Hyderabad: Seven years on, the Plan of the Telangana Government to develop Bapu Ghat, where Abu Mahatma Gandhi was immersed, at the Sabarmati Ashram line at Ahmedabad, continued to remain on paper.
In the absence of routine maintenance, the warning dedicated to the father of the nation – sitting almost a kilometer away from Golconda fortress where the government will celebrate the 75th Independence Day – has become a den for evil activities, say local residents.
This, especially because it has been closed for visitors lately, they added.
The 68-Acre Bapu Ghat at Langer Houz was only opened for Vvips on two occasions – the birth and death warning of Mahatma Gandhi.
“Because Ghat is closed for visitors over the past few months, it has become home to all anti-social elements,” said a local resident of Nalanda Nagar in 2014, the state government announced other plans to add other halls to the place.
, together with installing spinning wheels (Charakha) and the museum to display a rare image of Mahatma and books donated by individuals, to be public views.
But no one moves on the ground.
In fact, when TII visited the recent site found that the area was covered with bushes overgrown and missed a warning for uplift.
The officials of the Telangana Tourism (TTDC) development company, which oversee the maintenance of Ghat blame it to Pandemic Covid-19.
“Before the pandemic, Ghat is open to school children among other visitors every day.
Now, because of the pandemic, we have limited entries and opened it only on October 2 and January 31 for official events,” said Uppala Srinivas Gupta, Chair, TTDC, While rejecting the facelift plan.
TTDC officials said that the maintenance of Bapu Ghat was leased to private companies – Visual Quest India Pvt Limited – for 15 years in 2012.
“Bapu Ghat has a large yard that now has wild and excessive grass.
Therefore Monsun, we have not been able to use manual equipment for Cutting grass.
However, all places are under the supervision of CCTV where anti-social elements, if any, can be removed, “said Birad Rajaram Yajnik, the company’s executor director.
Also the curator of the Mahatma Gandhi digital museum shop, Yajnik said that before the pandemic, the company did several events related to Mahatma Gandhi.