A Parliamentary Standing Committee has recommended easing the restrictions on construction near the Centrally protected monuments, going from the existing blanket ban on building within 100 metres of the site to a framework of “least possible restrictions”.
The department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, in its report presented in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, recommended that the Culture Ministry review the restrictions imposed by the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (AMASR) Act, 1958. In its report, the panel found that there was no specific reasoning behind prohibiting all construction activity in the 100 metre radius of a monument and regulating it within 300 metres.
