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Express News Service - HYDERABAD
Published: 12th April 2014 09:13 AM
Last Updated: 12th April 2014 09:13 AM
The G-Block in the Secretariat will be preserved and protected as a
heritage structure. The ten-year-long fight by Forum For A Better
Hyderabad for preserving the century-old building yielded positive
results on Friday.
A Rajasthan team consisting of architects, which visited the block on Friday, said the building could be protected with some repairs.
Officials thought of pulling down the dilapidated structure for security of the Seemandhra chief minister who is likely to be allocated the H-South Block which stands opposite it. But governor’s adviser Salauddin Ahmed, who inspected the building last week, invited architectural experts from Rajasthan who are well-versed in preserving ‘lime, mortar and stone structures’. The use of lime, mortar and stone in construction is not in vogue in the state but in Rajasthan. The G-Block was built using this technology by the Nizam government.
The Rajasthan team informed the governor’s adviser that the building had been neglected and was in need of maintenance. Negligence led to growth of huge trees on the premises. It informed the Ahemd that Rs 1 crore would be needed to restore the building and preserve it as a heritage structure. Ahmed told the team that the money would be released after the team gave its final report.
Forum For A Better Hyderabad president M Vedakumar called on Ahmed on Friday. “The governor’s adviser assured that the G Block would be protected,” he told Express.
Sridhar Deshpande of Telangana History Society and Sangisetti Srinivas of Telangana Vidyavanthula Vedika too called on Ahmed and requested him to bring back all the artefacts of Telangana which were shifted to Seemandhra, especially to Amaravati, during Kalachakra.
A Rajasthan team consisting of architects, which visited the block on Friday, said the building could be protected with some repairs.
Officials thought of pulling down the dilapidated structure for security of the Seemandhra chief minister who is likely to be allocated the H-South Block which stands opposite it. But governor’s adviser Salauddin Ahmed, who inspected the building last week, invited architectural experts from Rajasthan who are well-versed in preserving ‘lime, mortar and stone structures’. The use of lime, mortar and stone in construction is not in vogue in the state but in Rajasthan. The G-Block was built using this technology by the Nizam government.
The Rajasthan team informed the governor’s adviser that the building had been neglected and was in need of maintenance. Negligence led to growth of huge trees on the premises. It informed the Ahemd that Rs 1 crore would be needed to restore the building and preserve it as a heritage structure. Ahmed told the team that the money would be released after the team gave its final report.
Forum For A Better Hyderabad president M Vedakumar called on Ahmed on Friday. “The governor’s adviser assured that the G Block would be protected,” he told Express.
Sridhar Deshpande of Telangana History Society and Sangisetti Srinivas of Telangana Vidyavanthula Vedika too called on Ahmed and requested him to bring back all the artefacts of Telangana which were shifted to Seemandhra, especially to Amaravati, during Kalachakra.
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