Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Friday said that the construction work of Martyrs Memorial being built in Ambala will be completed by March 31, 2022.
The memorial being constructed at a cost of about Rs 300 crore will give a new identity to innumerable unsung warriors and fighters at the national and international level, like those from the first freedom struggle of 1857, Vij said during his visit to the construction site.
The Minister said that according to some historians of Haryana, the first spark of Independence was ignited from Ambala, for which the National Martyrdom Memorial is being constructed here on 22 acres in memory of unknown heroes.
He said that as soon as the BJP government was formed in Haryana, Chief Minister Manohar Lal had approved this project.
Art work will be done at the memorial. This work will be done in three phases. Under the first phase, the history of when the 1857 revolution started in Ambala will be shown.
In the second phase, the place where the revolution of 1857 was fought in Haryana will be described and in the third phase, the stories of Jhansi ki Rani, Bahadur Shah Zafar along with other revolutionaries will be depicted, he said.
The Home Minister also said that from the point of view of tourism, the national level monument will leave its mark and will emerge on the map of the country.
It was informed that the memorial will have a water body, 200 feet high lotus flower sculpture, panorama-like diorama, tableaux, large auditorium with a seating capacity of about 300 people, open air theatre with a seating capacity of about 2,000 people, food court and a press gallery.