Bhubaneswar, July 28 -- Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has written to Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy urging the latter for the preservation of recently excavated 6th-7th Century CE Swapneswar Mahadev Temple in Odisha's Puri district.

"I am writing to seek your urgent intervention for preservation of the recently excavated 6th-7th Century CE Swapneswar Mahadev Temple, as well as documentation and conservation of heritage structures in Ratnachira Valley, Puri district of Odisha," Pradhan wrote in the letter.

"I was enthused to learn that the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) had recently unearthed an ancient temple dating back to the 6th-7th Century CE at Biropurusottampur village in Pipili tehsil of P...