KAILASAHAR, May 15 (TIWN): In a spirited attempt to make Unakoti, the most attractive place for the tourists from India and outside India, jawans of Assam rifles Battalion No -30, and students of NCC/NSS units of Kailasahar College, organized Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan at the premises of the Archaeological site on Thursday.

Commandant of the Battalion, Roshan Verma himself, also took part in the Abhiyan. During the cleanliness drive, water bottles, cold drink bottles, plastic bags have been recovered from the place.

Stressing the importance of the Abhiyan, Verma said that Archeological sites shoule be plastic free zones. And people would step forward to protect the heritage of Tripura, so that tourists can be deeply attracted by the sites.

It is to be mentioned that the historical tourist spots which is popularly known as Unakoti is rapidly losing its glory due to the apathy and negligence of government towards its maintenance and preservation. According to sources, few days back a sculpture from a hill of Unakoti broke and fallen down to the pathway. The stairs of Unakoti is in very poor condition and as a result several times the tourists are used to slip from the stairs.

Most of the stairways are so slippery that people have to sit and step-down carefully to avoid fatal accidents. An office of Archeological Survey of India (ASI) is present at Unakoti but they are not even trying to protect its national heritage and instead of that they are busy in other businesses, said sources.

 Unakoti is a national heritage and protected monuments. The Archaeology Department had posted a sign on the wall of Unakoti in English, Bengali and Hindi, which read: "This is a protected monument. Any person who damages or defaces this monument is liable to be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three months or with fine or with both". But due to the apathy and the negligence of the departments concerned, Unakoti has become a skeleton like structure.