DUE TO UTTER NEGLIGENCE BY GOVT, AND LACK OF PROPER ATTRNTION AND CARE BY LOCAL PEOPLE A GROUP OF TRIO ANCIENT TEMPLES WHICH ONCE HAD EXCELLENT TERRACOTTA ORNAMENTATIONS ON WALLS ARE ON VERGE OF EXTINCTION IN KHARDAHA OF WEST BENGAL.
THESE TYPES OF TERRACOTTA TEMPLES CONSTRCUTED IN BANGLA CHALA STYLES ( IN THIS CASE THE SAID TEMPLES ARE AATHCHALA OR DOUBLE-ROOFED ) ARE VERY IMPORTANT ELEMENTS FOR LOCAL HISTORY.IN MODERN KHARDAHA IF SOMEONE TAKES THE NARROW WINDING ROAD PAST BALARAM HOSPITAL TO A MUCH NARROWER RAMANATH GHOSE GARDEN ROAD CLOSER TO GANGES HE WILL COME ACROSS THE TEMPLES IN DECAYED CONDITION. THOUGH IT BECOMES DIFFICULT FOR A CASUAL VISITOR TO MARKOUT THE TEMPLES WHICH ARE UNDER THICK FOLIAGES.BESIDES THICK ROOTS OF AN OLD BANYAN TREE HAVE ALSO ENTANGLED IT FROM VARIOUS SIDES MAKING THEIR EXISTENCE MORE DIFFICULT AND RESIDENCE OF POISONOUS SNAKES.
THESE TEMPLES WERE ERECTED IN 1731 AD ( BENGALI 1138 ) BY LOCAL LANDLORD AND MERCHANT RAMAKRISHNA SETH.AS TOLD EARLIER THAT NOBODY HAS DONE ANYTHING EXCEPT HARMING THEIR EXISTANCE IN VARIOUS WAYS LEADING TO DESTRUCTION OF TERRACOTTA CURVINGS, STILL VERY FEW i.e. SEVERAL FLORAL ORNAMENTATIONS , PLAQUES DEPICTING PEACOCK HUNTING SNAKES LEFT THERE CAN BE SEEN .
TAPAS MUKHERJEE A CHRONICLER OF LOCAL HISTORY TOLD THIS WRITER THAT A PLAQUE OF A DRAGON ,VERY RARE ONE FOR THIS TYPE OF TEMPLES, ALSO CAN BE SEEN IN THEIR WALLS.IT IS A MATTER OF SHAME THAT NOT ONLY LOCAL PEOPLE LOCAL POLITICAL PARTIES ARE ALSO USING THE WALLS OF THE TEMPLES FOR THEIR ELECTION CAMPAIGN.
