Having created awareness at the Art Houz exhibition on April 2015, FoHS had consistently evolved public opinion on safeguarding the inscriptions found at Poonjeri, just a few feet away from the carriageway of the East Coast Road. The activism related to the impending damage due to the expansion of the East Coast Road. The captioned inscriptions located on a rock surface in the village of Poonjeri (rocks locally referred as Nondi Veerapan Kudiraithotti) falls in the vicinity of the world heritage monument township of Mamallapuram. These inscriptions chiselled on hard (granite) rock are in the archaic Tamil and Grantha (Pallava) script dating back to the 7th century C.E. This is the oldest relatable inscriptional evidence excavated in the 1930's that scholars now refer to as regards the artisans who probably worked at the famed world heritage monument site. As part of the exercise in safeguarding the inscriptions FoHS had in person meetings with various senior officials of the Archaeological Survey of India, the Secretary, State Highways, GoTN. Thereon effective representations were sent to the authorities including the ASI, New Delhi. Further to the representation given by FoHS and bringing about public opinion to save the inscriptions the authorities have finally taken action to safeguard the inscriptions.
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