I don't think this is the same site but it's the same problem in the area:
ENCROACHMENTS and quarrying have spelt doom for the 23 megalithic sites in Chennai Metropolitan Area.
The government is trying to bring in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment and Validation) Bill 2010 to protect these rare sites that have a history of more than 2000 years, according to superintending archaeologist of the Archaeological Survey of India Sathyabhama Badhreenath.
Addressing a session during a seminar on "Conservation of Heritage Buildings and Precincts in Chennai Metropolitan Area" on Friday, Badhreenath said megalithic sites at Sikkarayapuram and Tirusulam have been destroyed due to stone quarrying while sites at Kunnathur, Pallavaram and St Thomas Mount vanished due to encroachments.
Badhreenath said the government, by virtue of new amendments, would try to control unregulated construction in and around the monuments and sites. Currently, there are 248 monuments and 163 archaeological sites in TN and Pondy Area (excluding Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and Niligiris districts). Badhreenath said the new amendment prescribed a minimum of 100 metres prohibited area around centrally protected monuments and defined regulated area to be of a minimum of 200 metres beyond the prohibited area. As per the new amendment, there are also heritage bylaws to govern construction, reconstruction, repair or renovation, said Badhreenath.
On the feasibility of the amendment as there was shortage of space in urban areas, Badhreenath said the National Monuments Authority, which be set up as the apex body for recommending the grading and classification of protected monuments.
Calling for the need to minimize the gap between conservation and development, Badhreenath said the protection of a monument or site was inadequate when many historic cities and sites were being laid waste by real estate development, industrialisation and callous neglect. He also slammed urban planning and said there was a tendency to develop new areas instead of developing around 'old' areas.
http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/encroachments-eat-into-megalithic-sites/213708.html
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