According to a submission made in Parliament by the Ministry of Culture, as many as 50 of India's 3,693 centrally protected monuments are missing.
The missing monuments include 11 that were in Uttar Pradesh, as well as two each in Delhi and Haryana. The list also included monuments in Assam, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
As per the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), 14 of these monuments have been lost to rapid urbanisation, 12 are submerged by reservoirs or dams, and the locations of the remaining 24 remain untraceable.