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NEW DELHI: The Union culture ministry is expected to begin fresh consultative process, including setting up sub-committees, for amending the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958, to make it more “flexible and public friendly.
The law, which was last amended in 2010, provides in its present form for regulation of construction activities near centrally protected monuments by defining every area extending to 100 m as prohibited area and a further area of 200 m from the prohibited area as regulated area. This amendment also issued a blanket ban on new constructions in prohibited area.
Ministry sources also dismissed any plans to amend the Places of Worship Act, 1991, which freezes the religious character of a place of the worship as it existed on August 15, 1947.
The law, which was last amended in 2010, provides in its present form for regulation of construction activities near centrally protected monuments by defining every area extending to 100 m as prohibited area and a further area of 200 m from the prohibited area as regulated area. This amendment also issued a blanket ban on new constructions in prohibited area.
Ministry sources also dismissed any plans to amend the Places of Worship Act, 1991, which freezes the religious character of a place of the worship as it existed on August 15, 1947.
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