The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) has dismissed reports about hundreds of years old stone carvings at Odisha’s Konark Temple as a significant aspect of rebuilding work at the landmark.

On Monday, ASI tweeted, saying such reports are bogus and misdirecting and that the pictures being flowed are from other areas. The debate erupted after two images, which were before and after images from Konark Temple, started making an appearance on social media websites.

In the initial pictures, wall paintings going back to the thirteenth century are obviously evident, while on the following image, which seems as though a similar structure had plain stones. Some Twitter users had even guaranteed that the ASI had supplanted around 40% of the stone carvings with plain rocks and that the Odisha government attempted to intercede and stop it became futile.

In November 2018, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had expressed concern about the abnormalities in the restoration work in a letter to Union Minister of Culture Mahesh Sharma.

Some likewise asserted that “under the pretext of restoration, all the century-old sculptures of Sun Konark temple have been purportedly distorted. The explanation is given that Schoolkids come here, so it does not fit for them.”

“The ASI has purposely and systematically demolished the precious stone carvings on the external surface of the famous Sun Temple, making priceless losses to one of India’s social and structural miracles,” another Twitter user said.

But as indicated by ASI, the picture with figures are from Natya Mandap, while the pictures of the plain stones are from the plinth of Jagmohana (the primary temple). It likewise included that the plain stonework that appeared in the picture was done in the mid-1980s. ASI utilized plain stone just wherein there was no proof left. According to ASI’s then archeological approach, only irreplaceable parts were reconstructed with plain stones.

The discussion came only a couple of days after ASI evacuated the iron platforms at the world legacy site, which was there for almost 30 years as a significant aspect of the restoration endeavors.

The thirteenth-century Sun Temple, which was worked by Ganga dynasty ruler Langula Narasingha Dev has announced a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. The about 800 years of age complex has just lost its fundamental temple because of long periods of disregard, and Natya Mandap and just the Jagamohan remains. A month ago, Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Prahlad Singh Patel had declared that the legacy site would find its spot in the list of iconic sites of the nation.