Archaeological Survey of India's underwater unit may come to Goa

Exploration of the state's underwater cultural heritage is likely to receive a boost after the Archaeological Survey of India's long-term plan to shift its Delhi-based underwater archaeology wing (UAW) to Goa materializes in the near future. "We are searching for some land to house the UAW in Goa," said Ramesh S Mulimani, superintending archaeologist, ASI, Goa circle. While UAW has been nursing plans to shift to Goa for a few decades-to train professional archaeologists and young researchers in documenting sunken arch…