Jaintiapur, the capital of erstwhile Jaintia kingdom, comprises the Jaintia and the Khasi hills, now in Meghalaya, along with the plains of Jaintiapur in Bangladesh.
''Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed her principal secretary to organise a joint visit by cultural secretary and request Indian High Commissioner to Jaintiapur to take all necessary steps to convert it into a national heritage,'' former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A Sangma told reporters here today.
Mr Sangma met the Bangladesh Prime Minister during his recent visit to Dhaka.
Ms Hasina, he said, has also requested him to send her a brief history of Jaintia kingdom.
The cultural remains of the Jaintia kingdom include a dilapidated palace, Jainteswari temple and monuments which were built by Jaintia king Laxmi Sinha in 1680 AD.
Historically, the Jaintia kingdom was extended from east of Shillong towards the plains of Barak valley in Assam and Jaintiapur, which is now ruined.
The location of Jaintiapur is about 43 km away from the northern part of the town of Sylhet on the road connecting Sylhet and the hill station of Shillong. Much of the Sylhet region of Bangladesh was under the jurisdiction of Jaintia kingdom.
After the invasion by Kachari king, the Jaintia kingdom came under increasing Kachari and Ahom political influence and later, the kingdom was annexed by the British East India company in 1935.