Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday gave approval to sanction funds to the tune of Rs 76 crore for the construction of ongoing Jang-e-Azadi Memorial at Kartarpur (Jalandhar), War Memorial and Bhagwan Valmiki ji Memorial in Ram Tirath Temple at Amritsar.
Presiding over a meeting to review the progress of these memorials, Badal sanctioned Rs 36 crore for the Bhagwan Valmiki Memorial, Rs 25 crore and Rs 15 crore for Jang-e-Azadi and War Memorial respectively and asked the MD PIDB to immediately release these funds.
The Chief Minister directed the Principal Secretary Cultural Affairs and Tourism to monitor the progress of these projects personally by regularly visiting the memorial sites so as to ensure their completion well within the timeline. The Chief Minister assured the State Cultural Affairs Department that paucity of funds will not be allowed to hamper the pace of these projects of glorious cultural heritage in any case adding he said that there would be a constant flow of funds to achieve their timely completion.
Badal reiterated that these memorials were very close to his heart and is passionately attached to them as he never considered them to be merely monuments but a vital link to connect our youngsters especially the future generations with our rich cultural legacy. Above all, Badal reminded the hard fact that at any nation, country or State which ignored its history and in the same manner those nations, countries and States were also tend to be vanished with the passage of time.