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NTR Garden to be renamed as Ambedkar Garden
One of the most popular tourist destinations in Hyderabad, NTR Garden will soon be renamed as Ambedkar Gardens. The government proposed to change the name of NTR Garden following the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority’s (HMDA) nod to allot five acres of land towards the installation of 125 feet Ambedkar statue in the garden premises.
Hyderabad: One of the most popular tourist destinations in Hyderabad, NTR Garden will soon be renamed as Ambedkar Gardens. The government proposed to change the name of NTR Garden following the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority’s (HMDA) nod to allot five acres of land towards the installation of 125 feet Ambedkar statue in the garden premises.
The NTR Garden name will be confined to the NTR graveyard and its premises only. The HMDA had decided to hand over five acres of vacant land in the existing NTR Gardens,sprawling over 25 acres near the State Secretariat and Hussain Sagar lake.
The Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had announced the installation of 125 feet Ambedkar statue and a big memorial park on the sprawling 20 acres at amusement park and NTR gardens butting the State Secretariat in April 2016. The government had proposed to complete the statue and memorial works by April this year but the delay in finding a suitable location hampered the entire process.
The SC Development Department, which had been entrusted to take up the project, sought 20 acres from HMDA but, the agency turned down the plea on the grounds that the land was given on lease to private agencies for the establishment of amusement park. Since the authority already entered into agreements with the agencies,with regard to the utilisation of land, the corporation felt that it would not be possible to take back the lands immediately as it would arise legal complications.
Considering the land scarce, the SC Development Department had decided to take the available five acres of land to install the statue and develop the memorial in the name of Ambedkar Museum. The officials said that the committee chaired by Deputy Chief Minister K Srihari will also begin the exercise to finalise the design for the statue soon.
