City’s one of the most well-known landmarks, Rajwada will get a facelift so as to make it an important tourist destination of the city. A decision to this effect was taken following a joint inspection of Rajwada and Krishnapura Chatri by officials of Gaurav Foundation and the district administration.
As decided in the meeting, renovation of Rajwada will be carried out by the Gaurav Foundation through public participation. After renovation, the Rajwada will be decorated with colourful electric bulbs. Stage will be provided to organize cultural programmes to common people and local musicians. Besides cultural and musical programmes would be organized at Rajwada on weekly basis.
Under the renovation work, an art gallery would be developed to showcase accessories, artifacts and heritage material of the erstwhile Holkar dynasty. Besides an ultra-modern digital system would be installed there for classical music for the visiting tourists. As decided in the meeting, tourist guides will also be appointed to give information to the tourists about Rajwada and other adjoining historical places.
To invite suggestions for the renovation of Rajwada from the common people, a facebook page of Rajwada would also be created. Additional collector Sudhir Kochar has been entrusted with the responsibility of creating facebook page for Rajwada. The meeting was attended by district collector Aakash Tripathi, IMC commissioner Rakesh Singh, Ashok Chitle and Anil Bhandari of Gaurav Foundation respectively.