Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 20 : N. N. Vohra, Governor, visited the site of the under-construction Tehzeeb Mahal and was briefed about the salient features of this multi-facility centre being built to showcase the State’s rich cultural heritage, here today. He viewed the detailed drawings of the project and the facilities to be created at the upcoming Tehzeeb Mahal.
The Governor was briefed by the engineers of the Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation, the executing agency of this project, about the salient features of Tehzeeb Mahal. The J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages is the Project Authority for Tehzeeb Mahal. The Governor, who is Patron of the Cultural Academy, was informed that this complex is expected to be completed by April, 2016.
The Governor was further briefed that this multi-storey complex will have an auditorium for 600 persons, a seminar hall with a capacity of 100 seats, cafeteria with utilities, coffee shop, administrative hall, book shop, log bridge and toilets for differently-abled persons on the ground floor. On the first floor of the complex there will be an art gallery, handicrafts display hall, music studio, art studio and other utilities, while on the second floor will be exhibition hall, conservation laboratory, library and heritage museum. As far as semi-basement of this complex is concerned, it will have the facilities like parking, services, inmates theatre, dormitory and storage.
Among those present on the occasion were Atal Dulloo, Commissioner/Secretary, Tourism and Culture; Navin K. Choudhary, Principal Secretary to the Governor; Khalid Bashir Ahmad, Secretary, J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages; and senior engineers of the Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation.
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