berhampur academics and historians on saturday expressed anguish over neglect of government in protecting and preserving rich monuments and historicallyimportant sites in ganjam district ganjam is full of antiquities many of which have not yet got the publicity they deserve the shrines and monuments which mirror the rich cultural heritage of the district are fast fading due to apathy of the government said a speaker at a meet organized by intach indian national trust for art and cultural heritage ganjam chapter some of the artifacts are famous ashokan rock edicts at jaugada potagarh near ganjam town biranchi narayan temple known as wooden konark at buguda budhakhol near buguda palur hill near kanishi mahurigarh and malatigarh near aska and krishnagiri hill at khallikote since the rock edicts at jaugada are fading there is a need to rewrite them and translate them into odia english and hindi said noted writer and historian sudarshan acharya state chief of intach a b tripathy exhorted the historians to document historicallyimportant places and monuments in the district this will be helpful in preserving the districts rich cultural heritage he said former professor p k sahu said the development of historical sites will not only attract tourists but also historians and researchers from across the country and abroad