Friday, August 7, 2009

Construction of War Memorial: GoM to look into the issue

New Delhi, August 6: A Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will go into the issue of finding a location for constructing a National War Memorial in Delhi. This was decided at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday.

Mukherjee, Defence Minister A K Antony and Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy will decide on the appropriate location of the National War Memorial after considering all aspects of the relevant proposal, PMO sources said.
They said a lot of suggestions, including setting up such a memorial at India Gate complex, Dhaula Kuan and Princes Park in Kasturba Gandhi Marg, had come up at the meeting. The proposal for a War Memorial has been in the pipeline for some years but the issue of finding a location has put a hold on its implementation. The proposal was given an in principle approval during the Vajpayee regime. While Defence Ministry has suggested that the Memorial should come in the open space behind the India Gate hexagon, Union Urban Development Ministry and Delhi Urban Arts Commission are opposed to the view on the grounds that it will not gel with the layout of the area done up during the British era.
Source: PTI
GoM to look into issue

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