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| Renovation of Abhinav Theatre, Tagore Hall in quagmire | | Govt concedes gaffe | | Bivek Mathur
JAMMU, Feb 12: Government has admitted its fault regarding unplanned execution of renovation work of two important theatres in the twin capital cities of the state through a reply, which it has tabled in the upper house today.
Replying to a question of legislator and former Chief Secretary Vijay Bakaya regarding closure of Abhinav Theatre in Jammu and Tagore Theatre in Srinagar and failure of government to complete the renovation work in the time bound manner, Minister incharge Tourism has admitted that it has failed regarding the same.
The legislator has questioned about the failure of the ministry to organize cultural programmes and dramas in these theatres due to ongoing renovation work for the last over two years.
The minister has, however, said that the renovation work projects were initially funded under state plan and to expedite implementation of the projects, Ministry of Culture, Government of India (GoI) was approached to supplement funding of these projects.
The reply further reads that the Ministry agreed in principle to partly fund both these projects on submission of Detailed Project Report (DPR) and followed by visit of Sub-Committee of National Appraisal Committee. The Sub-Committee on visit to the sites suggested certain modifications, based on which revised DPRs have been submitted to Ministry of Culture, Government of India for an amount of Rs 1246.09 lacs and Rs 683.24 lacs for Tagore Hall and Abhinav Theatre respectively. The Central share, as per the tabled reply sought for the Tagore Hall is Rs 619 lac and for Abhinav Theatre is Rs 426.87 lac which is under consideration of the Ministry.
The written reply reads that in the meantime the execution continues on both the projects with extended scope which in the beginning started with limited renovation costing Rs 5.94 Crore for Tagore Hall and Rs 2.97 Crore for Abhinav Theatre and the expected date for completion of renovation work, as per the reply is May 2014 for Tagore Hall and October 2014 for Abhinav Theatre Jammu which is again subject to the availability of funds. |
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