KalingaTV News Network
Bhubaneswar: Putting an end to all speculations regarding the fate of Assamese litterateur Laxminath Bezbaroa’s Sambalpur house, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today assured that the State Government will take up steps to conserve the ‘heritage home’.
The announcement came during his meeting with Assam Cultural Affairs Minister Naba Kumar Doley and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s media advisor Hrishikesh Goswami at the State Secretariat here this morning.
Naveen said apart from conserving the dilapidated structure, Odisha Government would also take up renovation work of it, shortly.
Odisha Tourism Minister Ashok Chandra Panda, who also remained present during the meeting, informed that the renovation work would be undertaken with the help of INTACH, an autonomous non-governmental Indian non-profit society that seeks to preserve Indian culture and heritage. The initial project expenditure has been estimated at Rs 50 lakh and the Assam Government would be communicated to send ‘personal items’ used by Bezbaroa in due course to be placed in this heritage home, he added.
A four-member team led by Assam Cultural Affairs Minister Naba Kumar Doley visited the heritage residence of Bezbaroa located at Kacheri Chhak in Sambalpur yesterday. The team visited after Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal talked to Naveen over phone on October 27, urging him not to demolish the Bazbaroa house for construction of an approach road to the newly constructed second over-bridge on river Mahanadi.
Ms Kalinga AI