More than 13 years aft the past Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal inaugurated the Wadda Ghallughara Memorial connected November 29, 2011, it is yet to beryllium wide recognised arsenic a tourer spot.
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While the territory medication had agelong agone initiated steps to amended the facilities astatine Memorial Rohira to pull much tourists, the preoccupied docket of the officials successful the departments acrophobic has resulted successful a concern wherever the memorial receives lone section visitors.
Acknowledging the feeble effect the memorial has received, organisers said they expected the fig of visitors to increase
after an Interpretation Centre is established.
Amandeep Kaur, incharge, beforehand desk, said the fig of visitors varied betwixt 50 and 60 connected mean days but weekends and peculiar occasions attracted astir 500.
“Though the fig of visitors connected mean days is not precise encouraging, it multiplies connected weekends and peculiar occasions,” said Amandeep, maintaining that the fig would further summation erstwhile the Interpretation Centre became operational. Display of abbreviated duration taste and humanities films had emerged arsenic an attraction for visitors, she added.
Amandeep further said that the governing assemblage of the memorial nether the supervision of its ex-officio chairperson and Malerkotla Deputy Commissioner had been intimately monitoring the upkeep and attraction of assorted sections of the memorial.
“We person been advised to guarantee that visitors, including intellectuals, researchers, foreigners and students are entertained successful specified a mode that their sojourn comes retired to beryllium the most, educative too being recreational,” said Amandeep.
The unit astatine the memorial person been advised to guarantee that much documentaries connected Sikh past successful wide and Vadda Ghallughara successful peculiar are arranged and the screening of these is held according to the convenience of visitors.
On November 29, 2011, past CM Parkash Singh Badal had inaugurated the memorial a fewer months up of the 2012 Assembly elections.
The memorial commemorated the sacrifice of implicit 35,000 members of the Sikh community, including children and women. They were massacred by the equipped forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali connected February 5, 1762.
Spread crossed 11 acres, the memorial includes a 110-feet precocious tower, unfastened aerial theatre, auditorium and accusation centre, too an Interpretation Centre which is yet to beryllium completed.
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