Explanation:

The government of Haryana has announced that the world’s largest museum of Harappan culture is coming up in Rakhigarhi in Haryana to showcase about 5,000-year-old Indus Valley artifacts.

The Chief Minister directed the officials concerned to prepare a list of artefacts and other items found during the excavation. The authorities have also been directed to ensure that if the villagers have such artefacts, a list of them should also be prepared. The authorities are now working to ensure that arrangements are made to keep the artefacts in the museum after talking to the villagers and assuring them that their names would be displayed along with the artefacts.

A special zone for children has also been created in the museum to make them aware of history in a recreational way. Besides, an open-air theatre, galleries and a library have been constructed. The Central government has allocated Rs 2,500 crore to develop tourist places and five historical places in the country and Rakhigarhi is one among them.

Located in the Narnaund subdivision of Hisar district, Rakhigarhi’s archaeological evidences are scattered in two villages -- Rakhi Khas and Rakhi Shahpur. During the preliminary excavations, a cluster of seven mounds marked as RGR 1 to RGR 7 were found which together formed the largest settlements of the Harappan civilization.

In 1963, the ASI (Archeolgical Survey of India), for the first time started excavation in a village. Between 1998 and 2001, the ASI team led by Amarendra Nath again started excavation. In 2013, 2016 and 2022, another excavation work led by V.S. Shinde, former Vice-Chancellor of Deccan University, Pune, was done.