Murals: Murals to adorn walls – Maha Kumbh 2025 | Allahabad News
Prayagraj: To beautify the city ahead of Maha Kumbh 2025, murals and art works will be installed on the walls of important government buildings and those adjacent to important roads and key intersections.In the apex committee meeting held on Friday evening to review the preparations for Maha Kumbh, 61 works worth Rs 795 crore, including wall murals and wall painting, were approved.
In the meeting held under the chairmanship of chief secretary Durga Shankar Mishra, it was decided to put murals on 20,000sqm of the area on walls, like what was done during Kumbh 2019. Besides, artworks on 5 lakh sqft wall area will also be done.
To give a grand welcome and leave a memorable impression on the visitors coming for the mega religious event, thematic gates will be built on all the highways connecting the city. Apart from these, it was decided to conduct a hydraulic study to stabilise the flow of Ganga. If the flow of Ganga becomes permanent, then it will be easy to organise the fair and better constructions of the ghats too.
Along with this, the committee also finalised many other projects related to roads and flyovers.
The road under the proposed two-lane flyover in Alopibagh has been widened. Approval has been also given for tapping 15 drains before the Maha Kumbh. Approval has been given for the purchase of garbage disposal vehicles in the extended area of the city. Repair of lighting on nine roads and thematic installation at four places has also been given a go ahead. In the meeting, green signal was given to three projects of public works department, eight of jal nigam, Ganga pollution control unit, five of jal nigam (rural), seven of Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA), two of tourism department and three of Prayagraj Mela Authority. In the previous five meetings, the committee had approved 260 projects worth Rs 3810 crore. Divisional commissioner Vijay Vishwas Pant, DM Navneet Singh Chahal, PDA VC Arvind Chauhan, municipal commissioner Chandra Mohan Garg and all the heads of departments were present in the meeting.
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