The popular tourist destination Ajanta caves in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad will soon have QR codes at the entry points to impart information about the paintings to the visitors, a senior Archaeological Survey of India official said. The ASI is planning to make the system available before the G20-related event, the official said.
The paintings in the fifth-century Ajanta caves talk about the Jataka tales and are in the dark area of caves where human eyes take time to get accustomed to.
The official said to make the tourists aware about the history of the paintings, the ASI will bring them on QR codes.
“Tourists get a maximum of ten minutes in a cave to see the paintings. They are randomly painted and not in a sequence. It takes time for our eyes to acclimatise to the poor lighting in the caves,” ASI’s Superintendent Archaeologist Milan Kumar Chauley told PTI.
A temporary internet connection will be made available on the rocky premises to help tourists to scan the QR codes installed outside the caves.
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“Tourists can scan the codes and find out the cave details, paintings in that cave with illustrations and the Jataka tales related to it,” Chauley said.
“We are working on the data that has to be uploaded on the QR codes. The basic work of this project will be finished prior to the W20 meet of G20 in Aurangabad next month,” he added.
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Through the QR codes, general details of Devgiri (Daulatabad), Bibi Ka Maqbara, Ellora caves and Aurangabad caves will also be made available in multiple languages, Chauley said. The Aurangabad Smart City Development Corporation Limited will undertake this work.
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