India has to struggle with several challenges, including rapid growth, in terms of maintaining a rich cultural heritage:

Urbanization and Development:
-Encroachment: The urban growth and infrastructural development erode historical sites and monuments or results into their destruction.
-Lack of Integration Planning: Lack of proper integration planning of heritage with the urban planning implies the demolition and deterioration of such heritage while providing place for modernity.

Inadequate Funding and Resources:
The poor allocation of funds to heritage conservation projects results in poor upkeep, reconstruction, and study, where required.
The findings reveal that staffing and lack of training within employees in the heritage areas result in poor maintenance and insufficient protection.

Natural Disasters and Environmental Degradation:
Fires leave a building ‘black and white,’ but natural disasters like earthquakes and floods leave cultural heritages destroy.
This means deteriorization of heritage sites since they are affected by pollution that may include air and water pollution.

Lack of Public Awareness and Appreciation:
Tabern et al. Int (1994), opined that to most laymen of the society, cultural heritage does not have any importance, and therefore the abuses which are accorded to relics and archaeological sites by the general public.
That is the reason why many people fail to paid enough attention to such works as traditional arts and craftsmen as it results to the loss of such knowledge.

Illegal Trafficking of Antiquities:
The black market of imposing archaeological pieces not only jeopardizes the richest human legacy, but jeopardises the historical and artistic properties of India as well.
Some of the most usual ways of unlawful traffic relate to looting or smuggling of objects from the context of archaeological context.

Effect of Globalization:
Globalization is often detrimental to the old culture, it thereby becomes one and the same.
Foreign influence might on moments overpower and so demean the indigenous practices that would have otherwise been valuable.

To that end, fiscal support from government, adequate planning for the social facade of the urban society, involving the community, and harsh legal measures in regard to existing conservation laws have been recommended.