Political and diplomatic efforts seem to have fetched theUnescoWorld Heritage Site tag for the historicRamappa templein Telangana. The dossier prepared by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Department of HeritageTelangana(DHT) and the Kakatiya Heritage Trust (KHT), however, failed to convince the Unesco experts on the uniqueness and grandeur of the 13th century temple complex.

If the report of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) submitted to the ongoing extended 44th session of theWorld Heritage Committee of Unescois any indication, the experts involved in the preparation of the dossier did not come up with a foolproof plan.

ICOMOS in its report pinpointed the loopholes in the dossier and explained how the state party failed to come up with clinching scientific evidence in support of the claims made for the heritage status.