It was closed to tourists in 2019 as TCGL started its restoration work. The public sector undertaking had awarded SHCPL a contract to restore Uparkot fort at a cost of Rs 74 crore.
The funds released for protection, conservation, and management of protected areas between 2016-21 ranged between 11 to 21 per cent of the total funds released to the forest department, stated the country’s top audit watchdog in its report titled ‘Performance Audit of Protection, Conservation, and Management of Wildlife Sanctuaries in Gujarat.’
Even as the city grew from a population of 11.5 lakh in 1960 to a population of nearly 50 lakh by 2000, the building continued to function as its nerve centre till 2010, with almost the similar number of departments as there are now.
An Ahmedabad magisterial court said the trial can proceed without L-G V K Saxena’s physical presence and took into account that calling for 71 witnesses twice would cause them ‘misery and hardship’