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🏛️ 3,686 monuments.
One custodian (ASI).
No single central list with locations + expenditure.
You file an RTI with the Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI asking for “centrally protected monuments” + spending details.
They push it to ASI @ASIGoI .
ASI doesn’t reply either.
It disperses the query to 24+ Circle CPIOs.
Result?
No single authority in India can tell you — in one place — what is protected, where it is, and how much is spent on it.
Under the RTI Act 2005, this is called “procedure.”
In practice, it’s fragmentation by design.
Disperse the data → dilute accountability.
#ASI #RTI #HeritageIndia
Pic Credit Chegg
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A civilization that designed Mohenjo-daro with grid precision, underground drainage, and civic planning 5,000 years ago…
…now runs a state that cannot publish one unified, expenditure-linked database of its own protected monuments.
Not a data gap.
A governance gap.
When records don’t exist centrally, oversight becomes impossible.
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Simple question:
What exactly is being “protected” — and how would anyone actually verify it?
Demand a single, public, searchable database now.
Transparency isn’t optional for our civilizational heritage.
Tag & RT:
@MinOfCulture @ASI_India (or official handles)
@PMOIndia
Let’s make heritage accountability go viral.
#Archaeology #RTI #IndiaHeritage #Governance
Should ASI publish a single expenditure-linked list
GemsOfINDOLOGY