Town Hall to be re-developed as 'centre of culture and social heritage'

North Delhi Mayor Preety Agarwal

New Delhi, Jul 20 : Historic Town Hall located in the heart of Delhi--Chandni Chowk--will be re-developed as a 'centre of cultural and social heritage'. While announcing this here today, North Delhi Mayor Preety Agarwal said that the Town Hall would be re-developed as an attractive tourist destination of international standards and it would be done in accordance to Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode for which in-principle approval has been accorded. Ms Agarwal said that after the re-development, the Hall would emerge as a 'centre of culture and social heritage', depicting the history, culture and the life of Delhi. She said that the complex will have a craft bazar, dancing fountain, the maze, light and sound programmes, street food, children activity area, boutique hotel, food court, courtyard and sculpture garden, digital library, lecture rooms, a museum, fine dining areas and much more at the premises. The Mayor said that the museum at the re-developed Town Hall would be the main tourist attraction and it would occupy an area of about 1574 square metre at the ground floor. She said that it would be dedicated to the history of Delhi and will display a magnitude of historical and cultural artefacts. North Delhi Municipal Commissioner Praveen Gupta said that the project was initially planned to be funded by Union Tourism Ministry but could not be materialised on that front and now it would be developed on PPP mode. He said that if all goes well, project would be taken up in the next nine months and was likely to be completed within two years. He said that apart from depicting the history of Delhi, the project would also expected to earn a good revenue to the Corporation. UNI