region of national importance is to give a strong foundation to the evidence found in the excavation of this area so far. The carcasses of the chariots, warriors have been found in the last years during the excavation in Sinauli, indicating that this burial must have belonged to the royal family. In view of this, ASI has come to the conclusion that if the burial is found then the settlement of these people must have been around. This is what ASI wants to discover. The place where the excavation is done is the private land of the farmers. In such a situation, ASI has planned to declare this land as a land of national importance. ASI has issued a priority notification for the land, about which suggestions and objections were sought from the public. The farmer was asked for his opinion and objections for 45 days about the notification issued on 6 June. The objections encountered are being studied. After this, the final notification will be issued.
In Sinauli, excavation was done at the cremation site for two years. This time excavation was started on a new site about two hundred meters away from it, there was evidence of settlement there. In which four large furnaces of smelting copper were found. Earlier in 2006, when an excavation took place at another place in Sinauli itself, archaeological heritage was also found there. In which around one hundred male skeletons were also found. There is a great interest among archaeologists across the country about this site.
They believe that the archaeological material found is extraordinary. It is also more important than it is leading to a new civilization. It is being associated with the pre-Vedic period 3000-4000 years ago. In which this region is also likely to be associated with the Mahabharata period. The Yamuna is seven kilometers away from here, while on the other side Ganga is about 20 kilometers away. The place where the Pandavas were tried to be burnt under a plot is about 16 km from here. This entire area comes under the same Hastinapur which was once the glorious capital of the Kauravas. ASI wants to bring it to a conclusion. So that a conclusion can be reached.
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