Indian Government to Excavate Lost Cities

02-05-2003, 01:31 PM

.. Indian Government to Excavate Lost Cities
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...mp/articleshow

KURUKSHETRA, INDIA, February 4, 2003: Jagmohan, Union Minister for Tourism
and Culture, announced on Tuesday that the Centre has launched a plan to
unearth lost cities which once existed along the embankments of Saraswati
River, and left a number of signposts of the Saraswati-Indus civilization
from Adi Badri near Kurukshetra to Dhola Vira in Gujarat. Addressing the
students of Kurukshetra University at the 25th convocation here, he said
that "all these signposts are intended to be converted into new centers,
all over the country, in which elements of culture, tourism and clean civic
life are being synthesized." He added that Kurukshetra (of Mahabharata
fame) is being given a top position in the list of such centers to make it
a symbol of a resurgent and reawakened India.

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