cuttack the orissa high court on tuesday asked the state government to clear the air to facilitate construction of a boundary wall by the archaeological survey of india asi around the sisupalgarh ruins area on the outskirts of bhubaneswarthe hc was hearing a pil which the indian national trust for arts and cultural heritage intach had filed 15 years ago for protection of sisupalgarh monuments aged over 2000 years the remains of what possibly was one of the earliest fortified cities was excavated at sisupalgarh by the asi in 1948 the hc issued its direction after taking note of an affidavit filed by the asithe twojudge bench of chief justice s muralidhar and justice r k pattanaik said the state government must come up with a detailed plan on how it proposes to go about enforcing the gazette notification related to sisupalgarh by removing encroachments and facilitating construction of the boundary wall around the demarcated area which has been notified as a centrallyprotected monumentthe bench posted the matter to may 16 after additional government advocate d k mohanty sought four weeks to respond to the affidavitin the affidavit superintending archaeologist of asi bhubaneswar circle arun malik said effective steps have been taken to construct a boundary wall around part of the protected area and for it rs 81 lakh has been already sanctioned and approved by the competent authority of the asi however the work of such construction can be taken up and completed only after removal of encroachments found within the protected area malik said in the affidavitthe bench said the affidavit had made an important point that the protected area in terms of the gazette notification of november 13 1950 is to an extent of 56268 acresaccordingly the asi had submitted that the entire area is to be demarcated and a boundary wall constructed consistent with such demarcation