The department of archaeology has planned fool proof security arrangements for the archaeological museum Taxila under which close circuit cameras would be installed for security purposes.
In this connection department has allocates a sum of Rs 1.041 million.
Sources in the department of archaeology Taxila sub regional office told APP that after theft of as many as 81 precious and invaluable antiquities from Taxila museum in December 1999, belonging to Ghandhara civilisation, which were discovered by Sir John Marshall during excavations from 1913 to 1935, the department of archaeology has planned to made adequate and foolproof security measures of the ancient archaeological as the human watching and security was not enough in the recent era of organised crimes.
The sources said that to plug the loopholes in the security measures, modern and computerised system would be installed in the museum.
While revelling the proposed security plan, the source said that close circuit television (CCTV) system with cameras, multiplexer, time lapse recorder and walk through gate would be installed. The security project would cost Rs 1.041 million.
The sources told that by installing this security system, the Taxila museum would be the first federal museum and after Lahore museum second museum in the country having such digital security system.
The sources said that by installing this system all the mastering in and out would be recorded during the working hours and after closing hours any kind of movement within the premises of the museum would be connected to the alarm system.
It is worth mentioning that archaeological museum Taxila, established by Sir John Marshal, is a real treasure house.
Its collection of coins, jewellery, relics and gold and silver caskets alone are worth a King's ransom. But its real glory comes from stone and stuccoes that exquisite young.
The ivy-covered, Gothic-style museum is set in a picturesque garden. There is the central hall a plaster cast of the stupa topped with seven umbrellas found in Mohra Moradu. A relief map of the valley pinpoints the location for the different excavated sites.
There are rows of cases filled with the famed sculptures, stucco relieves, stones, plaster and terra-cotta figures, glass tiles and such objects as toilet articles, seats, beads, bark manuscripts, silver utensils, carpentry tools, surgical instruments and much else.
By installing such system it would provide fool proof security to the ancient museum preserving the hundreds of BC era antiquities and statues of Buddha of ancient Ghandhra civilisation worth million of rupees.