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Maharshtra wants to fast track Shivaji memorial proposal
Thursday March 28, 2013 07:41:53 PM,
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Mumbai: Hoping to
fast track the proposed showpiece Chhatrapati Shivaji memorial in
the Arabian Sea, the Maharashtra government indicated Thursday it
will discuss the issue of clearances with the centre next week.
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said he would take up the issue
of expediting clearances for starting work on the project with
Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan here next Tuesday.
Chavan told this to reporters after making a boat trip to the
proposed site, a 16-hectare rocky area underwater in the Arabian
Sea, off south Mumbai, that the proposal would required around 25
clearances.
The site is situated around four km in the sea from the Marine
Drive and a km from Raj Bhavan on Malabar Hill.
The site has been suggested by a team of experts after surveying
three probable sites in the vicinity for the proposed 309-ft
statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji.
Accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Mumbai
Guardian Minister Jayant Patil, Chavan examined the site, which
would not require reclamation and affords comfortable low-tide
water levels, thus not hampering movement of boats.
The proposed memorial, on the drawing board since a decade, is
estimated to cost around Rs.100 crore and would have an open-air
theatre, a museum on the life of the Maratha warrior-king and a
library.
This will be the second important memorial coming up in south
Mumbai area.
Another one, dedicated to Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar is planned on a
12-acre mill land on Dadar sea front.
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