With an aim to perpetuate the cultural legacy for the future generations, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked the Cultural Affairs Department to complete all the ongoing various cultural and heritage projects in the state within the stipulated timeline.
Presiding over a meeting to review the progress of such heritage projects which were in different stages of completion here, the Chief Minister directed the Principal Secretary Cultural Affairs to hold meetings regularly with the different executing agencies to ensure their completion expeditiously, an official release said.
It was informed in the meeting that the work on the prestigious Guru Ravi Dass Memorial at Khuralgarh in Hoshiarpur district and Bhai Jiwan Singh (Bhai Jaita) Memorial at Sri Anandpur Sahib would begin soon.
Likewise, Badal also asked the department to further speed up the work for the early completion of second phase of Virasat-e-Khalsa at Sri Anandpur Sahib.
The Chief Minister also monitored the progress of ongoing heritage project of Jang-e-Azadi at Kartarpur (Jalandhar) besides the War Memorial and Bhagwan Valmik Tirath Sthal at Amritsar.
Reviewing the position of the funds for the construction of these heritage projects, the Chief Minister directed the Finance Department to immediately release the funds to the tune of Rs 70 crore earmarked as budgetary provision for the undertaking different cultural and heritage projects in the state.
The Chief Minister was also apprised that out of total one time contribution to the tune of Rs 90 crore, Rs 41 crore has been deposited so far by the different state government agencies.
