Neither an alternate site is allotted, nor at the same place, where the famous Tourist Reception Centre (TRC) in Pahalgam of Anantnag district in Kashmir
Khalid Bashir Ahmad
In January 2013, when the then Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages invited the then Minister for Culture to the foundation laying ceremony of the
Tehzeeb Mahal at Srinagar, the latter was like, “At Srinagar…Why not at Jammu?”
Governor being briefed about upcoming Tehzeeb Mahal Project in September 2013.
January 22, 2013: Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, lays the foundation stone of the Rs 72 crore
Tehzeeb Mahal near the Tourist Reception Centre in Srinagar. Five years and an expenditure of Rs 50 million later, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, heading a coalition government with the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), scraps the project and decides to offer the landholding to the JK Bank whose Corporate Headquarter is located close to the project site.
Amar Singh College Srinagar bags UNESCO Award
Amar Singh College Srinagar bags UNESCO Award
Aheritage building and that also housing academicians and students for nearly 105 years to teach and learn respectively in a row, bagging prestigious International Award for cultural heritage conservation is a matter of pride especially for those who have been its alumni. Amar Singh College situated in Gogji Bagh Srinagar has been awarded the famous and covetous UNESCO AsiaPacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation. This College, the second most prestigious after the oldest institute of higher education in Kashmir – Sri Pratap College, with a touch of nostalgia it may be clarified, was first established in 1913 as Amar Singh Technical Institute primarily for purposes to impart coaching and training both – in art, culture, masonry and carpentry opened by the noble, visionary and arts crafts and knowledge lover Maharaja Pratap Singh. It was only in 1942 that the institute was conver