Vijayawada, July 23 -- YSR Congress party Tirupati MP Maddila Gurumoorthy met union Minister for Culture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in New Delhi on Thursday and submitted a detailed representation seeking urgent intervention to prohibit mining and blasting activities in and around the ASI-protected Dhan Dibbalu Buddhist Archaeological Site at Panchadarla in Visakhapatnam district.
A YSRCP release here on Thursday said that in the representation, Gurumoorthy warned that quarrying in close proximity to the protected Buddhist site and the ancient Sri Dharmalingeswara Swamy Temple posed a serious threat to archaeological sites, buried antiquities, the five perennial water streams and the fragile heritage landscape of Panchadarla, located in Anak...