Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Union Petroleum and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan demanded the cabinet colleague-cum-Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel to assign an expert team of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) to Bhubaneswar for studying details and also make a meticulous scientific excavation of the Ekamra Kshetra area.
As per reports, Dharmendra Pradhan had written a letter where he stated that the ASI team’s scientific excavation could uncover heritage structure that may be lying buried under infringements. He mentioned that the Bhubaneswar Circle of the ASI recently befell upon precious remain of a 10th-11th Samavamshi period temple floor on the Sari temple’s northwest corner while carrying out scientific cleaning the two-acre land adjacent to the Suka-Sari temple complex in the heritage Ekamra Kshetra of temple-town Bhubaneswar.
He further mentioned that the Suka-Sari temple complex and Lord Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar are guarded by ASI under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remain Act (AMASR Act). There is an imperative requirement to promptly retrieve and protect the remains of this invaluable ancient Odishan architecture.
About the two other structures discovered by ASI, Pradhan cited in the letter that it is believed to be the remains of small shrines and a portion of the Sari temple. These findings have led ASI experts to believe that the Sari temple complex was built on the Panchayatana model where our subsidiary shrines encompass the main temple. This means a high chance of additional heritage structures lying buried under infringements in the Ekamra Kshetra.
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