Highlighting the significance of Rakhigarhi, speaker Surbhi Gupta (Director, Rasika Research & Design) announced at the conference, "What Giza is to Egypt, and Athens is to Greece, Haryana should be to India.

We have collected evidences of massive manufacturing and trade activities in this town, which revealed the economic organisation and the foreign links of people here.

[6] NASA and ISRO will also carry out a joint in-stu site inspection to verify the claims of 6,000 years old Pre-harappan phase of Rakhi Gahri IVC being the oldest and largest civilization in the world,[7] though the joint two month long excavations by Haryana State Archaeology Department, Indian Archaeological Society and National Museum in May 2017 at much smaller nearby 7,570-6,200 BCE[8] IVC site of Kunal were initially estimated to be 1,000 years older than Rakhi Garhi.

In 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000, site was excavated for the first time by Dr. Amrender Nath, former director of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), who later published his findings in scholarly journals and was convicted by Central Bureau of Investigation special court in 2015 to two and half years rigorous prison sentence for fraud for falsifying the bill payments for 1990s Rakhigarhi excavations.

[2][4] In 2013-14 financial year, the Rakhigarhi village panchayat had donated 6 acres (2.4 ha) land to Haryana State Archaeology Department and Government of Haryana had allocated ₹25 million (equivalent to ₹42 million, US$490,000 or €480,000 in 2023) for the general development of the site by Archaeological Survey of India to prepare it for the construction of the Rakhigarhi Indus Valley Civilisation Museum-cum-Interpretation Centre, work was temporarily put on hold after CBI inquiry into mismanagement of the fund.