Ahmedabad: For 59-year-old Chauhan Hemant, this can be a commemoration of the last birth of Mahatma Gandhi which he celebrates while living in the Sabarmati Ashram here.
About 250 families living for decades around the Ashram founded by Mahatma are preparing to shift because the government has driven an ambitious project to rebuild the 55 hectare area.
The association of some families with ashram comes from the period when Gandhi himself lives here.
After returning from South Africa, Mahatma founded her first Ashram in the Kochrab Ahmedabad area on May 25, 1915.
It shifted to the current location on June 17, 1917.
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As part of the national project, Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust (SAPMT) has initiated documentation of 39 important sites related to Mahatma Gandhiin this year, more than 130 leading personalities including Ramachandra Guha historians, Rajmohan Gandhi, retired Hakit High Court, and singers Carnatic TM Krishna has issued a statement that opposes the rebuilding project.
The statement said that the most authentic monuments of Mahatma Gandhi and the struggle of Indian freedom would disappear due to “pride and commercialization”.
But residents like Chauhan are happy with the government compensation package.
Mahendra Vyas, 73, said it was the right decision to empty his house in the ashram premise where he lived throughout his life.
He and many others have taken their new apartment.
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For those who like Chauhan who don’t want to shift away from the ashram because of the emotional attachment in the area, the government has offered to build a nearby building.
“My mother made her house Vaas in 1955, and I was born here in 1962 and have lived here since then.
My two sons are married and I am blessed with three grandchildren, and we all live together at home in the colony, and” Chauhan said.
“We expect foundation stones for our new building to be placed immediately.
The building may or may not be completed in the next year, but we believe the government will not disappoint us,” he said.
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Wrapped in celebrating Gandhi’s birthday in his new apartment in the Gota area, about 8 km from Ashram.
“We live in Harijan VAA as tenants, because the building belongs to trust.
But the government compensation package helps us become a homeowner,” Vyas said, whose father shifted to the Colony of Ashram in 1928.
The rebuilding project would increase the facility.
In Ashram for visitors who come from the world – end, he said.
Kartikeya Sarabhai, Presidential Trustees of Preservation and Warning Warning of Sabarmati Ashram, said the government held a routine meeting with six trust that maintained various activities of ashram.
“At present, visitors can only see Hriday Kunj, Vinoba Kutir and Sabarmati Ashram, which are spread over the three-hectare area.
The government plans to develop areas such as existing ashrams during the Mahatma Gandhi period when scattered in 35-40 acres with 63 inheritance properties, “Sarabhai said.
48 of these traits survived, he added.
Sabarmati Harijan Ashram Trust, Gujarat Khadi Gramodyog Mandal, Sabarmati Ashram Gaushala Trust, Gujarat Harijan Sevak Sangh and Khadi Gramitoog Samiti is another five other trust taking care of Ashram activities.
“The main purpose of rebuilding is creating an ashram in one unit by diverting the road that passes and adds some more attractions for visitors,” he said.