The Uttar Pradesh government led may construct the ‘Kailash Mansarover Yaatri Bhawan’ announced by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on a 10,000 square yard plot close to the Hajj House in Ghaziabad.
Ghazibad DM Nidhi Kesarwani has handed over a proposal for constructing the ‘bhawan’ on 10,000 square yards to Uttar Pradesh Secretary for charitable works, information and tourism Avneesh Awasthi.
The land under consideration is close to the ‘Hajj house’ at Hindon river bank.
Awasthi also visited the proposed site for along with Kesarwani, Mayor Ashu Verma and other senior officials on Sunday.
Verma said that the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation will provide this land to the state government “free of cost” and state government will construct the Bhawan will be constructed by cultural department within 3 months.
The proposal will be tabled in a meeting for its nod, he said. Verma said the identified plot was uneven but had now been levelled.
Last month in Gorakhpur, chief minister Yogi Adityanath had announced that those undertaking the annual Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage will be given Rs 1 lakh by the state government and a Kailash ‘Bhavan’ will be constructed for them.
(With PTI inputs)
