 Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 18: Dogra Sadar Sabha (DSS) has thanked the Lieutenant Governor administration for start of the Gandola Ropeway project.
Addressing media persons, Gulchain Singh Charak said that it was a long pending demand connecting Mahamaya, Bage-Bahu and Bahu Fort with Peerkho temples.
Briefing the press, he informed that initially the project was conceived to connect Mahamaya and Bage-Bahu to Mubarak Mandi Heritage Complex. The original project had wider tourism scope to include Mubarak Mandi Heritage sites thus enhancing the footfall well beyond religious tourism. However the plans were modified in his absence to exclude Dogra Heritage site and taken to the foot of the same hill feature at escalated costs.
The President DSS informed that this was taken up by the DSS and a detailed powerpoint presentation given to the then Advisors Khurshid Ahmad Ganai and KK Sharma.
They promised to build an escalator that shall now connect Peer-Kho to Mubarak Mandi. Not much seems to have moved in that direction. DSS strongly recommends to take on and complete the work for the escalator at the earliest as also expedite the Mubarak Mandi restoration, now moving at a snail's pace.
Th. Gulchain Singh cautioned that extensive damages are recently noticed in the Mubarak Mandi. The hill side may cave in during heavy rains and is like a time bomb. Immediate construction of retention walls along the slopes on circular road side can save this impending disaster, to lives, property and loss of the Grand Historical Monuments.
Those prominent in the Press meet were S/Shri P.S. Gupta, Brig. M.S. Jamwal, Col. Dr. Virendra.K. Sahi, VrC, Gambhir Dev Singh Charak, Janak Khajuria, Amanat Ali Shah, S. Kulbir Singh, Advocate D.S. Chauhan, S. Balwinder Singh, Madan Rangeela and others. |
