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Uproar in Jaipur as Underground Metro puts Heritage Sites at Risk
Uproar in Jaipur as Underground Metro puts Heritage Sites at Risk
Jaipur (JP): Protests are on in the Pink city against the plan to bring Jaipur Metro right into the 300 year old walled premises of the old city. Residents and experts alike, feel that the underground metro would be destructive to old monuments like Hawa Mahal, Jantar Mantar and Isar Lat.
“The vibration could also lead to cracks in Hawa Mahal and Jantar Mantar. As everybody has been talking about Hawa Mahal is not a very solid structure, it has got walls and its foundation isn’t deep either. Suddenly you have something which doesn’t belong there, a metro. It’s a shame,” Convenor INTACH Jaipur Dharmendar Kanwar said.
The metro project was begun by the previous Ashok Gehlot government but the present Vasundhara Raje government has decided to go ahead with the underground phase despite warnings from the Archaeological Survey of India. However, Raje is blaming the previous Congress government for the project.
