150-year-old stepwell present in Sambhal’s Chandausi
A virtually 150-year-old stepwell (’baoli’), measuring 400 sq. metres, has been found in Lakman Ganj space of Sambhal district’s Chandausi tehsil, officers mentioned on Sunday.
The Sambhal administration got here to know in regards to the construction on Saturday after which excavation work started, however was stopped the identical night and resumed on Sunday morning.
“A stepwell, round 150 years’ outdated and protecting an space of 400 sq. metres, has been unearthed throughout excavation within the Lakshman Ganj space of Chandausi,” mentioned Chandausi Nagar Palika govt officer Krishna Kumar Sonkar.
Sambhal district Justice of the Peace Rajender Pensiya got here to know in regards to the stepwell after an area resident Kaushal Kishore, who can be an workplace bearer of an organisation referred to as the Sanatan Sewak Sangh, handed over a letter to the DM on Saturday, informing him in regards to the stepwell in Chandausi.
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In response to the DM, a Banke Bihari temple can be positioned close to the stepwell and it’s in a dilapidated situation.
The district Justice of the Peace and different senior officers of the Sambhal administration reached the spot on Sunday morning and resumed the excavation work.
The stepwell was excavated beneath an open plot of land in a populated space after greater than an hour of digging by earthmovers.
The stepwell is registered in income data as “Bilari ki Rani ki Bavadi”, in response to Krishna Kumar Sonkar, govt officer, Chandausi Nagar Palika.
The precise interval of the stepwell couldn’t be ascertained, mentioned officers of the Sambhal administration.
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After the excavation carried out until Sunday night, the partitions of stepwells and 4 rooms had been seen.
“All steps will probably be taken to revive the traditional construction,” district Justice of the Peace Rajender Pensiya mentioned.
The revelation comes after a four-member workforce of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on December 20 carried out a survey and carbon courting on the Kartik Mahadev temple, also called Bhasma Shankar temple, at Khaggu Sarai in Sambhal, 5 different Hindu pilgrimage websites, together with Bhadrak Ashram, Swargdeep and Chakrapani and 19 wells.
The Kartik Mahadev temple was reopened after 46 years on December 13 after the authorities mentioned they stumbled upon the construction throughout a drive towards energy theft. It had remained locked since 1978. The temple has an idol of Lord Hanuman and a Shivling.
The second spherical of the identical survey of the temple and the opposite Hindu non secular websites was carried out on December 21. The ASI workforce collected artefacts recovered from wells, in addition to samples from the temple’s partitions for carbon courting.
