Heritage enthusiasts deplore ramp works at Moula Ali hill
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850-metre ramp being built lands behind historic shrine where a big parking lot is being readied
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Workers drill and chisel the Maula Ali hillock to build a ramp. | Photo Credit:
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850-metre ramp being built lands behind historic shrine where a big parking lot is being readied
The rat-rat-rat of pneumatic drill breaks the calm of the day halfway up the Maula Ali hillock. The smooth rock is now pock-marked with holes. Blocks of granite are tossed to one side as workers insert chisels to crack the rock into pieces to build a ₹25-crore ramp that will transform the small spiritual shrine. A grey haze of granite dust hangs in the air.
INTACH Appeals to Nitish Kumar to Save Renowned Khuda Bakhsh Library of Patna
The library, started in 1891 by eminent personality Khuda Bakhsh Khan, a bibliophile from Bihar who had painstakingly built the collection, is a jewel of art, culture and academia.
Khuda Baksh Library, Patna. Photo: Mukram Khan, CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia Commons
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Patna: INTACH, or the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, has appealed to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to spare the demolition of the front portion of the 130-year-old Khuda Bakhsh Library, saying razing of any part of the celebrated institution will be a “monumental loss of heritage” for not just Patna, but the entire world.
New Delhi, India – A plan to demolish part of a 130-year-old library to construct a flyover is being widely slammed in India.
Authorities in the eastern Indian state of Bihar are contemplating razing the front part of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, located in the heart of the state capital, Patna.
The move has triggered outrage among academics and conservationists, with dozens of the city’s prominent intellectuals urging the state government to preserve the heritage structure.
The Bihar government’s bridge construction department wants to build a $50m 2.2km (1.3-mile) flyover in order to resolve traffic congestion in the state’s main city and has sought a no-objection certificate from the library.
INTACH opposes ‘proposal’ for partial demolition of Khuda Bakhsh library
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Nitish govt. says no plan to harm heritage Patna structure
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Nitish govt. says no plan to harm heritage Patna structure
The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) leaders, intellectuals and academicians of Patna have opposed ‘proposal’ of partial demolition of 130-year-old Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library in Patna as part of construction of an elevated road.
The government, though, said there was no such plan to harm the heritage of the library.
On Saturday the CPI-ML legislators and leaders Sudama Prasad, Sandip Saurabh, Santosh Sahar, Kamlesh Sharma and Kumar Pravej visited Khuda Bakhsh library to take stock of the issue with library officials and public intellectuals.
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